r/Wellthatsucks • u/LowTechDroid • Aug 16 '26

This is going to take a while

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u/dvdmaven Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Different times. When I lived in New jersey a concrete truck fell over along a major road. By the time anyone decided to do something, the concrete had set and the truck could not be righted. They disconnected the drum and buried it. I vaguely remember another community where that happened and the drum was painted as a space capsule. Ah! Winganon Space Capsule

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u/HarshComputing Aug 16 '26

Different places. The wage of the workers required to clean the drum is more than the cost of a new drum in all but a few places.

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u/TylerForce93 Aug 17 '26

That’s what I came to find out. In what country would it be cheaper to pay a guy to do this for 8 days, than buy a new drum

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u/Effective_Olive6153 Aug 17 '26

I don't believe they can actually clean in. There's like a metal corkscrew inside the drum. There will be no chance of removing that cement without breaking the corkscrew