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.

Whatcha watching? Excavators What are they excavating? Excavators

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.

That excavator is an extension of your body. I never even would have considered it's possible to get so much precision and speed out of them

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

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.

It's really impressive for a 41-minute long excavator video to have 20.6 million views. That's how good this guy is.

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!

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.

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.

Dude literally has more hand-eye coordination with the crane's arm than I do with my own arms

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.

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

17:01 When I realized he IS IN FACT going foreward and reverse as hes turning the cab and operating the bucket, with the accuracy of a surgeon lol this guys great haha

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

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

Overheard at a cocktail party: “What do you do for a living?” “I pretend I’m a dinosaur.” “And do what?” “And rescue other members of my dinosaur family.”

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

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.

This was the 1st video I watched of Chris about a year ago, & been hooked ever since! Just a great operator & just as good at explaining what's going on for us "non operators" Thanks Chris, keep up the good work!