Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
At the start of the gif he faces the truck and rolls back and forth a few times. Is that to leave tracks in the dirt to aid him in aligning to the truck when he approaches it backwards while tilted forward?

We had a contractor remove sidewalk panels for replacement with a Bobcat. He had to approach perpendicular to the curb, climb up on it, reach over the parkway, then stick the forks under the panel and lift it to carry it out to the street. (I had warned him that if he disturbed my wife's flowers planted in the parkway, she would probably emasculate him with a potato peeler.) Once out in the street he expertly tossed it a few inches above the forks, let it fall back and thus cracked it in half. He kept repeating this breakup process with the pieces until they were too small to span the forks.

I told him he was a mechanical artist of the highest degree. His co-workers had a bit of trouble translating that into Spanish, but, when they did, his face lit up like a searchlight.
Not sure about the tracks Marv but maybe. I watched his head movement a couple of times and he might be referencing the far side track, then once up he looks over his right shoulder.

The question I have is: did he drive it off the truck in the first place? That may have been more tricky than the back up without going end over tea kettle.

Nice/fun story about your contractor and the Kudo's to his artistry! Thanks.

Regards, ~PJ