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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

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

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

Construction Equipment

Excavator bucket-scoots out-of-gas hauler down the road while still on the trailer

On the jobsite, dozers come in handy every once in a while to give stuck or out-of-fuel equipment a push. But excavators? Not so much. Apparently no one told this guy that. We’ve all been there. Out of gas on the highway. But not many of us had an excavator in tow. And if we […]

March 21, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator bucket-boosts itself onto a railcar in a bit of heavy machinery parkour

This is one of those videos where you might not be extremely impressed by the operator’s skill, but maybe just a little bit blown away by his sheer will in accomplishing a highly questionable feat. According to the video’s description, this guy is climbing up there to unload crushed rock. And while there are probably several other […]

January 24, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator busts massive beaver dam, artfully tiptoes away from ensuing flood

This video exemplifies the fun of watching construction equipment. In it we see a very skilled operator bust up a huge beaver dam. He lays his pallets one by one to get to the massive pile of sticks and dirt and once that dam is busted and all that water is rushing at him, he […]

January 17, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator mercilessly pounds a perfectly good Dodge Viper to bits

We spent a considerable amount of time with Google search trying to figure out why, in the name of all that is holy, this perfectly good Dodge Viper had to be destroyed. There’s no definitive answer, however. One commenter says it has something to do with a car accident death and Chrysler asking for it […]

January 9, 2014

Construction Equipment

How to dig your way down a steep, shifting slope in an excavator

Should you find yourself at the top of a steep and shifting slope in an excavator, you could simply take the risk of running down it like a mad man. Or, if you’re like this guy, you could do it safely and help out your fellow operator in the wheel loader below by throwing them […]

December 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Excavator operator exposes a sewer, removes manhole cover with surgical precision

Exposing a storm sewer manhole doesn’t sound like very exciting work, but when the guy in this excavator’s operator seat is doing it, it’s an art form. This crew is working on adjusting the height of the manhole for a new street. So they bring their ace operator in and he meticulously removes the fill […]

December 13, 2013

Construction Equipment

Very stuck dump truck proves to be a challenging rescue for this excavator

We have conflicting thoughts about this video. On one hand, we couldn’t help but root for the operator of the excavator. After all, according to the video’s description, he’s the one who got this Volvo A30 stuck in the first place and apparently no one on site was willing to give him a hand getting […]

November 27, 2013

Construction Equipment

Excavator operator puts on clinic, rescues 2 bogged down dozers from a flooded ditch

Thanks to YouTube uploader Adam Petroff we’re able to share with you a pretty awesome example of excavator operation this morning. In the video’s description, Petroff explains that he and his crew were finish grading the slopes along a new highway when their John Deere 650H slid into the “canal” below and got stuck. And […]

October 25, 2013