some people just don't get it

[20 20]

This is exactly why some should NEVER go near heavy equpiment.

Giant tree falls on bull dozer! - YouTube

 

[HCJtractor]

Not exactly smart! Wonder who owned the dozer? He's lucky no cars were on the road where it fell. What was he thinking?

 

[MF1433V]

Wow, first it's hard to believe someone is that reckless, but what I really don't understand is posting it to YouTube to show the world the lack of intelligence shown here!

 

[JasG]

Wow, first it's hard to believe someone is that reckless, but what I really don't understand is posting it to YouTube to show the world the lack of intelligence shown here!

Youtube is full of people doing similar stuff.

 

[tractchores]

Wonder if the goal was to remove the tree or if he was just doing work at the base. Pretty lucky there were no cars and it missed the cab

 

[mguitas]

The people get it, they just don't care.

 

[dougtrr2]

I am stunned that the person filming so very calmly said "he's okay". Since the tree fell directly toward them and we had the same view she did, how could she possibly know? And no real urgency to check him out Again, people with no concept of the danger and energy stored in a falling tree.

Take Care,
Doug in SW IA

 

[CBW1999]

- over confidence in the dozers ability to stand up to any type of impact is absurd.
Whatever they were doing, right next to an active road?!?!? Morons-

The icing on the cake......... her comment showing more concern over her trees being damaged- ahhh....priorities

 

[rd_macgregor]

Early in the video she said "That is one stubborn tree" which I take to mean they were trying to take it down. Also, the operator shouted "Did you get that on video?" so it was reasonable for her to assume he was OK.
Having said that, well, I have to agree they didn't think that project through very well (it also sounded like there was a teenage daughter who just had validation of her opinion that her dad is an idiot).
It reminds me of this dozer (near) disaster: Watch Silo falls on a bulldozer Video | Break.com...see the similarities?

BOB

 

[20 20]

Rd_macgregor; I wonder if that was operator foolishness or just a mistake. It looked like the silo was going in the correct direction at 1st. Hard to tell if he was a bad operator, or something else, with that video. Either way people need to relize dozers are NOT invincible and can be very deadly in a split second.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I think the guy with the silo just didn't think it through. If he had removed some bricks on the opposite side from his push, it likely would have crumpled away from him. As it was, when he pushed on it, he crumpled out some bricks on the near side, so letting up any at all on his push allowed the silo to collapse back on top of him.
That's not to say that I might not do something that turned out, in hindsight, to have been just as bad an idea!
BOB

 

[Frank Surber]

Watching the video it looks like he may have been trying to cave in the one side to move around then push from the other his first mistake was doing thins with only one dozer
2 dozers and a little thing called a cut line is by far safer use 1 dozer as an anchor the other as the puller with a long 1 inch or larger cable between them hooked to the back of the dozers pulling away from each other at a wide angle like about 135deg. One dozer pulls forward causing the other to back up then switching out their roles creating a sawing motion. Brick silos never stand a chance this way and no body is ever in harms way

 

[20 20]

I agree with both of you, I know I have done some stupid things in the past, either tired or in a hurry or both, either way dumb mistakes.

 

[bulldog69]

That's a perfect example of just trying to get by instead of getting the correct machine to safely handle the job. As in most cases it comes back to haunt you in the end.