BC Quarry isn't auto-chunkloading
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Check the configs. Near the bottom there is a config for whether the quarry chunk loads itself or not. In the Infinity pack, it is set to true so it should chunk load itself. Make sure your ender chest is in the same chunk as the quarry as well.
Actually, BC quarries have been able to chunk load themselves for quite a while. Just many packs and servers disabled it to keep people from using them as cheap chunk loaders.
So maybe you could go into the buildcraft configs and check if its for some reason turned off. Have you tried replacing it. If you are not using the landmarks maybe that will work. I always use landmarks so I really don't know if the quarry might be to small without landmarks to keep it chunkloaded. These are the options that are pretty easy and not a pain in the butt.
Or you could try reinstall ftb infinity. Make sure you do a backup of your world if you would choose this one.
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It's werid because even if I put a chunk loader right next to it, it still doesn't work.
The mods that were MJ based were always somewhat prone to exploding should things go wrong. So, chaos would start like this:
A player would log off / leave the area of their base.
Implicit chunkloading (and some residual power) would keep a quarry alive. Which would pump items into pipes, which would travel through BC pipes in the laoded chunk until they hit a boundary...
Buildcraft pipes could explode if overloaded, so this would then force load the next chunk - allowing items in pipes in that chunk to keep on flowing into neighbouring chunks, force loading them.
So a quarry being chunk loaded then implicitly forces the chunkloading of a bunch of other chunks.
If any of these chunks happens to contain your power generation, then the madness never stops as the quarry is being fed fresh enenergy to keep on going.
So, your immediate problem is water. It is very easy to put a pump - or liquid pipes carrying water - in non chunkloaded chunks. And liquid pipes - unlike item pipes - don't chunkload. This means if your power source is combusion engines or railcraft boilers, its very easy for the patchwork chunkloading taking place to starve them of water.
If you are cheesy and just build an infinite water source in the same chunk as your engines/boiler then at least things won't blow the @#$% up.
The perdition mechanic that buildcraft had however added even more evil: all the devices in chunkloaded chunks would consume energy, the power plant would consequently never shut down, and liquid fuel reserves (BC oil based fuel is non renewable) would be exhausted doing nothing while players on servers were offline. I presume the modern quarry works on RF with RF mechanics - no energy consumption when its not running so now your only real problem is the potential to overload your sorting / storage system while you are offline and unable to deal with it.
If your fuel source was renewable, but required energy, you still run the risk of running out of fuel if the implicit chunkloading doesn't cover the farms, so starting everything up if you log on and have zero stored energy and fuel could prove problematic.
I don't understand why you say the problem is water. I am powering my quarry with a small "big reactor" and lava from the nether, and the water that was inside the quarry was pumped out from an ender thermic pump. You are probably making sense, but I'm not understanding 
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Try upgrading to BuildCraft 6.3.7 or later, it has the following fix:
- [#2417] Quarry not chunkloading properly (hea3ven)
Build craft and rail craft use the water for cooling. If it runs out, well, the engines/boilers would overheat and explode. Violently.I don't understand why you say the problem is water. I am powering my quarry with a small "big reactor" and lava from the nether, and the water that was inside the quarry was pumped out from an ender thermic pump. You are probably making sense, but I'm not understanding
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With a big reactor you are not worried about that. But on an always on server you will have to design a cutoff to prevent your fuel being exhausted while you're offline.