welding cylinder explosion

glennster · Mar 28, 2014

heres a vid of a welding truck accident. unbelievable how the cylinders explode. check out the one that takes off to the right over the trees. pretty scary!!!
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dr sportster · Mar 28, 2014

All I gotta say is wacky foreigners. Most of the bottles did what they were supposed to as the plugs melted out. I like the guy who pulls up and honks like he wants someone to clear the bottles so he can keep going. Also you're in a car back up don't get out and run. Probably some country where toilet paper isn't invented yet.Very cool vid though .Thanks

dgasper · Mar 28, 2014

Holy schicklegruber!

wisbaker · Mar 28, 2014

Holy Wah!

Brian Allen · Mar 28, 2014

glennster
Thank you for posting this video! Everyone should watch this!
Many people don't understand the dangers of compressed gas.
Brian

Adirondack case guy · Mar 28, 2014

Maybe I'm out of line here; but I failed to see cylinders in the truck bed that looked like Atceltyne or oxigen, welding gasses. The bottles were all the same size and orange in color. (a foriegn country for sure<)br>Any compressed gas cylinder from nitrogen to plain old air for diving equipment, could react that way when exposed to subsequent overheating from a collision where the vehicle and its fuel tanks were burning.
Loren, the Acg.

donjr · Mar 28, 2014

In dry dock in Boston many years ago, a forklift backed into a welding cart and knocked it into the drydock. Hitting bottom, one of the valve sheared off, and the race was on. The cylinder took off like a rocket, went down one side of the ship, hit the caisson in the end, richocheted off and came flying up the opposite side of the ship. That was the fastest I ever saw a yardbird move the entire time I was in the service.....

JRSutton · Mar 28, 2014

that's impressive.

bill mart · Mar 28, 2014

WOW!!
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Bob Bancroft · Mar 28, 2014

I have to wonder if the driver of the little cab forward cylinder truck got out.

dpendzic · Mar 28, 2014

I think they had to have flammable gas in them as they kept burning after they exploded--perhaps propane or something like that.

rustred · Mar 28, 2014

that's not much for explosions. lucky it was not oxygen bottles. they would have taken off like missiles if the valve ever got broke off. they would go right through cement walls.
also those should have the safety cap on them also. hard to say what is in those.

M-MAN · Mar 28, 2014

Reminded me of a traffic stop a local driver had years ago. The officer pulled him over and told him he didn't completely stop for a stop sign so he was getting a ticket. If he had stopped there the back half of the truck would have been sitting on a railroad track. He politely told the officer he could write him a ticket if he wanted to but there was no way he was going to stop a truck loaded with gas cylinders on a railroad track. If it stalled and a train hit it the entire town would be gone. The officer thought about it a minute and told him to just be sure no one was coming the next time he came through.

John in Nebraska · Mar 29, 2014

In WWII, my father worked in a welding shop in Chicago. Two buildings over an old freight elevator dropped, loaded with oxygen bottles. Everyone hit the floor, thinking the Germans finally made it over here. Took off the roof and most of the top floor.

Bob Bancroft · Mar 29, 2014

Indeed. If I recall correctly from my hazmat days, you stop before the tracks, then proceed, with NO shifting on the tracks.

Billy NY · Mar 29, 2014

He did, its in the video, those things are nothing to fool with, if you have ever seen the footage, (look on you tube) of one one of these places that fills and delivers cylinders was on fire, no logical way to deal with it until they all cook off.

NCWayne · Mar 29, 2014

Looks like the safety plugs doing what they are supposed to do and melting out of a cylinder containing flammable gas more than anything else. Saw a vid where a fill plant had an explosion, I think it was in Texas. Anyways, the cylinders in that plant were taking flight and going hundreds of yards, across the interstate, and into the surrounding neighborhood. The only thing I can imagine would cause that to happen is that the brass valves melted -vs- getting broken off, allowing the high pressure gas inside to launch it. In this vid I don't see any bottles actually launching anywhere, other than one or two that seem to move around a little, so it makes me think that this vid shows that under most "normally abnormal" conditions, the safety devices built into the bottles actually work like they are supposed to.

MarkB_MI · Mar 29, 2014

This did not happen in North America. The original Youtube post says it's from Russia, which seems likely given that most Russian cars have dashcams. However, at about 1:40 you can see the license plate of the car backing up, and it appears to have arabic numerals.

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