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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

Excavator claws through raging floodwaters to rescue two dump truck drivers

According to the YouTube description of the video below these two dump truck drivers became trapped by floodwaters while driving along a mountain road. As the video begins, both drivers are stranded in their trucks as the high waters threaten to wash them away. Thankfully, a nearby excavator operator jumps into action, braving the torrent […]

January 4, 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

The Dumphoe was half excavator, half site dumper in one weird little machine

While cruising through a heavy equipment forum recently I stumbled upon a photo of a machine that can only be classified as…”interesting.” The machine had the front end of a mini excavator but the rear end of a site dumper. The whole thing sat on four rubber tires. The forum user mentioned that they thought […]

July 20, 2017

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Updates on Caterpillar, Tier 4 equipment sales, DEF contamination tips, Ford Super Duty recall, top 10 videos of 2016

The Top 10 Construction Equipment Videos of 2016 We’ve gone back through our thousands of posts to determine the top 10 construction equipment videos on the site for 2016. These are ranked in order based on the number of clicks you, our dear readers (and watchers), provided. And this might actually be our favorite mix […]

January 2, 2017

Construction Equipment

Backhoe joyride sparks police chase, causes thousands in damage to Florida bridge

A man was arrested last week after he allegedly drove a backhoe off of a Florida Keys construction site and led police on a low-speed chase, doing thousands of dollars in damage to a bridge in the process. According to a release from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, 59-year-old Carl Blahnik’s backhoe joyride began with him using the […]

February 25, 2016

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 […]

January 21, 2016

Construction Equipment

3 jacked up pickups in tug of war with Volvo A25G artic would be cute if it weren’t so sad

They seemingly had all the straps, shackles, lift kits and giant tires in the world. And yet… As the emcee says at the beginning of this video “This really could be badass, or it could be boring.” We’d content that it’s boring but still definitely badass. Look, there are three very lifted pickups and an artic […]

January 14, 2016

Construction Equipment

Excavator operator’s tricks aren’t nearly as cool as he thinks they are

Just in case you ever hoped there existed a video on the Internet that perfectly summed up how to get fired as an equipment operator in just a couple of minutes, we have good news. It takes a little while to figure out just what this guy is trying to do with this machine as […]

October 30, 2015

Construction Equipment

Excavator rides a landslide into the jungle

A couple weeks ago we saw an excavator operator escape a hillside collapse while staying inside his machine. Today’s video is pretty much the reverse of that situation entirely. While the previous operator was working beneath a crumbling hillside, today’s operator is working atop the earth deteriorating beneath him. And rather than keep cool and […]

October 23, 2015

Construction Equipment

Excavator narrowly escapes avalanche of soil in giant hillside collapse

It’s not immediately clear exactly what is going on in the run-up to this near-catastrophe, but we’re a bit conflicted as to how to feel about this excavator operator’s skill level. On one hand, it’s hard to think what he was thinking digging out the bottom of this hill, with so much clearly loosened soil […]

October 9, 2015

Construction Equipment

How to get an excavator stuck in a tree and how to get it back down

What to do after your excavator becomes firmly lodged in a group of trees? Pull. Really hard. How did it get there in the first place you ask? YouTube uploader grizzlybob660 says he and his co-workers from Hulcher Services were called in to rescue this stuck Cat after it had tumbled about 300 feet down a […]

September 11, 2015