While most vehicles might fail to glide over a bed of nails due to the possibilities of tyre bursts, a road roller shows all of them who’s the boss
We as motorists must have faced at least one situation in our course of driving or riding when a tyre of our vehicle might have suffered a puncture due to a sharp nail or screw. Just imagine what can be the situation if a two-wheeler or a car crosses a bed of nails.
Sounds fearsome, isn’t it? While one might believe a usual vehicle with rubber tyres will fail to overcome this task, a road roller can do this easily. A video from the YouTube channel of Crazy XYZ shows just this phenomenon, with a couple of surprises in the middle of its course – expect the unexpected!
At the start of the video, we can see a few men fabricating a bed of 2,500 nails over a rectangular ply-board. In the next scene, the presenter introduces the bed of nails and a road roller and how he intends to drive the road roller over the bed of nails in his next move. He rightfully claims that the size and unique mechanism of the road roller make it very difficult to drive compared to a regular car or an SUV.
These are sharp nails
Before starting the main task of driving the road roller over the bed of nails, the presenter tries to showcase how sharp are the nails placed on the plywood. In a surprising move, he first rides a Hero Splendour and then partially drives an Audi Q3 over the bed of nails.
They also drive the Audi Q3 over the nails
To one’s surprise, the tyres of both these vehicles didn’t burst due to the uniform arrangement of nails over the board. The presenter even tried to demonstrate the sharpness of the nails by throwing fruits like watermelon, musk melon and coconut on the bed of nails. Unlike the tyres of the vehicles which rolled over the bed of nails, the fruits did not have a uniform surface over them. As a result of this, they got pierced by those nails.
Iron nails lying around on the roads causes a lot of punctures and tyre bursts
At last, the presenter drives the road roller over the bed of nails back and forth a few times. As expected, the hard stone-like surface of the roller successfully managed to glide over the bed of nails. The road roller’s repetitive back and forth action over the bed of nails eventually crushed the nails. In the last scene, we can see that most of the nails fixed on the board have gone flat.
Conclusion
But what do you think happens to the bed of nails when they drive a road roller over it?
One should know that a single nail surrounded by a systematically-arranged series of nails will not protrude into the tyres, as that bed of nails then acts as a usual surface. It was proven when the Splendor and Q3 glided over the bed of nails without getting their tyres punctured. As expected, the road roller did to the bed of nails what one was expecting out of it.
What is your most dreadful incidence of a vehicle puncture due to one or more nails? Let us know in the comments below.
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