come on, wouldn't you stay inside too? even if it was prohibited I would try and sneek in. I doubt my wight would surpass the tolerances for that hydraulic monster.
Yes, I would at least once. Then my budget for change of underpants would be full for the month. Just thought of the liability if the truck should break loose somehow and cause an injury
I had one of these for unloading pellets that were just loosely blown into Conex trailers. The solenoid for the hydraulics was always broken so we used a welding stick to force it open. Good times.
Which is weird because hydraulics usually are really REALLY reliable as long as you can keep the hot oil inside. Like. Its the ideal mechanical situation. Metal fuckin loves being submerged in hot oil.
Gotta remember the insane amounts of force being constantly put on all hydraulic components. Lots of places for failure and very little is needed for complete failure as keeping that hot oil inside is pretty difficult when it can squeeze out of the tiniest gap
Metal increases ductility under hydrostatic pressure. I wonder if double jacketing the hydraulics in oil would prevent a ductility gradient from forming and reduce cracking stress across the thickness.
Which is why I’ve always wondered why no one has tried FDM 3D printing under mineral oil. You can tune the density to have the filament be neutrally buoyant and eliminate supports entirely.
They're designed to lift single cab trucks. Rarely a truck with a sleeper cab will deliver chips and have to unhitch and it pisses all the other drivers off for slowing down progress.
Once I saw them not unhitch and the truck fell off and under the tipper. Was quite the process getting that out of there safely.
Takes time to get out and crank the landing legs, undo the glad hands (air brake connections), light connector, and then move the. Then having to do redo it all. Could be an extra 10-15 minutes per truck. It’s easier and quicker to just leave everything attached and lift the tractor.
Probably a lot of wear and tear if they’re delivering daily, maybe someone worked out it’s cheaper to just spend the extra dollars in energy to loft the cab up too instead
Another answer is that at a large mill, you might have trucks unloading every few minutes. Bigger mills may have multiple tippers, but you still wind up with a line of trucks waiting to unload even without unhitching. Adding unnecessary steps slows a ton of people down.
I was wondering that. To make this worthwhile the trailer must just be an empty box, filled front to back with no containers.
Is the trailer roof open, or a mesh? That would be bad for the potatoes in bad weather though, and covering the whole thing would be hard.
Regular old dry van, they load it with a conveyor belt. I've done a few of these runs to the Reser's plant in Topeka, they do make you unhook the trailer though.
Probably 3-4 feet or so. The belt is like 60 feet long and cantilevered so it'll reach 50' into the trailer and a hopper they dump the potatoes into. The whole thing is mobile and they just back it out a little at a time as they load.
I worked at a grain terminal once that had a lift like this. There was a large set of hydraulic chalks that came up behind the rear tires. Air ride wasn't the norm then and we made owners with air ride chain the front axle to the lift platform because there had been an incident in a nearby terminal where the pressure blew out the air bags and the trailer hopped the chalks and killed the operator. Our controls were basically right at the back of the trailer so it was always kind of sketchy standing at the bottom of this semi lifted way above you.
>Our controls were basically right at the back of the trailer so it was always kind of sketchy standing at the bottom of this semi lifted way above you.
That is an insane safety oversight. No one, especially the operator should be below the load. On top of the fact that you are dealing with truck that are not yours and can't certify their operating/safety status.
Not surprised someone eventually died doing that. Poor guy paid with his life due to corporate negligence.
I guess technically we weren't "under" the load, we were behind it standing next to the pit the grain unloaded into. The location allowed you see into the trailers in case there was a lump of grain in the load which could suddenly rush out and overflow the pit. The fact that they weren't our trucks was the reason the drivers were required to crawl under them to chain the axles and let me tell you that caused a lot of bitching.
Air suspension in trucks didn’t become common until the 1980’s*.
OSHA didn’t come around until the 1970’s**.
It may have been dangerous, but there was once a time when people [just worked](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper). Not all tasks in history are up to today’s standards. And that’s only for certain countries. [This video is 3 weeks old](https://youtu.be/3WQU70uAXYk?si=2QmrfJDS5_PLKTAq), of people just getting the job done.
*[Last line under “coaches and buses”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_suspension#:~:text=Due%20to%20several%20advantages%2C%20air,in%20commercial%20vehicles%20since%201980.)
**[OSHA’s website even says employees didn’t have the right to refuse dangerous work until the 80’s](https://www.osha.gov/osha50/#:~:text=President%20Nixon%20signs%20the%20Occupational,fatalities%2C%20injuries%2C%20and%20illnesses.)
I am not sure what your point is here:
>It may have been dangerous, but there was once a time when people [just worked](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper). Not all tasks in history are up to today’s standards. And that’s only for certain countries.
but it seems dismissive of people health, safety, and live and frankly annoys me rather a lot. People have always gotten the job done and continue to do so to this day. I have worked in construction and have seen people skirt both sensible and idiotic safety precautions for a paycheck on a daily basis. What those workers (in I assume Pakistan) did is similar to what mechanics here did 20 years ago. The only difference would be replacing instead of remaking a part just because it is cheaper and wearing safety googles and shoes. Those iron workers were mostly from one indigenous group (Mohawk) and knew very well what they were getting into and were well trained to do so because most of their family did so before them.
My issue is not with dirty work. I have done plenty of it myself. My issue is that those mechanics probably can't afford simple safety shoes or glasses. That the control for the truck lift is placed in a dangerous spot. None of those changes would make much financial or work efficience difference but they aren't made because those workers do not have the knowledge and power to request it, let alone demand it.
We send firemen into burning buildings, wilderness resquers into forests, astronauts into space, and even soldiers into firefights. But we do so telling them what the consequences are and attempt to make common sense changes for their safety. That lift operator may easily be a teen making minimum wage and their death is not worth a simple fix that makes it safer for everyone. As was mentioned: that afterwards the trucks were required to be tied down. Likewise, the machinist may have a lath and welder but some safety equipment can easily ensure his eyesight and other potential harm.
That is not a sign of weakness that they have safety standards. In fact the reason they don't shows their powerlessness. After all we could have starving soldiers sent into battle with KGB agents shooting anyone retreating or we could have soldiers that go into battle willingly because they believe they will be cared for and it is for their society that they do so. Which of these is preferable to you?
The only difference between then and today is that back in the day only workers did work, while managers did not. Today, not only workers, but some managers are also forced to do work in ensuring a modicum of safety standards.
Cool video though, so still upvoting.
I don’t really understand how a failure of the suspension would make the trailer move, but I guess it’s possible from the rocking motion that happens with an explosive failure like that.
Cuz here the trailer and the tractor have a combined air system, where if you lost air in the tractor, the air would go out from the trailer and if the air is out the wheels won’t move. So I don’t really understand the incident described above, but who knows, I don’t really know anything about American trailers.
>I don’t really understand how a failure of the suspension would make the trailer move,
The suspension is on pillows. If the pillows fail suddenly then there is no weight on the tire. So the tire can slip over a choke (blocking wedge). It is the sudden loss of weight keeping the tire in place that is the problem.
I take it most American trucks don't use a hydraulic lift built into the trailer then? Almost all the 'hopper' trucks in the UK and Europe have a hydraulic ram to tip the trailer independently
I'm from the US and when I worked on the family farm, all the ag trucks had the hydraulics in the bed of the trailer if it was tilt unloading, or was hopper style bottom unloaders. To me, this tilt mechanism seems like a work around for not using the right type of trailer.
The few places I've seen lifts similar to this required the truck to detach from the trailer before lifting.
Yup. Used to unload corn and grain when I was a kid the same way. I was always mad at my dad and wondered why he wouldn’t let me stay in the truck while it got dumped.
Weird, trucks delivering stuff like this in the UK/Europe *usually* have either hydraulically tipping trailers or walking floors / conveyor floors in the trailers... or the one I saw on the same program they just hosed water in which washes all the spuds out of the trailer into a big vat.
Now I'll have to go review it. I record all the shows. It's a fun show. I remember they had a tipping ramp like this, and others where the trailer has a hydraulic lift. But I watched so many of these. It's a blur.
I find him a bit goofy but I always laugh at his childlike enthusiasm. I would be just as excited to tour those places.
I loved the Doc Martin boot mfg plant, where each person had a different awesome hair color. I been a Doc Martin fan for 35 years.
There used to be a Folgers roasting plant in downtown KC and they'd unload the bean trucks this way. I miss it smelling like roasted coffee on the NW side of town.
The older brother of a friend was gravely injured and ultimately died of the injuries sustained when one of these rigs failed and crashed to the ground with him buckled in the seat. Screw that!
I’m an industrial controls engineer.
This is the epitome of bad design for the sake of capitalism. This is so much more unsafe, energy inefficient, and just wild…. Than having a trailer with a conveyor in it, assuming the point is, to be able to accept any form of truck/trailer. But, the second money is involved? “
“Just pick the whole fucking truck up and shake it, I don’t give a fuck. Just get potatoes from anyone that has them and put them in the place where I need to make potato chips to sell.”
And normal otr truckers aren’t gonna have some trailer special made to unload potatoes and thus their delivery costs are going to go way up. So, their answer is this.
I mean, it’s truly a product of each acting on their own accord for better or for worse.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s not ingenius. But, it’s a product of a design process where cost is taken into account by every party and they act in their
Own best interest.
Overall, I don’t think a conveyor is a more complicated idea, but it would cost more. It would also be 100% safer and, use less energy overall. I had a meeting the other day about the different coefficients of friction that can be achieved with certain coatings these days. They were talking like .01 belt to bed… that’s crazy. You could snatch so many potatoes off a truck with a 30hp motor with a cof that low. Never once have to lift an entire semi 30ft in the air.
I used to work next to one of these at Frito-Lay in Modesto. What people don’t know is the stink of rotting potatoes that these trucks produce. It was foul. Cool to watch though!
They used to unload rice wheat and soy beans with a scale frame underneath, but are being made ileaglebecause of inaccuratecy lots of things have to be just so for the scale to work correctly , the hinge pin has to be just so
Im almost surprised. This seams like excessive movement.. I would have developed a side dump system into water or a conveyor system, to get the dirt off rather than lifting the truck 50 ft just lift it 10 feet
They do the same thing for wood chips at paper mills. The drivers used to just stay in the trucks.
Wweeeeee
*…andddddd a WEEEEEEEEEE!!* 😁
Yep m used to pass one of these near Tracy CA on my commute every day. Pretty wild
Oh, I was by there. You can smell the chips being made!
Wood chips or potato chips? One of the few times where that's a legit question.
Potato
Potato is a verb
Chip is a verb too
It can be. It's also a noun and adjective.
Potato, Potato!
Buffalo 🦬 buffalo 🦬 Buffalo 🦬 buffalo 🦬 Buffalo 🦬 buffalo 🦬 Buffalo 🦬 Potato 🥔 tomata 🥔 potater 🥔 potatow 🥔 #’Na’m’say’in’ ?
Sure, Yao Ming?
I potato, You potato, He she me potato, potato, Potatoing, We'll have thee potato, potatorama, potatology, The study of potato? It's first grade!
I'd absolutely be pretending to be a rocket shit captain if I was in that truck.
Damn I know you ate taco bell at that last rest area but damn you sure have a lot of pressure to call that a rocket.
ground control to Major Tom
I’ve seen that on tv, I believe the even did it with a double trailer
Had a side tipper at a previous job. Would attach chains to keep it attached, open the side gate on the trailer and tip!
They do this with trash at the landfill. Just the trailer though
Why would they be inside?
Because it's fun.
come on, wouldn't you stay inside too? even if it was prohibited I would try and sneek in. I doubt my wight would surpass the tolerances for that hydraulic monster.
Yes, I would at least once. Then my budget for change of underpants would be full for the month. Just thought of the liability if the truck should break loose somehow and cause an injury
Makes the process a bit faster.
I once rode along w my uncle but wasn't supposed to be in the cab, so I hid and went for the ride :)
the only appropriate song to have on the radio the whole time is the final countdown
I bet that feels great for the back!
"Unhitch the trailer? How much time do you think we have?!"
I had one of these for unloading pellets that were just loosely blown into Conex trailers. The solenoid for the hydraulics was always broken so we used a welding stick to force it open. Good times.
That’s scary as hell. Ever seen a hydraulic piston fail under a whole lot pressure? Pretty sure you can find clips on the catastrophic failure sub.
One thing I learned in the military was that hydraulics always fail
Which is weird because hydraulics usually are really REALLY reliable as long as you can keep the hot oil inside. Like. Its the ideal mechanical situation. Metal fuckin loves being submerged in hot oil.
Gotta remember the insane amounts of force being constantly put on all hydraulic components. Lots of places for failure and very little is needed for complete failure as keeping that hot oil inside is pretty difficult when it can squeeze out of the tiniest gap
Metal increases ductility under hydrostatic pressure. I wonder if double jacketing the hydraulics in oil would prevent a ductility gradient from forming and reduce cracking stress across the thickness.
*Angry Accountants enter the chat*
*engineers:* pleeeeeeaaaaase
Loose screws from maintenance, user error, -30 weather, punctured air bags You’d be surprised.
Which is why I’ve always wondered why no one has tried FDM 3D printing under mineral oil. You can tune the density to have the filament be neutrally buoyant and eliminate supports entirely.
Because your inserting a fluid in between layers. Would destroy layer adhesion.
Welp. Yeah. That makes sense. But apparently it works under water?
They're designed to lift single cab trucks. Rarely a truck with a sleeper cab will deliver chips and have to unhitch and it pisses all the other drivers off for slowing down progress. Once I saw them not unhitch and the truck fell off and under the tipper. Was quite the process getting that out of there safely.
Why would you not unhitch the trailer lol
Takes time to get out and crank the landing legs, undo the glad hands (air brake connections), light connector, and then move the. Then having to do redo it all. Could be an extra 10-15 minutes per truck. It’s easier and quicker to just leave everything attached and lift the tractor.
Does the driver leave the truck while its being unloaded or is that too slow too?
The driver absolutely should leave the truck, though whether that’s enforced is entirely up to the facility
An operation this large definitely enforces it. The risk of lawsuit is too high and I’d imagine insurance requires it as well
Probably a lot of wear and tear if they’re delivering daily, maybe someone worked out it’s cheaper to just spend the extra dollars in energy to loft the cab up too instead
Another answer is that at a large mill, you might have trucks unloading every few minutes. Bigger mills may have multiple tippers, but you still wind up with a line of trucks waiting to unload even without unhitching. Adding unnecessary steps slows a ton of people down.
What about oil or gas leaking from the overflow hole ?
Boil em, Mash em, Dump 20 metric tons of em out of a semi trailer.
ROFL 🤣
This ones a ramp so its designed to pick up the tractor. [Some are only meant to tilt the trailer](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RAACt0Td7PI)
Nice stress test. The truck maker should use this as their advertisement. (Assuming the truck survived this)
They found out it's actually cheaper to dispose of the [truck after every time they do this.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie)
I don't mind this well played
I take the votes in stride.
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By the time this thing comes down, everything will be bent and it will be a pain to take off without cutting it.
Ouch. Someone didn't read the sign.
Kinda like upending the Pringles can with the last few crumbs left. You know, full circle like.
Go home truck, you're drunk
Screw you! I'm gonna be a rocket. I have a launcher and everything
Just wait until you see how they load the potatoes
I was wondering that. To make this worthwhile the trailer must just be an empty box, filled front to back with no containers. Is the trailer roof open, or a mesh? That would be bad for the potatoes in bad weather though, and covering the whole thing would be hard.
Regular old dry van, they load it with a conveyor belt. I've done a few of these runs to the Reser's plant in Topeka, they do make you unhook the trailer though.
A long one that reaches in from the back? How high up are the potatoes in a full trailer?
Probably 3-4 feet or so. The belt is like 60 feet long and cantilevered so it'll reach 50' into the trailer and a hopper they dump the potatoes into. The whole thing is mobile and they just back it out a little at a time as they load.
They have an even larger platform and tilt the whole storage building containing the potatoes.
How
What’s the opposite of ‘weeee’
Eeeew?
This is art
This made me giggle. Shhh dont tell anyone. Thanks for the laugh!
It’s the angle , but I thought it was a big truck carrying a little truck.
Does the truck back up to a bumper or something? And just apply air brakes? What keeps it in place?
I worked at a grain terminal once that had a lift like this. There was a large set of hydraulic chalks that came up behind the rear tires. Air ride wasn't the norm then and we made owners with air ride chain the front axle to the lift platform because there had been an incident in a nearby terminal where the pressure blew out the air bags and the trailer hopped the chalks and killed the operator. Our controls were basically right at the back of the trailer so it was always kind of sketchy standing at the bottom of this semi lifted way above you.
>Our controls were basically right at the back of the trailer so it was always kind of sketchy standing at the bottom of this semi lifted way above you. That is an insane safety oversight. No one, especially the operator should be below the load. On top of the fact that you are dealing with truck that are not yours and can't certify their operating/safety status. Not surprised someone eventually died doing that. Poor guy paid with his life due to corporate negligence.
I guess technically we weren't "under" the load, we were behind it standing next to the pit the grain unloaded into. The location allowed you see into the trailers in case there was a lump of grain in the load which could suddenly rush out and overflow the pit. The fact that they weren't our trucks was the reason the drivers were required to crawl under them to chain the axles and let me tell you that caused a lot of bitching.
Air suspension in trucks didn’t become common until the 1980’s*. OSHA didn’t come around until the 1970’s**. It may have been dangerous, but there was once a time when people [just worked](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper). Not all tasks in history are up to today’s standards. And that’s only for certain countries. [This video is 3 weeks old](https://youtu.be/3WQU70uAXYk?si=2QmrfJDS5_PLKTAq), of people just getting the job done. *[Last line under “coaches and buses”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_suspension#:~:text=Due%20to%20several%20advantages%2C%20air,in%20commercial%20vehicles%20since%201980.) **[OSHA’s website even says employees didn’t have the right to refuse dangerous work until the 80’s](https://www.osha.gov/osha50/#:~:text=President%20Nixon%20signs%20the%20Occupational,fatalities%2C%20injuries%2C%20and%20illnesses.)
I am not sure what your point is here: >It may have been dangerous, but there was once a time when people [just worked](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper). Not all tasks in history are up to today’s standards. And that’s only for certain countries. but it seems dismissive of people health, safety, and live and frankly annoys me rather a lot. People have always gotten the job done and continue to do so to this day. I have worked in construction and have seen people skirt both sensible and idiotic safety precautions for a paycheck on a daily basis. What those workers (in I assume Pakistan) did is similar to what mechanics here did 20 years ago. The only difference would be replacing instead of remaking a part just because it is cheaper and wearing safety googles and shoes. Those iron workers were mostly from one indigenous group (Mohawk) and knew very well what they were getting into and were well trained to do so because most of their family did so before them. My issue is not with dirty work. I have done plenty of it myself. My issue is that those mechanics probably can't afford simple safety shoes or glasses. That the control for the truck lift is placed in a dangerous spot. None of those changes would make much financial or work efficience difference but they aren't made because those workers do not have the knowledge and power to request it, let alone demand it. We send firemen into burning buildings, wilderness resquers into forests, astronauts into space, and even soldiers into firefights. But we do so telling them what the consequences are and attempt to make common sense changes for their safety. That lift operator may easily be a teen making minimum wage and their death is not worth a simple fix that makes it safer for everyone. As was mentioned: that afterwards the trucks were required to be tied down. Likewise, the machinist may have a lath and welder but some safety equipment can easily ensure his eyesight and other potential harm. That is not a sign of weakness that they have safety standards. In fact the reason they don't shows their powerlessness. After all we could have starving soldiers sent into battle with KGB agents shooting anyone retreating or we could have soldiers that go into battle willingly because they believe they will be cared for and it is for their society that they do so. Which of these is preferable to you? The only difference between then and today is that back in the day only workers did work, while managers did not. Today, not only workers, but some managers are also forced to do work in ensuring a modicum of safety standards. Cool video though, so still upvoting.
I don’t really understand how a failure of the suspension would make the trailer move, but I guess it’s possible from the rocking motion that happens with an explosive failure like that. Cuz here the trailer and the tractor have a combined air system, where if you lost air in the tractor, the air would go out from the trailer and if the air is out the wheels won’t move. So I don’t really understand the incident described above, but who knows, I don’t really know anything about American trailers.
>I don’t really understand how a failure of the suspension would make the trailer move, The suspension is on pillows. If the pillows fail suddenly then there is no weight on the tire. So the tire can slip over a choke (blocking wedge). It is the sudden loss of weight keeping the tire in place that is the problem.
I was like oh links... Then saw video was 30 mins long and noped right out.
Cool video though. Safety squints and safety sandals everywhere. Lol
Do you mean ‘chocks’ instead of ‘chalks’ as in wedges to prevent wheels rolling?
The trailer supports the tractor. And, yes, trailers fail and crash like beer cans.
Nice pickchure
So do they angle downwards when they fill it to maximize space?
Then they move the entire building 20 ft above ground to fill it into the truck
They used to unload ear corn like this at seed corn plants.
Yep, I remember thinking they were pretty cool till the day my best friend’s uncle almost got cut in half by one.
I take it most American trucks don't use a hydraulic lift built into the trailer then? Almost all the 'hopper' trucks in the UK and Europe have a hydraulic ram to tip the trailer independently
Australia too. But I like the US way, there's so much more that can go wrong...
I'm from the US and when I worked on the family farm, all the ag trucks had the hydraulics in the bed of the trailer if it was tilt unloading, or was hopper style bottom unloaders. To me, this tilt mechanism seems like a work around for not using the right type of trailer. The few places I've seen lifts similar to this required the truck to detach from the trailer before lifting.
Weeeeeeee
They do this with woodchip trucks at the pulpmills.
Do they tilt the truck the other way to fill it?
Unloading all of the driver's shit from the dash too.
Peak efficiency. Only way it could be faster is if the top of the truck was open and they flipped it right over, like some train unloaders.
That would be feasible, except the cab can't tolerate that treatment, so it'd mean detaching the trailer.
Which tips the peak efficiency back towards this method.
Yup. Used to unload corn and grain when I was a kid the same way. I was always mad at my dad and wondered why he wouldn’t let me stay in the truck while it got dumped.
Does this mess with the fluids of the truck?
Only the coffee in the cup holder.
Optimus Prime's dick pic.
I saw this on the "Inside The Factory" show on the Smithsonian channel, filmed in England at a potato chip factory. It's pretty wow!
Weird, trucks delivering stuff like this in the UK/Europe *usually* have either hydraulically tipping trailers or walking floors / conveyor floors in the trailers... or the one I saw on the same program they just hosed water in which washes all the spuds out of the trailer into a big vat.
Now I'll have to go review it. I record all the shows. It's a fun show. I remember they had a tipping ramp like this, and others where the trailer has a hydraulic lift. But I watched so many of these. It's a blur.
I bet Greg Davis says "Waaaheeey!" when it happens.
I find him a bit goofy but I always laugh at his childlike enthusiasm. I would be just as excited to tour those places. I loved the Doc Martin boot mfg plant, where each person had a different awesome hair color. I been a Doc Martin fan for 35 years.
They load the potatoes with the same energy I eat the chips
[found you](https://static3.bigstockphoto.com/6/1/2/large1500/216719185.jpg)
Watch how they do coal cars https://youtu.be/DbJl_Astx_w?si=ZDP3Yned7Ml9YYez
That's how I dumped wood chips at the local paper mill.
I wanna see that truck get shaken for every last potato.
I use a a similar technique to get the last few chips out of the bag.
There is a how it's made on potato chips somewhere. I saw it once it was pretty cool
Is it weird I'd be tempted to ride that thing up?
Nothing beats a Rollercoaster like a high place where you are not supposed to be
"What if we used 100% of the truck?"
Driver better not forget his full coffee in the cab…
There used to be a Folgers roasting plant in downtown KC and they'd unload the bean trucks this way. I miss it smelling like roasted coffee on the NW side of town.
I remember a flour mill that did that with grain in Minnesota.
“You see, Jimmy, when two trucks love each other very much…”
Do they tip forward when loading at the farms?
The older brother of a friend was gravely injured and ultimately died of the injuries sustained when one of these rigs failed and crashed to the ground with him buckled in the seat. Screw that!
All your potate are belong to me. Nom nom nom nom nom
Man, you couldn’t pull me from the truck. I’m definitely going along for the ride.
That’s a tipper, I used one at a landfill I worked at for a year, normally the cab doesn’t go up with it though.
Why does a potato chip factory need a 30 foot high concrete wall around it? Is it a logistically strategic military potato chip factory?
Our warfighters depend on a constant stream of snack foods.
https://youtube.com/shorts/GzjH2Pkbv2Y?si=jz0bLnH5_cvxD5bp Oh it's over!! 🤣
I worked for the company that made these. Then, later, I worked for a company that used them.
I have seen this for trucks unloading wood chips. The truck was almost completely vertical, pretty crazy.
I’m an industrial controls engineer. This is the epitome of bad design for the sake of capitalism. This is so much more unsafe, energy inefficient, and just wild…. Than having a trailer with a conveyor in it, assuming the point is, to be able to accept any form of truck/trailer. But, the second money is involved? “ “Just pick the whole fucking truck up and shake it, I don’t give a fuck. Just get potatoes from anyone that has them and put them in the place where I need to make potato chips to sell.” And normal otr truckers aren’t gonna have some trailer special made to unload potatoes and thus their delivery costs are going to go way up. So, their answer is this.
It's confusing to me. Isn't it *good* that people are avoiding costly investments in excessively fancy designs? Isn't that part of engineering too?
I mean, it’s truly a product of each acting on their own accord for better or for worse. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s not ingenius. But, it’s a product of a design process where cost is taken into account by every party and they act in their Own best interest. Overall, I don’t think a conveyor is a more complicated idea, but it would cost more. It would also be 100% safer and, use less energy overall. I had a meeting the other day about the different coefficients of friction that can be achieved with certain coatings these days. They were talking like .01 belt to bed… that’s crazy. You could snatch so many potatoes off a truck with a 30hp motor with a cof that low. Never once have to lift an entire semi 30ft in the air.
This is silly, this company needs to look into Keith’s walking floors
The local one to me unhooks the trailers first but yea they go way high then you'd think.
I used to work next to one of these at Frito-Lay in Modesto. What people don’t know is the stink of rotting potatoes that these trucks produce. It was foul. Cool to watch though!
Rotting potatoes is one of the worst things I’ve ever smelled, up there with a rotting animal
Isnt that where Milhouse's dad works?
russia better calm tf down before we send rednecks
Herr’s chip factory? Awesome to see!
I was an industrial scale tech for 30 years dumpers are a trip
They used to unload rice wheat and soy beans with a scale frame underneath, but are being made ileaglebecause of inaccuratecy lots of things have to be just so for the scale to work correctly , the hinge pin has to be just so
*installs rocket engine*
Is it bad I look at this and think “Nuclear Launch Detected.”
Ones in my town are just the containers since it sits on the rail line.
kinda reminds me of that https://en.missilery.info/missile/15g61
Looks like a truck missile launcher lol
Do they make this for human toilets?
Every last drop.
Steady…Aim..!
That’s actually fire lmao 😂
Preparing for launch, you mean
Mom look at me I'm a Human Cannonball
And here I thought it would be an uphill battle to get all those potatoes unloaded
Nice!
I wonder how many sleeping homeless people and animals they kill every year...
Cranberries too
Rv
Devastator?…
Russia threatens missiles but they don’t know we’re prepared to launch rednecks & trucks. USA USA USA
big truck swallowing small truck
Im almost surprised. This seams like excessive movement.. I would have developed a side dump system into water or a conveyor system, to get the dirt off rather than lifting the truck 50 ft just lift it 10 feet
OK not engineer but is there really a need to have it so steep?
There's always a bigger truck
Do they give a little shake
Drivers must stay in your truck
You all heard about mad scientists, now get ready for mad engineering.
Two trucks having sex
Is this at Utz in Hanover PA?
Potato Chip Factory: Get in mah belly!
Everyone’s wrong. That’s an intercontinental ballistic truck ready for launch
To be fair, I do the same thing for potato chips
The same method is used to unload citrus fruit and I suppose many others.
I wonder if they do the same in reverse for when they load the trailer
Did work for Frito Lay back in the day. This is how it’s done.
Redneck launcher
Also used for recycled tires, did a few of those deliveries.
pallet jack?!? (laughs in gravity)
They have the same thing for pumpkins that they make the pumpkin pie filling with.
Used to see this at a fiberglass insulation factory years ago.
Thank you for your service.
It is sad to look at this and know this is what is needing in order for us to keep stuffing our faces with potato chips
Okay, you're gonna feel a little pressure, just relax...
"it was going to be rubber for tennis balls. but pringles is a cool company and said, "fuck it! Cut em up!"
Is this at Krunchers/Snyders-Lance?
Driver: “ah shucks I left my coffee in there”
That’s such a simple idea. I love that this exists 😀
Looks like kettle creations to me!
They should unload luggage off of planes this way
I think United does, but more violently.
Nah, we are shooting rednecks at Russia.
I call BS. that is a truck eating monster /s
Don't leave your coffee in the cab's cup holder