What is it about things blowing up—or getting crushed—or catching on fire—that fascinates us so? Even engineers aren’t immune to this sort of schadenfreude. But hydraulic hoses are a serious business, and it’s imperative that proper safety precautions are taken with them and around them. A burst hose can easily kill a person, and having hydraulic fluid injected into your skin will result in a lot of nasty side effects—trust us.
Anyway, here are six of the most fascinating and instructive hose fail videos (some intentional, some not) that we’ve found online. Check them all out!
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1. Hose burst competition
Some Aussies, as part of the Australian Construction Equipment (ACE) Expo, had a competition to see when various hose burst. This hose failed at an amazing 5.6 times its rating … but it’s still fun to wait and watch it go boom! Sort of like an adult jack-in-the-box, no?
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