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Construction Equipment

Ritchie Bros.’ Top 5 heavy equipment movies, includes the awful 1974 classic “Killdozer”

Our friends over at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers have done a very nice thing for you. They’ve rounded up the top five movies where heavy equipment and trucks are the stars. The whole list is worth checking out, so hop on that. But we’re mostly excited that the list gave us an excuse to watch 1974’s […]

August 20, 2013

Construction Equipment

Dump truck driver unaware he’s hauling a raging fire

This video comes to us from our friends in Russia, where apparently anything can happen on the highways. And as crazy as all the videos taken by dashboard cameras have been, this guy driving a dump truck full of fire is by far the nuttiest thing we’ve seen on a Russian road. The video shows […]

August 16, 2013

Construction Equipment

How to charge your truck battery with a chainsaw

In the event that we ever wander off into remote woods to cut some firewood and return to a truck with a dead battery, well, now we know how to get out of that jam. Joking aside, the video below displays a heck of a lot of ingenuity and know-how and could come in handy […]

August 8, 2013

Construction Equipment

Shrapnel from Calif. steam power plant implosion injures spectators

Just as the recent and deadly demolition of a Philadelphia building showed us, keeping the chaos of a collapsing building constrained to a particular area requires a lot of focus and planning. And sometimes the focus and the planning just aren’t there. Unfortunately, just a few days ago we received another reminder of this as […]

August 7, 2013

Construction Equipment

Guided artillery shells obliterate helicopters, a forklift and several cars

Log this one away in the “Friday Fun File,” because there’s no other reason to be posting this other than it’s just plain awesome. Via Jalopnik, he video below shows the Raytheon company’s extremely accurate Excalibur Ib artillery shell turning lots of different vehicles and equipment into dust. The Excalibur is GPS-guided, giving it deadly […]

August 2, 2013

Safety

Train crashes into construction equipment as crew scrambles out of the way

This video is a few years old, but its quickness and shock value haven’t diminished. The footage is from a mounted camera inside a train and shows as it attempts to quickly brake as a construction crew and a few machines appear out of the fog after rounding a bend. You can see a few […]

August 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

Tilt-shift footage from Ritchie Bros. auction makes heavy equipment look like toys

Our friends over at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers did a pretty cool thing during one of their recent auctions. Rather than grabbing normal footage of the huge event, they commissioned a “tilt-shift” filming. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, tilt-shift photography is basically a technique of filming that plays with the focus of the camera a […]

July 30, 2013

Construction Equipment

Chevy Silverado jumps sand dune, crashes spectacularly

In June we posted a video of a Ford Raptor jumping 180 feet through the air after launching off a sand dune. The jump was a record for the Silver Lake (Michigan) Sand Dunes. Not to be outdone, Bjørn Michaelsen tried to get everything his Chevrolet Silverado had with a dune launch of his own. And […]

July 26, 2013

Construction Equipment

GEAR: Honda lawn mower tops 130 mph, breaks speed record

We can’t be the only ones who on visits to home improvement stores get caught up ogling the lawnmower section for extended periods of time. But even with all of that wishing, we never dreamed we’d see a mower like this. Our sister site Total Landscape Care posted a story and video about a Honda […]

July 23, 2013

Construction Equipment

Watch 220 years of Washington D.C. construction in 3 beautiful minutes

Earlier this week, we showed you a video that compressed 165 years of Manhattan construction into one minute. But today we’ve got an even cooler video that packs 220 years of Washington D.C. construction into 3 minutes. The video chronicles the construction of some of our nation’s most iconic and important buildings, beginning with the […]

July 19, 2013

Business

Watch Manhattan’s 165-year growth into a sprawling metropolis in one minute

Cube Cities, a city visualization engine for the real estate industry, has put together a really cool video illustrating the power of its software by plotting the growth of Midtown Manhattan over the last 165 years. The one minute video flies through 16 decades, adding buildings to a map centered on the intersection of Central […]

July 15, 2013

Construction Equipment

This teardown of a Porsche Carrera 3.2 is a beautiful look at the complexity of engines

You may have seen a teardown of an engine before, but the look and feel this one of a Porsche Carrera 3.2 accomplishes is something to be appreciated. The video uses stop motion animation in order to focus your attention on each and every part that is removed. The result is a almost like watching […]

July 10, 2013