Don't follow welding gas trucks!

[roadhawk]

Unless you bring the marshmallows......
It stops for a second half way through, watch all the way to the end.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FG1LGKieTxY?autoplay=1&vq=480&rel=0

 

[pisoiu]

Scary. But if you don't know the color codes for various gases, you won't know if there is acetylene there or oxygen, argon or whatever else... However, any gas stored at 200 bar is quite dangerous, with or without flames. Don't know how regulations are in Russia but in my country, pressurised cylinders are handled differently. They are transported in some kind of cages and usually in smaller vehicles.

 

[mhgoldwing]

Giant pucker factor !!!:cxtv:

 

[1dn5up]

I suffer from "Roofafobia" that's any cager with anything on the roof. Especially ladders, sheet rock, plywood, and mattress.

 

[hogcowboy]

All I saw was orange which would be nothing but on a second run I saw white. Probably black and green in there too judging by the smoke and flames.:AGGHH: I can't believe that one idiot on the phone was that close. Guess ignorance is bliss. Shrapnel won't get to him!epper: What a fool.

 

[werewolf]

This is not the United States. I noticed the tags first.

While hazmat is very well regulated in the USA

Should that happen in front of you,
GET THE HECK OUT OF THERE FAST.

DUMBASS!

 

[roadhawk]

Oh, there's always some pinhead that would run up there to get a selfie with that in the background.

 

[DPK]

I grew up on a cotton farm where we used a lot of oxygen and acetylene. We were taught from an early age never to lay a acetylene tank, drop it, or leave it standing up without chaining it to something to keep it vertical. Also, we were taught never to use any oil or grease on anything connected to a tank.

All of the black smoke in the video came from the acetylene. The explosive cloudbursts most likely occurred when an oxygen tank burst from the heat.

I wouldnt feel feel safe unless I was at least 200 feet from those explosions.

I keep oxygen and and acetylene tanks in my hobby shop. When exchanging empty tanks for full at the supplier a couple of years ago, I asked if they still came across tanks with a German swastica stamp like when I was a kid in the 60's. He replied in the affirmative and showed me one on the dock. As long as they pass a hydro test every 10 years they are good to go.

Dan

 

[FRR]

Wonder who the dummy was that left his car down by the wreck?

 

[DPK]

Wonder who the dummy was that left his car down by the wreck?

i imagine it picked up some damage from flying shrapnel.

 

[hogcowboy]

Wonder who the dummy was that left his car down by the wreck?

A guy that want his insurance to buy him another car.