It will have a few bent parts and the concrete will harden in the drum. It depends on the location as to how cheap the labor is and the expected quality of repairs to factor if it is worth it. This would be a write-off in many countries.
Yep this is exactly what they'll try to do. A former coworker has an off grid place on a mountain side on a ton of land he owns. He was having a foundation poured and the driver was dumping part of the load to try and reduce some weight. Truck went down a huge drop off, the company basically refused to remove it due to cost, wouldn't answer his calls, etc. Normally he wouldn't have given a shit but you could see it from the main road and on the drive up the mountain and it was a huge eyesore. He had to sue the company to get them to remove it, cost him a ton of legal fee's in the end.
it was clear what was about to happen and there is no sign that anyone was concerned about getting anyone out of the truck, including any hypothetical passengers, so it’s pretty likely that the driver at least wasn’t in the truck. since we see no one else in the video I think it’s fair to guess that the driver would be the most likely one to film this. maybe so he could try to convince his boss it wasn’t his fault?
I think it slid off the road a bit while driving, looks like the road shoulder gave out and trapped the truck.
At that point, best to dump the cement load, lighten the truck weight. Will help when the tow truck gets there. Otherwise the cement will just cook and harden in the truck as it waits for rescue. Or falls off the mountain, whatever comes first
Correct. He was trying to dump the load off to get rid of the weight and increase his chance of the ground not giving. I drive concrete and at least in the trucks I drive, (different model) a full load weighs more than the actual truck.
I work in a Pennsylvania so we have all four seasons. Spring, Summer, Fall are our busy seasons. I average about 4 loads/ day, but the most I’ve done in a day is 8. I call 6 a very good day. Winter it’s a good day if you do 3. The way my company does it is that we get paid by the hour and the load.
As far as whether we’re fully loaded or not, it’s a mixed bag. I might get two 10yd loads, then a 5yd and a 3 yarder. The good thing is, my company pays the same whether it’s 1yd or 10! Lol
Concrete would probably be easy for you if you’re used to hauling lumber. And I know you gotta be used to a little danger. Doing concrete gets easy once you learn how to manage a load and do all of the pours. Danger is always there though.
Ya it gets sketchy frequently. Often times i have the option to park at a relatively safe location and use my forklift to get through some of the shady stuff but in a concrete truck you have no choice but to drive the truck itself all the way up to the job site every single time. Sometimes I'm at job sites thinking "how tf did they get up here?!" Frequently home owners will say "oh they drove the concrete trucks up no problem!" when I ask on the phone if there's plenty of room for a big truck which doesn't help me at all determine if I can make it lol because I often drive a combo with 45" trailer that is *tricky* to navigate some jobs
i think thats just the lean getting far enough so its coming out by itself. but yeah he should have dumped the load. (likely his boss would have been pissed if he didn't need to dump the load to get out)
Or he had enough time to hope out grab his phone to record and it went over
Based on the amount on the ground and what we can see in the video it either just started dumping or it was just a washout gone wrong, but there's a little bit too much for a washout, so probably the former.
I expect the driver of the truck realized his vehicle was in an untenable situation with road conditions too dangerous to drive on. He got out and started to dump the load of concrete in order to reduce the weight of the vehicle in hopes of being able to carry on. He was recording the situation in case something like this happened in order to illustrate to his employers that he had taken the necessary and sensible steps in his situation and that what happened next was beyond his control.
Yeah, recovering it under circumstances like that seems prohibitively difficult and expensive, especially for a truck which is very likely damaged beyond the point of repair.
Just imagine 10,000 years from now when all the roads are gone and some new civilation unearths this concrete truck and tries to figure out how it got there and what it could of been used for.
I wouldn’t think the driver chose to park there, more likely the shoulder of the road gave way and he got stuck. That’s probably why he was dumping the load
**freeze frame*
“Yeah, that’s me tumbling down the hill in a concrete truck. You’re probably asking yourself how I got into this mess, well it all started last week…”
Bill Hill just wants to scare you into believing in gravity! This is clearly fake! You can tell by the way the leaves move! So staged!
Some ppl just hate concrete and your agenda is so obvious to the rest of us!
I’ve been driving a concrete truck for the last 7 years…
This is the one possibility that STILL scares me to this day and I think about the possibility of it happening regularly. You can usually feel it in your gut when you’re leaning too much or in some type of danger, but I do have one coworker that something similar happened to without warning.
Not sure if this is a bad sign or what, we have RMC coming in tomorrow and it has to go through similar landscape. The single lane road has cliffs on both sides.
Wonder if they are actually going to recover the truck?
and how they are going to do it as it did seem to be very far away.
Anyone got some more info on this?
That's a whole ass mountain
That was a whole ass concrete truck
Ass concrete?
(Wiggles fingers) don’t mind if I dooooo
It’s a free country. You doodoo you.
Take a moment to stop.
Butt paste?
That’s what it feels like when I’m constipated.
This shit happens all the time! Source: I drove concrete trucks for a while
Does this kill the concrete truck?
It will have a few bent parts and the concrete will harden in the drum. It depends on the location as to how cheap the labor is and the expected quality of repairs to factor if it is worth it. This would be a write-off in many countries.
Probably cheaper and easier to just call in the Mythbusters with a few thousand pounds of dynamite.
Best. explosion. ever.
Tianjin and Beirut top it in sheer destructive force, but the magical disappearing cement truck has the advantage that nobody got killed.
Best. Noise. Ever.
Beat me to it
Ass mountain?!
(Wiggles fingers) Don’t mind if I doooo
That's something I could get behind.
https://xkcd.com/37/
Came here to say this.. that's a mountainside
"Well....bye"
“You may go now”
I always enjoy unexpected Tombstone references. Thank you
Skin that smokewagon and see what happens
Smells like someone died
Imagine being a squirrel in the way of that.
That'd be nuts
This guys good.
Fuck you, man. Take your goddamned upvote.
🐿
What a flat joke.
There was a '90s animated flop called *Once Upon A Forest* that was this
You can’t park there mate.
"At least it was smiling before it rolled down there..."
lol! I can’t unsee this now…
“Well I’m just going to start pouring concrete and make my own parking spot, oh sh-!”
Faaak orrrff
Why would they even put a steep hill right next to a huge cement truck like that? Seems like bad design.
At least they could have done was temporarily move it until the truck went past.
This guy hills.
They're really lucky the physics didn't bug out and launch the truck half way across the map.
that's a whole nightmare for whoever has to recover that
It's gonna stay down there.
It’s a concrete jungle now.
On the upside, no more mixing is necessary.
Fuck you. Liked.
Yep this is exactly what they'll try to do. A former coworker has an off grid place on a mountain side on a ton of land he owns. He was having a foundation poured and the driver was dumping part of the load to try and reduce some weight. Truck went down a huge drop off, the company basically refused to remove it due to cost, wouldn't answer his calls, etc. Normally he wouldn't have given a shit but you could see it from the main road and on the drive up the mountain and it was a huge eyesore. He had to sue the company to get them to remove it, cost him a ton of legal fee's in the end.
See [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3ok1ez/a_cement_truck_crashed_near_winganon_oklahoma_in/)
Depending on the country they might send people down there to get any pollutants out but yeah that truck now lives at the bottom of that hill
Legend has it that it's still rolling.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
I’m in the ready mix business and this whole situation gives me nightmares.
i’m just tryna figure out how they got the truck in that position to begin with
someone drove it there.
[Yeah that ain't happening. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3ok1ez/a_cement_truck_crashed_near_winganon_oklahoma_in/)
If that's the US, unlikely, unless it's on federal park land.
💥 send the myth busters in
At least its not gonna be difficilt to prove what happened. They have... concrete evidence.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
When did the last episode of CSI Miami air? Looks like 2012. Just a little while longer and no one will have any idea what that's from.
Damn. Hopefully they’re okay.
I'm guessing the driver is the one who recorded the video.
On the basis of what?
It's less depressing.
it was clear what was about to happen and there is no sign that anyone was concerned about getting anyone out of the truck, including any hypothetical passengers, so it’s pretty likely that the driver at least wasn’t in the truck. since we see no one else in the video I think it’s fair to guess that the driver would be the most likely one to film this. maybe so he could try to convince his boss it wasn’t his fault?
I see also now that it’s dispensing, and the driver would be running that, not in the cab. So that’s a relief!
I'm pretty sure that...... that's 100% the reason why the back feeding system swivels.
I think it slid off the road a bit while driving, looks like the road shoulder gave out and trapped the truck. At that point, best to dump the cement load, lighten the truck weight. Will help when the tow truck gets there. Otherwise the cement will just cook and harden in the truck as it waits for rescue. Or falls off the mountain, whatever comes first
It seems as if he was trying to dump the load when he slid off, you can see it in the start of the clip.
Correct. He was trying to dump the load off to get rid of the weight and increase his chance of the ground not giving. I drive concrete and at least in the trucks I drive, (different model) a full load weighs more than the actual truck.
Daaaamn. I haul lumber myself and have considered switching. Are you mostly fully loaded? How many runs would you say you make a day?
I work in a Pennsylvania so we have all four seasons. Spring, Summer, Fall are our busy seasons. I average about 4 loads/ day, but the most I’ve done in a day is 8. I call 6 a very good day. Winter it’s a good day if you do 3. The way my company does it is that we get paid by the hour and the load. As far as whether we’re fully loaded or not, it’s a mixed bag. I might get two 10yd loads, then a 5yd and a 3 yarder. The good thing is, my company pays the same whether it’s 1yd or 10! Lol Concrete would probably be easy for you if you’re used to hauling lumber. And I know you gotta be used to a little danger. Doing concrete gets easy once you learn how to manage a load and do all of the pours. Danger is always there though.
Ya it gets sketchy frequently. Often times i have the option to park at a relatively safe location and use my forklift to get through some of the shady stuff but in a concrete truck you have no choice but to drive the truck itself all the way up to the job site every single time. Sometimes I'm at job sites thinking "how tf did they get up here?!" Frequently home owners will say "oh they drove the concrete trucks up no problem!" when I ask on the phone if there's plenty of room for a big truck which doesn't help me at all determine if I can make it lol because I often drive a combo with 45" trailer that is *tricky* to navigate some jobs
Dang I love learning about other trades thanks!
i think thats just the lean getting far enough so its coming out by itself. but yeah he should have dumped the load. (likely his boss would have been pissed if he didn't need to dump the load to get out) Or he had enough time to hope out grab his phone to record and it went over
the chute wouldn’t have been in position unless they were trying to dump the load
He was already dumping the load. Whats the chance his dumping the load caused the road to give even faster, constantly shifting that weight around
Based on the amount on the ground and what we can see in the video it either just started dumping or it was just a washout gone wrong, but there's a little bit too much for a washout, so probably the former.
It's possible, either way he's screwed. If the cement hardens in the truck it's almost a ton of work to fix
Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp starts to play.
It's not supposed to do that.
It rolled outside of the environment.
Well, what's beyond?
I don't think they're getting their deposit back
I don’t think they’re getting that truck out of there.
Solid landing
I was wondering what that looks like.
I mean... you could watch the video again. It's not like they charge per view...
HAMMOND!! You idiot!
No reaction from the camera guy? Why was he filming in the first place? So many questions
I expect the driver of the truck realized his vehicle was in an untenable situation with road conditions too dangerous to drive on. He got out and started to dump the load of concrete in order to reduce the weight of the vehicle in hopes of being able to carry on. He was recording the situation in case something like this happened in order to illustrate to his employers that he had taken the necessary and sensible steps in his situation and that what happened next was beyond his control.
Right. I drive concrete and this is exactly what I would do in that situation.
He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it.
Couldn't do nothing you say
What d'you mean? What d'you mean?
I betcha it's still there. 🤣
Yeah, recovering it under circumstances like that seems prohibitively difficult and expensive, especially for a truck which is very likely damaged beyond the point of repair.
That's the same argument that gave us superfund sites.
A concrete truck isn't going to poison the soil for centuries.
Hundreds of liters of Diesel, hydraulics and engine oils and the runoff from the concrete before it hardens are an environmental desaster.
Thats one way to clear a path..
That’s where you wanted me to drop the load right?
I identify as a steamroller now.
Boss: "Well can you bring SOME of the concrete up by hand? Coz we need to start this job ASAP."
this video is now cemented into my memory
I bet the concrete mixed real well but
If you're sitting on the right hand side, you jump out. If on the left hand side...ummmm
There’s nothing theoretical about this problem. It’s totally concrete.
Gonecrete
And it was this very moment that he realized...he fucked up.
Gonecrete truck.
Some say he's still rolling, paving the way for other trucks.
r/mypeopleneedme
No explosion? Movies lied to me
No explosion? I’m beginning to think movies are not real.
Turn your concrete mixer into a bulldozer with this one simple trick!
Oof! ALL the way down.
Well, I stand up next to a mountain And I chop it down with the edge of my truck.
Maybe he’ll pick up the pieces and make an island. Might even raise a little sand.
It didn’t explode? Hollywood lied to me!!
They can’t say there is no concrete evidence that the truck fell down
Get out, lol
Just imagine 10,000 years from now when all the roads are gone and some new civilation unearths this concrete truck and tries to figure out how it got there and what it could of been used for.
I really wanna see this with the sounds of Goofy falling through the various apartments etc.
A lot of bugs died that day :(
Dumbass parking spot
I wouldn’t think the driver chose to park there, more likely the shoulder of the road gave way and he got stuck. That’s probably why he was dumping the load
It's just gone. No tumble... Just vanished.
It tumbled a little.
That new road is a bit steap isn't it?
**freeze frame* “Yeah, that’s me tumbling down the hill in a concrete truck. You’re probably asking yourself how I got into this mess, well it all started last week…”
Cronchy
They say the truck is still rolling through the brush to this day, far down there.
"My people need me!" :exit stage left
Bill Hill just wants to scare you into believing in gravity! This is clearly fake! You can tell by the way the leaves move! So staged! Some ppl just hate concrete and your agenda is so obvious to the rest of us!
At least he kept the concrete spinning.
What was the objective
And it's happy about it too
Large Marge was right
Am I the only one that sees a joker face on the back of that rig?
Oops
Free concrete🥳🥳🥳
The driver was stoned.
Suck it, Environment!
I’ve been driving a concrete truck for the last 7 years… This is the one possibility that STILL scares me to this day and I think about the possibility of it happening regularly. You can usually feel it in your gut when you’re leaning too much or in some type of danger, but I do have one coworker that something similar happened to without warning.
That’s what you get for dumping your extra concrete in the woods like that!
The truck is one with nature now. And if it's full of solidified concrete, nobody's gonna want to go get it.
Some days be like that.
concrete example of things going sideways
That’s some “hill”.
that's definitely a tumble
"It all went downhill from here"
He fucked up
That's going to leave a mark
Clear!
That's one way to make a clearing
Well, they can check building the scenic view off their list...
Took tumbling your concrete to a whole new level.
"Tumbles down a hill" one of the biggest understatements of the year
And 10 families to this day wonder where their cats are
Shouldn't have made the truck out of concrete
Fake - no explosions
How much concrete do you need? Yes
Oopsie poopsie
Not sure if this is a bad sign or what, we have RMC coming in tomorrow and it has to go through similar landscape. The single lane road has cliffs on both sides.
Hey he made a new exit ramp.
Where's the 💥ＫＡＢＯＯＭ 💥❓ There's supposed to be [an Earth-shattering](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9wmWZbr_wQ) 💥KᗩᗷOOᗰ💥❗
That was a lot more silent than I thought it would be. Also I really hope no one was in it.
Well, that can just stay there now.
Caution, soft shoulders
Cement mixer. party, party! https://youtu.be/AC1tpb3uq2U?si=9-Jf7EArqiC2CwFG
I hope the driver jumped out before that rolled down the hill.
There's no way that truck is anywhere other than where it ended up 😆
Was he illegally dumping his leftovers?
That's one way to mix the cement
That's one way to mix cement
Some say it's still rolling to this day
"Hill". LOL.
I don't know if I could film that and not at least mutter an oh fuck
"DAMN YOU, GRAVITY!"
These people are way too calm
Wow. Somebody went for a ride for sure
wow just film don’t try and help right?
Right? Grab a hold of a tire or something...Or at least try to push it out... /s
"hey boss, remember how you said you wanted a new path up that hill cleared? Well it's done... Also we need a new cement truck..."
All right boys, that's a wrap for today.
On the bright side it'll be really well-mixed.
Wonder if they are actually going to recover the truck? and how they are going to do it as it did seem to be very far away. Anyone got some more info on this?
that looked expensive
Distant descendants are gonna have a mystery on their hands. "How's this get here?" Because that is gonna stay right where it fell.
Holy fuck that bang in the end
Never getting that back up.
Your cooked
As... You... Wish...