Zipper Trucks

These machines pick up special jersey barriers and reposition them automatically. Pretty strange effect, like a giant block-eating, block-pooping monster.

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Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 07, 2010
Category: Technology | Rube Goldberg Devices | Trucks

Comments

Wouldn't it make for better footage if all the lines were removed from the road ways and everyone would be allowed to make their own paths through traffic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebkogYErN3Y

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/07/10 at 12:40 PM

very neat! heavy machinery fascinates me anyway, but this is something i have never seen before.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/08/10 at 10:02 AM

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