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Construction Equipment

Scraper operator leans into this jam, but needs help from a dozer

The operator attempts to shimmy out of a jam, before a dozer comes along with a final push to get him out. Check out the video here on Equipment World.

July 12, 2018

Construction Equipment

Don’t let this adorable mini ‘Cat’ dozer fool you. It’s got small-scale capability

The delightful video below comes from the YouTube channel of Lane Hanson, whose videos of his diminutive ‘Cat’ dozer have garnered more than 1.3 million views. As you can see in the videos below, Lane is finding ways to make good use of a mini dozer, from clearning snow from the driveway, to leveling out […]

June 21, 2018

Construction Equipment

Excavators play goalie in a soccer match/demolition derby mashup

The Fastracs Auto Soccer Game in Red Hook, New York, is a mash-up of a soccer game and a demolition derby where they use excavators as goalies. Watch here.

June 14, 2018

Construction Equipment

Loader flips when questionable demo technique lands whole building on top of bucket

During a demo day, the driver of a CAT 950 got a little too aggressive trying to knock down the building. Check out the video here on Equipment World.

May 31, 2018

Construction Equipment

Skid steer operator log rolls a pipe in overdramatic beam balancing TV stunt

Check out this video where a skid steer operator attempts to log roll a pipe to cross a 72-foot span on parallel beams. Impressive or easy? Let us know here!

May 17, 2018

Construction Equipment

Operator rights drowning excavator, averts disaster

Unlike most excavator videos floating around the internet, this one starts with an overturned machine in the water rather than ending with one. We’re not provided with much context on how this operator ended up in this precarious spot. But what we find out is that he’s not one for giving up. As his machine […]

February 22, 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

Mixer truck tumbles after bad turn into steep bank

It’s hard to make sense of what causes the tipover accident in the video below, other than poor driving and decision making. The actual accident occurs about one minute in when, after some shouting between some of the workers standing around a mixer truck approaching the top of a steep bank, the driver places the […]

September 21, 2017

Construction Equipment

Excavator falls from dirt face, operator rides it like a surfboard

Judging by this incident alone, this guy may have more of a future in surfing than he does in heavy equipment operation. In the video below, an excavator is perched in a less than secure spot near the top of a dirt face. The soil beneath the machine suddenly gives way, sending the machine and […]

August 24, 2017

Construction Equipment

Crane tumbles despite loader’s help with unwieldy load

Thanks to the wonders of internet video, we’ve seen a lot of terrible ideas involving heavy equipment on this here website. But this one just might be the worst offender of all. (Well, maybe except for this one.) In the video below, an all-terrain crane is lifting a large billboard in place for mounting. And […]

August 3, 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