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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

Dozer tumbles from ramp in platform collapse

There’s only so many times a thinner, deteriorating piece of metal can support a hunk of very heavy metal and the dozer operator in the video below has found that limit. Probably doing something he’s done a thousand times before, the operator backs his machine up what looks to be, at best, a very sketchy […]

September 4, 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

Dump truck bed lifts while driving, destroys overhead highway sign

Today’s dose of dumb comes from a highway somewhere in Saudi Arabia. The immediate question the video below raises is how is the driver unaware of that lifted bed? If it’s long enough to completely decimate a 20-foot-high highway sign, that thing is creating some significant noise and wind resistance while in motion. Sure there […]

August 21, 2015

Construction Equipment

Old Caterpillar D8 dozer gives hell to 20 Land Cruisers in epic tug of war

No. 9 Video of 2015 « No. 10 No. 8 »   There’s nothing about this video to dislike. A vintage dozer still in operation. An army of Land Cruiser 4x4s. A showdown in a desolate canyon/quarry. A little bit of dialogue and you’ve got a pretty decent Mad Max movie. In this particular film however, all aforementioned […]

August 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

Watch action from North Carolina DOT Division 4’s win at the annual Equipment Operator’s Roadeo

Division 4 of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) won the department’s recent Equipment Operator’s Roadeo held at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. The division, representing Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnson, Nash, Wayne and Wilson counties, accumulated the highest point tally. Eighty-four NCDOT employees vied for the titles in six categories—single-axle dump truck, tandem-axle […]

August 3, 2015

Construction Equipment

Tightrope-walking dozer operator likely the only one dumb enough to ever try it

No. 7 Video of 2015 « No. 8 No. 6 »   As if heavy equipment operation weren’t dangerous enough by itself—especially in Russia—why not throw in a tightrope? In what we have to assume is a Russian TV talent show of some sort, a dozer operator is tasked with crossing from one giant pile […]

July 31, 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