another episode unfolds in SRL's Best of the Yard where SRL receives a request from a Shell Oil Engineer in Houston asking to rent the Pitching Machine for some tests.
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Wed, November 30, 2005 - 1:53 PMThe rep that came ,said that all the Shell engineers were "textbook Engineers" and can't actualy design things that can be built... and work. -
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Wed, November 30, 2005 - 1:58 PMheh. that's why their stuff is "proprietary" :) -
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Thu, December 1, 2005 - 7:56 PMThere's got to be a few other cool uses for the pitching machine. Like debris simulations for tornados. Or maybe even pitching fireworks.
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Sat, December 3, 2005 - 10:27 AMI made tracer rounds for it awhile back, really cool. I would like to see the video up of the "shotgun" rounds we made for it.
It worked really well.
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Sun, December 4, 2005 - 1:14 AMGod bless Google.
That's how Shell found out SRL had THE pitching machine. -
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Sun, December 4, 2005 - 10:09 AMwonder what they searched for to bring up "pitching machine" -
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Sun, December 4, 2005 - 11:32 AM>>wonder what they searched for to bring up "pitching machine"<<
Do you suppose it was the word "proprietary"?
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Sun, December 4, 2005 - 5:09 PMjust throwing this in the thread.
Make them pay- Alot
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Sat, December 10, 2005 - 9:50 PMMark said they were actually looking for pitching machines - like for baseball. SRL came up on top!
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Mon, December 5, 2005 - 11:04 AMis it irony or not that SRL is using its pitching machine for oil drilling purposes?
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Re: oil drilling application for pitching machine
Sat, December 10, 2005 - 9:51 PMI called Mark a corporate whore, he said "I use oil... I'll do business with shell."
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