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Construction Equipment

Freight train obliterates stuck truck and crane in tow, then derails

While attempting to cross railroad tracks in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, a truck hauling a crane became stuck on the tracks and was hit by a freight train Sunday afternoon. The scary collision was caught on camera by a woman stopped at the tracks behind the truck and posted to YouTube. As you can see in […]

October 10, 2014

Construction Equipment

Truck crashes into barrier and is ripped in half, all in the name of science and homeland security

The folks at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute have a fun job. But it’s also important work. According to the Texas Tribune and Houston Chronicle, TTI has a contract with the U.S. State Department to research the effectiveness of “perimeter security devices,” like road blocks and steel barriers, that would be installed around embassies and […]

October 2, 2014

Construction Equipment

Time-lapse captures 2-year construction of new San Francisco 49ers football stadium in 2 minutes

The folks at EarthCam have done it again, capturing yet another huge construction project from start to finish this time with the new home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. Levi’s Stadium is the first new NFL stadium to be built in California in 50 years and cost about $1.2 billion. The stadium seats about […]

September 24, 2014

Roadbuilding

Two students take top honors in ARTBA video contest

A high school student from Pennsylvania and an undergraduate student from Florida Polytechnic Institute were named winners of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) 4th annual “Student Transportation Video Contest.” The contest aimed to raise awareness about infrastructure issues by challenging students to develop a brief video exploring various topics relating to America’s transportation network.  Students […]

September 22, 2014

Construction Equipment

Watch a Chevrolet S-10 pickup explode to 219 mph, become quickest street-legal vehicle in the world

When building the world’s quickest-accelerating street-legal vehicle, maybe one of the last bodies you’d decide to wrap that type of horsepower in would be a 1998 Chevrolet S-10. Chevy’s old midsize pickup just doesn’t scream “speed.” But that’s exactly the package Larry Larson chose and his S-10 recently accelerated to 219 miles per hour to […]

September 22, 2014

Construction Equipment

Geniuses wrap themselves in rope, let an excavator sling them through the air

Most people see construction equipment from afar. And most people, when meeting these machines in person for the first time, display a healthy amount of respect and even a bit of fear for the powerful, lumbering pieces of steel. But then there’s another group. This subset of people just get dumb ideas whenever they’re around […]

September 19, 2014

Construction Equipment

How to build a LEGO dump truck with an excavator bucket instead of your hands

We’ve seen plenty examples of equipment operators showing off their skills through interesting demonstrations, but this one from Finland might be our favorite. In the video below, the operator, whom the Daily Mail identifies as Juha-Pekka Peramaki, puts together a dump truck made of LEGOs, complete with hard-hat-wearing driver. There’s some pretty impressive precise movement involved and the […]

September 15, 2014

Safety

Guy sits on large pipe while cutting it, is bucked into the air because physics is highly unforgiving

The takeaway from the video below is pretty simple: don’t be this guy. Staring his friend the excavator bucket directly in the face, this guy was still somehow unable to foresee a future in which the strain and potential energy of this massive pipe he was seated upon would have nowhere to go but up […]

September 12, 2014

Safety

Guy attempts Ice Bucket Challenge with excavator, bucket knocks him out cold instead

No. 1 Video in 2014 « NO. 2 Editors’ Pick »   When we were putting together our original roundup of Ice Bucket Challenge videos, we were surprised at just how many we were able to find with people using heavy equipment. We were also surprised that none of them included people being seriously hurt […]

September 5, 2014

Workforce

Roofer busts out gravity-defying samba breakdance; somehow doesn’t break his neck

As the video below attests, music can be a very powerful force. So powerful that despite the fact he was working atop a roof, Andrew Wilcox says on his YouTube page he couldn’t help but dance when the Enrique Iglesias song “Bailando” came on the radio. What happens next is funny, impressive in some ways […]

September 2, 2014

Construction Equipment

Weight of crane shoves hauler into a jackknife that sends crane over a hillside

We’ve all been involved in tense situations. But few of us have ever been in this tense of situation. In the video below, we see a hauler bringing in a Link-Belt crane to a jobsite. Problem is there’s a pretty steep dirt slope between the hauler and said jobsite. As the driver starts carefully descending the […]

August 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

This implosion’s fireworks and colorful smoke signals make for the most entertaining demolition ever

Residents of Albany, New York were already excited to see a dilapidated hotel from the 1920s make way for a new convention center. But the deal was definitely sweetened when the city was treated to a full on fireworks display as part of the 11-story building’s demolition. As you can see in the video below, […]

August 27, 2014