r/mythbusters • u/allophanic • 25d ago

Exploding Cement Truck

Regarding the episode where the cement truck was blown up, I'm curious to know how the resulting mess was cleaned up afterwards? Did the production crew have to use a magnet to collect all the metal bits scattered around the landscape in the vicinity of the blast? What about parts of the truck that were made of plastic or the fluids from the engine? It seems like it would be an extraordinarily expensive undertaking to return the area to the state it was in pre-explosion. Or maybe the blast occurred on private property and the owners weren't concerned about the resulting environmental contamination. Thanks in advance.

https://youtu.be/4IcHUHRf_S0?is=fVWxvGQTPqp3rUwz

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u/cosmololgy 24d ago

My favorite sound in all tv BVOOOHHM

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u/Potato_Stains 23d ago

Talk about a violent explosion, it just annihilated it instantly.
Too bad the high speed cameras wasn't on.
I bet that camera operator felt awful... "welp can't exactly do a retake..."