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Construction Equipment

Geniuses wrap themselves in rope, let an excavator sling them through the air

Most people see construction equipment from afar. And most people, when meeting these machines in person for the first time, display a healthy amount of respect and even a bit of fear for the powerful, lumbering pieces of steel. But then there’s another group. This subset of people just get dumb ideas whenever they’re around […]

September 19, 2014

Construction Equipment

Weight of crane shoves hauler into a jackknife that sends crane over a hillside

We’ve all been involved in tense situations. But few of us have ever been in this tense of situation. In the video below, we see a hauler bringing in a Link-Belt crane to a jobsite. Problem is there’s a pretty steep dirt slope between the hauler and said jobsite. As the driver starts carefully descending the […]

August 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

How to haul a bulldozer with a mining truck and make an awful noise in the process

We’ve seen plenty of backhoes hop up into the beds of dump trucks before. But this is entirely different. In the video below, we see a mining truck hauling a large bulldozer onto a jobsite. And then, with a cringeworthy screech, just dump it out to the ground like it’s no big deal at all. […]

August 1, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator straddles extremely narrow bench, predictably topples over

There’s very little context for this video, but when it starts the machine already has one track dangling over the edge of the bench as crumbs of dirt trickle from the side to the level below. It seems like the slightest movement could ruin this crew’s day. And just about the time you start to […]

July 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

Backhoe rescues truck driver dangling over tunnel after semi rolled down a mountainside

In Israel recently, firefighters and rescue personnel had to get creative when it came to rescuing a truck driver in a very precarious situation. After apparently losing control of his rig on a mountainside highway, the truck barreled down the slope until coming to rest, wedged between the hillside and a nook created by a […]

June 11, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar excavator tiptoes through China shop, stacks glass, somehow doesn’t break anything

While Caterpillar hit viral video status with a video focusing on a massive game of Jenga, its latest Built For It Trials video centers on one of the most impressive displays of operator skill we’ve seen. In it, Ryan Neal, a senior demonstrator instructor at Cat, hops into a 301.7 CR mini excavator and drives […]

May 27, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator, crew upright a backhoe only to watch it roll down a steep hillside

Editors’ Pick, Top Videos in 2014 « NO. 1 No. 10»   Everything about this video goes according to plan—except the last 10 seconds. Uprighting an overturned backhoe on a steep incline is no easy task and this crew appears to be up to the job. Lots of communication and the excavator operator is taking […]

May 2, 2014

Construction Equipment

Dozer towing a truck, towing a mining excavator goes predictably wrong, rips off truck’s front end

No. 5 Video in 2014 « NO. 6 NO. 4 »   We can’t figure exactly how these guys thought this system would work out, but what they’ve accomplished has to be the highest number of bad ideas ever caught on tape. With the huge load of that mining excavator sinking that tiny trailer and […]

April 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator pushes dozer up steep grade before clawing its own way up to escape loose terrain

Steep grades and loose terrain can be formidable foes for heavy machinery on their own. So it’s no surprise that combining the two with both an excavator and dozer needing to reach the top creates quite the puzzle for all involved. The video below is a bit long but provides a pretty interesting watch. We’d […]

April 18, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar excavators stack 600-lb. blocks in the biggest game of Jenga you’ve ever seen

We have a feeling that after seeing this, equipment operators everywhere are going to try to get their hands on their own 8.1-ton Jenga set. As the first in its new “Built for It” series of trials showing off the capabilities of its heavy machines, Caterpillar posted a video called “Stack” to YouTube today, calling […]

April 15, 2014

Construction Equipment

How to wash a car with a 385-ton excavator (and destroy it in the process)

NO. 9 » No. 10 Video in 2014 This one’s pretty simple. Bunch of guys with some time and what looks to be a Liebherr R9400 mining excavator on their hands decide to have a little fun with a useless car. (At least we hope it was useless.) The results are pretty impressive. Then again, […]

April 4, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator destroys bridge with one nudge, creates huge wave in domino effect

In this video from China, we see one of the most beautiful bridge demolitions ever. We only get to see the final nudge that broke the bridge’s back, but we’d have to imagine some very careful weakening of the structure had to have preceded it. Nonetheless, the domino effect and the wave produced by the […]

March 28, 2014