Road rage in cars is one thing, but if you catch a heavy construction equipment operator on a bad day, look out. They’re like tanks with arms and your puny little car is no match for the tonnage they bring to the table. Realizing that is important for job site safety, as well as choosing where to illegally park.
Read more[VIDEO] National Hero Uses Excavator to Pull a Stuck Deer out of Deep Mud
Even though construction equipment is extremely heavy and extremely powerful, with the right operator in the cab, the machines can be as soft and nurturing as a pillow. Heck, who would have ever thought they would see someone fully assemble and dress a hot dog with an excavator? Turns out, excavators can also save animals’ lives.
Read more[VIDEO] Yikes, Excavator Falls Through Floor During Demolition
A nicely performed demolition is extremely fun to watch, but they don’t always go according to plans, unfortunately. When things start going badly, you can just hope that no one gets injured. Thankfully, even though the demolition in the video below went horribly wrong, no one was injured.
Read moreExtremely Awesome Amphibious Excavators Dig on Land and on Water
Excavators can handle all kinds of messy situations, but even the best ones can only handle so much mud and water before they get stuck. It’s certainly not the easiest process to pull a 40,000 pound machine out of 4 feet of sludge.
Read moreWatching this Hideous 1970s Parking Garage Get Demolished is Extremely Satisfying
Concrete, even though it’s the world’s most commonly used building materials, is not very appealing to the eye. Neither are parking garages. That’s why people spend so much money covering them up. So, when exposed concrete and a parking garage are combined, it’s a double whammy of boring and ugly. That’s what makes this particular demolition so much more enjoyable.
Read moreMassive Toy RC Crawler Crane Can Lift 83 Pounds
If you were a kid in the 90’s, remote control cars were all the rage. You’d charge them up for what seemed like an eternity for about 15 minutes of drive time. You built ramps to jump them off of and probably taped a Talkboy to them to spy on your siblings. Now, it seems like there’s a group of adults that just don’t want to let go of those amazing feelings of yesteryear and we’re not upset about it. A little while ago, we wrote about a perfect and fully functional 1:23.5 scale model of a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane made out of Legos and now we get to show you a relatively massive remote control version of a Felbermayr crawler crane.
Read more[VIDEO] This is the Exact Wrong Way to Demolish a Building
Building demolitions are dangerous and difficult, so much so that even explosives have trouble bringing down buildings. Having said that, it’s always amazing to see footage of workers and companies who totally disregard the severity of the hazards involved.
Read moreA Simple Tip to Keep the Interior of Your Construction Project Clean
Construction work is dirty, but we don’t mind. You know who does mind, though? People that have to use the building after we’re done. Preventing track out from construction vehicles on a site involves throwing down a rumble strip down or some large stone, but preventing track-IN requires a little more finesse and creativity.
Read moreTimelapse Video of the Shanghai Tower is an Incredible Work of Art
The second best of anything rarely gets anywhere near the attention that the best gets, but this may be a noted exception. Standing 2,073 feet high (632 meters), the Shanghai tower is the world’s second tallest building behind the ultra-famous Burj Khalifa. The 128 story building took 7 years to complete, finishing in September of 2015, but it seems as though it has not yet been opened to the public, for undisclosed reasons.
Read moreHelicopter Video Catches Moment Crane Collapses in Melbourne
A news 9 helicopter caught a scary moment on video at a Melbourne, Australia construction site as an already ablaze crane collapsed. The crane was at the site of a 12 story tall apartment complex, when, according to news reports, an electrical fault caused the cabin of the crane to burst into flames.
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