The Worst Excavator Recovery Of My Career

At 17:27 he grabs a mat without looking. He is one with the machine and has total spatial awareness.

My 3 year old grandson has gone crazy over excavators and I remembered this video you made so I got him on my lap and said let gramps show you a excavator that got stuck in the mud. My grandsons name is Pren and you made his day. He was mesmerized by watching from your view in the seat of your excavator. I was laughing so hard because he was talking to you to be careful and don’t hit that other excavator even though your video is two years old you made a three year old very happy today. I just got through ordering him a excavator toy just like yours. He will be one happy little boy when it gets here and now he wants to watch with me when you have new videos coming out. You just never know how your videos will have a effect two years later.

Showed the stuck machine to my buddy and his eyes widened a little bit and then just says "well I doubt he was even forklift certified. That's actually kind of impressive to accidently bury a excavator that deep without trying." But you sir are a surgeon with your machine. Truely impressive work.

Reminded me of a story from 'back in the day' - when building the Metro shopping centre in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK, the police were called in one Monday morning as 'some one has stolen our bulldozer' over the weekend. A lot of raised eyebrows and investigating followed, but no robber was identified and the 'dozer never recovered, filed in the unsolved case files. A short while later when some of the building foundations were being excavated a solid object was struck, on clearing some space it was realised that it was the 'stolen' bulldozer. This had sank deep enough into the earth over the 'theft' weekend that it was no longer visible or noticeable :)

Whatcha watching? Excavators What are they excavating? Excavators

I'm noticing a distinct lack of terrible non-copyrighted music in this video.

This would have been a 12 person, 8hr long recovery on heavy D’s channel. This guy knows his way around a machine to say the least!

YouTube randomly recommended me this video, and I gotta say, it's always a pleasure to see a master of his craft doing work like this. The machine is like an extension of your body (and I can appreciate how many hours of working it that took). edit: Haha, I see the exact same sentiments expressed in other comments. Not that I'm surprised that more people are feeling like this.

I'm not an operator but I am someone who can appreciate someone that operates at this speed without beating the hell out of every bushing in the machine and constantly sending hydraulic fluid screaming over the pressure relief. Nice props to you man. In person I think I may have only ever seen one operator that's this good.

One thing I learned while working in construction: the more difficult the job, the more guys you need to watch one guy do it. Seriously though, this was amazing to watch.

Apparently this is something I'm willing to sit and watch for 41 minutes. And considering a late-in-life career change to excavator operator. Which even has a funky sound to it. I can't help but hear "Hey hey...." in my head every time I hear it

Seeing the two machines holding hands while pulling the buried one free brought a tear to my eye. ^_^

I am an operator, this guy is one of the best I have ever seen!! My compliments sir!

A tear rolled down my face when the two machines held hands to help each other up the hill. Beautiful moment

Bravo! I'm a retired helicopter flight instructor and do believe this lad could solo the first day! Best of luck and thanks for sharing!

These guys knew what they were doing. It's always a joy to watch professionals at work.

I don't know why this got recommended to me but I'm not complaining

Not sure how I stumbled across this video, but just wanted to say I am in awe of your excellent precision in controlling the machine, picking up and manipulating the mats etc - it looked as natural and casual as if it was someone using their own hands to move things around.

This man could put icing on a cake with that excavator. Absolutely brilliant. Well done.

This might have been the worst excavator recovery of your career, but I give you 5 stars for the work you did! Wow! That recovery was amazing!