D&GExcavating
Senior Member
Wow, never seen anyone that dumb. And on top of it all, part of the wall falls right onto the stick.
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Worst Demo Guy Ever
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Wolf
Senior Member
that is too funny when the streetlight comes crashing down. OMG.
Burns-Tractors
Active Member
WOW:beatsme
Ragingbull83
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I'm guessing that guy doesnt have an operators cards LOL I can see the job super in the distance dont know why the street wasnt closed, I imagine there was a good fine for that.
dayexco
Senior Member
you have to have an operator's card? you mean, i've been running excavators for 40+ years...illegally?
digger242j
Administrator
Some jurisdictions require some sort of license to operate equipment. I know Massachusetts requires a "hoisting license" for example.
On the other hand, if the comment was about whether the guy was union or not, we make it a policy, here on HEF, to remain "aggressively neutral" on that, so let's not even go there...
I'll be the first to tell you that the only thing I know about demo is what the Army taught me and what I learned to do with a Tank......but I can look at some of the vids/pics and tell you that some of that stuff should not have happened and some bad decisions were made by a supervisor and/or the operators (thats not limited to union/non-union both sides can do dumb things). It's called risk management and that too I learned in the Army. Saw a guy the other day in Fergus Falls Mn with a skid steer on a trailer driving down the street with one chain on the front over the bucket and thats it. It was rolling back and forth as he drove. That's pretty dumb too, not to mention both an OSHA and DOT violation.
Rick
Rick
Digger Dan
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BradyHill1
Well-Known Member
that's what happens when you get bad hired help and leave them.......lucky for everyone that nobody appears to be injured
beckco909
Member
thats just nuts hey everyone has to start somewhere or makes mistakes WOW :Banghead
robin yates uk
Senior Member
OMG ! That guy sat in the excavator needs dragging out before he kills pedestrians,flattens cars. That is an appalling film clip. I hope whoever was running that job is now permanently unemployed.The ******* in the machine needs ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, worst bit of machine abuse I have seen for a longtime
Sparffo
Well-Known Member
This is soo true!! There is alot of earthmovers out there trying to get "easy money" with doing demo jobs...
With the filming of this I'd think there would have to be plenty of people in the whole chain of command that would have to answer questions, from the guys on site, to those that are not on site and should have been to those hiring them in the first place to do the job, to the building owners, to the city who issued permits and I'm sure a lot more that are looking to cover their butts everywhere along the line. Its a fricken miracle nobody was killed or seriously injured.
As for the demo in another country, hanging over the side and cutting rebars off, that leaves me completely speechless, but one question I have is how did they get the excavator up there in the first place? If they have cranes to lift it up there, wouldn't they have a better way to demo the building in the first place, like to implode it or something safer to get it leveled.
As for the demo in another country, hanging over the side and cutting rebars off, that leaves me completely speechless, but one question I have is how did they get the excavator up there in the first place? If they have cranes to lift it up there, wouldn't they have a better way to demo the building in the first place, like to implode it or something safer to get it leveled.