Excavator Games

[MessickFarmEqu]

Messicks Mini Excavator Games

Every year for the town fairs we come up with an excavator game to play. This is this years. The guy in the video is our top time so far. He is very, very good and finished in 59 seconds. Most other guys, even those who do this for a living are taking 1:30-2:00. This is a fun thing for us and draws a big crowd.

 

[Tig]

That does look like fun.

 

[3RRL]

That does look like fun and entertaining.
I'll bet there were a bunch of people waiting in line to try that.

 

[GaryM]

That does look great! I've never seen that before.

 

[VA Rebel]

That guy has it all figured out. I think I'll set that up at our next family reunion.

 

[sasquatcher]

Now I know what I'm doing when I got home tonight! jk

 

[Iplayfarmer]

That is an incredibly creative way to get some interest in and exposure for your product and service. Great job! Thank you for sharing.

I wish the equipment companies around here would get into something like that. All they do around here is set their equipment out on the green behind the race track, and then the salesmen sit around under a tent and talk to each other as all of the public passes by looking at their product.

 

[Bird]

I guess I'm not very creative; I would never have thought of that. Pretty neat game.

 

[Grrrr]

That looks like a fun game. Would probably sort the good digger drivers out from the excellent ones

 

[srsu99]

try to pick a quarter of off concrete with the bucket, without digging up the concrete of course.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

We think of new things every year. We've stacked firewood and cinder blocks, moved eggs and golf balls, put together puzzels. Its really fun to try and come up with crazy stuff and see how quickly these guys can do it. It really does not help sell equipment at all, infact it may distract from it.. however its really fun and people do like it. We don't sell much at these fairs anyway, its just to get your name out and say in front of people and this accomplishes that.

 

[sandman2234]

Getting your name out, and people remembering you when they decide that they just got to have a new toy. Games like that will accomplish that, and even second hand when someone tried it and told their neighbor (or should I say bragged to their neighbor?).

Bottom line, good advertising...

David from jax

 

[tommu56]

Neal

At one scouting thing I set up was one of those slide puzzles that was 8' square and you had to slide all the parts around to get them in order, that would be something to try with an excavator.

tom

 

[pekabu]

It probably doesn't help for sales that day, but it helps in the end. The first dealer I went to purchase a tractor from is at all the fairs, and more. Their salesman lost the sale, but they had first crack.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

We actually did somthing like this. We had a puzzle, like the little kid kind where the pieces drop into a cut out in the board. The tough thing is with this stuff is that you need to think of things that people can't break. That K008 has some real snot, even at idle. We've had a few people take the bat and push it into the ground like a post driver. They really manage to beat stuff up.

 

[LarryD]

I just finished a waterline job and while while waiting for the ground guy to set a valve can, the excavator operator wrote the company name on a steel plate.
I was impressed!

 

[schmism]

I just finished a waterline job and while while waiting for the ground guy to set a valve can, the excavator operator wrote the company name on a steel plate.
I was impressed!

what you never learned to write with a sharpie?

 

[Grrrr]

what you never learned to write with a sharpie?

Going completely off topic...

I just followed the path where your smile came from and I love all of the smiles available on that board

I think we need some more smiles on this board

 

[dieselsmoke1]

Very innovative thinking, folks. Good Job!!!