This guy is completely NUTS!!

dickfoster · Apr 6, 2016

Still ya gotta admire his skill and nerve even if he is certifiable.

tractchores · Apr 6, 2016

yikes

2LaneCruzer · Apr 6, 2016

Freestyle backhoeing?

flyerdan · Apr 6, 2016

Teachu2 · Apr 6, 2016

Here, hold my beer..."

PILOON · Apr 6, 2016

With a smaller machine, but I have also rode the bucket downhill a few times.

Think of a catamaran, the bucket acts like a stabilizer.
Also drop the blade and you have a brake. Open the bucket slows you down
Scary the first time however.

The trick is to go straight down, no traversing.

dickfoster · Apr 6, 2016

PILOON said:
With a smaller machine, but I have also rode the bucket downhill a few times.

Think of a catamaran, the bucket acts like a stabilizer.
Also drop the blade and you have a brake. Open the bucket slows you down
Scary the first time however.

The trick is to go straight down, no traversing.

Have you ever heard of the Darwin awards? LOL

I'm a rock crawler but I think this kinda thing is plain crazy. Just one little thing to slip it sideways and it's ***** over teakettle.

Industrial Toys · Apr 6, 2016

Do you think it's HIS machine?

Maybe some guy trying to impress a woman. Like that Italian cruise ship (Costa Concordia (sp?)) captain a few years back.

groundcover · Apr 6, 2016

Kinda like this guy, offset head on, no injury .

Rustyiron · Apr 6, 2016

Ahh, you guys are chicken. It's nice soft sand:laughing:

ovrszd · Apr 6, 2016

My friend owns a trackhoe larger than that one. He wouldn't hesitate to do that.

I'd also drive my buggy off that.

kevin37b · Apr 7, 2016

Yep soft sand is the key or loose dirt . I worked for an outfit last December at a water plant in Champaign . We had to get a 270 Deere to the backside . About a 20 ft drop pretty much vertical . Would not have been bad but the road was was just wide enough for the machine and a very tight radius around treatment tanks . The tanks had a 6" curb on them so getting the approach lined up was difficult . About 9;00 in the morning and the frost turning to slime , grease .My laborer waved goodby , I knew what that meant ! Anyway I arrived at the bottom upright , just not in the fashion I had envisioned .

orezok · Apr 7, 2016

Back in the 80's there was a project next to a freeway that the firm I worked for was building. It was run by a different Project Manager. but I went by the site a number of time to observe. They were building an office park in a canyon at the bottom of a 150' high slope, and condos at the top. They would run scrapers up a winding haul road to the top and the scrapers would go over the edge of the slope that was almost as steep as the one shown. The front end of the scraper would be suspended in the air while the rear engine pushed it over the side (637 twin engine cats). The operator would drop the pan and would slide straight down the slope with material boiling over the sides of the pan and the rear wheels completely off the ground.

When they got to the bottom they had to time it just right and make a turn or the front end would impact the flat area and get stuck.

I don't know where they got operators with enough brass to do this, but it went on for weeks!

Condos are the upside down "L" buildings and office park is at 8 o'clock position. The condos literally hung over the edge of the slope and were anchored back to a huge concrete dead man with 2" stainless steel cables.

It was quite a project.