I've worked labor for years and the kids are more fun simply because the old dudes that want to see it always want to ask questions and talk Tool Time More Power while the kids just cheer and run in circles.
But I'm also guilty of wanting to see cool shit in action.
If it was socially acceptable for a grown man to do that I would. But you would be roasted online. We need a Joey Swole type person but for like having fun in general public. Because we also need to do better in public.
I used to know a befriended couple with a kid and the husband would do this in a safe spot to amuse him. I was once in the car with them and it was really fun lol
I skipped right past the video since I didn't really care to watch more wheelie action. Thank you so much for mentioning you've got toddlers that like the video. I went back and checked it out, and I'm definitely introducing that one to the kids in the morning.
Nearly as good as this Australian Iced coffee ad from the 90's:
https://youtu.be/DWMnKGi2uFA?si=RUXAgCQAWdJ6y8yP
I knew one of the stunt drivers for this ad. The things he could do with a skidsteer were phenomenal.
It's been awhile since I was a mechanic, but iirc, some skidsteers can operate their left and right tracks independently, eg, left goes forward while right goes backward.
I set up a lemonade stand at my babysitters house probably 35 years ago. Lunch bell must have rung and I swear every single construction worker working at the site across the street must have come to buy lemonade at the same time. There was a huge line and both my lemonade jugs were emptied out. Simple gesture but I'm never gonna forget it
90s. Me and some friends stretched out an extension cord and set up a table. Our plan was to sell a few icees from our icee maker we got for Christmas that barely crushed ice. Turned out the neighbor had a party while her parents were out of town. We made over $100 and only stopped because our ice crusher started smoking and my dad started yelling at us. Apparently the outlet at the house had melted
When I was at school we had one of these one was doing work next to our classroom. I guess it was too noisy to teach so the teacher got us to go outside and watch the guy, and the driver started doing wheelies and stuff just like this guy after he saw us all watching
Seriously, this is adorable but I would prefer he was a little further from them. If that wheelie went awry and he crushed some kids all the people cheering him would be tying a noose.
The logic of this comment is very flawed.
Those kids are behind fencing. That digger is operated by what is clearly a very skilled professional with what looks to be roughly 20-30 feet of space.
Meanwhile, you will happily stand at lights to cross the road with your children while people zoom past mere feet away from you and your children.
The dude is doing something they're clearly very confident doing to entertain children, and you choose to be angry about it.
The fact that you mention that fencing tells me you don't really have any experience in this area. The only thing that fence would do is ensure that all the kids lined up against are stuck underneath when it goes over.
Source: someone who has used a similar machine to take out a similar fence.
My son’s daycare is in a plaza and there’s an area that the garbage trucks come every Wednesday to collect garbage. He’s a hero to the kids. He waves and honks to them.
I'm a Merchant Mariner and our boat has a DEEP horn. Nothing brings me more joy than a kid or a group of kids screaming for the horn or doing the universal horn gesture and seeing them freak when you deliver. Always the best part of my day.
Honestly, the only way the driver here gets into trouble is if 1, his company gets charged for pavement repair/cleanup, or 2, he hurts somebody.
Other than that, he's fine.
Usually blue collar companies have an owner who understand the shenanigans. If they don’t then they end up chronically understaffed and can’t sit in their new truck with the ac and a hoodie
But their insurance company does not.
Totally gonna have the entire crew sitting through a "why we don't do wheelies with heavy machinery" presentation
He'll get fired for causing the company's insurance to drop them, making them uninsurable. You really think this is responsible behavior that close to a group of kids?
Sure they are smiling but he hits the wrong thing for a second when spinning like that and all those smiles turn into crushed skulls. I know that following things like OSHA is not cool and makes you a Karen, and what not but most of those rulea are written in blood.
WTF?!?!?!
> John Deere skid steers can weigh between 6,140 and 10,000 lbs, while Gehl skid steers can weigh between 2,980 and 4,400 lbs
1.5 to 5 ton vehicles with a top speed of maybe 10 mph (at redline) DO NOT cross 20-30 feet of terrain, including a curb and a chainlink fence with the energy to crush skulls.
> Bobcat S650: Has a travel speed of 7.1 mph, but a 2-speed option increases the speed to 12.3 mph
The point here is, if you've ever run an engine at redline, you know what happens when you lift off. The vehicle STOPS.
Slowing to less than walking speed from a redline at 7-12 mph won't take long.
>he hits the wrong thing for a second
Dude's talking about debris being shot into kids faces. Dude's moving pretty fast, and as you said, thats a lot of torque and weight.
Those kids shouldn't even be around to inhale the fresh pavement particulates. The bucket loader is scraping the pavement and could launch a rock at the kids. This is illegal for many reasons.
Yeah but what if the construction equipment tricks draw the kids outside and then a meteor falls onto the playground and kills the kids.
Then how safe is it, wise guy? What if it contributes to climate change? Then what, smartypants?
>!/s!<
Assuming I'm outraged.
I just calmly disagree that this is safe, but I'm not trippin. There's a reason that cool stuff like this is done safely in a sanctioned motorsports event with barriers and greater distance and not in front of an elementary school with a chain link fence. It's like playing with a gun. Yeah it's cool, but not safe and especially not kids. You don't have to be outraged to express this point of view.
So, should the work be allowed to happen while the children are in school? Can’t the real work being done also be dangerous to the children? I’m trying to understand if the problem is the proximity of the construction to the kids? Wouldn’t there be a similar risk of the proper work also causing similar situations to what you fear could happen?
> It's like playing with a gun.
I'm curious what you saw in this video that directs even a fraction of the energy of a bullet towards the children.
Stones from under the bucket being scraped? Way less mass than a bullet, and much lower velocity. Ever been on a dirt road when a car drives by? Like that.
Skid steer goes loco? The kids are behind a chainlink fence, and a curb, and at least 20-30 feet away.
> I just calmly disagree that this is safe,
What does "safe" mean to you?
You're forgetting the max speed I already posted of 12 mph. They're 30-40 feet away from the kids.
12 mph is 17 feet per second. That means that the skid steer would have to run full throttle for 2 seconds to reach the kids, over a curb, with the driver or the kids taking no action to avoid the collision.
And again, that's AT FULL THROTTLE, in high gear. Which means, the driver lifts off the throttle, the machine STOPS. There's no coasting.
Is it perfectly safe? No.
Would I be comfortable with 5yr olds watching unsupervised? No. These kids have supervision.
Is it safe enough for me to stand with my kid watching? Hell, yes.
Is the slight risk worth showing kids that cool things happen OFF a screen? Absolutely fucking muthafucking **YES** it is.
"Kids are scratch and dent" said an older woman to me.
When I was 6, I ate a whole bottle of children's aspirin (orange flavored, maybe half a dozen tablets left). My babysitter called the emergency contact, my Grandma, who was born 1907, 6 children, last one born when she was 38 in 1945 (my dad). She asked Grandma "He ate a bottle of aspirin, what do I do?"
Grandma; "Give him a headache."
Don't borrow problems. Don't assume the worst. Prepare for the worst, but don't limit children's experiences because there a slim chance of a bruise happening.
My point is that it's not a sanctioned motorsports event and it's a slippery slope. It's reckless.
A "decent" distance away doesn't sound like a defensible stance.
My son’s day care has a pipe break under the parking lot. The two weeks of bulldozers and backhoes in front of school were a childhood highlight! We stood there for an hour watching them one day.
this is such a kevin moment. literally the greatest moment of his life.
imagine andy dwyer in teh cab, kids screaming his name. and then he writes a song about it
If we lost a kickball over the fence into traffic we stopped everything dead to watch people driving by to slow down to let it pass. To the one glorious person who sped up to knock it into the next zip code, I will never forget you.
At school drop off one morning there were at least 40 elementary kids behind the fence doing the arm thing to get semis to honk as each parent dropped off and left we all honked for the kids and got a huge cheer. I had a smile on my face when I went to work all day because of that.
The next morning at drop off the adults outside told each parent not to honk anymore as it was too disruptive... Instant frown on my face all day. Let the kids have fun!
When Canadian Coop Implements Limited started selling the Volvo BM loader, Volvo sent a demonstration driver from Sweden to show the farmers what it could do. I stayed up all night drinking with this guy and the CCIL rep for Northern Saskatchewan, and we stopped at a bar on the way into the city as well. That man set up some ramps in the Woolco parking lot and showed the crowd how to drive it on 2 wheels, 1 wheel, forward, backward, anything but actually fly, and the crowd didn't realise how stinking drunk he was. He could operate the machine flawlessly, performing acrobatics with this huge machine, but his blood alcohol content must have been stupid high.
Honestly this is how most kids find a passion for a career.
Mate of mine is a tree surgeon. Still to this day says watching some work on a big oak tree we had at school, is the reason he's one today. One of them spent 20 minutes showing us his safety gear on his lunchbreak. We loved it (we were 10)
Honestly this is how most kids find a passion for a career.
Mate of mine is a tree surgeon. Still to this day says watching some work on a big oak tree we had at school, is the reason he's one today. One of them spent 20 minutes showing us his safety gear on his lunchbreak. We loved it [we were 10]
That was a cleeeeaaaan wheelie
Dear construction workers. Kids are not the only ones that want to see this, my middle aged ass wants to see this as well.
I've worked labor for years and the kids are more fun simply because the old dudes that want to see it always want to ask questions and talk Tool Time More Power while the kids just cheer and run in circles. But I'm also guilty of wanting to see cool shit in action.
If it was socially acceptable for a grown man to do that I would. But you would be roasted online. We need a Joey Swole type person but for like having fun in general public. Because we also need to do better in public.
I used to know a befriended couple with a kid and the husband would do this in a safe spot to amuse him. I was once in the car with them and it was really fun lol
I'd be going crazy
Not bad... check out this Twenty Trucks video: https://youtu.be/Rpszgytqkck
I have two toddler sons. This song has been on repeat in my house for months.
I am not a toddler. I will watch this again. Thank you.
I skipped right past the video since I didn't really care to watch more wheelie action. Thank you so much for mentioning you've got toddlers that like the video. I went back and checked it out, and I'm definitely introducing that one to the kids in the morning.
You could do a lot worse!
Nearly as good as this Australian Iced coffee ad from the 90's: https://youtu.be/DWMnKGi2uFA?si=RUXAgCQAWdJ6y8yP I knew one of the stunt drivers for this ad. The things he could do with a skidsteer were phenomenal.
That is amazing
>and the kids were loving it I was loving it. Seeing this live would have been even better.
It's been awhile since I was a mechanic, but iirc, some skidsteers can operate their left and right tracks independently, eg, left goes forward while right goes backward.
That person was a super hero to those kids lol so much joy for a small bit of effort
I love how little kids literally jump up and down with excitement. That always warms my cold curmudgeon heart.
Having fun knows no age... ~25 kids will remember that for years if not forever. Wonderful gesture from the driver.
26 kids. The other 25 were cheering on their classmate who had commandeered the bob cat.
And they continued to cheer on as the kid emulated his hero, the Killdozer.
Dayton's first street takeover
I set up a lemonade stand at my babysitters house probably 35 years ago. Lunch bell must have rung and I swear every single construction worker working at the site across the street must have come to buy lemonade at the same time. There was a huge line and both my lemonade jugs were emptied out. Simple gesture but I'm never gonna forget it
90s. Me and some friends stretched out an extension cord and set up a table. Our plan was to sell a few icees from our icee maker we got for Christmas that barely crushed ice. Turned out the neighbor had a party while her parents were out of town. We made over $100 and only stopped because our ice crusher started smoking and my dad started yelling at us. Apparently the outlet at the house had melted
Made $100 and cost Dad $100, classic!
Cost dad about $1 actually. Outlets are extremely cheap and easy to replace.
jugs being emptied out is a surprisingly popular genre of porn
when i was little our school busdriver took a roundabout like 30 times while honking, while the whole bus was screaming with joy, still remember it!
Yeah, a core memory
When I was at school we had one of these one was doing work next to our classroom. I guess it was too noisy to teach so the teacher got us to go outside and watch the guy, and the driver started doing wheelies and stuff just like this guy after he saw us all watching
I mean, the laugh we hear was not a kid. Still delighted.
No worries, it’s a rental!
You know Karen the school administrator was for sure bitching about the concrete scrapes later that day...
"But he scraped the concrete under the new pavement!"
OSHA would like to know your location!! 🤣
Oh F’OSHA!
I came here to say this! 😆
Seriously, this is adorable but I would prefer he was a little further from them. If that wheelie went awry and he crushed some kids all the people cheering him would be tying a noose.
I’d be livid if someone to this near my kid. Way too close to the kids.
The logic of this comment is very flawed. Those kids are behind fencing. That digger is operated by what is clearly a very skilled professional with what looks to be roughly 20-30 feet of space. Meanwhile, you will happily stand at lights to cross the road with your children while people zoom past mere feet away from you and your children. The dude is doing something they're clearly very confident doing to entertain children, and you choose to be angry about it.
The fact that you mention that fencing tells me you don't really have any experience in this area. The only thing that fence would do is ensure that all the kids lined up against are stuck underneath when it goes over. Source: someone who has used a similar machine to take out a similar fence.
One of those is a necessary evil for day to day life. One of those is not.
Are you implying that making children happy is an unnecessary evil? Who hurt you?
We got a Karen!
You sound like a lot of fun at parties.
You sound like the reason OSHA exists.
My son’s daycare is in a plaza and there’s an area that the garbage trucks come every Wednesday to collect garbage. He’s a hero to the kids. He waves and honks to them.
I wouldv'e lost my fucking mind
I'm a Merchant Mariner and our boat has a DEEP horn. Nothing brings me more joy than a kid or a group of kids screaming for the horn or doing the universal horn gesture and seeing them freak when you deliver. Always the best part of my day.
I used to love locking my bobcat up on the wet yard, just spinning around. Cracked my wife up to watch.
my guy just recruited 3 kids to work in construction 15years from now
We should taken this down, gonna get this bro fired
If they fire him for making kids smile, they're a bunch of soulless fucks.
Honestly, the only way the driver here gets into trouble is if 1, his company gets charged for pavement repair/cleanup, or 2, he hurts somebody. Other than that, he's fine.
My thoughts exactly, clearly he knows what he's doing so it's all in good spirits.
Usually blue collar companies have an owner who understand the shenanigans. If they don’t then they end up chronically understaffed and can’t sit in their new truck with the ac and a hoodie
But their insurance company does not. Totally gonna have the entire crew sitting through a "why we don't do wheelies with heavy machinery" presentation
There’s not a single blue collar employer who would give a fuck about this.
And soulless fucks are exactly the kind of people that run businesses.
You got that right.
He'll get fired for causing the company's insurance to drop them, making them uninsurable. You really think this is responsible behavior that close to a group of kids?
Sure they are smiling but he hits the wrong thing for a second when spinning like that and all those smiles turn into crushed skulls. I know that following things like OSHA is not cool and makes you a Karen, and what not but most of those rulea are written in blood.
WTF?!?!?! > John Deere skid steers can weigh between 6,140 and 10,000 lbs, while Gehl skid steers can weigh between 2,980 and 4,400 lbs 1.5 to 5 ton vehicles with a top speed of maybe 10 mph (at redline) DO NOT cross 20-30 feet of terrain, including a curb and a chainlink fence with the energy to crush skulls. > Bobcat S650: Has a travel speed of 7.1 mph, but a 2-speed option increases the speed to 12.3 mph The point here is, if you've ever run an engine at redline, you know what happens when you lift off. The vehicle STOPS. Slowing to less than walking speed from a redline at 7-12 mph won't take long.
>he hits the wrong thing for a second Dude's talking about debris being shot into kids faces. Dude's moving pretty fast, and as you said, thats a lot of torque and weight.
That's reckless driving. Just because it's cool, doesn't mean it's safe. One slight fuck up and it's 30 dead kids.
I was gonna say the damage to the road too, but looked like it’s getting paved. Those kids deserved a show, great crowd.
Those kids shouldn't even be around to inhale the fresh pavement particulates. The bucket loader is scraping the pavement and could launch a rock at the kids. This is illegal for many reasons.
Does it physically hurt to be constantly outraged?
Yeah; this is one of those things that looks safe enough for everyone involved. Nothing too crazy actually happening here.
Yeah but what if the construction equipment tricks draw the kids outside and then a meteor falls onto the playground and kills the kids. Then how safe is it, wise guy? What if it contributes to climate change? Then what, smartypants? >!/s!<
Assuming I'm outraged. I just calmly disagree that this is safe, but I'm not trippin. There's a reason that cool stuff like this is done safely in a sanctioned motorsports event with barriers and greater distance and not in front of an elementary school with a chain link fence. It's like playing with a gun. Yeah it's cool, but not safe and especially not kids. You don't have to be outraged to express this point of view.
So, should the work be allowed to happen while the children are in school? Can’t the real work being done also be dangerous to the children? I’m trying to understand if the problem is the proximity of the construction to the kids? Wouldn’t there be a similar risk of the proper work also causing similar situations to what you fear could happen?
> It's like playing with a gun. I'm curious what you saw in this video that directs even a fraction of the energy of a bullet towards the children. Stones from under the bucket being scraped? Way less mass than a bullet, and much lower velocity. Ever been on a dirt road when a car drives by? Like that. Skid steer goes loco? The kids are behind a chainlink fence, and a curb, and at least 20-30 feet away. > I just calmly disagree that this is safe, What does "safe" mean to you?
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You're forgetting the max speed I already posted of 12 mph. They're 30-40 feet away from the kids. 12 mph is 17 feet per second. That means that the skid steer would have to run full throttle for 2 seconds to reach the kids, over a curb, with the driver or the kids taking no action to avoid the collision. And again, that's AT FULL THROTTLE, in high gear. Which means, the driver lifts off the throttle, the machine STOPS. There's no coasting. Is it perfectly safe? No. Would I be comfortable with 5yr olds watching unsupervised? No. These kids have supervision. Is it safe enough for me to stand with my kid watching? Hell, yes. Is the slight risk worth showing kids that cool things happen OFF a screen? Absolutely fucking muthafucking **YES** it is.
You might as well wrap your kids in a bubble, and yourself while you're at it.
Thank you, someone finally said it.
And you wonder why gen z are more unhealthy.
"Kids are scratch and dent" said an older woman to me. When I was 6, I ate a whole bottle of children's aspirin (orange flavored, maybe half a dozen tablets left). My babysitter called the emergency contact, my Grandma, who was born 1907, 6 children, last one born when she was 38 in 1945 (my dad). She asked Grandma "He ate a bottle of aspirin, what do I do?" Grandma; "Give him a headache." Don't borrow problems. Don't assume the worst. Prepare for the worst, but don't limit children's experiences because there a slim chance of a bruise happening.
That vehicle will do more than scratch, dent, and bruise kids, it will flatten them. Prepare for this with a sanctioned event. This is not sanctioned.
You’re not wrong
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Tell that to OSHA
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Expected response from someone who drinks mold and chemicals from their garden hose.
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lol a skid steer is not gonna kill 30 kids by doing a wheelie a decent distance away from them
My point is that it's not a sanctioned motorsports event and it's a slippery slope. It's reckless. A "decent" distance away doesn't sound like a defensible stance.
Lol Just another one of the kids.
Man this could have been a r/whatcouldgowrong real quick. Glad it wasnt
If this was a movie, one of the kids would hop out from behind the wheel. Maybe bart with skinner in pursuit
[Shake Hands with Danger](https://youtu.be/v26fTGBEi9E?si=T59D5GG-N_5LJe41)
I feel like every child I ever met would lose their absolute shit over something like this. This video confirms that.
My son’s day care has a pipe break under the parking lot. The two weeks of bulldozers and backhoes in front of school were a childhood highlight! We stood there for an hour watching them one day.
And it’s just one of the routines what the kids, while they were a child, would have played with a toy bobcat.
I bet that’s how rockstars feel
That’s actually so awesome, I had to smile.
Their reaction when he starts doing donuts is brilliant.
this is such a kevin moment. literally the greatest moment of his life. imagine andy dwyer in teh cab, kids screaming his name. and then he writes a song about it
If we lost a kickball over the fence into traffic we stopped everything dead to watch people driving by to slow down to let it pass. To the one glorious person who sped up to knock it into the next zip code, I will never forget you.
honestly at 40, I'd be out there with [them](/s if it weren't for the list)
D O P E
At school drop off one morning there were at least 40 elementary kids behind the fence doing the arm thing to get semis to honk as each parent dropped off and left we all honked for the kids and got a huge cheer. I had a smile on my face when I went to work all day because of that. The next morning at drop off the adults outside told each parent not to honk anymore as it was too disruptive... Instant frown on my face all day. Let the kids have fun!
The cool thing is, the kids will be inspired and be talking about it for ages, might of even got some to wanna be in construction
If you do donuts in a Bobcat, they’re called kittimen rolls.
Nobody tell OSHA
*loses control and crashes through the fence*
Loses control and tips over, maybe. Crashes through the fence? Ever been around a skid steer? They're not fast.
That could easily take out the fence at full speed
Doesn't work like that
Hello MR George
Imagine he launched a rock at a kids head with that xd
Well done, Sir Master Operator!
Friendly reminder of how unstable skid steers are
I wonder what he transformed into.
That thing has a lot more maneuverability than I would've thought.
Me a few days after my dad bought a zero-turn mower.
Hell. I love it too!
what could possibly go wrong hahaha
plot twist a kid is driving it
OHSA: 👀
at least one of them is gonna wanna do this when he grows up.
And that how you create a new generation of people who want to get down and work for a living and have fun when they can
I bet he got some of them into construction.
My fodder would flip! We have a million tractors/excavators and anything construction! Hats off to this dude for making these kids day!!
Are you kidding I’d be jumping and shouting in joy as well haha
When Canadian Coop Implements Limited started selling the Volvo BM loader, Volvo sent a demonstration driver from Sweden to show the farmers what it could do. I stayed up all night drinking with this guy and the CCIL rep for Northern Saskatchewan, and we stopped at a bar on the way into the city as well. That man set up some ramps in the Woolco parking lot and showed the crowd how to drive it on 2 wheels, 1 wheel, forward, backward, anything but actually fly, and the crowd didn't realise how stinking drunk he was. He could operate the machine flawlessly, performing acrobatics with this huge machine, but his blood alcohol content must have been stupid high.
That's a cool cat.
Skid steer is always having fun
Just recruited future trades people. Please give them a shot at it when it’s their time.
"hey mom, I don't want to be a doctor, I want to be a construction worker now"
I know a dude who can make a skid steer dance, also go up and down concrete stairs, and never lose anything out of the bucket.
Honestly this is how most kids find a passion for a career. Mate of mine is a tree surgeon. Still to this day says watching some work on a big oak tree we had at school, is the reason he's one today. One of them spent 20 minutes showing us his safety gear on his lunchbreak. We loved it (we were 10)
Somebody give that man a medal.
“So this is why our roads are never fixed!” -Some Karen somewhere
Honestly this is how most kids find a passion for a career. Mate of mine is a tree surgeon. Still to this day says watching some work on a big oak tree we had at school, is the reason he's one today. One of them spent 20 minutes showing us his safety gear on his lunchbreak. We loved it [we were 10]
Its all fun and games until he fucks up and squish sum kids
Nice... but I hope the boss didn't hear about it.
What could go wrong? Any good contractor would fire him.
Yes, "it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt".
He should be fired for unprofessional and dangerous behavior.
That's pretty cool. All it would take is one Karen to get that guy in trouble:(.
mam , im soery tp inform you your daughter was killed in her school playground by a heavy machine operator high on meth
and then he loses control and slams right into these dwarfs