Okay, I gotta ask…this has been bugging me for a while…
Do the bits that hold the cement mix and turn round and round on the back of cement lorries revolve clockwise or anti-clockwise in the southern hemisphere ?.
ever since I followed a cement lorry down the motorway coming out of Limassol the other day, this really stupid question has been annoying me. I understand the water goes down the plug-hole in a different direction to that in Northern hemisphere and just wondered if it also affected cement lorries !
No, I havent been on the C*rlsb*rg and yes its probably THE MOST STUPID QUESTION ever asked on this forum, but hey…I need to know !
cheers
Gary
By: Dazza - 23rd February 2003 at 12:09
RE: Really silly question
The way the cement drum works is the same principle as the ‘Archimedes Screw’.
Regards, Dazza.
By: Wombat - 23rd February 2003 at 09:10
RE: Really silly question
For that answer, we need somebody from either Africa or South America – there isn’t much else in the Southern Hemisphere except NZ and a lot of islands, and NZ drives on the left, too.
Wombat
By: EN830 - 22nd February 2003 at 23:42
RE: Really silly question
This may have something to do with our colonial cousins in the southern hemisphere driving on the same side of the road as we do in the UK
However which way do the cement trucks in those odd countries that drive on the wrong side of the road revolve, may be it’s got something to torque and oversteer?
Ian
We’re not mad, just psychotic.
By: Wombat - 22nd February 2003 at 23:27
RE: Really silly question
Yep, we work the same way down under as you lot do up top,
Regards
Wombat
By: GZYL - 22nd February 2003 at 18:04
RE: Really silly question
It won’t make a difference which hemisphere you’re in! The rotation of the cement drum depends on where you want the cement! There are strakes inside the cement drum which enable the cement to be extracted from the drum, these work on the same principle as a drill bit. So if the same convention is used for drill bits as it is for cement mixers, you turn it anti clockwise to mix the cement and to keep it in the drum, but then you turn it clockwise to get the cement out of the drum. I think that’s right… it works in my mind anyway… right going to get ready to go out… MMMMMMM C*rlsb*rg!!
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February 22, 2003 at 5:48 pm