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Dozer drops from trailer while being hauled, flies head-on into traffic
Since this insanity was captured via a dashcam, we have to assume it happened in Russia. And with that in mind, it feels weird to type what I’m about to type: I am in awe of how well the drivers in this video operated with unthinkable tons of yellow iron hurtling directly toward them. See, typically these […]
April 10, 2015
Construction Equipment
Backhoe takes bad bounce after being uprighted, is swallowed by jungle
Things were going so well for this crew. After managing to bring this overturned backhoe back onto its wheels, something happens that they did not anticipate. Apparently not accounting for the steep slope bordering this road, the truck being used to pull the backhoe up, gives it a good last yank which causes the backhoe […]
January 30, 2015
Business
Long Walk: Builders of 47-story Spanish skyscraper forget to install the elevator
We all make mistakes. But very few of us have made one as monumental as this one. Via Gizmodo, sourced from a report by El Pais, after building 47 stories of the Intempo skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain—designed to be a monument signaling the city’s return from the country’s financial crisis—the builders realized they had forgotten […]
August 12, 2013
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