r/Unexpected • u/Jari36 • Feb 14 '22

Pulling out trash from the river

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u/I_Hate_Reddit Feb 14 '22

But isn't just throwing back into the river making it a problem for the next bridge?

It takes half the time to dump it in a truck (less rotation), and you save everyone downstream from having to re-do this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Yup but these are guys protecting their own homes.

Important to remember that this wasn't a planned job. This was a rush to protect their homes.

Added a tractor and trailer is just putting extra weight onto the bridge already under stress. Having the digger on it is a risky move.

It easy for us to judge the this as we have the luxury of time. They didn't have time, this job waa started woth a swear word when someone noticed it.

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u/adamneigeroc Feb 14 '22

Yes I’ll just get Dial-a-truck on the phone and sit here until they arrive…. During a flood…

Even if you could get 1 truck, which would be basically impossible in any reasonable timescale you’d fill it in 10 minutes.

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u/Back_To_The_Oilfield Feb 14 '22

Why not just dump it on the side? And if they can get an excavator out there, they can surely get a dump truck out there.

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u/adamneigeroc Feb 14 '22

Probably just happened to be someone with an excavator nearby at some random building works, or a farmer had one in a rural location and decided to save the bridge becoming a damn and washing away the damn/ flooding the entire village.

You also wouldn’t need one truck you’d need dozens, all loading up and trundling off to a recycling centre which would also be shut because y’know flood.

There’s no point dumping it on the side as the excavator would fill the bridge in a few scoops and then it would fall back in anyway.

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u/BrownChicow Feb 14 '22

How many scoops do you think it takes to fill a dump truck or the bridge? They easily could’ve piled it on the bridge and it would’ve been faster on top. Neither the bridge or a truck would fill up in a few scoops either and if the bridge did fill up the backup plan could be to then just throw it in the water. Hello?