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by alexpotato 1439 days ago
Interesting fact about those whole truck dumping systems:

There is a small vent that you have to open at the front of the trailer BEFORE you raise it to dump out the contents.

Failure to do so leads to a vacuum effect that can implode the trailer as the biomass pours out

Source: friend of mine worked in the paper industry and this was a somewhat regular occurence