In Afghanistan western military will hire local workers to dig ditches along roads by hand instead of using construction equipment. It takes weeks instead of hours, but the locals need the wages and the sense of contributing to their own economy.
See that red and white striped pipe there? Those are markings for Class 3 Hazmat. What is class three you ask? It's the classification for EXPLOSIVELY FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS. Just take a handy look at your copy of the ERG and you will see that those pipes are full of... Octadecyltrichlorosilane... Whatever that is. Point is, it burns readily enough to be a hazard, and is water-reactive.
I think I can understand now why they don't want to smash it up with a crane.
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In Afghanistan western military will hire local workers to dig ditches along roads by hand instead of using construction equipment. It takes weeks instead of hours, but the locals need the wages and the sense of contributing to their own economy.
Sometimes things are not what they appear.
It could be that the thing above the digger arm is preventing it from raising up. The workers had to help the digger dig itself out. Maybe?
See that red and white striped pipe there? Those are markings for Class 3 Hazmat. What is class three you ask? It's the classification for EXPLOSIVELY FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS. Just take a handy look at your copy of the ERG and you will see that those pipes are full of... Octadecyltrichlorosilane... Whatever that is. Point is, it burns readily enough to be a hazard, and is water-reactive.
I think I can understand now why they don't want to smash it up with a crane.
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