Watch this excavator board a barge and paddle away

Dec 21, 2017

Updated Mar 10, 2018

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 boards a barge and just paddles off into the horizon. Nice to see a success story every once in a while.

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