Explosive Dynamite vs. Concrete - Mythbusters - Science Documentary

[@stefano_nmd]

the most iconic explosion in MB history. Thanks ANFO

[@echonomix_]

Well there's yer prawblem

[@squeegel3904]

Dude I know! 13:55 was INSANE.

[@Avenn7]

@@squeegel3904 I laughed way harder at this than I probably should have

[@michaelripley4528]

There was a bigger one😎Making diamonds….

[@lesbarathirdir5178]

One of. I'd say the "Vanishing Vanishing Van" is just as iconic. Expectation: Nothing will happen. Reality: * KABOOM *

[@bokami3445]

Love how Jamie says "As long as you don't put too much..." and we end the show with the biggest explosion in MythBusters history. Favourite Episode!

[@fernandocabette6050]

Jack is an unsung hero. He passed everyone's eagerness to blow things up and streeeeeeeeached each laugh and giggle at each minor explosion. That is just maestry.

[@kyuofcosmic]

That explosion is my favourite! The sound it makes is iconic.

[@janosszatmari7954]

its like a little fart, than boom

[@RedScarGaming]

The cement truck exploding is one of the best bits of TV regardless of what you are talking about. I remember watching this 20 years ago.

[@blankfrankie3747]

"Wanna see a magic trick? I'm gonna make this cement truck disappear."

[@xcoder1122]

Now you see it... (BANG) ... now you don't!

[@Fruitcupper]

The magician's code 🤣🤣

[@TB-wi3sq]

1:37

[@Davross-420]

The sound of that explosion lives with me every day. Bet it was a blast being there in person.

[@DarkGodSeti]

Same. That sound is amazing! A shame there wasn't higher speed camera then...

[@Foxttellio]

Good pun

[@novadea1643]

I'm thankful for all the people that pulled string to make these special exercises happen for this is one of the most iconic explosions caught on camera.

[@MagiTailWelkin]

The most iconic explosion in Mythbusters history. And the most frustrating since we have no highspeed footage.

[@rimazu3418]

We got high speed footage: kzbin.info/www/bejne/onrFnZJpnJp5iKMsi=0YKATl2S0yc-J0uP, "Cement Truck Explosion High-Speed Footage"

[@MagiTailWelkin]

@@rimazu3418 That's from a redo, not the original.

[@omnirath]

”Jaime lives in San Francisco" lmao

[@karelhoogendoorn]

Robert Lee and his banter is so good. And this one had me laughing hard as well!

[@myztklk3v]

I was about to post basically the same thing and then saw this

[@alexandriahunter2125]

22:23 hats off for such a good dirty joke making it onto the show

[@thalivenom4972]

youre not going to give it to, "this is the scariest thing ive ever had in my hands"

[@piezku]

This has got to be the best Mythbusters episode ever made!

[@karelhoogendoorn]

One of the best. The looks from Christine and Scotty, Frank Doyle appears, Adam and Jamie in great banter, Robert Lee with his best jokes and a big explosion. Thnx for this one!

[@mareklewandowski829]

I like how Jamie actually smiled at 17:42 😆

[@N13J]

JAMIE LOVES BIG BOOM!

[@christophermarshall5765]

There is one way that they could have done it. Using a hammer drill and large drill bits, they could have drilled deep holes in the concrete, then used explosives to break it up.

[@madgenus]

40:52 Jesus, the way he talks about it, they're literally turning this cement drum into a giant frag grenade lol

[@thalivenom4972]

DO.. YOU THINK THEY WERENT? if you got hit with any of that, youd disperse too.

[@nickyoung9108]

This explosion set a precedence on Mythbuster regarding any future myths that has the word "exploding" in it.

[@christopherdean1326]

*precedent

[@michaelsaville9985]

First time I saw Adam break through the wall I was laughing for a good 10 straight minutes 😂😂

[@rockstar6790]

41:48 - I would think Jamie might slap Adam's hand for touching his moustache.

[@196jeroenqwerty]

This episode has been my favorite ever since it first aired! The big boom is just ICONIC!

[@jaycee8748]

The little jump back Jamie did at 47:10 was actually after the explosion. Just showing us his movie acting chops 😂

[@sandwichanomaly6339]

The legendary cement truck boom. Truly a magnificent moment in mythbusters history

[@tsanggary6422]

25:44 and 26:19 Perhaps not a DC transformer (transformer only works on AC), but the output of a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!!

[@Foxttellio]

13:56 the way they edited this was absolutely hilarious

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

“There is no concrete, there’s no truck, there’s no nothing.” ~ Jamie Hyneman

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

A legendary episode. The exploding truck is just something that lasts. And even the salsa stuck with me sinde I watched it on TV back in the day.

[@blankfrankie3747]

Finally! The cement truck episode. Thank you, Banijay Science.

[@swedichboy1000]

Been waiting for this one.

[@raavn.]

47:06 the truck just vanished horizontally 💀

[@WilliamStoic-k7o]

Seeing the cement truck vaporize is my fav moment of the show.

[@wild_goose_0285]

Can't believe this episode is 20 years old.

[@riaankruger9572]

5:59. JUST six years. Oh hell yeah! I'll be outa there in no time.🤣🤣🤣

[@budadi]

6:57 Haha would love to have Jamie as a boss "Well, you gonna learn" xD

[@Martinchox]

No season 9 and above, No Junior ,,No There's your problem, Early Season Episode. The perfect upload.

[@scrivener68]

I didn't mind the junior version. I could even imagine a universe in which Mythbusters started out as a kids' show with that group and Krazy Unkle Atom, and evolved into a senior version that blew up cement trucks as they got older.

[@riaankruger9572]

34:38. With all due respect Adam, I do believe that the bars that Jackie bent open was somewhat longer than these and therefore will provide a significant amount more leeway.

[@Goalsplus]

I know it's a TV show and they wouldn't have said anything but I wonder if they thought of drilling the cement and putting a load in the hole like a rock breaker or miner would.

[@d4slaimless]

Not an easy task to drill it though. Could work with big enough load and a number of holes, I think.

[@Goalsplus]

@@d4slaimless agreed. Some of the demolition and explosives guys are pretty skilled. I know it's getting beyond the myth of simply throwing a stick of dynamite in.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, instead of hammering from the top, splitting it open. Which could even work without explosives.

[@92xsaabaru-]

My guess is that embedded explosive in the solid slab of concrete would also damage the drum. In the case of the half slab truck, there was nothing to be done.

[@Goalsplus]

@92xsaabaru- yes, damage to the drum is a big possibly. An alternative is to drill and use cracking compound or expansion goo whatever it's called. Not exciting TV though.

[@scrivener68]

As soon as Jamie compared the half-load of concrete in the one mixer to "solid rock," I thought, "If they can build railway tunnels through mountains, there's probably a method you haven't thought of."

[@d4slaimless]

Well, it is either cutting the rocks or drill and blast. Equipment for both methods won't fit in the cement track. They could try to drill few holes with something suitable in cement similar to drill and blast method and put the explosive load in them. Might have helped.

[@hrannaratlihauksson8089]

This is not an episode of Mythbusters, this is THE episode of Mythbusters.

[@montlejohnbojangles8937]

"Jamie lives in San Francisco" is the most covert burn I think the narrator has ever delivered.

[@duran_suu]

48:14 Jamie : "Where did it go?" Adam : "I swear, i left it Right here“ 😭🤣

[@2Sp4c3]

For sure one of the best episodes ever. Was waiting for this one :D

[@Santa4me]

Electrolysis wit AC.. Good job Adam 🤣

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

I have been looking for that one for a long time.

[@MarcosSantos-jb8qb]

Adam said in a video on his channel that jamie reaction in 47:09 was "fake." They forgot to film their reaction, and jamie acted his surprise jump afterward. They als😮o always have slow motion footage of the explosion, but this is one they don't have because the camera didn't work.

[@MrValis169]

The one people have been waiting for

[@Sprud999]

“I don’t look at explosions” “Cool guys never look at explosions”

[@peledeng1909]

the best episode of the whole series

[@1996Pred]

Shame that the slow motion camera operator didn't turn off the camera at the right time. (he did not forget to turn it on like most people are saying, he just didn't switch it off right after the detonation and it managed to overwrite the early part of explosion on it's storage) Yet this is the best explosion in Mythbusters ever.

[@leedavidson7314]

That sound was awesome

[@Wings_of_foam]

Imagine having to be working with Adam.

[@badad0166]

This must have been before KZbin, because it just takes a couple of videos to become a much more proficient bricklayer than we see here. 😎

[@CarlosPCmx]

Adam working with electricity made me really nervous, given his impatience and bubbliness.

[@thalivenom4972]

and ignorance.

[@Parmigiano1]

Adam attempting electrolysis with AC power made Mehdi cry.

[@gatovillano7009]

at 16:48, the problem with the myth is that salsa has organic acids and what you want to use to corrode iron is a mineral acid

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Kinda astonishing that the... bottom bit where they wheels are attached? Floor? Of the truck actually stayed largely in one piece with some wheels still attached and looking untouched.

[@thalivenom4972]

frame, and the block. yup. looks like the front of the clutch fell off too.

[@UnknowinglyDerpy]

So... this originally aired back when TVs were all in 4:3 ratios, were parts cropped for the widescreen here?

[@Ma_X64]

The real prisoner, instead of using some DC source, was rather using what called a galvanic pair of metals and the salsa was used as an electrolyte. It works as a tiny battery but shorted on its own. And that is why it took 6 years -- the potential difference that galvanic pair gives is quite low: something like 0.5-1.2 V. He was most likely using a piece of copper wire turned around the bar. Or it can even be a silver jewelry. Silver would work faster than copper. So in the formed electrolitic cell copper was the cathode and the iron bar, respectively, anode. And anode is always wants to dissolve.

[@MediaArchive2-z9f]

30:27: what about plastic explosive?

[@josvercaemer264]

pure nostalgia, thx😊

[@mycroftsanchez901]

You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

[@jessh5310]

FYI. If you ever find yourself having to do a cement truck for real start from the opening at the loading/ unloading hole it will break quickest from there.

[@tonytonyka9945]

Thank you ❤❤❤

[@EricaMZDM]

A true classic.

[@AeonLibertas]

Only digital camera operator Jeremy will be within the zone. In unrelated news, Mythbusters is looking for a new expert on digital cameras, effective now.. Seriously tho, I'd have loved Jeremy's impression on this.

[@PeterSwinkels]

To be honest, the frontwheel suspension, engine and chassis with the rearwheels sort of stayed in tact, I would have loved to see them add some explosives to vaporise those as well.

[@Revoku]

"I actually have alot of experience with electricity" while he is trying to use AC current to speed up corrosion.

[@Fruitcupper]

#1 Concrete truck explosion #2 The Troops #3 Firefighters & Paramedics #4 Law Enforcement 47:51 Earthworms: MFW

[@RealfishingNL]

Adam saying u have to work harder sounds a bit hard but than he said. Its a 3 day wall. He is so right. Thats a 3 hour wall. 3 days is just doing almost nothing

[@allanshpeley4284]

Yep. Then he gets lip from the blonde later in the show about it too.

[@TheStygian]

What do you expect. 2 women.

[@Alice-go2nc]

@@TheStygian🤢 crawl back into your sweaty, smelly, dank basement and shut up

[@Alice-go2nc]

@@allanshpeley4284gets lip? You suck man

[@Alice-go2nc]

Finally. They literally sad they don’t know how to build a wall. What do you not understand about a steep learning curve. Seems to me that if some of these commenters were suddenly asked communicate coherently with women as a part of their job they’d just straight lose their jobs, not three days, not three hours- there’s no hope for soppy boyz like these 🤷‍♀️

[@jackodonnell582]

Finally!

[@teruphoto]

THE Cement Truck and Frank Doyle's first appearance. This is the most hallowed episode of MB.

[@Foxttellio]

Its like THE episode

[@ekisauruslux6795]

epic episode

[@zwippie92]

I wonder if the salsa prison escape story comes from the story of Yoshie Shiratori, a famous anti-hero from Japan who escaped the most secure prison in Japan (at the time) by using soup, or rather the high salt concentration in the soup.

[@christopherdean1326]

They explain exactly where it came from, including the guy's name....

[@Bloodbound89]

funfact in germany you wouldnt escape a prison with that method ^^ cuz the bars are actually pipes with a piece of tungsten in it to precent it from beeing sawn xD so as soon as you hit the tungsten the saw will rotate the bar inside the pipe :D

[@Ryan_the_dawg]

I have searched for this exact episode a heap of times, when thinking if mythbusters this is always the one that comes to mind

[@mostafameerzad4144]

Finally 🎉

[@nathanwest2304]

does anyone know what that guitar riff is from the "salsa escape" part?

[@michaelripley4528]

38:32 Tory starting in the middle🫣 Start in the edges and make room for bigger pieces to break off 🤷🏼‍♂️ Thats how a PRO does the job

[@RDCST]

On the white truck they should have made some holes and put the explosives inside.

[@barbosacool]

FINALLY!! CEMENT TRUCK

[@ardvark84]

What is that "commercial explosive agent" he is talking about? Almost no fire, incredible pressure during explosion. Are you sure it's commercial?

[@christopherdean1326]

I can't remember the full name, but it's called "amfo" for short...

[@Scott_Stone]

They could've used a concrete softener, followed by a hydraulic rock splitter.

[@garyaubin8016]

Why not implode?. I laughed at this episode. Stick your bang bang stuff on the outside. Deform the barrel inwards.

[@scrivener68]

45:34 "Biggest by a thousand per cent" is eleven times bigger, not 1000 times bigger.

[@KatoFFR]

Even in 0,25 x we cant see what happen in precision to the cement truck he just launch and dissapear 🤣

[@precipio1]

Truck with flat floor has real different effect when truck is round..

[@passalapasa]

3 days WHAT HOW!?

[@extractor771]

Перевернуть вверх куском бетона и взорвать снаружи динамит - до этого не дадумались

[@meusana3681]

I have yet to hear about this other kind of dynamite that's not explosive

[@MWSCologne]

Hmmm. Why was the FBI interested in this?!?!

[@avirajsinghmehta1857]

It's illegal to buy several explosives like C4 and also after Wood cannon they had a former FBI agent assist them in explosives

[@92xsaabaru-]

Someone must be too young to remember the Oklahoma City bombing and the first World Trade Center bombing.

[@MWSCologne]

@@92xsaabaru- someone does not recognise when it’s a rhetorical question… 😉

[@David-g8i2c]

The Salsa myth wasdone9n Big Bang Theory

[@atvheads]

@ 23:14 Narrator, pun intended.

[@1SaG]

It's no wonder they kept re-rolling that epic explosion pretty much throughout all the remaining run of the show. There may have been bigger booms in later seasons/eps (not sure if there were though), but this one was, well... iconic. Although I do think I still prefer the "quieter" Salsa-story. Always nice to see Adam and Jamie go head to head plus all the whining and complaining of early-show-Adam never gets old.

[@RB-bd5tz]

45:40 1000% is only ten times bigger.

[@BigDaddy0Kev]

Was the concrete wall really necessary

[@janmikellianza5189]

Finally. The cement truck explosion has come back to MythBusters! If you smeeeellllll. What those two is doing! Oh! Hell yeah! S*ckkkk iittttt!

[@daviddumon4020]

There is no such thing as a DC transformer. It is just AC transformer with an AC-DC rectifier behind it

[@RB-bd5tz]

Why on earth do so many people think Jamie's name is spelled "Jaime"?

[@christopherdean1326]

I remember years ago, when Lindsay Wagner was playing the Bionic Woman, she had to carve her name into the bark of a tree with her fingernail in one episode. Apparently, she started to carve "Jamie" but was told by the director/producer, that she should have carved "Jaime", because that's how they wanted her name spelled. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bionic_Woman

[@maso96001]

high water pover washer/cuter?

[@CBe-ot8vu]

I live in canada. If you own land up in the canadian shield and have building permits etc you can legally get yourself dynamite

[@bkrapfl20]

I am sorry. But what the hell ist Adam doing with the live wires? "I know how to keep myself save." Is the dumbest thing I have heard him say in all the episodes I have watched.

[@PotLuckUK]

You mean the guy that tried kissing a vacuum pump, nearly losing his lips in the process lol?