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Construction Equipment
Excavators squeezing trees to pieces makes for mesmerizing compilation
There are certain mundane tasks that, no matter how common, you could watch all day. For us, excavators ripping apart large tree trunks as easy as you might pinch a twig in half is one of those tasks. The below video compiles a wide variety of excavators and attachments, mostly grapples and the like. Some [
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March 17, 2016
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Construction Equipment
3 years of Denver Airport construction captured in 90-second time-lapse
In the fall of last year, the Denver International Airport completed construction on its South Terminal Redevelopment Project which brought with it a new Hotel and Transit Center. According to Road Warrior, the three-year project cost an estimated $580 million and features a Westin Hotel, an 82,000 square-foot open-air plaza and a commuter rail station [
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March 15, 2016
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Construction Equipment
Time-lapse captures 2 years of ‘Daytona Rising’ construction to create “World Center of Racing”
It took $400 million and more than two years of work, but the Daytona International Speedway has been fully upgraded to become what Daytona officials say is the “world’s first motorsports stadium.” According to EarthCam, the project began in Sept. 2013 and ended just a few weeks ago. The time-lapse video below compresses the massive [
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February 16, 2016
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Safety
Police use construction site to detonate old explosives found in warehouse
After a cleaning crew found 25­-year-old, unstable dynamite in a construction company warehouse in Boxborough, Mass., last month, police were called to the location. According to the Lowell Sun, the warehouse was the former home of a now­-defunct construction company, so the discovery was not considered to be suspicious. Since getting rid of unstable dynamite [
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January 22, 2016
The discovered explosives. Photo credit: Boxborough Police
Construction Equipment
Watch a Cat track skidder zipline off a mountain
A Caterpillar track skidder is one tough machine. It’s built specifically for log skidding and, according to the Cat website, all the “mountainous and soft underfoot” conditions that type of work includes. But sometimes it’s not as simple as driving these machines in and out of the site. Sometimes the grade is simply too steep to [
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January 21, 2016
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Construction Equipment
The Top 10 Construction Equipment Videos of 2015
We couldn’t wrap the year up with a Top 15 stories countdown and leave out all the crazy videos, now could we? So we’ve gathered all of the year’s top videos, based on your clicks of course, into an easy to navigate gallery. Start with the button below. You might have missed a few of [
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December 31, 2015
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Construction Equipment
Flipping loader an example of how not to chop down a Christmas tree
We can’t confirm if the guy with the chainsaw’s last name is Griswold or not, but in the very least this guy has to be a distant relative. On the bright side, the family in the red house has one extra tree for the holidays in the event a fried cat leads to a tree [
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December 24, 2015
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Construction Equipment
Google’s robot ‘reindeer’ make for one creepy sleighride
Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics has created quite the Christmas card, starring its (in)famous robot dog, known as Spot. In fact, there are three Spots in this short holiday greeting, dressed up as reindeer with Santa’s sleigh in tow. As have been most videos starring this creation, the latest one is slightly terrifying. As we reported back [
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December 23, 2015
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Construction Equipment
3 excavators, 2 dozers team up to move 100-year, 518k-lb. tree to new home
Who knew an old tree could make for such a fun video? According to the YouTube description for this video, in 2012, League City, Texas, officials decided to finance the relocation of the Ghirardi Compton Oak, a 56-foot-tall tree that is more than 100 years old with a beautiful canopy that is more than 100 [
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December 17, 2015
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Construction Equipment
Bucket badly stuck and without a clue, excavator operator begins burying tracks too
Despite the suggestion of the Seussian headline, the video below has no happy ending. Though it’s good motivation to train up operators well before sending them into a jungle-like environment with soft underfoot conditions. Bless this guy’s heart, that bucket is seriously stuck. And rather than move in a bit closer and leverage the machine’s weight [
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December 10, 2015
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Construction Equipment
Backhoe operator climbs machine into stream, waddles on through
No. 4 Video of 2015 « No. 5 No. 3 »   While this video is far from amazing, it is quite interesting from the standpoint that I have no idea what the point of it all is. It’s cool, though not entirely novel, that the operator can lower the machine down into this stream, [
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December 3, 2015
Backhoe waddles through water
Construction Equipment
Hillside slop sends excavator flipping into a creek
When it comes to heavy equipment and steep grades, things can go surprisingly well or horrifically wrong. The latter was true in this case. In the video below, an excavator operator is slowly making his way down a pretty steep hillside with matters complicated even further by some really sloppy conditions. With the excavator seemingly [
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November 19, 2015
Excavator rolls into creek
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