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Billy NY
07-11-2007 06:56:44
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Re: AMAZING backhoe skill !! in reply to Jiles, 07-10-2007 19:47:02
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You must have seen the images and or video taken of a rubber tire backhoe climbing up into an open top rail car. I guess it's obvious that the machine is capable of doing so with an operator that has the experience and careful skill to do so without risk. I'm no stranger to these kinds of machines, having spent quite a bit of time in the seat over the years, sometimes using the hoe to level up, manuever around a bit etc., am very capable with one one of these actually, used to have jobsite superintendents request for me to be on their jobsites when I did this full time, but besides patting myself on the back here, and I'm sure I could do it, there is no way I'd even consider it, no way, no how, not me, not ever, doing what I've seen to climb into a railcar, bed of truck or trailer etc. Even the best operator can make a mistake, and maybe I'm missing something here, but it certainly looks like one wrong move and or not being careful with the controls, you are going over, it would be really interesting to hear from one of the guys that do this, to get their take on what it's like to do it, and like was said, you need some gigantis gonads to be in the seat of one of these maneuvering it up high onto a rail car, truck etc. !
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You still gotta be pretty brave to get on that thing and do that kinda work.