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Construction Equipment

Backhoe uses buddy system, descends wall with a lift from another backhoe on the ground

There are lots of ways to get a backhoe down from on top of various objects. Some are conventional and very safe and to certain people, also boring. The crew in the video below turned removing a backhoe from on top of a short wall into one of the most unnecessary challenges we can remember. […]

November 28, 2014

Construction Equipment

Semi truck jumps over F1 car, lands 83 feet later to set a world record

If you were wondering what the coolest way to nearly destroy an 18-wheeler is, we’ve got your answer. In the video below, you’ll witness a semi truck hit a ramp and clear an F1 car racing just beneath the truck’s tires, before crashing back down to the earth. The driver of the truck is Mike […]

November 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

1,000-hp backhoe blasts Guinness World Record to become fastest digger on Earth

Just about anyone who’s familiar with backhoes is familiar with the JCB GT. For more than 20 years, the JCB side project has been thought of and touted as the fastest backhoe in the world, but the UK company wasn’t satisfied with that. Instead they decided to go straight to the Guinness Book of World […]

November 21, 2014

Construction Equipment

Motor grader operator crosses swift river using rope bridge barely wider than the machine

When confronted with a rope bridge today, most people would be terrified to walk across one, let alone drive a piece of heavy equipment across it. But not this motor grader operator. This is either a stupid, brave or very confident person. Maybe a bit of all three. But because we don’t know the context […]

November 13, 2014

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

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

Excavator plays T-ball with a microwave, gets bored and crushes it instead

Just in case you ever dreamed of playing t-ball with a microwave and using an excavator as a bat, this video is for you. Unless you’d like to hear the host of the video explain the concept in great detail, go ahead and skip to the one minute mark to see the t-ball action. When […]

October 17, 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

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

Construction Equipment

Semi hauling an excavator plows through a guardhouse while pulling onto college campus

At Bellhaven University they’re referring to it as “the Guardhouse Incident.” With construction having begun on a new on-campus apartment complex, a lot of big construction equipment is making its way onto Bellhaven’s small campus in Jackson, Mississippi. And, as you can see in the video below, a particular guardhouse at an entrance to the […]

August 22, 2014

Construction Equipment

Worker dangles from excavator hammer 100 feet up to cut column loose during demo

This is probably one of the craziest and most dangerous demolition videos we’ve come across yet. According to the YouTube uploader, this all took place in 2008 just outside his living room window in Beijing, China. A crew is demolishing a building in the heart of the city when a column doesn’t quite fall the […]

August 15, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator water skiing the best way to cool off, get hurt in a mudhole this summer

There’s nothing better on hot summer days than taking a dip in a pool or heading down to the lake or river for some quality floating on an inner tube. The more adventurous of us prefer water sports such as jet skiing or water skiing. And then there are others. This is a far more […]

August 8, 2014