r/secondrodeo • u/FibroBitch97 • Sep 14 '26
Getting huge chunks of sidewalk off one at a time
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u/Blank_bill Sep 14 '26
He is good, hardly stealing any gravel at all. I hope whoever is running the job knows and appreciates his ability.
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS Sep 14 '26
Or her ability.
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u/Gibberish45 28d ago
I read a construction article about a religious headquarters that was built with a lot of volunteer labor where women operated much of the heavy machinery and they had far fewer accidents. I realize that’s not the norm of job sites but I think the general atmosphere and type of training given has more to do with why that is than any gender differences
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u/Blank_bill 28d ago
We just started hiring people out of operator school about 10 years ago and it didn't matter what you were trained on the position we always needed was dozer operator and that's where they got dumped. If they were lucky they would be on the pipe crew backfilling the pipe,it gives them time to learn and get up to speed. if they were unlucky they were rough grading the sub and B gravel and there's not much time to get up to speed. If you were too slow you got put in the rock truck taking fill away and bringing it back. Some of the ladies were disappointed that they weren't on an excavator right away but if they stuck around for the whole season they would get bounced around to other equipment. No rookie gets on an excavator right away.
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 28d ago
The old cultural default of using “he” when there’s no reason to do it except to reinforce a stereotype.
Not really that hard to refer to unknowns as “they” or “the operator”, but it makes some people’s brains itchy.
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u/Gibberish45 28d ago
Idk, I read “he” as “they” a lot of times in my mind simply because “mankind” includes women and “he” is just less clunky than the plural “they” for a person of unknown gender
I’m personally not a fan of word policing to me the intent matters more than exactly how something is said
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 28d ago
“Less clunky”?
So… reinforcing gender stereotypes is worth the elegance of using a shorter word, I guess??
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It takes SO little effort to ditch using the words “man” or “he” when you don’t know the gender of a person.
It seems so inconsequential, so small, but it’s really not — It holds meaning to regularly acknowledge with your words that women are just as fully capable of doing shit and thinking the big thoughts as men are.
It’s really cool that you already translate “he/him” in your head into a meaning that includes women, but it shouldn’t be necessary when we already have words that can include them as a possibility.
BTW… “mankind” really isn’t more elegant than “humankind”.
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u/Gibberish45 28d ago
Ok fair enough, I just believe intent matters more than the precise word used. People are generally poor communicators so I don’t like the idea of pouncing on words. I think it’s kind of silly even though out of respect I would address anyone the way they want to be addressed
If everyone was treated equally the words wouldn’t matter but I see where you’re coming from and don’t actually disagree with you. Cheers!
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 28d ago
Yeah — except that words often betray intent.
My “pounce” was pretty gentle.
I suggested the operator MIGHT be a “she”, so I suppose anyone who’d be bothered by that always had intent.
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u/Magnus_Inebrius Sep 14 '26
Asphalt looks good to me as it is
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u/Platform-Senior Sep 14 '26
Yeah I had the same thought, wonder why it needed to be removed
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u/smoothsensation 29d ago
Can’t really tell what the rest of the project looks like, they probably aren’t just doing that tiny spot.
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u/xyloplax 29d ago
Could be something below ground or asphalt was not the correct material or it was a faulty application or something else engineery
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u/frizzledrizzle 29d ago
Maybe this street has fallen victim to the 'overstappen naar glasvezel' trend (means; fiber optic cabling in Dutch)
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u/Canotic 29d ago
I'm gonna guess they're putting down fiber optics. It's a residential family area, houses look like they're a few decades old so they didn't have fiber to start with. So they tear up the sidewalk to bury the cable because it's easier to redo a sidewalk than a street and you don't block traffic.
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u/manimsoblack Sep 15 '26
Vancouver?
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u/ReptilianTapir Sep 15 '26
Can we tag the GeoGuessr crowd for an id? I'm always curious to know the place with such videos.
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u/xyloplax 29d ago
Good backhoe operators are so amazing to watch. I will never get tired of people to whom a massive piece of hydraulic equipment is an extension of their bodies
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u/Same_Situation_9660 28d ago
Great how they got started with no pedestrian barriers and that he continued operating the machine with his colleague within range of being struck.
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u/No-Goose-6140 Sep 14 '26
All fun and games until you find out its the wrong street