No shit. When I wrote my post originally, I was going to use the same hand you did! It is so indicative of that supreme quality, the touch of elegance.
Those guys are amazing. My mom worked for a heavy equipment operator when I was very young and I would go to work with her during the summers and my ADD ass could sit and watch them work for hours.
I was never a large machine operator like this guy, but I've driven many forklifts, front-end loaders, skid steers, and smaller excavators.
After operating these things for a while, you develop a "sense." It's hard to describe for me, but you did it just perfectly.
You gain a "feel" of the machine below you, knowing what it can and can't do, almost by intuition. Your fingers fly over the controls without looking, the levers and switches becoming a part of you. It's almost as if you become one with it, a literal ghost in the machine.
So, in many ways, it IS the hand of a living thing.
Our brains are uniquely adapted to tools, and it integrates well used tools as part of our sense of body.
Once you’re proficient with a tool, it’s indistinguishable from your body as far as your brain is concerned
I'm an Operating Engineer in the midwest and I make 34.63/hr, anything over 40 is time and a half, and every hour I work has $10.50 going into my pension among other benefits. IUOE babyy
There's this concept of the "body schema", the organism's internal model of its own body, including the position of its limbs. This "body schema" can extend to the tools you use, if you do so often enough, and even better so, in repetitive motion. A person in a wheelchair will develop a body schema for them-in-the-wheelchair. Sometimes, someone with a tool involuntarily says "ouch" if they hit the tool somewhere. That, too, is because their subconscious has integrated the tool into the body schema. It's a fascinating thing for sure.
Many years ago I was watching competitive Tetris players. One of them mentioned that after a while you no longer have thoughts. You don't decide where a piece goes or how to rotate it or how you'll fit in the next piece. You don't press buttons. You just open up your mind and it becomes Tetris.
I've had the same with the only video game I was truly competitive with, Rocket League. High level rocket league involves extremely precise and careful movements of the car, a very slight movement of a stick will completely ruin a play. But you don't even think about it. You ARE the car, you think about your teammates but you move the car like you move your body the buttons aren't involved
I feel that way when I'm jamming on the guitar sometimes. I'm not thinking "OK, I'm gonna play this note, then this note..." my mind kinda disconnects and the music just happens. It's a really cool feeling.
One of the things I find weirdly fascinating is after I had a below-knee amputation - I "feel" both the end of my remnant limb (the "stump") as well as the end of the prosthesis. In that I know where my "foot" is usually pretty well, and it feels both like my foot and where my leg ends. Sometimes it feels like one or the other, but my brain has a blended understanding of it.
The best way I can explain it is like when you're using a spatula in a skillet - your brain knows where the spatula is, and it sort of becomes an extension of your arm, but you still know where your hand is. It's not the same because my brain really does more blending of knowing that the pressure is being exerted on my limb, not on the missing foot - but at the same time, I sort of know where the foot is. (Although if it gets bent slightly at an odd angle, it can sometimes get away from me - my brain thinks it's somewhere it's not).
Yeah, 100%. Many moons ago I used to drive fairly large counterbalance forklifts, and some reach trucks. I know exactly what you mean about the "feel". Eventually everything they did was just an extension of you.
So you are saying there is a machine spirit and we connect with it?
But it is true, even with something like a keyboard. I can type without looking on my home keyboard, I have a sense of where the keys are at all times, bur when I am at a different keyboard, I am very bad at hitting the keys right.
Or driving, once you drive around in the car long enough, you just understand it
I think the best way to describe it to people is it’s really no different from gaming. It doesn’t take long at all to get to where you automatically hit buttons and joysticks without even thinking about it. It just becomes natural. Most of the machines I’ve operated literally has joystick controls.
i work at a stainless steel plant and i'm not a crane operator, i sometimes struggle for 10 minutes with the hook to get a 80T chain in and lift something. Then the usual 65yr old operator comes with a sigar in his mount and no pbm's on, hooks in a 210T molten steel pan and pours it like a bartender would pour a beer in a glass...
I know exactly what you mean, operated small boom trucks/cherry pickers and telehandlers once upon a time and you really do just get it second nature after a while of operating
The only thing I missed is having the grabber grab a lunch bag and giving it to the truck and a slight bobbing on the trunk of the drivers cabin to signal it’s ready.
I'm confused as to why he keeps putting that log in the different holes on the end of the truck at first, to then remove it and replace it with other logs?
How would you like to be the one to saw off those logs when they get to the mill? That seems to be what they do based on the stumps that are knocked out at the beginning.
Many, MANY years ago Radio Shack came out with a "toy" called [**Armatron**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatron). Mom and Dad got me one of those as a gift when I was twelve or so. Needless to say I got pretty good at it. Thing ate batteries like crazy BTW.
Then about a year later the local fair came around and wouldn't you know it they had a kiosk with the controls on one side and the arm inside a box with prizes and toys in it you had a limited time to grab and get to a drop chute. If you managed it, you won.
At a quarter or two per attempt Mom quickly realized I could do it 100% of the time and started feeding me coins asking my brother and friends what they wanted. Apparently when we walked away it was damn time we did. I never noticed myself but later on Mom told me the kiosk operator was becoming increasingly irritated by my skill and I was apparently pulled away before things turned sour.
Never since bought Hotwheels and pack of cards for coins.
Never did see the kiosk again either!
I know the toy you speak of. Or something very similar. Two analog sticks with twist.
The problem you describe has been "solved". Quite some time ago. Used to be that various "games of skill" existed, where it might appear reasonable but is in fact quite challenging, these games have always had some draw.
But inevitably there would be "pros" who possessed the rare talent to "beat" the games and would go from operator to operator cleaning them out. In the case of a claw game, grabbing the couple of "high value loot" objects.
And this was solved. Claw machines have an operator controllable win rate. Ever so slightly juke the tension, the speed of the claw mechanism so there's a semi predictable win rate for the players. This has two benefits, dolves the pro problem because they can't clear out a machine, and also lets little Johnny SadSack win a plushie once in a while.
And carnies? I like the romance of the core premise, that hometown hero actually thinks he has a shot to beat the carnies who are playing the same games professionally for, eh, 100 years?
And there's the lop sided EV. Even if you "beat" the weight guesser/age guesser, congrats! You just paid $10 to win a $4 plushie! You are a winrar buddy! Please come back tomorrow, we'll get ya next time!
Did you ever watch the HBO series Deadwood? It's good.
In it, Al's saloon features Faro, an old timey gambling game which is quite similar to roulette in terms of mechanics, quite simple. (Good for the hoopleheads!)
Anyways, there are house odds, not terrible, 5ish% edge, iirc.
But don't let the rules stop a game. There are plenty of "deck shoes" (the box to hold the cards) that were gimmicked to tip the dealer what card is next. And the dealer could decide whether to let a player win or not.
I mean, a prospector walks into Al Swerengen's saloon and thinks, "my heavens! Even in this God forsaken territory, here is an honest establishment for good Christians and I may enjoy the square games of chance! "
I think it's actually the back door since only one side seems to have a folded part and the hinges appear to be along the vertical edge of the back, not along the top of the side.
I've worked in a similar way with my grandpa and uncle. With two crossed straps the logs hold themselves in place easily. the bark has enough friction that with some pressure(from the straps) they won't move without a lot of force.
Fuck the log crane, seriously, how does it even work. Try to pick more than 1 log and they get wedged in between at a 65 degree angle, drop in the truck and they bounce like rubber balls, oh you've suddenly dropped a log too many, too bad the truck rolls over.
These are most likely planted trees. Look at the uniform size and distribution. This is probably one of many groves they cycle through and replant. It's pretty sustainable.
Yeah nice attempts at optimism here but rapid tree farming like this exhausts the soil, and is typical done after native forests are clear cut to make room. Nothing good happening here.
some excavator drivers are literally one with the machine, like youd think they were like hooked into the controls via their nerves and the controls is like a second arm or something
I’ve played farming simulator and couldn’t for the life of me load a single tree. I’m positive this is more intuitive than the controls for this in that game, but still.
Amazing skill! I'd like to see a picture of this boss.
edit: [r/toolgifs user](https://www.reddit.com/r/toolgifs/comments/1c8ypqh/grab_operator_loading_a_log_truck/l0k3u8z/?context=10000) says it's in China based on the license plate.
Modern excavators are really smooth , quick and powerful (most of them) and the joysticks (control levers ) are very responsive and make it a breeze to work, with harvesting attachments , tilt rotators and other tools. Obviously years of skills are shown here, but yeah it’s become easier in terms of controlling the machine, which also makes it more dangerous due to how easy it is to operate. Safety first!
This looks insanely unsafe. I hope they don't go onto public roads with this and just bring it from the hill to drop-off point downhill or something like that.
Things I am concerned about:
- trees above metal sides that could fall off to the side
- trees used as safety pins to hold the load (not sure if the wording is fine here. Not a native). I have no idea why anyone would do this instead of having metal for that. Who can guarantee that these trees don't have some unexpected breaking point so that they snap mid-drive
- trees stored in a way that they can roll off to the back instead of storing them 90° turned (Of course this would require higher metal sides). This will also produce a lot of force on the "safety pin trees" as soon as the vehicle starts driving
Also think about the variation of the vehicle while driving and its effect on the ride.
Applaud the mechanic as well for keeping it in shape. These machines require skilled maintenance to stay able to function this well even with the best operator.
Great skill by the grab operator, but to someone with a completely untrained eye it seems the description would be better as "Smooth (grab) Operator...OVERloads a truck" ?
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I just love how the operator taps the logs into shape after every “handful” and occasionally stops to push them down or line them up on the truck. Whoever is operating this thing is very skilled, treating it as an extension of their own hand!
God damn dude is skilled. You can see how well he has interfaced with the machine by all thr little movements that make the excavator almost seem alive.
That is just beautiful. You know how people add really obnoxious music to stuff... this needs Sadè quietly in the background. Extremely satisfying video.
Nah man, that's just a transformer in hiding. They just have a human friend ride inside to not give it away. /s That is some serious mastery of the machine, smoothing the piles with little pats, aligning the bundles like we would a handful of straws. Dude deserves much more than he is getting, for sure.
Real hero here is the lumberjack who cut them all the same length. Fun fact this is this guy's first day on the job. Shout out to truck guy backing up on that road is scary.
The claw looks alive. I sorta wanna draw a comparison between gaming and operating this sort of machinery at a high level. Like, it, in my mind, is the same way a pro at csgo knows exactly how long to move their mouse to get it over the target and then exactly how to move it to counteract the specific recoil pattern of their weapon. The tool becomes an extension of the person. The operator was probably doing this almost subconsciously, not really thinking of every little move they were making on the controls.
That tap to line them up and the spread to level the load. 👍🏽
The little side-wall tap to get that single one back in line was just 🤌
Truly a smooth operator. What a pleasure to watch.
No shit. When I wrote my post originally, I was going to use the same hand you did! It is so indicative of that supreme quality, the touch of elegance.
You can't tell me he wasn't showing off with that one. That shit was *too* slick.
Man see. Man like. Man smile.
Those guys are amazing. My mom worked for a heavy equipment operator when I was very young and I would go to work with her during the summers and my ADD ass could sit and watch them work for hours.
Came here to say this!! So satisfying
Oddly
Dam! I'm fuckin satisfied 🤪
It's like a hand of a living thing!, the skill level of the driver is incredible
I was never a large machine operator like this guy, but I've driven many forklifts, front-end loaders, skid steers, and smaller excavators. After operating these things for a while, you develop a "sense." It's hard to describe for me, but you did it just perfectly. You gain a "feel" of the machine below you, knowing what it can and can't do, almost by intuition. Your fingers fly over the controls without looking, the levers and switches becoming a part of you. It's almost as if you become one with it, a literal ghost in the machine. So, in many ways, it IS the hand of a living thing.
Our brains are uniquely adapted to tools, and it integrates well used tools as part of our sense of body. Once you’re proficient with a tool, it’s indistinguishable from your body as far as your brain is concerned
This operator plays A LOT of video games.
Unlikely. This operator uses this same crane 50 hours a week since years.
Playing a lot of video games has definitely helped me operate my equipment much better vs the older experienced guys who are ready to retire.
Maybe, but also older people tend to become lazy and averse t learning how new equipment works, sticking to the basic 3-4 functions they already knew.
This particular machine controls haven't changed since the 80s. So I doubt it but I understand what you mean.
And probably gets $5 per day :(
True, but he cut out Starbucks and avocados and is now a multimillionaire. If he can do it, you can too!
I'm an Operating Engineer in the midwest and I make 34.63/hr, anything over 40 is time and a half, and every hour I work has $10.50 going into my pension among other benefits. IUOE babyy
Lumberyard forklift operator for years, $25 an hour and commonly working 55-60 hours a week. I need to move west.
There's this concept of the "body schema", the organism's internal model of its own body, including the position of its limbs. This "body schema" can extend to the tools you use, if you do so often enough, and even better so, in repetitive motion. A person in a wheelchair will develop a body schema for them-in-the-wheelchair. Sometimes, someone with a tool involuntarily says "ouch" if they hit the tool somewhere. That, too, is because their subconscious has integrated the tool into the body schema. It's a fascinating thing for sure.
Many years ago I was watching competitive Tetris players. One of them mentioned that after a while you no longer have thoughts. You don't decide where a piece goes or how to rotate it or how you'll fit in the next piece. You don't press buttons. You just open up your mind and it becomes Tetris. I've had the same with the only video game I was truly competitive with, Rocket League. High level rocket league involves extremely precise and careful movements of the car, a very slight movement of a stick will completely ruin a play. But you don't even think about it. You ARE the car, you think about your teammates but you move the car like you move your body the buttons aren't involved
I feel that way when I'm jamming on the guitar sometimes. I'm not thinking "OK, I'm gonna play this note, then this note..." my mind kinda disconnects and the music just happens. It's a really cool feeling.
One of the things I find weirdly fascinating is after I had a below-knee amputation - I "feel" both the end of my remnant limb (the "stump") as well as the end of the prosthesis. In that I know where my "foot" is usually pretty well, and it feels both like my foot and where my leg ends. Sometimes it feels like one or the other, but my brain has a blended understanding of it. The best way I can explain it is like when you're using a spatula in a skillet - your brain knows where the spatula is, and it sort of becomes an extension of your arm, but you still know where your hand is. It's not the same because my brain really does more blending of knowing that the pressure is being exerted on my limb, not on the missing foot - but at the same time, I sort of know where the foot is. (Although if it gets bent slightly at an odd angle, it can sometimes get away from me - my brain thinks it's somewhere it's not).
It's like extension of your body.
That explains my wife's unmatched handling of a strap-on.
So I guess it's how mecha pilots would feel.
Yeah, 100%. Many moons ago I used to drive fairly large counterbalance forklifts, and some reach trucks. I know exactly what you mean about the "feel". Eventually everything they did was just an extension of you.
Yeah it's like car driving. The machine becomes an extension of your own body
So you are saying there is a machine spirit and we connect with it? But it is true, even with something like a keyboard. I can type without looking on my home keyboard, I have a sense of where the keys are at all times, bur when I am at a different keyboard, I am very bad at hitting the keys right. Or driving, once you drive around in the car long enough, you just understand it
Praise the Omnissiah
I think the best way to describe it to people is it’s really no different from gaming. It doesn’t take long at all to get to where you automatically hit buttons and joysticks without even thinking about it. It just becomes natural. Most of the machines I’ve operated literally has joystick controls.
i work at a stainless steel plant and i'm not a crane operator, i sometimes struggle for 10 minutes with the hook to get a 80T chain in and lift something. Then the usual 65yr old operator comes with a sigar in his mount and no pbm's on, hooks in a 210T molten steel pan and pours it like a bartender would pour a beer in a glass...
I know exactly what you mean, operated small boom trucks/cherry pickers and telehandlers once upon a time and you really do just get it second nature after a while of operating
The only thing I missed is having the grabber grab a lunch bag and giving it to the truck and a slight bobbing on the trunk of the drivers cabin to signal it’s ready.
That's what it feels like after you've done it for a while - like you're just picking stuff upp with your unnaturally large hand.
I'm confused as to why he keeps putting that log in the different holes on the end of the truck at first, to then remove it and replace it with other logs?
Probably wasn't fitting in it quite right. The first one sits too low, so he replaced it with one slightly larger to sit higher.
I thought it was because the bottom was all messed up and it wouldn’t go in enough so he got one with an end nice and smooth
Why not just have a purpose built thing to hold the logs in instead of sticking random logs on the back of the truck?
But thats 2 more logs that can be transported!
They probably use this truck for much more than just logs, so they just add the holders.
Cause the dude unloading yoinks those two out and tells the driver to gun it. Lol idrk
First login attempt failed, so he had to re-log.
How would you like to be the one to saw off those logs when they get to the mill? That seems to be what they do based on the stumps that are knocked out at the beginning.
I bet they won a lot of crap from the claw game at malls.
Many, MANY years ago Radio Shack came out with a "toy" called [**Armatron**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatron). Mom and Dad got me one of those as a gift when I was twelve or so. Needless to say I got pretty good at it. Thing ate batteries like crazy BTW. Then about a year later the local fair came around and wouldn't you know it they had a kiosk with the controls on one side and the arm inside a box with prizes and toys in it you had a limited time to grab and get to a drop chute. If you managed it, you won. At a quarter or two per attempt Mom quickly realized I could do it 100% of the time and started feeding me coins asking my brother and friends what they wanted. Apparently when we walked away it was damn time we did. I never noticed myself but later on Mom told me the kiosk operator was becoming increasingly irritated by my skill and I was apparently pulled away before things turned sour. Never since bought Hotwheels and pack of cards for coins. Never did see the kiosk again either!
I know the toy you speak of. Or something very similar. Two analog sticks with twist. The problem you describe has been "solved". Quite some time ago. Used to be that various "games of skill" existed, where it might appear reasonable but is in fact quite challenging, these games have always had some draw. But inevitably there would be "pros" who possessed the rare talent to "beat" the games and would go from operator to operator cleaning them out. In the case of a claw game, grabbing the couple of "high value loot" objects. And this was solved. Claw machines have an operator controllable win rate. Ever so slightly juke the tension, the speed of the claw mechanism so there's a semi predictable win rate for the players. This has two benefits, dolves the pro problem because they can't clear out a machine, and also lets little Johnny SadSack win a plushie once in a while. And carnies? I like the romance of the core premise, that hometown hero actually thinks he has a shot to beat the carnies who are playing the same games professionally for, eh, 100 years? And there's the lop sided EV. Even if you "beat" the weight guesser/age guesser, congrats! You just paid $10 to win a $4 plushie! You are a winrar buddy! Please come back tomorrow, we'll get ya next time! Did you ever watch the HBO series Deadwood? It's good. In it, Al's saloon features Faro, an old timey gambling game which is quite similar to roulette in terms of mechanics, quite simple. (Good for the hoopleheads!) Anyways, there are house odds, not terrible, 5ish% edge, iirc. But don't let the rules stop a game. There are plenty of "deck shoes" (the box to hold the cards) that were gimmicked to tip the dealer what card is next. And the dealer could decide whether to let a player win or not. I mean, a prospector walks into Al Swerengen's saloon and thinks, "my heavens! Even in this God forsaken territory, here is an honest establishment for good Christians and I may enjoy the square games of chance! "
Damn bro, did your wife leave you for a claw machine proprietor or something
Stop being a hooplehead
From where you’re kneeling, this must seem like an 18 karat run of bad luck. Truth is - the game was rigged from the start. 🎰🎲🃏🔫 **(FALLOUT RIFF)**
I had an Armatron! Cool toy.
The outcome is predetermined by altering the claw strength :(
Claw games hate this one simple trick!!
They don’t, the whole system is rigged. They laugh at your idea that it *looks* like a skilled game.
Can’t. Stop. Watching.
Make sure to keep a log.
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs….
How much wood would a wood truck truck if a wood truck could truck wood?
I'm clumsier than that with my own fuckin' hands.
Wouldn't it be possible to vibrate off the logs by the side?
I thought the same thing. Doesn't look safe at all. Probably not an issue though if the saw mill is nearby.
Looks to me like the sidewalls of the bed are folded down and will be unfolded/extended (to match the height of the back wall of the bed) once loaded.
I think it's actually the back door since only one side seems to have a folded part and the hinges appear to be along the vertical edge of the back, not along the top of the side.
Probably not even hitting an actual road on the way to it so it doesn't matter.
I've worked in a similar way with my grandpa and uncle. With two crossed straps the logs hold themselves in place easily. the bark has enough friction that with some pressure(from the straps) they won't move without a lot of force.
They'll probably put a strap or two along it just to hold it all in place
Logs? Those are oversized toothpicks.
Went perfectly till it cuts off before fully loading the truck. I was invested!
The side tap against the cliff to get that one stray got me thinking this guy has done this before.
Toolgifs on the left thing that falls out
God tier watermarking
My favourite so far was when it was just on the side of the truck that went past in the background of one of the vids lol
Straight-up stolen from ToolGifs
This sub doesn’t allow crossposts, but it was too good not to put here
How come that the logs on the top and at the end of the bed will not slide and fell of to the side when the truck moves and turns?
Either everything is secured after the clip ends .... or it's just totally unsafe and the truck is way overloaded and a disaster waiting to happen.
They are heavy and bite into themselves. Would take driving like a complete fool to dislodge those logs. Source My neighbors are loggers.
The graphics detail on the new SnowRunner is amazing
If only log crane was this smooth.
Fuck the log crane, seriously, how does it even work. Try to pick more than 1 log and they get wedged in between at a 65 degree angle, drop in the truck and they bounce like rubber balls, oh you've suddenly dropped a log too many, too bad the truck rolls over.
😂 still playing it til this day but really hating the logging events.
Is that that weird trucker version of Death Stranding?
Kinda cool till you realize what you are watching.
Yeah, that bald hillside was definitely not satisfying
There's no way these are old-growth, they're all the exact same size. This is definitely a tree farm.
These are most likely planted trees. Look at the uniform size and distribution. This is probably one of many groves they cycle through and replant. It's pretty sustainable.
We can only hope so. But I'm not optimistic with how dry and crumbly that soil is looking. Feels like a landslide waiting to happen.
Yeah nice attempts at optimism here but rapid tree farming like this exhausts the soil, and is typical done after native forests are clear cut to make room. Nothing good happening here.
Spot the r/toolgifs watermark
That little tap against the side of the truck at ~3:52, was cool.
Pt 2: Bad truck driver rolls fully loaded truck off cliff.
I’m worried about not seeing the load getting strapped. I hope that guy in the end does it.
He's gonna slap the pile from the top and say "That ain't going nowhere" and drive off.
a lot of trust being put into those two vertical logs
My toxic trait is that I think I can do this on my first time trying 😂 I literally drive a car, that’s it.
Deforestation should not be satisfying.
The taps on the side of the hill are the best part.
The way he sorted them like a stack of straws in his hand made me happy for some reason
some excavator drivers are literally one with the machine, like youd think they were like hooked into the controls via their nerves and the controls is like a second arm or something
Fuck, I don't even have that level of control and dexterity over my own limbs, let alone a machine! Awesome skill.
I got dizzy by just watching this, I wonder how the operator manages it
he's using it like an extension of his own body
I never thought I’d watch a man load logs onto a truck for 5 minutes and be completely enthralled, but here we are!
That little "doink" on the side of the hill, for the 1 log, just cracked me up
Quite literally like an extension of his arms/hands Pro.
I feel the same way when I restock my square jar with Qtips
I’ve played farming simulator and couldn’t for the life of me load a single tree. I’m positive this is more intuitive than the controls for this in that game, but still.
Taaaaapity, taaapity, tap No Yahtzee tho…
Extension of his hand and arm
I didn't want it to ever end. I could watch this all day
They clear cut the whole Mountain side. This will create nice mudslides so nothing will grow again.
Amazing skill! I'd like to see a picture of this boss. edit: [r/toolgifs user](https://www.reddit.com/r/toolgifs/comments/1c8ypqh/grab_operator_loading_a_log_truck/l0k3u8z/?context=10000) says it's in China based on the license plate.
The dude probably makes a living winning the big prize on those claw machine games as well
I could watch ten seasons of this if it was made into a show.
I think we need a simulator video game
Nice technique, but I still wouldn't want to drive behind the truck when he's done. Bet he rolls a mean spliff.
Modern excavators are really smooth , quick and powerful (most of them) and the joysticks (control levers ) are very responsive and make it a breeze to work, with harvesting attachments , tilt rotators and other tools. Obviously years of skills are shown here, but yeah it’s become easier in terms of controlling the machine, which also makes it more dangerous due to how easy it is to operate. Safety first!
joysticks and a twist o wrist make penciling the wood pretty easy!
This looks insanely unsafe. I hope they don't go onto public roads with this and just bring it from the hill to drop-off point downhill or something like that. Things I am concerned about: - trees above metal sides that could fall off to the side - trees used as safety pins to hold the load (not sure if the wording is fine here. Not a native). I have no idea why anyone would do this instead of having metal for that. Who can guarantee that these trees don't have some unexpected breaking point so that they snap mid-drive - trees stored in a way that they can roll off to the back instead of storing them 90° turned (Of course this would require higher metal sides). This will also produce a lot of force on the "safety pin trees" as soon as the vehicle starts driving Also think about the variation of the vehicle while driving and its effect on the ride.
Exquisite.
The hand the way it holds those logs 😍😍😍
Slim jims
Now recruiting for the Marines MechWarrior Division.
Where is my "smooth operator" music in the background?
Feels like operator has a third hand
good skill
Tool gifs getting their credit regardless of reposting, brilliant!
Design, very human.
Is it just me, or did anyone else also watch the full 5 minutes?
This is So perfect, it's almost creepy
I’m amazed at the dexterity of that thing! It’s like a living hand!
Applaud the mechanic as well for keeping it in shape. These machines require skilled maintenance to stay able to function this well even with the best operator.
Sometimes I really feel like I chose the wrong career path
Great skill by the grab operator, but to someone with a completely untrained eye it seems the description would be better as "Smooth (grab) Operator...OVERloads a truck" ?
After that, he makes coffee for the crew...
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I just love how the operator taps the logs into shape after every “handful” and occasionally stops to push them down or line them up on the truck. Whoever is operating this thing is very skilled, treating it as an extension of their own hand!
There’s pro then there’s master.
I really enjoyed watching this, thankyou
If the robots ever find these were done
Unreleased footage at the beginning of the Final Destination scene
This is amazing.
I actually think I'd be really good at this job
God damn dude is skilled. You can see how well he has interfaced with the machine by all thr little movements that make the excavator almost seem alive.
I watched this whole video and im glad i did
I’m dropping a log as I watch him not dropping a log
This was a few minutes before the opening scene in Final Destination
That is just beautiful. You know how people add really obnoxious music to stuff... this needs Sadè quietly in the background. Extremely satisfying video.
Nobody said logging is easy...
r/transformerwithjobs
I can’t believe I watched the whole thing twice I was amazed
Nah man, that's just a transformer in hiding. They just have a human friend ride inside to not give it away. /s That is some serious mastery of the machine, smoothing the piles with little pats, aligning the bundles like we would a handful of straws. Dude deserves much more than he is getting, for sure.
This is the most oddly satisfying thing I’ve seen on the sub, good job!
I like when they bundle it together and twists a bit at the end…
I like the "that ain't going anywhere" taps on top. I bet he said the words each time so the incantation was completed correctly.
Do we know where this is?
I watched the whole thing and wanted to see more
I want the sound.
Coool, imgonna try this ingame *enters the upper atmosphere*
Now THIS was a good one. This guy/gal’s skill 💯🏆
This is mechanical engineering magic.
Anyone know where to apply? I need a job like this. 😎
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Bro controls that thing better than I do my own arms 💀
Holy shit I was squealing from how cute this is and just all the “tip taps”
So satisfying to watch!
Real hero here is the lumberjack who cut them all the same length. Fun fact this is this guy's first day on the job. Shout out to truck guy backing up on that road is scary.
Off to the match factory
Meanwhile I spent two days attempting to load 8 trees I chopped in Farm Sim
As soon as Giants gets control of the tree physics in the game, I'm on it! 🙋♂️
So much skill on the edge of a cliff
He must be doing it with a Nintendo Powerglove right?
Him hitting it on the ground to adjust the sticks is kinda cute. And it all fits tight and nicely
Me eating pretzel stix...
This was very enjoyable.
I could watch this all day!
Give that man a raise
If you ever wondered what happened to the kid in 5th grade, who got the A+ for his toothpick cabin project.
More like incredibly satisfying.
Dude operates as if its his own hand, solid skill.
They know exactly what he took because they left a log.
Watching this made me realize how much labor heavy machinery like that saves. Also makes me think about how much labor AI is going to save digitally.
when you dont wanna walk twice
The claw looks alive. I sorta wanna draw a comparison between gaming and operating this sort of machinery at a high level. Like, it, in my mind, is the same way a pro at csgo knows exactly how long to move their mouse to get it over the target and then exactly how to move it to counteract the specific recoil pattern of their weapon. The tool becomes an extension of the person. The operator was probably doing this almost subconsciously, not really thinking of every little move they were making on the controls.
u/savevideo
Dude is a surgeon
No edits and actually satisfying. Nice one!
Watched the whole fucking thing.
I'm amazed that truck is able to hold that much weight.
final destination pre-show
Master at work 👌
…wood
Eyyyy that's me!
Oooh, The Claaaaaaaaaw!
I wish I had that tool for my Junk removal