somewhere in Louisiana, with a solid load of concrete in the can, is a cement truck that someone tried rolling downhill in hopes it disappeared in the gully

for the video:  https://www.facebook.com/reel/1629907621945600

building a road through a forest

 

there is a road grading attachment for Caterpillar 972M XE wheel loaders

 just put the bucket in it, and drop it to the ground, and push. Video of it at work at https://youtu.be/hWp9vZ7eeaM

now that diesel is at a record all time high price... changes are evidently in order - no more going over the same road multiple times, conserve the fuel, make a grader rig that does all the job in one pass! Lol

clever design for a forklift dumper

see the video at minute 2:38

A custom “Metallica-themed” Case skid steer—one of only 25 ever produced—is currently up for auction for 62k

https://www.purplewave.com/auction/261217/item/MT0001/2024-CASE-Hetfield_Limited_Edition_TV450B-Skid_Steer_Loaders-Tracked_Skid_Steer_Loader-Texas

https://www-valleynewslive-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.valleynewslive.com/2026/09/18/metallica-skid-steer-be-auctioned-charity/

too many excavators have gotten stuck, and sunk, underwater... this one was sadly too much trouble to get out for the insurance company. There just aren't enough experienced excavator operators out there that regularly get these unstuck... I've seen a dozen or more pulled out, and even posted the videos. It's very time consuming, but not difficult.

this machine has a brand new engine in it, so after several months of recovery attempts, and the insurance company paying out out on it for a total loss, the home owner wanted someone to come pull it out for basically free in return for making a YouTube video about the recovery. There are a LOT of people doing "unstuck", underwater, and recovery videos on Youtube now

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1095834346299776&set=pcb.1095835599632984

I just found a facebook page dedicated to snow removal, vintage to modern

https://www.facebook.com/groups/290218184362615

this is a hoot... what being in construction was like when building Disneyland in the 50s, before safety and OSHA

 

Need Lumber Quick? 1920 Federal (pinstriped and lettered) in front of the business, and notice in the upper left corner of the photo, on the building corner, under the eave, is a clock. Intriguing.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/178/

https://www.shorpy.com/node/18816?size=_original#caption  this was posted on Shorpy 12 years ago

I bet that the lumber company had just taken delivery and wanted to take a celebration photo of the new truck, that they could hang on the company president's office wall

if a politician champions a project, you can be sure they profit from that. A 1.5 mile section of Rt 66 was paved with bricks, a job‑creation effort championed by an influential Illinois politician who owned Post and Brick on South Grand Ave Springfield

https://www.facebook.com/Route66Postcards/posts/pfbid02cxjVWsQ9CE5DT2qJDsKp5NbgB9ZDrSaLsGVwg85iBL9MgNtjsVSbdEinpk56N2F2l

vehicles that hauled parts up to the Mt Wilson observatory

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/517/

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/410/

what is in this photo is not obvious right away, but it's got a great story from Jackson county Georgia

Zach bought a mobile home park that had 4 big piles of dirt spaced around the property. The previous owner had intended on using them to fill holes before he had his stroke. 

Zach loaded his tractor up and filled stump holes and ruts, but didn’t need the fourth dirt pile at all, and intended to push it into the woods.

But then found… the tenant who had just leased one of the units at the back had a five year old son. That little dude had turned that last dirt pile into a VERY busy construction site.

 So, of course, that dirt pile got to stay!

We won't know how happy all the dirty hands and feet have made his mom, but it has sure made me smile! 

Keep digging, little man. Hopefully someone sees your joy and teaches you how to use a dozer, excavator, and a back hoe

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10163562001552962&set=a.437607217961

Funniest thing I've seen in months... the crane manufacturer Böcker, which was the brand used by the Louve jewelry burglars, made a HILARIOUS marketing campaign " the crane pays for itself many times over in minutes "

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1389379269863358&set=a.608405591294067

https://boecker.de/de/

https://www.instagram.com/boeckermaschinenwerke/?hl=en

great desk paperweight!

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43853/lot/6864850-brass-clamshell-bucket

Felicitas mine in northern Germany, flooded very unexpectedly, and is full of abandoned mining equipment

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4246194485600331&set=a.1652036835016122

https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/a-tale-of-two-mines/

https://xray-mag.com/content/felicitas-mine

https://minediving.de/locations/felicitas-germany/

impressive progress on the rebuild of the Clinchfield Railroad, (wiped out by Hurricane Helene) it's simply cool to watch the process of the boulders getting delivered, dumped, arranged, and the truckers going to get more

for the rebuild after hurricane Helene, select any of the videos to see the before and after videos of this river area, and the rapid reconstruction progress at https://www.youtube.com/@designsinorbit/videos

the excavators and dozer at the county public works project site that were vandalized, last weekend, to no one's surprise, were wrecked by a former employee of the excavation company

Guthrie has a long criminal record, Robinson said, with 25 arrests in the past 20 years. (It really can't be so damn hard to find guys willing to operate dozers and excavators, that you hire someone whose been arrested 25 times already!! 

JFC, just TRAIN people to operate the gear, it ain't that effing hard, nearly everyone born since 1975 has played video games and has dual hand to eye coordination and can learn)

Included in establishing the timeline was footage from an Arkansas State Police trooper who wrote a ticket to Guthrie the night of the vandalism after a traffic accident, Robinson said. That allowed investigators to establish a timeline as Guthrie was on his way back to his Cabot home. It also showed Guthrie being muddy and wet, as were the conditions where the vandalism took place.

Records show Guthrie is still in custody in the Saline County Detention Center.

County Judge Matt Brumley said the damage to the area was extensive and not just to the equipment but the fuel and hydraulic fluid that was spilled into the creek, forcing the county to “abate the damage.”

the county’s Office of Emergency Management was successful in containing the spill and protecting nearby homes, but the final costs for equipment repair or replacement and environmental damage will range from $500,000 to $750,000, and a one-month delay in the project.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/saline-county-deputies-construction-equipment-175818663.html

they buried a 550 John Deere dozer, and ripped the cab off one excavator and buried it with another. The reward is around 64k for the info that leads to the conviction of the people that did this to James A Rogers Excavating in Arkansas

Anyone with information about what happen Friday night 5-23 between Vimy Ridge rd and North Sardis

call 501-455-2439 and saline county sheriff’s office at (501) 303-5609

https://www.facebook.com/jarexcavating

I think I must have posted excavators using roller skates before, but if you've never seen it....