Nitpick: It was the redhead.

Yeah that water torture looked surprisingly effective. Of course Adam and the "fly torture" was pretty funny too.

I think the funniest they ever did was trying to figure out whether a duck's quack echoes. That clip of Jamie holding the duck saying "Quack, damn you!" cracks me up.

 

ya same here, im in ok to and what time is that like 5 in the mornign

 

That show is great my wife and I take bets on weather a myth is true or not. Some ar well known and obvious, others are a toss up.

 

At first they were doing the myth about concrete truck drivers that had a load of concrete (they kept saying cement which is incorrect!!!) that set up in the barrel, and normally if that happens, they have to go back to the plant and spend a couple days with a jackhammer to get it all out.

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I can assure you it isn't a myth, I have the loss or hearing & breathing from doing that.

If it wasn't bad enough doing it every 6 months on my own truck, I was the only one for a Long time that could fit in the hopper to get in the mixer.
Having panic attacks about someone starting the mixer turning with me in it ,sure didn't help the stress level.

I remember a truck that broke down (Not enough engine oil in it) 75 miles away from Calgary that had 6 1/2 cu yards in it that the driver was made to jack hammer it all out instead of just cutting up the mixer.
It took the idiot 3 weeks to get it cleaned out.

It is a real Lousy feeling when your truck breaks down while you are loaded.

I had one breakdown while unloading & it still was half full (3 1/2 Yards).
I was in a brand new area with dirt roads & not street signs, just house lots dug up ready for footings to be poured.
I was pouring a wall & the 2nd truck out of 5 there.
I can't the fire dept for water.
I got inside the mixer and went through 3+ tanker truck loads of water (about 6000 gals) and got it cleaned out.

I finally got back to the plant with the aid of a tow truck at 5:45 am only to go home without clocking out to return at 6:15 am to start the next day at work for a continous pour of 3000 yds.
I worked a 46 1/2 hr shift then.
8 reg hrs
2hrs @ time & a half hrs
36 1/2 hrs at double time.

I got home at about 7:30 am Wednesday and slept for 18 hours

Again, It isn't a myth, It's for real

 

I bet you would have panic attacks about being in the drum thinking someone might start to roll it. Even if I was small enough, I wouldn't hop down into that hopper, I would be way to scared, that both I wouldn't get out, and that someone like you said would turn it on. That would be on my top 5 worst ways to die. I do have to ask though, 3 1/2 yards was half full? The trucks around here carry a full load of 11 yards.. And they're beasts too. Almost my entire family is into concrete finishing, and I've done it ever since I was old enough to float and trowel. Pretty sad.. I grew up wanting to be either a pump truck driver or a concrete truck driver.. now I'm going into graphic design and business..

 

I liked the one where they were testing speed detectors and things people buy to make them invisible to them.

 

If I was going in the hopper I would take the keys or the ***** or whatever I needed to take to ensure nobody could start it!

That would indeed be a bad way to go.

 

Tried to watch the show, but happened to be one of their episodes where they weren't exactly being logical..

You can debunk ANYTHING if you work at it long enough or make the conditions such that it has to fail...

Remind me not to take some of your suggestions about a good movie Just kidding here...

 

Well, they always make a point to get to a certain spot and say yes, we have proven that the myth is true/false. THEN they go one step further just to entertain themselves and get viewers. What fun would it be if they DIDN'T use 850 lbs of commercial explosive material to blow up a concrete truck? Or a 10 lb black powder charge to get a raccoon out or a drain? Or a stupid amount of black powder to blow up a tree-cannon? That one they actually proved wrong logically. Then they proceeded to prove it right by essentially making it a BIG pipe bomb.

 

In other words, if they can't get a BIG BOOM under the myth conditions, they make one anyway!

I will admit they seem to gloss over some of the myths and not be through enough, but it has to be entertaining too.

 

The reason on that one that they got a big boom was because they wanted it. It's not that the myth wasn't giving them the results they wanted, it was just they got connections to the FBI, so they used them.

Momudder720: The one they were trying to shoot the racoon out of a drain, was that were they first started with gas? Or is that a different one?

 

Romer: yup. Started with gas, worked their way up to a 10 lb powder charge. Got the coon out THAT time.

 

Romer,
This was back in the 70's/80's when we had Rex & London mixer's set on Western Stars & old REO's.

Yes, half full, but even then that was enough weight to lug around.

Dan,

I always took the key that was in the ignition, but there was a spare key in the Dispatching office for someone to grab up.

The other thing was that to get the most efficiency out of the time jack-hammering,I would set the drum so the concrete was on the side.This was so when it broke off it would slide to the bottom of the drum.I would usually go about 40 minutes climb out & go empty it,then drive back to the hammer,park it,set the mixer, and go at it again.


I really,really LOVED my Job and was crushed when I would told I could never drive a mixer truck again.The sad part was the company just seemed to ignore me & my physical difficulties rising for the job. They did that with a few guys.That made me mad, 22 years with one company and they couldn't care less about how the job ruined my health.

And Btw, I was the spare Pump Operator at times as well.

I could do & did anything that involved concrete.I don't miss the 18-20 working hours a day though.

Sidenote*
My Dad was the manager in 1965 & later went on to be the VP of the company.
That's why I started with the comapny when I was 14 .

 

Mil1ion: Sorry if I missed it, but why couldn't you drive a mixer anymore?

My family can do anything that involves concrete too. I have a cousin that works as a driver for Midcontinent Concrete (Midco), and branching out from my grandpa and my grandma's brothers, all of them finished concrete, and did different things such as, stemwalls, and some even got into asphalt. But, branching from my grandpa, there is 4 uncles, one drives a 55 meter pump truck, and the other three just finish. My mother was the only girl, and sometimes she even helped lay it out.

 

I had a stroke while I was at the wheel doing 50 mph, on a bridge,on a 2 lane road with a fully loaded truck.I lost the use of my whole left side, but brought the truck to a stop safely.

From there it became known that I had contracted this debilitating disease.
This happened at time when hardly anything was known about it.
It took 4 years for the medical community to figure out what was wrong with me.
{As opposed to the 5 minutes it takes for FTE people to learn}

http://www.fibromyalgia-i.com/

Apparently I was a prime candidate for it.
Mid-thirties, worked long hours all year long (meaning all winter as well) bad eating habits,lack of sleep, continuously contracting viral infections,colds,flu, stressful living, numerous bodily harm incidents,underlying physcological disorder (loss of loved ones).

It hasn't been fun, that's for sure.