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Dear lord, if that was the general skill level of wheel loader operators in the States, I'd be able to score a job as one in a heartbeat, lol. Never did anything quite that stupid when I drove one.
OT: What type of certification do you need here to operate machinery like that?
What I find hilarious is that the loader is about the only vehicle where this extraction is a really easy problem. You anchor the loader bucket on the street, lift and step the body of the loader to the left. Lift the loader bucket and move over a few feet and repeat. When done, you have walked the loader out into the street. Morons!
What I find hilarious is that the loader is about the only vehicle where this extraction is a really easy problem. You anchor the loader bucket on the street, lift and step the body of the loader to the left. Lift the loader bucket and move over a few feet and repeat. When done, you have walked the loader out into the street. Morons!
Even easier with a digger/excavator, but yeah, I've had to do that a few times, not really a problem, as long as you keep an eye on your tail end. The easiest in that situation would've been to do what the dude in the window is shouting... Lift it and put chains on, where it stood.
...Well I guess the city is buying that person a new car and hopefully both those knuckleheads will have their future employment under question. It's abundantly clear that they were just getting frustrated, the rig driver just flooring it and loader operator wiggling without any concern. If either of them had 1/4 of a brain they would have went around the block, backed up the street on the other side and pulled in the opposite direction.
According to the NY Post, the Explorer that received the brunt of the damage was a city-owned vehicle assigned to a worker with the housing authority. So the taxpayers will likely be paying for either the repairs or the insurance deductible.
Well, obviously the loader operator was not particularly competent. But, I have rarely met a tow truck driver that didn't have an ego the size of Texas combined with a brain the size of... well sometimes they may have actually been measurable. This one clearly falls into that category.
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