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Saturday, July 01, 2006
7 comments:
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guinspen said...
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Ah yes, the Inter-Continental Ballistic Mack.
USA! USA! -
7/1/06, 3:11 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Yeah, we've used those over here for years, unloading flour and grain at mills.
Must be a trip to be in the cab.
Robert in England -
7/1/06, 3:40 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Over here in the colonies, drivers are required to dismount for the procedure. Trucks have been known to come loose upon occasion.
Andouille. -
7/1/06, 7:13 PM
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Josh Fahrni-Barn Army Dog Catcher said...
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I thought Robert in England was trying to be funny. I used to live and play right near a grain silo, and they tilted the trucks back just enough to push the wheat into the grates on the floor, that carried the wheat into the processing area. Then of course, they came out with trucks that pushed the payload out itself, helped my dad shovel 10 tons of manure out of the back of his truck that way.
Good fun. But I never saw it done the way that photoshopped image made it look. -
7/1/06, 8:36 PM
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Anonymous said...
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No photoshop - that's how much bulk cargo is unloaded. There is a large papermill not too far from here, and that is the way that they dump truckloads of wood chips and sawdust. Very quick and efficient, and the driver does dismount. Been doing it that way at least twenty years.
Lt. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
7/1/06, 9:42 PM
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David said...
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Have you seen the rotary coal dumpers they use at coal fired power plants these days. The train pulls through the dumper where each car is grabbed and flipped over dumping out the coal. Then the car is righted and the train pulls forward to dump the next car. The rotary coupling on the trains keep the cars all coupled together during the dumping process.
Tipping a semi on end is for kids in the playground. -
7/2/06, 12:56 AM
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Virgil Rogers said...
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I did job at Frito Lay in north Atlanta twenty years ago and they unloaded truck loads of potatoes that exact way.
Of course the driver exited the cab before the launch mode was assumed. -
7/2/06, 12:19 PM
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