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OwlFancier posted:Yeah I assume by bucket he means off an excavator. Though I admit I didn't think people stole them cos how would you shift it without an excavator?
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Excavators only drop the bucket behind when under stress
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Have you all really never seen roadwork or whatever in a city, where after the day is done they plant the excavator or loader bucket on top of the other attachments to make sure they don't get stolen? Is that just a local thing? It can't be. I know my city is a little rough sometimes, but it can't be just us, right?
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Log082 posted:Have you all really never seen roadwork or whatever in a city, where after the day is done they plant the excavator or loader bucket on top of the other attachments to make sure they don't get stolen? Standard practice all over the country for me.
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GABA ghoul posted:I think this is fake. There would be a lot more angry honking at the tire if it was real Thats surprisingly light traffic for that part of Dallas.
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Log082 posted:Have you all really never seen roadwork or whatever in a city, where after the day is done they plant the excavator or loader bucket on top of the other attachments to make sure they don't get stolen? For about 2 years there's a section of a freeway that had a half a bridge on it and they were working on it. Someone brought a little 11 ft aluminum boat that they would load their generators and stuff onto and then hoist it about 75 ft into the air with a crane when they were done for the day
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stealing heavy equipment is easier and more desirable if you have heavy equipment of your own. nobody's gonna think you're stealing it even as they watch you steal it
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CainFortea posted:For about 2 years there's a section of a freeway that had a half a bridge on it and they were working on it. Someone brought a little 11 ft aluminum boat that they would load their generators and stuff onto and then hoist it about 75 ft into the air with a crane when they were done for the day They do this a lot with toolboxes and welding equipment all the time.
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I see generators and toolboxes hoisted off the side of the road all the time and I hate it like all forms of unmanaged potential energy. I have half memories of buckets being in stupid places but I never put it together it's the same anti theft mechanism as those.
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Safety Dance posted:Meth + the promise of more meth once you drop it off at the scrap metal dealer? Goddamn, how much meth does it take to be able to carry away an excavator bucket?
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Jan 22, 2024 17:36
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not sure, better just give me all you have and i'll report back if it was enough or not
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Goddamn, how much meth does it take to be able to carry away an excavator bucket? Eh, like 2, maybe 3 meth
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https://i.imgur.com/FaLaqL4.mp4
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Perfect parking job. Total drift.
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There is that Brit on YT who does stolen vehicles recovery videos and apparently construction equipment is a big part of his work. I guess the equipment is very expensive, but also doesn't have as many theft protection mechanisms as a Mercedes. Also, cops probably don't check the equipment that often for being stolen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGyMrXtQfX0
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^^^^^ most of that poo poo looks horribly unsafe. But also horribly fuckin awesome. It's very common to see a generator, compressor etc hoisted in the air at construction sites on weekends, or excavator arms and buckets cuddling the skid steer or holding an empty trailer in place etc. A lot of that equipment uses the same key. Like lots of caterpillar brand stuff all use the same key, bobcat brand, Kubota etc. those keys can be bought online pretty easily so often you don't even need to hotwire the stuff to jack it wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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GABA ghoul posted:There is that Brit on YT who does stolen vehicles recovery videos and apparently construction equipment is a big part of his work. I guess the equipment is very expensive, but also doesn't have as many theft protection mechanisms as a Mercedes. Also, cops probably don't check the equipment that often for being stolen. There was a group around here that stole high resolution positioning systems off of excavators (a large rectangular shape on top of the engine deck) and they were apparently worth expensive car amounts of dollars.
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KoRMaK posted:Im lookin for mid to long form content of people doing work in the trades. Anyone got recommendations? im collecting a list so i can pass it on to someone else interested in the field, and i want to give them a slice of life Holmes on Homes if you can find it.
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CommieGIR posted:They do this a lot with toolboxes and welding equipment all the time.
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wesleywillis posted:^^^^^ most of that poo poo looks horribly unsafe. But also horribly fuckin awesome. Most of that was sped up too tbf. I hear a lot of heavy equipment has the default key from the factory, because it's a hassle to change it out and then keep track of individual keys to individual vehicles, when instead you can just have your key and operate all of the poo poo, and when Mike drunks his keys into an unshored hole it's no biggie just buy another default key on the internet It's pretty terrifying actually.
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Slugworth posted:If someone steals your
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Karate Bastard posted:Most of that was sped up too tbf. Yeah I lost a key to one and the generic replacement was 3€ on ebay.
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Coworker just went to the hospital because one of the ramps off the delivery truck wasn't properly pinned in place and it fell away while he was driving down it.
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Some of the heavier equipment has special starting instructions so that's another part of the security. Like you have to have the control arm up, hold the key in the mid position for 10 seconds, then turn to start.
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Make sure it's at least 400 pounds.
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CainFortea posted:Some of the heavier equipment has special starting instructions so that's another part of the security. Like you have to have the control arm up, hold the key in the mid position for 10 seconds, then turn to start. ...and that's how you do the hokey pokey?
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CainFortea posted:Some of the heavier equipment has special starting instructions so that's another part of the security. Like you have to have the control arm up, hold the key in the mid position for 10 seconds, then turn to start. ...and then you step through the door sideways, and wrong-warp to your lunch break.
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CainFortea posted:Some of the heavier equipment has special starting instructions so that's another part of the security. Like you have to have the control arm up, hold the key in the mid position for 10 seconds, then turn to start. One, one, one-two, red, black, then wait for the foreman to yell "FOOL!"
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Karate Bastard posted:Most of that was sped up too tbf. The keycode is most likely an orderable option, and then everything gets ordered with the same one because option KeyCode-001 is the first one on the list, and KeyCode-RND is all the way at the bottom just past KeyCode-999
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This video seems to fit the occupational hazard requirement because a) Conan (and his crew) is at work here, b) he is drinking liquor with Hunter S. Thompson and c) they are shooting with M60 and Barrett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwLuFy-TrY
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ComradePyro posted:stealing heavy equipment is easier and more desirable if you have heavy equipment of your own. nobody's gonna think you're stealing it even as they watch you steal it i saw a dude hook up to a portable highway message sign and drive off the other day, which was pretty hilarious since it was still operating at the time. no idea what one does with a stolen message board, i assume they cut it up for scrapping.
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KoRMaK posted:Im lookin for mid to long form content of people doing work in the trades. Anyone got recommendations? im collecting a list so i can pass it on to someone else interested in the field, and i want to give them a slice of life Aussie Mega Mechanics has a fair bit of dramatic reality tv editing and music stings but it does a real good job with the slice-of-life stuff you're looking for anyway https://youtu.be/Gfj1MOFbSts also good at demonstrating the worst-case stress levels since most of what they cover are ludicrously high-value planned outages shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Having driven past those coal loading machines last week they are properly loving huge.
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I posted the other angle of this in the STL thread
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Virtual Insanity starts playing in my head every time I see one of these
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What is all over the floors inside the cabin, wheel house etc that makes them so slippery? Is it just water?
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