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Hillside slop sends excavator flipping into a creek

When it comes to heavy equipment and steep grades, things can go surprisingly well or horrifically wrong. The latter was true in this case. In the video below, an excavator operator is slowly making his way down a pretty steep hillside with matters complicated even further by some really sloppy conditions. With the excavator seemingly […]

November 19, 2015

Construction Equipment

Excavator operator’s tricks aren’t nearly as cool as he thinks they are

Just in case you ever hoped there existed a video on the Internet that perfectly summed up how to get fired as an equipment operator in just a couple of minutes, we have good news. It takes a little while to figure out just what this guy is trying to do with this machine as […]

October 30, 2015

Construction Equipment

Excavator rides a landslide into the jungle

A couple weeks ago we saw an excavator operator escape a hillside collapse while staying inside his machine. Today’s video is pretty much the reverse of that situation entirely. While the previous operator was working beneath a crumbling hillside, today’s operator is working atop the earth deteriorating beneath him. And rather than keep cool and […]

October 23, 2015

Construction Equipment

Excavator narrowly escapes avalanche of soil in giant hillside collapse

It’s not immediately clear exactly what is going on in the run-up to this near-catastrophe, but we’re a bit conflicted as to how to feel about this excavator operator’s skill level. On one hand, it’s hard to think what he was thinking digging out the bottom of this hill, with so much clearly loosened soil […]

October 9, 2015

Construction Equipment

Head-mounted cereal excavator with milk-powered hydraulics makes Stephen Colbert look like an expert operator

If you ever wondered whether or not Late Show host Stephen Colbert might have the chops to become an excavator operator should this new gig not work out, just check out the video below and decide for yourself. Colbert recently had inventor/sculptor/”inventurer” Dominic Wilcox on the show to show off some of his unique creations. Among […]

October 7, 2015

Construction Equipment

2 excavators, dozer no help at all for excavator stuck in very deep hole

This one’s a bit hard to watch. After a ledge gave way an sent this machine into a hole being dug for a pumping station, this excavator operator is assisted by co-workers with little to no result. Two excavators and a dozer aren’t able to tow the machine out, largely because it was the wrong […]

October 2, 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

How to get an excavator stuck in a tree and how to get it back down

What to do after your excavator becomes firmly lodged in a group of trees? Pull. Really hard. How did it get there in the first place you ask? YouTube uploader grizzlybob660 says he and his co-workers from Hulcher Services were called in to rescue this stuck Cat after it had tumbled about 300 feet down a […]

September 11, 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

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

Thieves nab excavator, rip apart bank wall and drive off with an ATM

Though two Florida men weren’t the first to think of using a piece of construction equipment to try and break into an ATM, they’re definitely among the few to actually leave the scene of the crime with the whole ATM. We’ve seen this scenario several times before, usually involving a backhoe, but sometimes a telehandler. […]

July 22, 2015

Construction Equipment

Fight between excavator and a charging ram ends in a respectful draw

Donk. Today We Learned: Rams are very perturbed by excavators.

July 10, 2015