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  • SCOUT5
    Okay, you talked me out of it.
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  • montanajoe
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    Well it seemed like a good idea until this,,good gosh
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  • Ditch-Runner
    funny OH-S-H-I-T sounds the same in many languages

    I see some fearless (or forced ) workers regardless some big balls
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  • wpage
    Interesting and dangerous...
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  • grdad45
    Definitely upping the "pucker factor"! We almost upended a 100 ton floating crane trying to save a boat that hit a reef back in the day. I was in the engine/generator room, hanging on to the wall, trying not to fall into the machinery. We tested the angle disconnect that day.
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  • select-fire
    Whoa
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  • bullshot
    OH Hell No ............. I've done a lot of that kind of stuff in an excavator but never on the sheer side of a mountain.

    In Florida you only have to worry about one disappearing from under you in a swamp bog.
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  • jwb267
    I been around heavy equipment most of my life. most of what was shown on the video could have been avoided with a little common sense.
    look where it was filmed and the characters involved. my guess is there is no such thing as OSHA there
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    quote:Originally posted by jwb267
    I been around heavy equipment most of my life. most of what was shown on the video could have been avoided with a little common sense.
    look where it was filmed and the characters involved. my guess is there is no such thing as OSHA there
    Yep all foreigners, with total disregard for any and all safety practices.
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  • 35 Whelen
    quote:Originally posted by Horse Plains Drifter
    quote:Originally posted by jwb267
    I been around heavy equipment most of my life. most of what was shown on the video could have been avoided with a little common sense.
    look where it was filmed and the characters involved. my guess is there is no such thing as OSHA there
    Yep all foreigners, with total disregard for any and all safety practices.



    Makes me smile every time I think back on when Dad was running a Prentice 410DX up in the woods. Anyone that can operate one so smooth they can pick a hat off your head is GTG in my book.[^]
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  • droptop
    My guess, there weren't any owner / operators in that video.[:D]
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  • mnrivrat48
    I skidded logs for a period of time. The skidder was not massive, but large enough to cause a lot of damage to what was around it and of course to the operator.
    A couple of close calls made me very respective of all heavy equipment operators. After share in cropping Ended in 1953) my father worked as a dozer operator for a road construction contractor. No union in that place and time. (1962 - also dirt poor wages)

    They sent him to shovel out around a culvert. Another dozer operator drove next to the ditch and caved it in trapping my father between the culvert and a huge section of clay that slid from above him. It shattered his pelvic and some lower back vertebra. They dug him out, threw him into the back of a pickup truck and drove him into the local hospital . He was crippled for life. Operating and being around heavy equipment is dangerous work.
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  • jwb267
    I considered myself a decent operator, but I worked with some GREAT ones.
    two Excavator operators were arguing who was the best before starting time. the foreman had heard enough. he told both guys to get in their machine and raise the bucket exactly 4'. they both tied. he then said raise the bucket and step away from your machine.
    the foreman reached in his pocket, pulled out a farmer match and taped it to the outside tooth on each bucket. the one that can light the match will be the best operator and that will be the end of the bickering
    one operator did it
    https://youtu.be/m22x5DOpPzc
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