just a question here,but when i was a little kid i had this video (still have it) about heavy equipment for kids and there were building a skyscraper (i think in dc) and they had a thing called a truck wash were the dump trucks drive through a bed in the ground to clean the tires,i think the movie was filed in 1994 and such a device is obsoulite,What info i need is why do they use instead of using a hose and possibly pictures of this truck wash bed.I made a diogram of what it looks like.

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-Mike, Collecting 1/50th Construction Diecast Since 2003.
View My Collection Here, As of 08/10/24

I have seen that as well. I Hvae no clue why?lol

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Landon

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its so the trucks wont track dirt and mud onto the streets... here we lay a 20 foot strip of rip rap to do the same thing

Ah, I remember that movie! Good times, and I do remember that scene. Way I see it is as a way to remove the big chunks of mud off the tires before the trucks left the site. It's different in the cities and their are probably laws that restrict trucks from making a mess out of the roads in that manner.

Now as for your question about using a hose instead. Can you imagine how inconvenient and time consuming that would be for the truck driver, or a worker to hose off each one of those wheels indidually! This invention obviously made it an easier and quicker way to clean the tires. Personally, I've never seen or heard of a "truck bath" except in that movie.

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-Justin

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I still own that movie, I remember yelling at the TV when they called a piece of Equipment the wrong name. And the songs were Awesome..."Fill me up and tap my load, let me know when it's time to go; we are some 100 ton dump trucks"....

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Be Prepared

I recall all of the above, and the Triple 8 Manitowoc setting the girders. What about the D8 explaining how they use Lowboys to move from job to job ? Or the Cold Planer that spoke like Darth Vader !

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- Danny

Yeah they had them benched down in that foundation, My mom tells me I would watch that movie over and over again.

Another great one ( and I think is still educational ) is " Building Skyscrapers ". It features all of the steps of building a Skyscraper in New York City in the early 90's. I also was hooked on every video in the " There Goes A .... " series !

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- Danny

I currently still have all of the " How Do They Build " videos. Is the " i wanna be a heavy equipment operator when I grow up " the one divided into the 3 sections with the 3 kids ? I loved the crane section because they had a whole section d+++++ed to Crawler Cranes. Mighty Machines was also a favorite of mine !

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- Danny

Yea these were classics,i have this one its called hard hat and building or something like that,thye build an skyscraper in canda,they have a tower crane with a little hut were the trolly on the crane would move there was an opeartor there,sorta strange,they also but chrismas lights on the crane so it was a big candy cane at night.

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-Mike, Collecting 1/50th Construction Diecast Since 2003.
View My Collection Here, As of 08/10/24

there is a series in canada called "mighty machines" it profiles all different types of machines and jobs....its intened for kids because the machines talk...but i still like them....

here's the theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4nRAs-h3IQ


Greg H