Backhoe video

[NateV]

http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=video&file=backhoe.wmv

[Total.Lawn.Care]

Man, that has to but a damper in your day. I guess noone noticed there was no ground supporting that concrete before he backup up that far.........

[Scag48]

Some folk just shouldn't be running equipment. Never work parallel to your excavation either.

[ksss]

Note to self. Do not hire punk kids that wear their hat on backwards. At least his boss has good taste in backhoes.

[Gravel Rat]

Whoops :laugh:

Guy must have had a decent headache :hammerhead:

[Tigerotor77W]

Bad operating tactics, perhaps, but no saying he was some "punk kid" ... what if he was the boss's son and it was his simply first week on the job?

Not sticking up for him, and here's my proof: scag, when you say "Never work parallel to your excavation," what does that mean? (I'm not trying to corner anyone: I honestly don't know!) I can see that he's driving parallel to his excavation, but what is the correct procedure? [So that if I'm ever in this situation, I don't do the same thing...]

[Scag48]

Typically speaking, it's an excavator term. But, you should never put a machine parallel to a hole in case it gives way. If this guy had been perpendicular to the hole, the machine would have stayed right side up, only the front end would have fallen in. Sure he would have fallen in, but it probably wouldn't have been as bad and getting the machine out would have been much easier.

[Gravel Rat]

I don't think I would be that close to a unsupported edge especially if its black top but that looked like concrete.

The rule of thumb is always know what the machine is sitting on or running on.

The boy from the hood running that backhoe should have gunned it in reverse soon as he felt the front end sinking.

[dozerman21]

What Scag is saying also applies to operating parallel to slopes too. I saw a guy slide a D4 into a big retention pond and water went over the hood. All you could see was the exhaust pipe and the rops. This happened in 20 degree weather. He's lucky he got out O.K. He was grading the banks parallel with the pond, and it was muddy/frozen and he just slid into the pond. If he was grading perpendicular to the pond, he could have put his blade down and at least stopped the machine. I use the same concept when backfilling basements. Some of the overdigs can be 6 + feet from the wall, and I always try not to run parallel too close to the wall, for fear of what the guy on the 580 did.:eek:

[Gravel Rat]

One job I was on I was viberatory roller operator packing a area that was being built up going along a edge that wasn't to bad before we built up the area after the area was built up it was a good 25 feet to the bottom of the ditch on the side of the highway. I was very nervous being 10 inches away from the edge there was no quick movements on the steering wheel :eek:

The roller weighed 10 ton thats all I would want would be taking a barrel roll down a hill my butt cheeks were pretty tense working along the edge.

[Dirty Water]

I understand that guy wanting to get out of the hoe, but he could have at least shut it off before the engine starves itself of oil.

Dozerman, I've seen operators work parallel on intense slopes in D4's, Some people have more balls than me.

[ksss]

Tiger the following is the criteria for being a punk kid:

Hat on backwards: even if he is the Boss's son he can still qualify as a punk kid. First week on the job is not a disqualifier for a punk kid.

Hat on backwards: I look at him and well I see a punk kid and yea save your own butt but don't turn the backhoe off.

Ironically one of my guys tipped my TK over digging footings yesterday. You know it is a bad phone call when you hear "Do you want to fire me or should I quite". And he is young but not a punk kid. No harm to the TK. Hopefully lesson learned.

[Tigerotor77W]

Points taken... I agree that there can never be enough training, but ah, well.

I'll just have to be careful not to do stuff like this when I'm horsing around -- I don't think I've ever been in a situation (i.e. hills in general) when this could have happened, but maybe that's another indication that I haven't completely paid attention to how I'm operating. Scary thought, eh?

[skidmaster]

Do machines larger than skid steers have air bags?

[Dirty Water]

Do machines larger than skid steers have air bags?

No.

Airbags deploying in a slow moving vehicle would do more damage to the operator than having no airbag at all.

[Dirty Water]

KSSS, I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on a matter of semantics.

When your wearing a hard hat, and you want to keep your baseball cap on, its more comfortable to wear that cap backwards.

I looked and you don't really see him before he falls in, so you can't tell if he had a hard hat on that got jostled off. I would be surprised if he didn't as nobody should be working that close to a street without following OSHA regulations (Then again, no flagger, no cones....perhaps he is a punk kid? :D )

[Gravel Rat]

If the kid was wearing baggy jeans the ones where you could take a dump in them and not know it the operator is a punk kid :laugh:

[DBL]

it was probably someone who knew better and was just not paying attention

[JDSKIDSTEER]

If the kid was wearing baggy jeans the ones where you could take a dump in them and not know it the operator is a punk kid :laugh:
Baggy and pulled blow his butt end with baggy long shirt would definitly label him as punk kid.

[Loy's Home Services, LLC]

That could possibly be the funniest thing I had ever seen. He must have been a very un- experianced operator.