Operator Insights and Anecdotes

and dirt is falling out of the top of the truck out of the road and then she just kind of goes around the corner and lays right back down and keeps right now going and I was just like this guy's a lot more dying over it was like a thirteen thousand dollar bill or something and it was just like this guy's not worth dying you don't know what's going to happen and you're just where you take an excavator down an icy Hill into a pond lucky the pond was frozen thick enough remember at uh Delano job we did remember that excavator uh rolled off the trailer okay so now this was that was the beginning of the beginning of it so that almost crushed the lady so anyway that thing got back from the shop got brought back out it's a horseshoe driveway well the guy dropping off the excavator climbed it up besides it hasn't been plowed all winter and it was the icy tracks on a hard pack you know about five inches of ice they don't do much they're like a big set of skis so in the middle this horseshoe is a big huge hill going down to a pond so he ended up getting lucky and he slid into at the top side slid into some pine trees and he came around to the back where I was working with another excavator he's like I'm in trouble can you come up and maybe get this excavator off this driveway I'm like yeah sure so I go to reach out nice and easy pulling myself off the trees and slid right on the on the bond ice like okay I didn't go through and I figured out I kind of walked myself sideways and got myself out of there because I didn't know how the heck I think that was the last winter demo job we decided to do yeah that was it yeah it was no fun you know beating the ground for days and then you can chop through it and then you gotta you know yeah we used to do we used to work year round running legs equipment and the part of the challenge was John oh okay I didn't catch the beginning oh okay sounds like a fun ride yeah um what was I talking about oh uh went to work we used to we used to do the demo year-round big basements year round Minnesota we had nine foot across in one basement we did we had four basements to dig do you remember that yeah where was that I'm testing them I'm testing them St Paul Minneapolis yep it was in Saint Paul wow I remember that because he had we had a rubber tired backhoe out there at the time yeah on a hill okay yeah and we're gonna use that to help speed things up and I went to drive up the hill and I'll spend them on two wheels had to drop drop…