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punk loader abuse

pafarmer

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Somewhere in the woods !
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Land clearing, demo, site prep etc. Ex Pro Motocro
He's an idiot..........Always remember stupid has no known cure !!! and will always be an idiot. Best to teach him a lesson early on ... This way the least inoccent people get hurt.
 

BillyP

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Oklahoma
I wouldn't dream of running a machine like that. I like to have as much fun as the next guy but I draw the line when it comes to beating a machine and myself. I've been running these machines for 19 years and this is as wild as I get.
Sorry the picture is dark but I am pushing a load and not going down empty.
 

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peterfurfari

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Destroying an expensive piece of equipment like that can put an operation out of business if the timing was bad. The old adage, "for want of a nail, a war was lost..."
 

Drifter

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Canada
That loader belongs to a company out of Kelowna B.C. I cant remember the name of the company. My buddy was working for them at the time. They couldnt figure out why they were breaking windows in the cab. When the owners found that video on youtube, the operator was fired.
 

ronscons

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Whitecourt, Alberta
Woops'es !!

Here is a couple pics from jobs some of our contractors were doing for us. These caused me a ton of time and paper but the real cost was the operator's injuries and psyc issues -- the one operator spent many months on compo and his wife left him. HUGE AND COSTLY !!
No accident is worth the misery !
 

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AmerIndependent

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Riverside, CA
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Caterpillar Powertrain Rebuild & Repair Specialist
I wouldn't dream of running a machine like that. I like to have as much fun as the next guy but I draw the line when it comes to beating a machine and myself. I've been running these machines for 19 years and this is as wild as I get.
Sorry the picture is dark but I am pushing a load and not going down empty.

I brightened it up a bit for you :)
 

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BillyP

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Thanks AmerIndependent, looks much better. One of the boys took that with a cell phone.
It's amazing how much that old 980 will push with gravity helping. :)
 

lake side bob

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Oct 2, 2009
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252
Location
minnesota
Occupation
owner operator
What do people think? Thats a very very expensive loader, I cannot afford it for my firm, and the operator does that to it? Why did not the owner take the bozo to court for damageing private property? Let that operator eat his attorneys bill and have him laugh about that! At the very least if the owner still has them on the payroll that owners nuts.
 

Wolf

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Apr 4, 2006
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California
I've done donuts while doing snow removal with a loader and played bumper trucks while plowing while the owner was watching. At a different company a wheel dozer hand was hitting end dump piles in 4th so hard dirt would fly over the cab and called the owner and told him to watch this. There is probably a lot of things I'm forgetting too. No one lost there jobs and the owner was laughing their butts off. Was it stupid yes and we're lucky we didn't anyone hurt, but sometimes ya have to lighten up. I do this job because I'm just a big kid playing in the dirt.

Flame away.

Crazy stuff. And don't forget about dropping the old cars 30 feet from the jaws of the bucket on the track hoe. Smash. That is just hilarious.
 
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