Don't let OSHA see this...

[Jay4200]

This is called really trusting the operator:

Man Stuck in Mud - Safeshare.TV

 

[MIKE R]

A good operator.

 

[murphy1244]

This has been on here twice.

 

[npalen]

....and I still haven't figured out how the guy got there in the first place. He must have been "planted"?

 

[Ted Summey]

There is no OSHA where they are from - they aren't speaking English! I think they set him out there just to make the video of him being plucked "from danger"

 

[orezok]

This has been on here twice.

Good thing! I haven't seen it before.

 

[tractchores]

They just had that scenario on the tv show gold rush. You definitely have to trust the operator!

 

[creekbend]

It's a wonder that he didn't lose his boots. I have been stuck in Muck while fishing the mangroves in Florida for Snook and I lost my tennis shoes more than once. That muck adheres just like Grout. Of course Boots are different than tennis shoes.

 

[aczlan]

I would say that he owes the excavator operator a couple rounds of their favorite beverage and a steak dinner.
Is it me, or was there a lot of slop in the bucket pivot pin (the one that connects to the boom, not the one that the cylinder connects to)?

Aaron Z

 

[k0ua]

Well that was interesting, I hadn't seen it before. So like everyone else I was wondering how the Russian got out there in the first place, and I think Don's answer was a good one... stupidity. It is amazing what a good excavator operator can do.

James K0UA

 

[murphy1244]

Good thing! I haven't seen it before.

Well you see it now.:laughing:

 

[Thomas]

Good operator...gotta wonder little bit what the knothead thinking.