{"id":6602,"date":"2014-07-24T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2014-07-24T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:05:53","slug":"video-week-excavator-propel-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/video-week-excavator-propel-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of the Week: Excavator Used to Propel Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of &#8220;Stupid Pet Tricks&#8221;, a segment that has been a part of David Letterman&#8217;s &#8220;Late Night&#8221; television program for nearly 30 years. This week&#8217;s Video of the Week features what could be called &#8220;Stupid Heavy Machinery Tricks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In this video &#8212; which was posted on YouTube and apparently was shot in Tedirdag, Turkey, at least according to the commentators &#8212; an excavator has been loaded onto the back of a flatbed truck. But the truck seems to have run out of gas. So the operator of the excavator uses the vehicle&#8217;s extendable arm to push the truck down the highway as a befuddled bicyclist and other pedestrians look on in surprise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D8eVsmt6R5w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/D8eVsmt6R5w\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While you have to applaud the excavator operator&#8217;s inventiveness, one has to wonder why he simply didn&#8217;t siphon the fuel from the excavator to the truck so the flatbed could have been driven to a gas station!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of &#8220;Stupid Pet Tricks&#8221;, a segment that has been a part of David Letterman&#8217;s &#8220;Late Night&#8221; television program for nearly 30 years. This week&#8217;s Video of the Week features what could be called &#8220;Stupid Heavy Machinery Tricks&#8221;. In this video &#8212; which was posted on YouTube and apparently was shot in Tedirdag, &#8230; <a title=\"Video of the Week: Excavator Used to Propel Truck\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/material-handling\/video-week-excavator-propel-truck\/\" aria-label=\"More on Video of the Week: Excavator Used to Propel Truck\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-6602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}