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Title: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: everdrone on March 25, 2014, 12:04:11 AM
Tornado aftermath at a Joplin Missouri music store in 2011.
(http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd401/spellmanj/IMG_6755.jpg)

(https://www.orangeamps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Glory-Days-Music-Joplin-Tornado-Dave-Peterson-Orange-2x-cab-under-car.jpg)
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: eyeprod on March 25, 2014, 12:10:29 AM
cool. Looks like they were used a couple of years practicing and gigging....still very useable, just a little beat up with a story to tell!
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: everdrone on March 25, 2014, 12:38:07 AM
true dat, totally useable :)  I love my Orange 212!
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: Omlet on March 25, 2014, 02:16:16 PM
OMFG...
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: Jor el on March 25, 2014, 03:54:28 PM

Holy Shit
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RAGER on March 25, 2014, 04:31:28 PM
Oh my heck!
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: liquidsmoke on March 25, 2014, 04:36:08 PM
Orange needs to start building houses! Your choice of orange or black exterior tolex and symbols instead of a street address over the front door.

Of course they would be $500,000 for 800 sq ft.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: JemDooM on March 25, 2014, 04:48:13 PM
Haha amazing!
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: Jake on March 25, 2014, 05:24:52 PM
This is the point where someone points out that new Oranges are nothing like old Oranges, and an old Orange cabinet could have withstood a5x more powerful storm.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RAGER on March 25, 2014, 05:30:43 PM
No need to now.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RacerX on March 25, 2014, 05:40:18 PM
Despite the overall burliness of those cabs, I'd say it was more a "luck of the draw" thing.

If they had taken a direct hit from the tornado, they'd have been turned into matchsticks.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RAGER on March 25, 2014, 05:41:08 PM
^expert on pizza/hurricanes
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: Jor el on March 25, 2014, 05:43:23 PM

I thought Rx couldn't see pictures.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RAGER on March 25, 2014, 05:46:09 PM
Conclusions based on assumptions.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RacerX on March 25, 2014, 06:37:02 PM
Quote from: Jor el on March 25, 2014, 05:43:23 PM

I thought Rx couldn't see pictures.


Not unless I click on 'em.

What can I say? I clicked.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: jibberish on March 25, 2014, 11:21:53 PM
I have to agree. those could be stcking out of a telephone pole or something


however, that was dead center enough to dis-assemble a cinderblock building. look at all the block

here is the thing: certain objects are not as vulnerable to tornadic chaos

the less surface vs weight vs sealed volumes, the less effect a tornado can have on something

orange cabs have small lift to weight. no sealed volumes to explode. nothing to break getting tossed around vs a wall or something that just gets caved in or lifted away

so that type of object has a better chance of surviving chaos. hell there are roadies rougher on gear than that wimpy azz twister
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RacerX on March 25, 2014, 11:32:42 PM
I'd also guess the air inside a closed-back cab with no ports would find a way to equalize pressure, most likely at the weakest point: the speaker cone.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: jibberish on March 25, 2014, 11:42:47 PM
ya, like it's own pressure relief just by the cone being able to move.

if you watch the videos, air pressure inside the sealed buildings blows many of them up when the tornado makes its mini-vacuum nearby

or school busses. sure they weigh 5 tons, but they have such surface area, the wind force is enough to offset the gravity force and away they float. that one video of the busses from the security cameras at the school building was so freaky.

tornados are such a trip, that just air can do all that
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: mortlock on March 26, 2014, 12:07:11 AM
Quote from: RacerX on March 25, 2014, 05:40:18 PM
Despite the overall burliness of those cabs, I'd say it was more a "luck of the draw" thing.

If they had taken a direct hit from the tornado, they'd have been turned into matchsticks.
im not sure what you consider a direct hit, but it looks like they sustained one to me. unless someone 'placed' them there for the picture..
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: jibberish on March 26, 2014, 12:18:31 AM
that dude in the pic by the cab and car is Swedish descent. I don't know why I believe this, but yeah.

Title: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: Danny G on March 26, 2014, 01:48:25 PM
I would totally buy those as motherfuggin scratch n dent


FOR SALE: USED (BY A TORNADO) ORANGE CABS


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Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: liquidsmoke on March 26, 2014, 03:12:32 PM
Quote from: jibberish on March 26, 2014, 12:18:31 AM
that dude in the pic by the cab and car is Swedish descent. I don't know why I believe this, but yeah.

He looks more Kraut to me.
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: RacerX on March 26, 2014, 03:14:39 PM
Kraut Swedes are the worst.

Except for those fucking Swedish Krauts, that is...
Title: Re: Proof that Orange cabs are built like tanks
Post by: jibberish on March 26, 2014, 09:33:51 PM
he looks like buzzo too. heh