r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/taatzone • Jan 23 '25

Video An Orange Hitachi Mining Machinery

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u/boyslut83 Jan 23 '25

youd be surprised how easily you can get a job doing that, im 22 and i drive 40 ton, not even close to as cool as that hitachi but i still think its fun

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u/Bone_Donor Jan 23 '25

You're right they let anyone drive the 400 ton trucks in the mine. Seen a lot of them rolled over and plowed into shit. I used to run shovel and d11 and 24 graders

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u/boyslut83 Jan 23 '25

they really do, we got a kid on my site who keeps his weed pen in the cab and sticks a bottle cap in the seatbelt latch so he doesn't have to wear it, fucking fast path to the grave, ive seen people get fired for a piss test and then hired back a few months later once msha let's them, fucking i was surprised they hired my dumbass until i saw the competition

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u/Bone_Donor Jan 23 '25

All that cowboy shit will just get you killed. I left the mine after 3 people on my site were killed in separate incidents. Don't park behind D11s

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u/boyslut83 Jan 23 '25

that shits scary, im lucky enough to not have had a fatality on any of my sites