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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

Excavator scrapes 50 tons of sharp rock out of 2015 F-150 to test aluminum bed

When Ford unveiled the 2015 F-150 in January, it knew it would have to convince a lot of skeptics that the truck’s new aluminum body could stand up to abuse. The company has done a pretty good job of allaying concerns through efforts like secretly testing the aluminum body on construction sites and a gold […]

November 4, 2014

Workforce

Construction crew wrangles 11-foot python on Florida jobsite

We can all only hope that when confronted by a massive snake we handle the encounter as well as this construction crew near Miami. According to a report from WFLX TV, the workers, which look to be part of a road construction crew working near Florida State Road 826, found an 11-foot Burmese python inside […]

October 30, 2014

Workforce

Workers caught on tape firing assault rifle inside Orlando building they were demolishing

Orlando Police are investigating a demolition contractor hired by the city after footage surfaced of workers firing an assault rifle inside the building they were supposed to be demolishing. According to a report from WESH TV, a whistle blower sent in footage to Orlando city leaders showing a worker from Crusader Contracting firing an AR-15 […]

October 28, 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

Construction Equipment

Watch construction crews bore and blast below New York City to build the 2nd Avenue subway line

“New York City is one of the toughest places to build anything.” That quote from NYC subway train service supervisor Bill Wall, more than anything else, is what stands out in the excellent video below from the New York Times which chronicles the difficulty the city and its construction crews have had in building the new […]

October 22, 2014

Construction Equipment

Time-lapse captures 2-year construction of new San Francisco 49ers football stadium in 2 minutes

The folks at EarthCam have done it again, capturing yet another huge construction project from start to finish this time with the new home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. Levi’s Stadium is the first new NFL stadium to be built in California in 50 years and cost about $1.2 billion. The stadium seats about […]

September 24, 2014

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

How to build a LEGO dump truck with an excavator bucket instead of your hands

We’ve seen plenty examples of equipment operators showing off their skills through interesting demonstrations, but this one from Finland might be our favorite. In the video below, the operator, whom the Daily Mail identifies as Juha-Pekka Peramaki, puts together a dump truck made of LEGOs, complete with hard-hat-wearing driver. There’s some pretty impressive precise movement involved and the […]

September 15, 2014

Safety

Guy sits on large pipe while cutting it, is bucked into the air because physics is highly unforgiving

The takeaway from the video below is pretty simple: don’t be this guy. Staring his friend the excavator bucket directly in the face, this guy was still somehow unable to foresee a future in which the strain and potential energy of this massive pipe he was seated upon would have nowhere to go but up […]

September 12, 2014

Workforce

Roofer busts out gravity-defying samba breakdance; somehow doesn’t break his neck

As the video below attests, music can be a very powerful force. So powerful that despite the fact he was working atop a roof, Andrew Wilcox says on his YouTube page he couldn’t help but dance when the Enrique Iglesias song “Bailando” came on the radio. What happens next is funny, impressive in some ways […]

September 2, 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