Helmet cam

[Scag48]

Thinking about buying a cheap camcorder to use as a recording device and buying a bullet style helmet cam to attach to my hard hat to shoot some video. Not really sure how that will go over with my future employer and I may not try it while I'm at the grounds for my training. I suppose I'll feel it out a little and make sure I won't get chewed for shooting some video, I don't want to get myself into any trouble. I suppose I'll tell them it will be for my educational purposes to review footage and see how I can improve, which is a valid argument.

I'm just a huge fan of watching in the cab video. Of course there will be audio, the helmet camera has a remote mic and of course you can use the mic on the camcorder as well. We have a D8R at the grounds, I'd like to score some video while I'm on that beast. :weightlifter:

[BIGBEN2004]

That would be cool but remember don't talk to yourself or worse get in a argument with yourself.:nono::hammerhead::hammerhead::hammerhead::dizzy:

:laugh:

[Gravel Rat]

Here is a way of doing it or the way Al Roy does it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1s7OML3wqk

[Dirt Digger2]

:dizzy: i'm sure that will go over well with all your new co-workers

[Raven386]

please, for the love of heavy equipment gods.... remember to turn it off while you pee :laugh:

[Gravel Rat]

No visiting the porta john with the camera on :laugh:

[RockSet N' Grade]

Nice thought about the helmet cam thing, but wrong environment. If I was there and around you with the helmut cam on, I personally would feel very uneasy at the least. Wait till the school thing is a thing of the past..... As far as the porta potty goes, it will test your skill level with running the stick of that particular machine without having to look.....good challenge.

[Raven386]

Nice thought about the helmet cam thing, but wrong environment. If I was there and around you with the helmut cam on, I personally would feel very uneasy at the least. Wait till the school thing is a thing of the past..... As far as the porta potty goes, it will test your skill level with running the stick of that particular machine without having to look.....good challenge.


LMAO!!! :laugh::laugh:

[Scag48]

Yeah I think I'm going to wait until I get out on a job and I'm working by myself for the most part. We'll see where I get dispatched and what I'll be doing. I haven't bought anything yet but I know it would be rad to have that kind of setup, I'll just have to feel it out a little. I still think shooting video would help me point out areas I could improve a little, sometimes you don't pick up on mistakes until you repeat the same one or watch some video. I don't have much time on a dozer, that's where I'm going to need the most work for sure.

[BIGBEN2004]

It would be cool to have when those crazy things happen around you where you always say man , I wish I had a camera when that happened.

[Scag48]

Exactly right. Actually I think the helmet cam would serve me more purpose back home, been in some gnarly places I wish I would have video from the cab.

[RockSet N' Grade]

Scag.........gnarly places? like the restaurant or local pubs?

[bobcat_ron]

I'd totally buy one, I tried to make a quickie with my cam while dozering, but it's tricky to push and hold the digi-cam at the same time.

[Scag48]

Scag.........gnarly places? like the restaurant or local pubs?

Depends on the night....:drinkup:

Back when I was jockeying our 312, I took it into some tricky spots. I had it on a 1:1 working alongside a house and was pulling dirt on the downhill side and slinging full buckets back up the hill to a landing up top, good times. I was pulling a small 5 acre orchard for a buddy of mine, the top end of the tract was super, super steep, easy 1:1 then it broke to a landing road that was only about 8 feet wide. I made it to the to road, turned 90 and walked down the road 2 rows over and was ready to head back down another pass. On large trees, I'd take 2 rows at a time, I'd go down the center row and pull both sides at the same time. I'd grab 3 or 4 trees, pile them up in small piles, then keep going. Anyway, I was sitting on the road that was level but broke to a 1:1. The trees were always huge at the end of the row, they get more sunlight and grow horizontally further. I didn't have any room to break the slope and get myself on that 1:1 before I started pulling trees and I sure wasn't going to grab the first 2 trees sitting perpendicular to them. So I rotated 90 degrees, got myself parallel with the fall line, tracked out and hung the front half of the carriage over the slope just far enough to reach the first tree. That was scary as hell, as you can imagine as soon as I even boomed out to reach it, the whole machine pulled to the front. I was able to get the first tree out of the ground while teetering the carriage on the breaking point, back of the carriage as off the ground and so was the front. Interesting situation I would have liked to have on film. Walked away from that one, could've ended up bad pretty easy.

[Brian Hay]

I want a helmet cam, that would really cool. I took some helmet cam footage using my cell phone a couple years ago. There was four of us on Caterpillar 637 Scrapers push pulling building a new subdivision. It's 5 short clips that equal one complete round.

http://spyderhoesolutions.ca/forums/index.php?action=gallery&g2_itemId=144

The thumbnails are the same but the videos are diferent.