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Construction Equipment

Thief attempts surgical ATM robbery with backhoe before running over it instead

Beyond the selfishness and stupidity of actually attempting the crime, the video below mostly illustrates how darn near impossible it is to get money out of an ATM with sheer force alone. The surveillance video was shared by the York County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina which is investigating an attempted Bank of America ATM robbery […]

January 12, 2015

Construction Equipment

Drunk guy in a wheel loader plows through parked cars; is swiftly brought to justice by angry mob

Before you watch the video below, 1) Yes, of course this video is from Russia and 2) some of the video is not exactly suitable for children as this guy takes a few punches. And while violence is never the answer, it’s a bit hard to judge this particular angry mob especially with how much […]

January 2, 2015

Construction Equipment

The Top 10 Construction Equipment Videos of 2014

With only a few days left in 2014, now is a pretty good time to take a look back at all the cool videos we watched together over the last 12 months. This top 10 list was determined by your clicks and includes a wide variety of equipment and situations. This year we saw giant […]

December 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

Building suddenly collapses atop excavator in demolition gone wrong

It’s hard to see exactly what went wrong in this video, but it definitely highlights the dangers of demolition work. The operator is gutting the building and at a couple of points he’s having a hard time pulling something to the exterior. However, when the building finally goes, it looks like he’s reaching back inside […]

December 19, 2014

Construction Equipment

Wheel loader rescues excavator buried cab-deep in mud using cables, bucket lift

In most “stuck videos” that we’ve seen, when a machine gets in trouble, an excavator comes to the rescue. But what if it’s your excavator that’s stuck?  Typically, you bring in the dozer and pull the sucker out. But in the case of this crew, only a wheel loader was available. And with how stuck […]

December 12, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar excavators build world’s tallest sand castle ever, then completely destroy it

Everyone knows the best part about building a sand castle of any significance is getting to kick it into nonexistence afterward. Thankfully, the folks at Caterpillar didn’t forget that when breaking a Guinness World Record. The latest in its series of Built for It Trials videos, Caterpillar built the behemoth sand castle in Rio de […]

December 11, 2014

Construction Equipment

Motor grader tries to cross violent river, gets swept downstream and nearly buried instead

Just a few weeks ago we saw a motor grader courageously cross a river using a rope bridge with a less-than-trustworthy appearance. Today, we’ve got footage of another brave grader operator with a swift river to cross. But this time, there’s a distinct lack of bridge. The operator judges that it’s probably shallow enough to […]

December 5, 2014

Construction Equipment

Backhoe uses buddy system, descends wall with a lift from another backhoe on the ground

There are lots of ways to get a backhoe down from on top of various objects. Some are conventional and very safe and to certain people, also boring. The crew in the video below turned removing a backhoe from on top of a short wall into one of the most unnecessary challenges we can remember. […]

November 28, 2014

Construction Equipment

1,000-hp backhoe blasts Guinness World Record to become fastest digger on Earth

Just about anyone who’s familiar with backhoes is familiar with the JCB GT. For more than 20 years, the JCB side project has been thought of and touted as the fastest backhoe in the world, but the UK company wasn’t satisfied with that. Instead they decided to go straight to the Guinness Book of World […]

November 21, 2014

Construction Equipment

Motor grader operator crosses swift river using rope bridge barely wider than the machine

When confronted with a rope bridge today, most people would be terrified to walk across one, let alone drive a piece of heavy equipment across it. But not this motor grader operator. This is either a stupid, brave or very confident person. Maybe a bit of all three. But because we don’t know the context […]

November 13, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator stuck boom-deep in mud spins as operator works to free it from flooded cab

This is one of the few “stuck videos” that we’ve come across that doesn’t appear to have a happy ending. It’s also one of the more stuck excavators we’ve ever seen caught on video. This thing is boom-deep in thick, soupy mud. And yet, its operator, like the captain of the Titanic, is going down […]

November 6, 2014

Construction Equipment

Backhoe shimmies across water on a bridge made of old logs

During the reconstruction of a bridge in what looks to be a very rural part of Brazil, with the water in front of him a bit too deep to comfortably drive through, the backhoe operator in the video below was faced with a dilemma. He could either A) drive or haul his backhoe around to […]

October 24, 2014