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Police use construction site to detonate old explosives found in warehouse
After a cleaning crew found 25Â-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 nowÂ-defunct construction company, so the discovery was not considered to be suspicious. Since getting rid of unstable dynamite […]
January 22, 2016
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 […]
December 31, 2015
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 […]
December 10, 2015
Roadbuilding
Texas DOT bridge worker dangles from nearly 200 feet before being rescued in Houston
A Texas Department of Transportation subcontractor had to be rescued after he fell while working under the Houston Slip Channel Bridge and was left dangling below. According to KPRC in Houston, Rex Godsey was doing maintenance work when he slipped and fell October 7. Still attached to his safety harness, he dangled 175 feet above the Houston […]
October 12, 2015
Construction Equipment
Excavator rescues overturned dump truck from steep mining road grade
Just another few feet of error and this dump truck very likely would have been at the bottom of this steep grade rather than clinging to the side. Thankfully, mining operations have massive excavators like the Liebherr 974 seen here around to counteract the treacherous grades dumpers encounter. In the rescue video below, skip ahead to […]
September 18, 2015
Construction Equipment
3 dozers pull upended excavator and a bunch of gear up a ridiculous rocky grade
No. 10 Video of 2015 « Intro No. 9 »  What do you do when you’ve got a crapload of gear to move and an incredibly steep and rocky grade in front of you? If you’re this crew you chain every dozer at your disposal together, throw the skid onto an excavator bucket and […]
August 28, 2015
Construction Equipment
Dump truck bed lifts while driving, destroys overhead highway sign
Today’s dose of dumb comes from a highway somewhere in Saudi Arabia. The immediate question the video below raises is how is the driver unaware of that lifted bed? If it’s long enough to completely decimate a 20-foot-high highway sign, that thing is creating some significant noise and wind resistance while in motion. Sure there […]
August 21, 2015
Roadbuilding
Watch TDOT crews destroy and rebuild a bridge in only 58 hours in this project time-lapse
The Tennessee Department of Transportation built a bridge in less than 58 hours, and they’ve got the footage to prove it. TDOT released a time-lapse video of the first weekend of the Interstate 40 Fast Fix 8 bridge project in Nashville where workers were able to remove and replace the westbound bridge at breakneck pace. […]
August 10, 2015
Construction Equipment
Head stands, extreme grades and giant boulders all in a day’s work for this excavator operator
You don’t see many operation videos that are nearly as interesting as this one. And better yet, it only gets more interesting as it goes on. The video is a compilation of situations shot in Taiwan originally posted to YouTube by user wEnYi Liu. First we see the operator working in a bit of muck, tilting […]
July 24, 2015
Construction Equipment
Wheel loader slips out of control, careens off a mountain
What happens in this video, is very clear. A loader falls to its doom. However, the events leading up to said doom are less clear. At the start of the video, it appears the road’s icy conditions have led to some sort of accident involving the car and loader. Maybe the loader was there to […]
June 5, 2015
Workforce
Watch One World Trade Center’s 11-year construction in this beautiful time-lapse
With the opening of the iconic building’s observation deck over the weekend, One World Trade Center is officially open for the public to enjoy. To mark the occasion, the folks at EarthCam, produced the following time-lapse video that covers all 11 years of the 1,776-foot-tall building’s construction. Construction began in October 2004 and was officially […]
June 3, 2015
Construction Equipment
Semi hauling a dozer jackknifes, sends dozer tumbling
Backing up can be difficult. Especially when you’re backing a semi down a slope with a bulldozer trailered. This particular driver gets moving a bit too fast down the slope, the trailer jackknifes and everyone’s week is pretty much ruined in a matter of seconds. Seems like he would have benefitted from Ford’s new whiz-bang […]
May 22, 2015
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