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Construction Equipment
Excavator operator carves a pumpkin in JCB’s spooky Steelwrist demo
Hoping to give its Facebook followers a treat for Halloween, JCB recently shared a video of an excavator operator performing quite the trick using the company’s Steelwrist tiltrotator and a very sharp knife. And while operator Shaun Gratton doesn’t carve the prettiest smile on this pumpkin’s face, the feat is impressive nonetheless. Check it out below. […]
October 31, 2016
Roadbuilding
DOTs recommend pedestrian, commuter vigilance on Halloween
Departments of transportation are reminding motorists and pedestrians to be more aware today during evening commute times as trick-or-treaters make their rounds. Reports of pedestrian injuries and fatalities typically increase on Halloween. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says in 2013 pedestrian fatalities on Halloween accounted for 31 percent of all traffic fatalities, double the […]
October 31, 2016
Roadbuilding
Maine residents use road construction as inspiration for slightly morbid Halloween display
Residents in a small cottage community of Maine were so fed up with the delays from a road construction project that they sent the DOT workers to the graveyard shift. Figuratively, of course, and all in the spirt of Halloween. However, at least one construction worker has said the display is offensive. The Portland Press Herald reported that […]
October 30, 2015
Construction Equipment
PHOTO: Backhoe operator advertises a creepy “Halloween Special”
If hard work can’t be fun sometimes, what’s the point? That being said, not too sure how long this side business is going to last. Not exactly the type of action you want to advertise. This photo has made the rounds in just about every corner of the Internet, so its origin is kind of […]
October 29, 2015
Construction Equipment
This Ford F-150-shaped corn maze is neat, but the real star is its F-450 pumpkin cannon (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
Each year the folks at Leaders Farms in northwest Ohio choose a theme for their famous corn maze. This year, Brad Leaders got a bit of inspiration from the new Ford F-150. After all, he’s been using a Ford as his primary pumpkin firing apparatus for years. “Brad was reading a magazine last winter and […]
October 29, 2015
Roadbuilding
Driver Beware: America’s 5 most haunted roads
Halloween: The time of year when ghosts, goblins and all things haunted try to scare the living daylights out of us! Whether you believe in that stuff or not, millions of people do. In celebration of all those trick or treaters, here are five of the spookiest roads in America. Haynesville Woods (Route 2A)  […]
October 30, 2014
Roadbuilding
This diesel car is the new basket for trick-or-treaters
Forget those silly little orange jack-o-lantern baskets, kids. What you really need is a diesel car. Audi’s latest ad for its TDI diesel sedan depicts two families who cruise around in their TDIs to go trick-or-treating with the promise of “more candy, less fuel.” [youtube DqoXC0Xe5OU nolink] At the end of the ad, one child […]
October 31, 2013
Construction Equipment
Do diesel drivers get more candy on Halloween?
Audi would like to answer the headline of this post with a resounding “Yes.” In this much-less-annoying-follow-up to the first ad in their new diesel campaign, Audi shows the theoretical benefits of the longer range a diesel automobile offers. That being said this commercial raises a lot of questions. I guess these kids just gave […]
October 31, 2013
Roadbuilding
Beware of these 10 haunted roads in the U.S. and England
Around Halloween each year, talk of haunted sites seems to become more prevalent. Those haunted sites may involve haunted houses, haunted cemeteries, haunted asylums and more. Of course, we can’t forget about the haunted roads. Sure, you’ve probably heard of headless horseman that haunts the roads near Tarrytown, New York, thanks to Washington Irving’s telling […]
October 30, 2013
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