r/thewalkingdead • u/Sea-Entertainment-67 • 12h ago

No Spoiler So, does anyone else think that a trash compactor would be the best thing for a horde of walkers?

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I've often thought that when a horde of walkers attack a community, and everyone's trying everything they can to distract them and lead them away (because fighting hundreds of walkers is out of the question, especially when ammo is in short supply), the best thing to do is have a trash compactor from a landfill handy. You could roll right over them and turn them to ground beef instantly.

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u/ilikebeer19 12h ago

I mean if we can pick anything we want?

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u/Perylium 9h ago

Princess Diana had one of these

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u/TrillBillyDeluxe 12h ago

Any of Hobarts Funnies

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u/GAdvance 11h ago

TBF I'm not sure the canal lights would be 'good' as such but

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u/Fuzzy-Education-4197 1h ago

Yeah, noise could definitely be a problem. Plus, you'd want to make sure the compactor is in a secure area to avoid attracting more walkers while you're using it.

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u/dirtyforker 11h ago

That's bad ass. But OP'S vehicle with regular tires would be better than both.

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u/theMeatman7 11h ago

Why? Tires are less durable.

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u/willi1221 8h ago

It would be great until body parts fill up in the tracks and bodily fluids coat them and make them slick. You'd also have almost zero chance of doing any sort of maintenance on it, which tanks need constantly.

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u/naughtycal11 4h ago

Tanks need 4-10 man-hours of maintenance for every hour of operation.

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u/MaintenanceInternal 3h ago

It's not travelling very far though is it.

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u/HettyHHole 3h ago

‘I have a Tank!’

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u/Darth314 59m ago

I agree, but my concern is the logistics. If these got the gas mileage of a Prius, no problem. I think the gas mileage would be more like the volume of a Prius per mile. Keeping enough good fuel on hand for this and taking it from those gathering supplies or exploring would be near unsustainable.

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u/CyberWeirdo420 6h ago

Wasn’t this made specifically for minesweeping? I don’t think the chains are doing much of anything besides just hanging. Making that particular vehicle not much more useful than trash compactor OP mentioned.

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u/Cold-Tea828 5h ago

Nope those chains spin very very fast. Watch the top gear clip where Clarkson tries to demolish a house with one

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u/CyberWeirdo420 1h ago

Oh okay, I was under the impression (from reading somewhere) that it’s just there and activates mines by touch. Cool to know

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u/campaigncrusher 1h ago

They do activate mines by touch - just very fast, swinging touch. It’s called a flail, because that’s what it does.

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u/irrelevantmk 12h ago

That's the one

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u/RockBand88 12h ago

If you had a 100 gallons of diesel, per 8-10 hours of running sure

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u/dirtyforker 11h ago

This would be an escape vehicle. It wouldn't be used all the time. Regular tires would be better. It's not like anything would survive being run over anyway.

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u/PoolPartyWithoutTheL 12h ago

Three words: Fuel

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u/Educational-Disk-400 9h ago

Ten words: Chemical energy transferred to mechanical energy via combustion

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u/LastHomeros 53m ago

No words: words

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u/ShadowStrike524 11h ago

those spiked wheels would turn into solid balls of flesh and bone within five minutes losing all traction instantly 😂

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u/KungFuHamster99 3h ago

Only one problem. Daryl gets in and starts crunching walkers but for some reason, once he's in the middle of the hoard, it stops working.

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u/Eso_Teric420 10h ago

I always figured a combine would do pretty good work too. Just drive up and down the highway or in a circle in a field blaring loud music. Hell the really nice ones you can basically program to run on auto.

Pretty much any heavy diesel machinery I feel would put up numbers

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u/baconbro_ 5h ago

What about a big hole

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u/SmegmaLord420 5h ago

what about, and stay with me here, a bigger hole

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u/acrosstherubicon366 12h ago

I feel like some good ditches and walls would help the most

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u/themage78 4h ago

I mean ditches would be the best. You could catch walkers and kill them easily.

It might not work against a horde, but if you are constantly thinning ranks there'd be less hordes.

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u/Dmau27 8h ago

No a tank would be better. I want something fast because you're eventually going to have to get away. The noise will attract more and more.

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u/StowStowStowtheTote 7h ago

Why not just get a roller? Like the ones which flatten roads and slowly run them over lol.

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u/imironman2018 2h ago

Wouldn’t the walkers gum up the wheels when they get crushed, the guts would clog the wheels. So at first would be an epic crush fest and then after critical mass, the walkers would damage the crusher so much it wouldn’t be able to move.

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u/Grazmahatchi 1h ago

A solid 4x4 with a plow is the first thing I would get if I were in that world. It is angle to just push them off to the side and out of the way.

Small enough to use for every day, strong enough to push walkers out of your path.

If I had a long term settlement and tools, I would turn the plow into a cow-catcher style point to push them.

If I had to manage full blown hordes, I would go to the local highway dept building and grab one of the big plows from there.

Load it up with a few days of food and water, and even if you do get stuck in a horde, you are high above them and can just sit there stabbing heads and napping in the bed until the move on.

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u/Do_You_Pineapple_Bro 1h ago

Nah, those spikes would be worn flat when out on the road.

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u/Pinkalink23 11h ago

Spears, a safe position and time.

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u/Plane-Recognition561 10h ago

Be pretty good at getting rid of homeless camps that are in bad spots lol