The above video may only be really interesting if you are a child (probably male) who really likes the 1939 classic Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. I am not such a child. Even so, seeing (live) the machines working on the stream up here in the Catskills has been pretty extraordinary in the last few days. The crews are working with speed and good humor, and seem almost as enamored of their big machines as fans of Mike Mulligan.
Disaster conditions apparently allow for a lot of tugging and pulling. I told the two guys above that their coordination was like a ballet. My husband, who had noticed the large Harley-Davidson tattoos on the workers’ forearms, thought that was not perhaps the most appropriate compliment, but the guys seemed to like it just fine.
P.S. – the little shriek in the middle of the video is me being surprised (stupidly) by the possibility of flying debris.
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