Send to a friendchartguy May 7th, 2008 11:40 AM Link
axle, not axel!
Street Sweeper, Chinese Style
Written By: David Yang
OK, you may not be lucky enough to see this during your Olympic trip to China this summer, so we knew we had to bring it to you.
The pictures here are taken in Qinhuangdao, a beautiful port city in Hebei Province, about 280 kilometers from Beijing. The truck turned street sweeper or whatchamacallit carries more than twelve brooms, which rotate with the axle to take care of cleaning. Who said that the Chinese people have no originalities? Take a look at the radical device in our gallery below.
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5 Comments
David May 7th, 2008 11:45 AM Link
Thanks,chartguy!
Ben May 7th, 2008 12:09 PM Link
I’d nearly rather see those going by weekly rather than those horrendously loud cleaners we have here (who, I might add, show up twice a year!).
Simple is sometimes the best!
Jonathan Fung May 7th, 2008 9:11 PM Link
The strange thing is that I am sure I have seen one of these before. I don’t think I saw it in person, otherwise I would probably have taken a pic, but I think I have seen (something similar to) this in one of those compilations of funny Russian pictures.
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