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Construction Equipment

Loader flips when questionable demo technique lands whole building on top of bucket

During a demo day, the driver of a CAT 950 got a little too aggressive trying to knock down the building. Check out the video here on Equipment World.

May 31, 2018

Construction Equipment

Skid steer operator log rolls a pipe in overdramatic beam balancing TV stunt

Check out this video where a skid steer operator attempts to log roll a pipe to cross a 72-foot span on parallel beams. Impressive or easy? Let us know here!

May 17, 2018

Construction Equipment

Excavator sculpting a pond makes for mesmerizing piece of art

Thank goodness there are operators out there confident enough in their skills to film what on the surface sounds like a mundane construction task. Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to watch true skill on display like you see in the video below. The video offers a first person view of an excavator meticulously sculpting a […]

May 3, 2018

Vocational

Semi smashes raised, fully loaded end dump trailer right into a bridge

Every time you see one of these raised dump bed disaster stories, you can’t help but wonder “How did the driver not know?” That goes doubly in this instance, captured in the video below, which occurred earlier this month along Highway 40 near Montreal. According to Le Journal de Montreal, drivers traveling alongside a semi […]

April 26, 2018

Vocational

Dump truck dumps load to evade police in chase that ends off-road

This next dash cam video looks like it’s straight out of the Dukes of Hazzard. If only the late Waylon Jennings could have done a voice-over… It all started with a domestic disturbance call last Wednesday in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. When a Dodge County Sheriff’s Office deputy showed up to help, Theodore Tamminga wanted none […]

April 5, 2018

Construction Equipment

Watch a loader be dismantled and rebuilt in this time-lapse

To promote its Certified New Life Refurbishment program, Volvo put together a time-lapse of a loader rebuild that’s a pretty great way of wasting 3 minutes of your day. Volvo says the video takes you “step-by-step” through the entire process of dismantling a loader and rebuilding it as a refurbished model. Volvo says this type […]

March 29, 2018

Construction Equipment

100+ excavators team up to demo overpass overnight

We finally have an answer to the age-old question “How many operators does it take to dismantle an overpass overnight?” For the Chinese city of Nanchang, the answer was 116. According to the description of the video below, posted to YouTube by China’s state-run news outlet CCTV, the gang of excavators got started on demolishing […]

March 8, 2018

Construction Equipment

Operator rights drowning excavator, averts disaster

Unlike most excavator videos floating around the internet, this one starts with an overturned machine in the water rather than ending with one. We’re not provided with much context on how this operator ended up in this precarious spot. But what we find out is that he’s not one for giving up. As his machine […]

February 22, 2018

Construction Equipment

Attempt to load excavator onto truck goes horribly wrong

Though we’ve seen a fair share of loading mishaps occur even when a ramp is present, this operator’s attempt to side saddle his excavator underscores the world of pain you can avoid by simply loading a machine properly. Beyond the absence of a ramp, it’s doubtful this excavator even completely fits on to the bed […]

February 1, 2018

Construction Equipment

Crane collapse during lift of concrete wall sends workers scrambling

Workers in Austin, Texas, last week were forced to run for their lives as a crane collapsed during the lift of a concrete wall. Video of the incident, seen below, was first posted to Reddit. According to a report from KSAT TV, “nearly a dozen workers” were in the vicinity of the collapse, which occurred […]

January 18, 2018

Construction Equipment

The Top 10 Construction Equipment Videos of 2017

With 2017 drawing to a close, it’s time to take a look back at all the great videos we’ve come across in the last year. Refreshingly, this year’s Top 10 is light on the fail videos and heavy with cool machines going about their work. These are ranked in order based on the number of […]

December 28, 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