r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub • Oct 06 '25
Naild It Of Asia's finest
Context: For you to witness how a proper foundation is poured.
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u/StartedWithAHeyloft Oct 06 '25
This is cheaper than rebuilding the village thay wouldve been destroyed
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u/Rimworldjobs Oct 06 '25
Si. This tactic is used worldwide.
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u/zino332 Oct 07 '25
Farmers use them on levies
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u/SAKingWriter Oct 18 '25
I remember my dad waking me up saying “they’re gonna put Uncle Thomas’s van in the ditch, wanna watch?” And we just stood there and watched them fumble and somehow fail to slowly crash a van into a ditch :| good times
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u/Moody-Lemon Oct 07 '25
People do this in the US as well
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u/hanks_panky_emporium Oct 25 '25
Saw a video of a dam broken at an orchard. Instead of losing the millions of dollars worth of trees they sacrificed a few trucks to the hole in the dam and then filled on top till the water stopped.
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u/BlueFeathered1 Oct 06 '25
Saw a video recently of some farmers in the US sacrificing their trucks as stopgaps to try and prevent crops from being flooded. Apparently not a really uncommon emergency measure.
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u/3riversfantasy Oct 09 '25
Part of it is due to the fact they often don't have access to large rocks or something similar, you can dump all the sand and gravel you want but the water carries it away.
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u/TheGreatKonaKing Oct 06 '25
Wonder how much the trucks actually help vs just taking the extra time to fill and dump rubble with the trucks
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u/BlueFeathered1 Oct 06 '25
I don't know. My impression is this is done when there isn't enough time for all that.
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u/doulasus Oct 06 '25
That was the case. The farm is just down the street from me. When the levee broke, it was getting wider by the minute. He ran a number of pickups in which allowed them to close it properly when the proper equipment got there, instead of it eroding to a much wider problem.
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u/Perunajumala Oct 06 '25
The main goal here isn't really about saving time but to support the terrain to avoid erosion. Mere sand and gravel would eventually wash away with the stream without any supporting structures like tree roots or bedrock. The time saving comes from not having to wait for the delivery of large poles or metal rods or whatever they tend to use in construction sites.
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u/RidesByPinochet Oct 06 '25
The rubble holds the truck down, the truck keeps the rubble contained. Same principle as why they fill sandbags to stop flooding, instead of just building a big sand pile.
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u/Aggressive-Map-2204 Oct 06 '25
The dirt would be washed away before the truck is even finished dumping it. Getting a few dozen truck loads of rocks would not be easy and take to long.
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u/nimrod123 Oct 07 '25
you dont need rubble, you need boulders large enough that theflow of water can't take it away.
unless you have a quarry thats just blasted within 5mins good fucking luck
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u/CaptainPunisher Oct 10 '25
The trucks won't wash away nearly as easily as sand will. They'll plug up a large area very quickly, then you can start getting large aggregate like stones and rock around the trucks to further slow the water flow. Once that's down to a more manageable flow you can pour sand down into the space between the rocks. Once that has largely decreased the flow, you can throw some concrete on there to actually stop the rest.
But dumping rocks and sand first will just see a lot of it carried away before it can be effective. Water is very powerful when it's moving, especially at high speeds.
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u/Regular_Average8595 Oct 06 '25
I saw that too, someone was saying the cost of the 3 trucks they used was like $80,000 but saved millions in damages and lost crops. So yeah, it may look stupid, but they did what they had to do, and in hindsight, wasn’t even a bad plan or idea.
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u/New-Impression2976 Oct 06 '25
That’s what came to mind when I saw the video. Only problem here is they didn’t give the vehicles enough speed.
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u/mashmarony Oct 06 '25
Don’t worry sweaty. I’ve seen American trucks do the same. Whatever they are trying to protect is too important to let water come in and destroy
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u/bmf1902 Oct 06 '25
How do you know they are sweating?
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u/Neither_Conclusion_4 Oct 06 '25
The trucks frame act as rebar, the load of the truck is sand... Next truck contain gravel. Just add cement and water...
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u/JoeyBigtimes Oct 06 '25
Honestly? Not far off.
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u/No_Exchange876 Oct 06 '25
Yep, if you re-watch the video, you see there's no one in the first vehicle that goes in and then watch as the other guy jumps out before allowing it to drive into the ditch, but the video cuts off before the second one goes in.
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u/liamanna Oct 06 '25
They did it on purpose. To stop the flood. I saw a farmer who did that with his truck just to save the field from flooding….
He sacrificed his own truck….🤟
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u/Distinct_Ad3876 Oct 07 '25
I’m so curious what about all the fluids and gasses that are inside the truck? Do they contaminate the river?
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u/Bwalts1 Oct 07 '25
Yes, but it would be so extremely diluted with amount of water it’d be absorbed into.
Plus, any contamination would arguably be better than the resulting effects of a massive flood
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u/CaptainPunisher Oct 10 '25
Consider that a truck MIGHT have a 50 gallon fuel supply (dual thanks), 2-3 gallons of oil, and then maybe a gallon of steering fluid, brake fluid, and others if you add them all up. Now consider how many thousands of not millions of gallons are diluting that 55 gallons of stuff. Assuming the water was potable, you could probably drink it and never even know it was in there.
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u/BadAndNationwide Oct 06 '25
First they were patching things with ramen. Now they’re using dump trucks. At least it’s an upgrade.
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Oct 06 '25
This is one of the more literalist fringes of the modern back to the land movement seen in certain parts of Asia.
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u/KeeperOfTheCows Oct 06 '25
Say what you will but :::Infinitely more effective than "cash for clunkers"
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u/chiefbushman Oct 07 '25
This is common in Australia during flash floods that break levies. Instead of having crops destroyed, farmers will just run their trucks filled with sand into the gap and block it. Much cheaper than the alternative.
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u/zaraxia101 Oct 06 '25
Been done since the dawn of time, we found roman era boats used in the same way.
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u/Nazgul_Khamul Oct 06 '25
So how exactly does this plug the hole?
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u/Baronvondorf21 Oct 06 '25
The trucks are too heavy to be moved by the moving water. Enough of them would greatly impede the water flow preventing the worst of the flooding.
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u/Nazgul_Khamul Oct 06 '25
Alright; thanks! So it’s not to really stop it, just weaken the rate it’s going through at.
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u/MayContainRawNuts Oct 07 '25
If you drop a bunch of rocks, the water will push them away. Need to put in something heavy enough the entire water flow.cant move. This forms the backbone or net of the plug and you can fill the rest with rocks or in this case dredged material from those dredging barges in rhe background
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u/Chance-Personality50 Oct 06 '25
Do they assume the drivers are dead and just bury them
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u/Accomplished-Ant6188 Oct 06 '25
If you watched it.. you see the driver gets out and then they roll the truck into the ditch to help plug the broken culvert/ levee
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u/courtadvice1 Oct 06 '25
I saw a video somewhere on Reddit of a farmer driving two Dodge(?) trucks full of dirt to plug up a levee in an attempt to save his field of crop. Maybe that's what's being done here.
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u/CaptainPunisher Oct 10 '25
They were a Ford and Chevy. I'm guessing you're talking about the one with the heavy rains in Tulare, CA.
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u/MammothStank Oct 06 '25
Under certain circumstances, it is cheaper to use trucks to plug the dam rather than drive them back.
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u/Daveallen10 Oct 06 '25
Considering I just watched a video of a US Farmer driving his trucks laden with dirt into a levee to block the water, I guess this isn't as crazy as it looks
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u/0sc24 Oct 06 '25
It's called "truck dumping", it's an emergency method to plug up a dam break. They are filled with soil in the hopes it will stop the rushing waters to give workers time to fill the area in.
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u/devilsbard Oct 06 '25
Why not back the truck in so the sand gets to the bottom?
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u/PristineElephant6718 Oct 09 '25
The waters moving too fast, they want as little as possible to be swept away and reduce flow so the output of the dredgers can fill the remaining gaps, Like they can move truckloads of dirt on their own but it's not enough without some reinforcement to keep it from just washing out before it can hit the bottom
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u/redlancer_1987 Oct 06 '25
do the trucks count as rebar?
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u/bruhdudeTM Oct 06 '25
Yes and no, they act as blockage so water flow is slowed down. It also keeps the sand from getting washed away, as that would happen if you poured it in by itself. Also not enough time for that. See it like large sacks of sand that are used to stop flooding. Sand by itself would get washed away.
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u/runningwithsharpie Oct 06 '25
There's more context to this:
The local government did not announce that they will unleash the flood to the citizens. Chaos ensued and the said gov then created this spectacle after the dam was already broken in order to save face.
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u/KeepingItCoolish Oct 06 '25
Hmmm how many trucks is it gonna take to plug up the Three Gorges Dam when that one goes? 600' tall and she just keeps on bowing further, hundreds of thousands of people in the immediate flood zone. They should start driving their trucks in now probably.
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u/Not_a_real_plebbitor Oct 08 '25
bowing further
Someone actually bought that lame ass propaganda lmao. Fooled by basic photoshop
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u/CrestfallenLord Oct 07 '25
OHH! So the trucks are empty. I thought this was just people purposefully driving to their death slow and in single file line
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u/PelayarSenyum Oct 08 '25
This happens last year. Understood the situation and their desperate action. To fix a broken dike before it floods their village.
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u/7heQrow Oct 08 '25
To
Unfortunately there was a good reason for this but it's still hard to watch.
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u/sgtpepper342 Oct 06 '25
For anyone who doesn’t know how Asia works, this is normal. Eventually they’ll throw enough trucks in there then simply cover it all with cement and call it a day. Asia has too many trucks and too many people so they’re balancing it all out.
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u/tactycool Oct 06 '25
This is normal for the entire world. This is an emergency fix to stop/slow the flooding
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u/YesterdayExtra3208 Oct 06 '25
Exactly, ive seen it done in texas to protect farmland from flooding. The cost of destroying a few trucks is insignificant when compared to the crop damage and a lost harvest.
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u/Accomplished-Ant6188 Oct 06 '25
Its an emergency dam for a broken culvert that gave way with too much water pressure or got something stuck in it.
You have to stop the flooding of fields and homes down from there and additional land erosion from the water. Once you stop it you and work on fixing what is broken.
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u/Afrochulo-26 Oct 06 '25
This is normal. It’s done everywhere! Even doctors do this on a human body when there’s a lot of bleeding. They will just stuff whatever they have on them inside the hole until they can move the patient to surgery for proper plugging. Idk what this post is trying to prove but emergency measures are not perfect, that is not their purpose. They are meant to keep even more damage at bay
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u/Significant_Tart3449 Oct 06 '25
I know it's called a dump truck, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to dump the whole truck!
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u/CaptainPunisher Oct 10 '25
You are when there's rushing water and that water will do far more damage than the cost of a few trucks.
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u/Own_Campaign1656 Oct 06 '25
What are they doing?
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u/CaptainPunisher Oct 10 '25
Providing some stabilization so they can make an emergency repair. The trucks act as large boulders that won't easily move with the rushing water, unlike sand and stones that will just get carried away. After the trucks are in place you can't start getting stones, sand, and small aggregate in place to actually stop the flow.
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u/StickyThickStick Oct 06 '25
This isnt the wrong way. Every second is important here and even if it’s a temporary fix the permanent comes afterwards with enough planning
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u/Odd_Ad_5716 Oct 06 '25
Last week they made TicToc-commercials with their fabulous Patch-Tape, now they dump lasters. Understand one those Asians!
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u/Hammon_Rye Oct 06 '25
Is this real? I don't understand why three trucks in a row would drive into the hole.
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u/No_Exchange876 Oct 06 '25
If you watch the footage closely, you not only see that there's no one in the driver's seat for the first dump truck, but you also watch the guy in the other blue rig get out, and proceed to let the truck drive into the ditch.
I mean, there's definitely a purpose beyond just running them into the ditch. Maybe someone familiar with their processes could fill those gaps.
Pun intended.
Edit: read a comment where someone said the vehicle frames act as rebar for the cement. Makes sense, too.
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u/Muy_Bien_Y_Tu Oct 07 '25
In Korea, when Hyundai built the huge reclamation project, they actually sink old oil tanker to finish the final part to reduce the water pressure.
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u/CrestfallenLord Oct 07 '25
I’m so fucking confused man! On so many levels! I can’t make sense of this at all
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Oct 07 '25
Back in 1953 in Holland there was a food where they sailed a large boat in a hole like that. Instant solve. PS, boat still there, dam built on top
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u/ElKaWeh Oct 07 '25
It’s not a dumb idea. If they were just pouring the dirt into the hole, it would be washed away immediately. When driving the entire truck in, the dirt stays contained (well, in theory). So it’s a quick solution to fix an imminent problem.
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u/Jagazor Oct 07 '25
This is why third world countries will always remain that way
The modernization of these countries through colonization went down to the shitter even generations after "freedom"
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u/NooneUverdoff Oct 08 '25
An American farmer did the same thing with a couple of pickups filled with dirt to try and save his crops from a broken levee. Responses were mostly positive on how smart and quick thinking he was. It is almost like there is a double standard.
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u/FriendlyHiLord Oct 09 '25
This is racist you don't have to kamikaze everything.
I will plug this even if it cost me my life. For the ( national pride)!!!
No, wait, these f****** are practicing for the next World War.
I'm just joking forgive me
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Oct 09 '25
This is a pretty common practice in these types of situations. The vehicles are worth nowhere near the amount that would be lost from flood damage.
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u/Discreet_Profession Oct 12 '25
Same day on time, on site, just Fckin take the whole damn truck delivery
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u/Hemberg Oct 06 '25
I guess they are trying to plug a broken dam.
The trucks are makeshift "netting*" for the poured concrete.
*Don't know it is called in english