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Construction Equipment

How to install and setup excavator attachments for optimum performance

Webtec has released a video to teach the proper installation and setup of hydraulic attachments while using the company’s DHM Series hydraulic tester. The video, embedded below, shows how to test the operating flow and back pressure from the excavator to such attachments as breakers, hammers and crushers. Improper installation can shorten the life of […]

December 27, 2017

Construction Equipment

Watch this excavator board a barge and paddle away

At this point, when I see a video on the internet with an excavator boarding a floating apparatus, I expect it to go a certain way. Namely, with the operator swimming back to shore and the machine sinking out of sight. But this video goes in the complete opposite direction, literally, as this excavator operator […]

December 21, 2017

Construction Equipment

Excavator walks a tightrope

We saw a dozer do it and we thought, surely no one else is dumb enough to try something like this. Turns out we were kind of wrong. I say “kind of” because this scenario is a far more controlled situation than that dozer attempt we first saw a couple years back. This is a […]

November 30, 2017

Construction Equipment

Consider subbing excavation work to this adorable wiener dog crew

Man, the construction labor shortage must be worse than we thought. Not only was this crew not able to find a skilled human excavator operator, they had to look outside of the species entirely. The adorable video below stars, Crusoe, an apparently internet famous dachshund, and a friend. We can’t say much for how productive […]

October 26, 2017

Construction Equipment

Excavator falls from dirt face, operator rides it like a surfboard

Judging by this incident alone, this guy may have more of a future in surfing than he does in heavy equipment operation. In the video below, an excavator is perched in a less than secure spot near the top of a dirt face. The soil beneath the machine suddenly gives way, sending the machine and […]

August 24, 2017

Construction Equipment

The Dumphoe was half excavator, half site dumper in one weird little machine

While cruising through a heavy equipment forum recently I stumbled upon a photo of a machine that can only be classified as…”interesting.” The machine had the front end of a mini excavator but the rear end of a site dumper. The whole thing sat on four rubber tires. The forum user mentioned that they thought […]

July 20, 2017

Construction Equipment

Excavator takes direct hit from land mine

Among the many hazards of operating heavy equipment, absorbing the impact of a land mine explosion is not one of them for the majority of operators out there. But for this particular operator, it’s simply part of the job. According to the description accompanying the below video from LiveLeak, this armored excavator is working at […]

June 22, 2017

Construction Equipment

Excavator tag team lifts people to safety across flooding river

We’re used to seeing videos of excavators rescuing fellow machines or being rescued themselves from watery situations. But this is the first time we’ve seen a water rescue video where the excavators are being used to save people. According to the video description, posted to YouTube by Russia’s state-run media outlet RT, floodwaters and impassable roads […]

June 8, 2017

Construction Equipment

Expert excavator operator makes quick work of mat bridge over small creek

While some might argue the below video is short on action, sometimes it’s just fun to watch an expert operator handle a task with smooth precision. And that’s exactly what you’re looking at here. You might immediately recognize the star of this video as Chris Guins, aka letsdig18, from his many other great YouTube videos. According to […]

May 11, 2017

Construction Equipment

The Top 10 Construction Equipment Videos of 2016

With just a few days left in 2016, we’ve gone back through our thousands of posts to determine the top 10 construction equipment videos on the site for the year. These are ranked in order based on the number of clicks you, our dear readers (and watchers), provided. And this might actually be our favorite […]

December 29, 2016

Vocational

Crew builds log ramp to rescue half-buried excavator with ’62 Scania 970 6×6

Though we’ll ask that you excuse the language in the title of the below video, we also admit that the sentiment it articulates is hard to argue with. According to the video’s description on YouTube, this very stuck excavator has overturned in a pit of muck in Håkanbo North Lingbo in Sweden. The machine is just […]

December 8, 2016

Construction Equipment

Excavator operator realizes error, grasps for shore, sinks boat anyway

At absolutely no point in the video below, fittingly accompanied by Yakety Sax, does it appear that this excavator is going to successfully board that boat. It looks like a bad idea, goes wrong almost immediately and quickly transforms into a frantic scramble to get the excavator off of the boat. With the boat lost, the […]

September 1, 2016