Most Delicate Operations?

[mrutkaus]

Saw a pic of a backhoe operator picking up a manhole cover neatly, just made me wonder, what is the most delicate operation you've done with a tractor, most likely the FEL or a backhoe?

I've ocassionaly tried to pick up little things I've dropped such as the newspaper coming back from the mailbox, etc. with little success, but I'm working on it.

Mike

 

[xlr82v2]

I can pick up a dime off of the concrete floor with a forklift... if that counts.

 

[mrutkaus]

That counts.

Mike

 

[Blagadan]

My in law straightened a bent nail with his backhoe. Picture this, nail hammered half way into the top of a post, it was bent over 90deg. he caught the tip of the nail with one of the bucket teeth and pushed it up until the nail was straight up again... I was impressed.

 

[Squeak n Itch]

Lost both my dime and a beer on the bet with the forklift driver!!!

 

[jwstewar]

Wasn't me, but when we had the excavator tear our house down and haul it away after the fire I saw water start spraying. I thought he hit the line the way the water was squirting. Suddenly it quit. I asked them what happened. He said that something caught the valve and turned it on. I asked him why did it stop? He said he took the bucket and turned the valve back off. This was a plastic line sticking out of the ground with one of the plastic valves on it. I was impressed.

Me, I'm just happy if I can get a full bucket of material and either didn't spin the tires or bog the engine.

 

[mrutkaus]

My aunt ran a fork lift for American Can Company for 30 yrs, I wish I'd asked her!

I'm still working on the newspaper on the ground using the FEL.

Mike

 

[pitt_md]

I can pick up a dime off of the concrete floor with a forklift... if that counts.

That I would have to see to believe

 

[xlr82v2]

That I would have to see to believe

Oh ye of little faith...

Wanna put some money on it?

 

[tommu56]

I can pick up a dime off of the concrete floor with a forklift... if that counts.

I can too if its standing on edge.

tommu56