This is a video about Austria, not Australia.

Yes Lewis72 that's right 😄

yDiscovery Australia

Discovery, this and Man vs. Wild are the best shows you’ve made

@@lewis72 Put another shrimp on the barbie!

Actually not a bad idea. You want to pay shipping? I do wonder why they need to dump it so close to the tunnel project though, there will be a rail line in the end so I figure they ought to just build the rail line early on then ship it out by train to customers who can use it (though probably not as far away as the Netherlands).

Quill Maurer netherlands can pay 😂 im not from there, my country has mountains :p

@@quillmaurer6563 I think this is an access tunnel for work. The mining is done in several places at once otherwise it would take to line. And part of the rubble is used as foundation for the railroad. But most important role of such a dumping site is you can keep digging without worrying about your concrete plant or delivery to other projects cannot manage it. And then you have the potential political problem of putting every gravel producer in the Alps out of business.

@@barthoving2053 I understand the re-use of rubble for concrete, and building an on-site concrete plant, but why do they do that inside the tunnel in a cavern rather than outside at the entrance? I guess political issues with other gravel companies could be a factor - usually when something that doesn't make sense is happening it's because of politics or rules. Though even that I could see being solved with some cooperation - give the gravel to the gravel companies to haul away and sell, they can still sell gravel without having to dig it up, still makes more sense than dumping it in one place while mining it in another.

The Netherlands has a constant supply of material coming to them for free in the Rhine.

Oh i can hear his voice very clearly

Hahahah

Bruhhhhhhhh

Haha facts

"and that is something you may not have known" :XD

Same

!remindme 10 years

Richard should just stand there for 10 years and film a time-lapse.

U missed to write If I am Alive.

If someone is watching this when its finished remind me yh? aha thx XD

Genius 😂

What bout the new tunnels rubble

@@aarezniggatron2660 dig another tunnel and store the rubble there

@@aarezniggatron2660 we dig a 3rd etc... and that's how the banking system works

Fletcher from Porridge, you beat me to it lol

Engineers don't talk much, they just draw and build..

He seriously looked like he softened up towards the end. Didn't seem too talkative to begin with.

Germans/Austrians are a very tough crowd, their sense of humor is bad.

@@rage9278 I am sorry you dont get our sense of humour :D

SEMIRU dude, i’ve lived with Germans for a large portion of my life, they were some of the most stubborn people i’ve ever met.

I was just waiting for Hammond to roll the thing...

And breaking with the front break for stopping...

@@SnerASDF wat

Oh gawd didn't realize the was an electric motorcycle. Those things are crazy monsters. *sweating heavily* indeed.

Lars Götz ...yeah that’s the fastest , best way to slow down mate , one day when you all grown up you can ride a motorbike yourself mate, , , it’s not gonna flip unless you stand up and lean into it and pogo like a Bmx

Right, why not just say that they can cover London in 1.5cm of gravel or something like that 😂😂

It doesn’t help me because I live in Australia

But how much is it in refrigerators?

@@ziiofswe about 1200 Spoonfuls per refrigerator

"everybody wins" except mother earth☹️

what do they do? well dump it in a valley of course

When you put it like that it sounds like a Top Gear plan.

zoop

At that moment richard was the driver. Lol

L or R Sees entire arm, works up the arm to the hand pointing.

Austria? I think that place is in Switzerland.

Felbermayr and porr are austrian🇦🇹 companys

@@damianhonegger9731 thanx, I was hoping for a correction. Couldn't resist the word play....😂😂😂

Guys this is Brenner Base Tunnel between Austria and Italy, it's even written in the description

@@traxtorm thanks for the clarification. It's appreciated 😉

You know he has a written script, that researches have spoken to the experts. So that he can speak into a camera. With a charming somewhat witty manner. I’m not saying he his not talented but your hero worship is way too much

Yes but he says “soccer” instead of “football” so that’s not accepted

plus he looks like iron man

@@chanelbrixx8987 he looks even more of a prat than that prat Robert Downey Jr with their vanity beards.

I wish he would make more documentaries

IOnlyMadeThisNameToHitTheCharacterLimit90909090909 Build a spider-proof wall and claim an area as your territory, then dig streets and build houses, put streetlights to prevent mob spawns, and add iron golems. You are now a monarch.

The Hornet Spooklight well that’s another 10 years🤣

Skubadabop Gaming takes about a month lol

I never have enough cobble.

The Hornet Spooklight true lol

🤣🤣🤣

Thought the same😂😂

imagine NOT blowing your nose after being in there :D

I'm currently working community service and we're tearing down the interior of a building. It's almost unbareable with all the dust flying in the air, can't imagine being in a cave with literal hundreds of kilos of dust flying by inside.

PPE

You not a Londoner I guess?

@@frankspencer5368 nope but i know what its like there especialy underground

I get that reference

😃😃 genius

@@BD-kw2kq whats the reference? i recognise it from somewhere

@@kal465 The great escape

@@Bartimayus or Shawshank

just put all the rubble in a chest

@@emberszz5199 cactus

Throw it into lava

They dump it outside the tunnel so it can despawn without them picking it back up again by mistake

Greetings from Slovenia, your neighbouring country!☺

C R u n C h Y

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What does that mean?

*Jürgen

Gardening. YESS!!! Why not hahaha

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Me laughing in austrian as in about 10 years our Brenner base tunnel will be the longest railway tunnel

the austrians know what they do... just look at the drainage pipes for example

@@maxi-g I wasn't being facetious. Here's something I wrote to another viewer who was concerned about the potential danger: "It sounds like they’ve learned from the Aberfan disaster. Lithologically speaking, the limestone and volcanic substrate being excavated here is inherently more stable (thermally and structurally) than something like coal slurry from anthracite refuse, as was the case in Aberfan. Placement of refuse tips within the bases of valleys (which they are doing here-as opposed to on slopes or high ground as was the case in Aberfan) is standard practice and is generally safe. They also seem to be conscious of ensuring adequate water drainage, and spreading the tailing in a manner that creates more surface area than tip height. Although they plan to make the tip 140 meters in height, I’m sure that height will be distributed across a large surface area in the form of a mesa rather than a heap. In addition to the drainage measures, their plans to replant the natural fauna will also help to protect against soil erosion. So, this is not something to be too worried about. Sounds like they’ve thought it through."

@@dr.z1657 interesting

It's a rail tunnel, so quite unlikely

Rather depends on what you mean by North Europe. It will be the fastest route between Palermo and Berlin, but it isn't dominant on all routes. On of the most important cargo corridors in Europe is still between Bologna and Rotterdam. This corridor sends the train through the Gotthard base tunnel (the currently longest tunnel) and afterwards to the Rhine valley in Germany/France. However, the Swiss/Italians/Austrian all have one common problem when it comes to augmenting the capacity on their much needed cargo corridors: it is Germany. For the Swiss it is the Rhine valley, where they should have been finished building the third and fourth track years ago and for the Austrians it is the Inn valley, where they are still debating, uf they should even build two more tracks. It is really annoying to see such massive project just partially fail, because of one weak link in a chain. And it isn't like there isn't enough money; both projects are partially financed by the EU and Switzerland, as there is a big interest in augmenting the capacity.

True that but if you don't force them to take the route the HGVs will not use the train as long as driving is cheaper.

@@KuruGDI absolutely. That's why Switzerland and Austria have several laws that encourage cargo companies to use the train way more often. In Switzerland for example, you aren't allowed to drive a truck between 22:00 and 6:00 on the motorway, unless you're transporting perishable goods or are from the postal service. That's also partly the reason why we haveway less problems with all those Polish or Hungarian truckers. (But also because, if an employer hires someone from another country, they are forced to pay the workers a minimum wage, which is typically about 10-20% lower than for a Swiss employee, but there will be a lot more checking, if things go right, so it is often not lucrative to hire foreigners in Switzerland.)

@@axelstoerckle7295 downside of having the government being partually controlled by the car lobby and old hags that couldnt care less about how the country or europe does in a few years out. germanys infrastructure as a whole suffers from that in a shitload of areas we dont even have proper internet connection

@@axelstoerckle7295 Uh, this is very nearly exactly the same in Germany. Vehicles above 12t aren't allowed to drive between 22:00 and 06:00, and on Saturday and Sunday, or any holidays. It's true though that especially Switzerland does more for it's rail cargo capacities, and just in general has a better rail network.

wouldnt it then just be sand

Lets make it 1 mm thick.

I'd go like an inch or two

Brummies.

No you don't undertand, they're not "dumping it" they're "carefully arranging it in a neat little pile carefully engineered to look like nothing was ever dumped"

Nic Wood y a zonda instead a chiron ss 300+

@@Thatoneguy-uc9jq in a tunnel, id prefer sound over speed. The chiron would be better on a long straight road

Will run out of fuel before exiting 😂😂

That's what Americans want.

Patrick Bergsma not all of us ☹️

why

Why?

Why

Why

Why not

Acktchuallyyyy

And it's 55km long while the Gotthard Railway Tunnel in Switzerland 57km long, so it's clearly not the longest..

@@SonicDeluxx If you count in the part around Innsbruck bypass (which is part of the tunnel now), it is longer. The direct route from Franzensfeste to Innsbruck is 55km, as you have stated. Going from Italy to say Munich, then you would take the longer route

@@StoppelHD720 Haha, Acutally sounds very urgent indeed

SonicDeluxx it is, full lenght tunnel will be shorter than gotthard

They still have roads to build, and building material în general.

"Just"

The problem with that is we would just start comparing it to similar structures, maybe a skyscraper. But keep in mind those are hollow, while the cube isn't. While it might be easy to imagine a 100x100x100 cube, I think the true amount of material in that cube is a bit beyond humn comprehension

@@kalokal5812 exactly

And eventually this place will have rail access, being a train tunnel. Would make sense to me to build the rail line early on and ship it out by train to customers who can use it. I'd guess that them not doing so is indication that for some reason, maybe type of rock, it's not something of any economic value. But they are using it in concrete, so it must be at least somewhat usable.

@@quillmaurer6563 would not be first time a committee has decided which proposal shall be done regardless of actual value.

@@1kreature yeah

Thank you!!! Although I will say construction projects, though there’s exceptions of course, don’t ever want to buy fill and will just use what they got from elsewhere on the site. Even then, why rework Mother Nature when you can literally print money selling it off to concrete manufacturers, pavement manufacturers, etc. It’s wasteful and dangerous given what happens when man plays Mother Nature on this gran a scale 😬

Much/most material is not usable for concrete. It's mostly Innsbrucker Quarzphyllite, rich on quartz, low on lime.

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Yeah, 50 years from now when the construction is done and the money is done being made, who will be paying to keep those drainage systems up? 100 years or less I bet that a massive landslide happens.

@@habitatmindset3205 it's probably going to be treated like a dam.

@@habitatmindset3205 Wonder how big that little town will be by then.

It sounds like they’ve learned from the Aberfan disaster. Lithologically speaking, the limestone and volcanic substrate being excavated here is inherently more stable (thermally and structurally) than something like coal slurry from anthracite refuse, as was the case in Aberfan. Placement of refuse tips within the bases of valleys (which they are doing here-as opposed to on slopes or high ground as was the case in Aberfan) is standard practice and is generally safe. They also seem to be conscious of ensuring adequate water drainage, and spreading the tailing in a manner that creates more surface area than tip height. So, this is not something to be too worried about, but you are wise to have recognized the danger this could present.

Slightly more expensive

because Austria is land locked , sea shore ?

Even more specifically he means aggregate. Unless they have limestone and a cement processing plant. Which could be possible I suppose.

It's beyond annoying and disqualifies the whole video.

Son of a concrete man here. Never heard someone utter that mistake without my dad correcting them.

Nope, you use cement to make concrete. He means cement.