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I was over at my neighbor's house watching him split wood. His father and uncle had built this log splitter nearly 20 years ago. Being that this was some redneck engineering going on, it worked,...

If Megan getting stuck wasn't bad enough, we now have foot long missing section of track. And no, the cart can't jump it. This video detail what happened, what the root cause is and how we are...

In early 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was nearing completion in northern Utah. The Central Pacific Railroad was building from Sacramento, California and the Union Pacific from Omaha,...

Roller Coasters can be dangerous. When accidents happen, they are to be taken very seriously. Root causes need to be found and addressed. There was an incident on the Black Widow where the bogie...

In college we learned all about torsion and the polar moment of inertia. However, school can be over simplified at times. A colleague and I learned this the hard way. We were designing a 20 foot...

Rodless cylinders is a cylinder without a rod. It seems like a stupid idea because if there isn't a rod, how does it do work? I accidentally discovered the concept of a rodless cylinder a few...