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re: Garbage Truck Kaboom
Posted on 1/30/25 at 5:41 pm to BuckyCheese
Posted on 1/30/25 at 5:41 pm to BuckyCheese
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They still have garbagemen manually dumping cans in the back...
It's kind of a mixture of trucks and crews here. I've seen one man crews, two and three man crews. There's also mechanized grabbers for those really large cans and sometimes the recycling guy has one. Then there's another type of truck that has a hydraulic box on the front that they fill up and then it flips it over the top. Mostly depends on what part of the city or which suburb they are in.
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Posted on 1/30/25 at 5:48 pm to KosmoCramer
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What the frick caused that?
Compressed air can cause a spark and the oxygen was the fuel.
You can take a piece of galvanized pipe, put a small piece of tinder in it and use a bolt to compress the air from the other side and it will light the tinder on fire. it is a poor man's lighter for camping because it is damn near foolproof.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 5:51 pm to AlumneyeJ93
I didn't know there were garbage men that ride the back of the truck and pick up trash anymore.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 6:40 pm to AlumneyeJ93
Already one of the worst jobs you can have without idiots putting oxygen tanks and lithium batteries in the trash trying to blow you up.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 8:13 pm to BuckyCheese
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They still have garbagemen manually dumping cans in the back...
They do here in New Orleans. The trucks usually have a driver and 2 guys in the back loading garbage into the back. I've seen them running with 3 guys in the back in the hot summer months.
They pass early in my neighborhood and in the summer months those guys are soaked from head to toe with sweat. I do my best to have cold bottled water for them to get some fluids back in their system------and they appreciate the hell out of it.
Posted on 1/30/25 at 9:33 pm to Catahoula20LSU
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Oxygen tank got compacted. Boom!
What if the truck was painted to look like a Great White?
Posted on 1/30/25 at 10:18 pm to KosmoCramer
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Great word.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 4:28 am to Warfarer
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Compressed air can cause a spark and the oxygen was the fuel.
I will start with the fact that I just have a Louisiana high school education. Feel free to tear into my post.
Compressed air can create heat but not a spark.
Oxygen is not a fuel.
This post was edited on 1/31/25 at 5:24 am
Posted on 1/31/25 at 5:42 am to BHM
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Compressed air can create heat but not a spark.
fair enough. it can cause the heat for fire.
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