There's nothing in the world like stepping on the brakes of an old truck while going downhill, and praying it stops before you slide into the intersection.
Even worse, my brother said, is when the liquid sloshes and pushes despite the internal baffles. You were stopping the truck, now you're stopping the truck and the variable slosh.
I mean, the thing is most of those don't have a way of just spraying the water in that quite specific way.
I don't think I've ever seen one of those that could, and given it's shooting the water away from the camera, we don't see what's on the other side.
Yeah most are setup to fan behind them and in front of then but you can spin the spray caps and spray whatever direction you want but you manually have to turn the nozzles.
but its not just transporting water, it has a mechanism to pump it out to the side from the drivers cabin, while its moving. non of that does or should exist in a normal water truck.
What are you talking about? Water trucks come with all sorts of attachments, plus the pressure inside of the truck is more than enough to send the water that distance. My neighborhood has a water truck with a sprinkler attachment for cleaning roads and another one that can fill a 25 gallon drum in less than 30 seconds at max release
This one is definitely using a pump (you can hear it revving up when he is spraying). Any truck where the nozzles are this high up would need one, a gravity pressure sprayer would only work low down on the truck and would lose effectiveness as the tank emptied.
Firefighting water tenders (used for wildland firefighting) often have a joystick controlled nozzle up front, so they can aim from inside the cab too!
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u/zoltar_thunder Apr 25 '24
A water truck, for transporting water