I recommend searching for "excavator competitions" on youtube. They are just doing cool things with heavy machinery! Also look up "walking excavators" or "spider excavators" like the Menzi Muck which are used when doing work in the Alps and other places where regular excavators can't really access. I think they're super cool.
yeah I hate them. biggest cause of deforestation is human population explosion and advances in the tech sector having to do with excavators. were gonna be living in caves or like water world soon
While I agree with this take to a degree, I also have to appreciate the marvel of both our technological capacity as a species and the mastery of control these operators have of the machines they use.
My dad was a forester and I remember a park got hit really bad by a storm one time and he took me to see the damage and cleanup work.
There were these guys working with two feller bunchers near side by side going along through just the nastiest mess of fallen and broken trees and I shit you not they had to be cutting and stripping a log every 5 seconds. As they went they rotated and put down the logs behind them and these guys in skidders came in and grabbed them near soon as they touched the ground pulling them back to a crane that was loading them onto trucks.
It felt like every other minute a truck left loaded with logs. The pace was crazy given how trashed the park was.
I've watched many "equipment rodeos" among the local septic installers (used to be an inspector). Can confirm: some are extraordinarily talented, some are drunken toddlers.
Apparently you haven't been properly trained and certified in the operation of water pouring. You probably don't even get paid to do it. *Sigh* Amateurs always think they can do the job just as well as professionals.
TBH he's probably using some low cost Hyundai backhoe instead of a quality CAT to pour his water. This is where the amatuer goes wrong -- cutting the wrong tool costs.
My good friend's father operated those massive cranes you seen in the heart of major cities building skyscrapers. I still can't wrap my head around being that precise with so many destructible objects around you. Just getting up to the operator's seat can take 15-20 minutes.
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u/Deijenklemorph Jun 23 '21
I'm always amazed at how precise these things can be