Excavator suspended from crane working on cliff face - GIF

Excavator suspended from crane working on cliff face.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...519#post173902
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...733#post128961
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...307#post177117
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...354#post215195
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...243#post208018

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Excavator operator wanted, must be used to working at heights.

I've seen some cliffs like that in China. I wonder if this might be in China, at the beginning of the 3 gorges dam project or cutting out a placement for the footing of one of their many huge suspensions or arch bridges. The scary thing is China has built as much infrastructure in the past 30 odd years as the USA has in 200

How I imagine the job interview went:

Do you have your harness training?

Yes.

Equipment Operator ticket?

Check.

Equipment harness training?

...sorry come again?

Never saw the excavator working!

"And that, boys and girls, is how Unobtanium is mined."
s/o

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Originally Posted by Ralphxyz

Never saw the excavator working!

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It wasn't working. They just swung it like a wrecking ball.

I thought a wreaking ball would be more efficient!

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Originally Posted by Ralphxyz

I thought a wreaking ball would be more efficient!

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maybe this is just one of those use what you got situations? ;)

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Originally Posted by Ralphxyz

Never saw the excavator working!

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Nope, excavator can't do anything while suspended.

Yeah....I call BS on it working!

They were raising it up to an area to sit in down on so it could go to work, and would have kept the rigging hooked up for safeties sake once it started excavating