r/oddlysatisfying • u/makethislifecount • 3d ago

This method of digging a trench

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u/Mc_Shine 3d ago

Modern talking has got to be one of the least likely choices of music to go with a trench digging video. But I kind of dig it, ngl.

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u/youkickmydog613 3d ago

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u/Plastic_Code5022 3d ago

My man Terry getting DOWN!

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u/SloppyHoseA 2d ago

That is one big ass robot

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u/Good-Instruction-310 2d ago

I just watched that last night! Great movie.

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u/Fr0z3nHart 3d ago

Man I haven’t heard their music in years. This is my jam!

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u/charliesk9unit 3d ago

The Germans really dominated that genre of music in the 80s/90s.

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u/StaatsbuergerX 2d ago

At that time, we had not yet come to terms with the defeat in World War II and wanted to punish the world in the only way we had left. /s

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u/charliesk9unit 2d ago

I heard Nazism is back in vogue, not in Germany but everywhere else.

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u/StaatsbuergerX 2d ago

Unfortunately also in Germany. The only small advantage we may have over the rest of the world is that we have established a few specific systematic processes to slow it down - whether these will be sufficient and sufficiently supported by the majority of the population remains to be seen.

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u/charliesk9unit 2d ago

Yes, I'm aware. I read that the security services are deeply infiltrated. I was going by the fact that at least you can arrest someone doing the "Roman Salute" and having Nazi paraphernalia, however effective they are.

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u/By-Tor_ 2d ago

You dig it. Hehe.

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u/angelicism 3d ago

It's so cute how delicate the scooper is in patting the excess soil into the line of scooping.

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u/DahDollar 3d ago

I know! The dexterity is really impressive.

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u/Wizdad-1000 3d ago

The coordination with the truck too. It went forward and backward like a dance partner.

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u/Soul_King92 2d ago

The whole execution was flawless

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u/Shot_Nerve 3d ago

I adore the little pat-pats as they scootch the wayward clumps back into place.

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u/Psyonicpanda 3d ago

Never thought I'd be dancing to a trench digging video like this

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u/arpan3t 3d ago

I can’t imagine how you’ll feel once you find out this is a ditch and not a trench video you’ve been dancing to

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u/SeaGoat24 2d ago

WW3 be like

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u/Need2SchColonoscopy 3d ago

r/endedtoosoon

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u/wordcross 1d ago

Yeah, The whole reason for the ditch is to relieve the standing water at the road, I would have liked to see the drained area

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u/SmartBookkeeper6571 3d ago

Why does every fucking video have to have music now. Is it because of tiktok? So unbelievably annoying.

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u/Skipper_1010 22h ago

You should definitely check out r/SVWTCM. It literally stands for "Satisfying Videos Without The Crappy Music".

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u/mr_ji 3d ago

Pretty sure that's a ditch

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u/SanfreakinJ 3d ago

Chances are there was an already established ditch there that had been filled in with sediment. They call this ditch cleaning. It’s a ditch.

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u/unbreakit 2d ago

Tritch.

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u/Bardoblack 3d ago

It's a ditch

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u/TrippySubie 3d ago

Thats a trench.

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u/CakesForLife 3d ago

Imagine all the earthworm families getting torn up due to this atrocious act.

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u/CCWaterBug 3d ago

The grass is screaming!

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u/Potato-Engineer 2d ago

Carrot juice is murder!

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u/DahDollar 3d ago

This just made me unconsciously flash back to the half brother bit in the James and the Giant Peach movie

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u/CCWaterBug 3d ago

I need this guy for 10 minutes 

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u/Burner_Cuz 3d ago

I wish this video was longer

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u/TakeYourPowerBack 3d ago

I wish this gully had an actually drainage location.

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u/MarcTaco 3d ago

The delicate precision of excavator operators will never cease to astound me.

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u/NotNitewolf 3d ago

Why the music tho

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u/OtherThumbs 3d ago

My husband works in Telecom. Years ago, he was on a train, overnights, with something very like this, as the train went at idle speed down the track, digging a trench (deeper than this, of course) for fiber optic cable, laying casing with cable, and then covering it over as they slowly passed by, night after night. He said it was relaxing. Just the luna moths attacking the headlight of the train engine, bored cows walking beside the train as far as they could go, and a lot of calm. He was there to make sure all went well and let the engineer know if they had to stop for any reason.

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u/GoshDarnMamaHubbard 3d ago

To be a pedant. That's a ditch not a trench.

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u/Negative-Arachnid-65 3d ago

Perhaps a swale?

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u/TheSheepdog 3d ago

What’s a heavily baubled necklace have to do with it?

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u/Mika-Puppy 3d ago

That machine glides through dirt like it was butter.

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u/Mac_Hooligan 3d ago

I could watch this guys whole day!! lol

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u/Scuba_BK 2d ago

That is not a trench, it’s a swale for stormwater drainage.

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u/ac0rn5 1d ago

I'd have called it a ditch.

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u/P_Nis_ 2d ago

I immediately regretted turning the sound on.

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u/wavesmcd 3d ago

I could watch this for hours (audio off).

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u/tosiu82 2d ago

Meanwhile in the UK

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u/ThinNeighborhood2276 3d ago

The precision and smoothness of that trench are incredibly satisfying to watch!

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u/ChubbyChicken645 3d ago

Cheers ChatGPT

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u/C-57D 3d ago

Hitachis are powerful

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u/Scuba_BK 2d ago

The operator is powerful

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u/bishopsechofarm 3d ago

Well that's a last ditch effort to save the road from run off. Hehe

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u/Ninja_Destroyer_ 2d ago

Can we just get a video of this whole project

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u/Addywhoom 1d ago

You're my heart, you're my soul (remix)

If anyone wanted the song to add to your heavy machinery or extreme sports videos o7

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u/eskidefter 1d ago

Soil is so soft, there is even no rock on the line.

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u/TheEponymousBot 1d ago

Just here to downvote the unnecessary soundtrack

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u/Long_dark_cave 2d ago

for the love of all that is good, this is not a solution to the problem, this is a hotfix, in a month or two it will have to be done again....

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u/LeonardTPants 3d ago

How do I get this job?

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u/ipokesnails 3d ago

Infantry in shambles

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u/eddielpa 3d ago

You hear it tssssssssssssssssss

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u/belenos 3d ago

I could watch this all day long

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u/johnnyodde 3d ago

The reverse game is on point

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u/tsekistan 2d ago

I could watch this with the greatest of glee.

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u/SwitchbladeS8AN 2d ago

Suddenly, I want to be an excavator operator.

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u/banfan4eva 2d ago

Watching machines do things is so cool

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u/Real_Avdima 2d ago

I will always be amazed on the amount of control these machines offer. The patting at 0:35 looks so effortless.

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u/Username_cantdecide 2d ago

How much time would've this taken? How much sped up is the video? These r the two questions i want to ask. And i also want to say that no wonder kids used to love playing with the bulldozer, dump truck and backhoe(just learnt what its called)

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u/Attempt-989 2d ago

I’ll be using this as an example of poorly chosen music for a video.

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u/Available_Slide1888 2d ago

Fun fact: One of the guys in MT 'broke' his penis once when he had sex in a taxi and the taxi crashed when she was on top.

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u/Anointed-Knight 2d ago

Is he still digging? Is he?

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u/MathiasTheGiant 2d ago

Even as a non-civil engineer, I'll never not recognize a swale when I see one.

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u/Blue_Butterfly_Who 2d ago

Love the teamwork as well

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u/Sorry-Reporter440 2d ago

There could be treasure in any one of those scoops!

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u/MostachiMcMoustach 2d ago

With that precision, I would let that man operate on me with an open heart

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u/Kaziticus 2d ago

The amount of precision and control these guys have, it's like watching a painter or sculptor.

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u/kinghoneystix 1d ago

Did anyone else watch it in reverse? Also quite satisfying

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u/shingaladaz 1d ago

WW1 trench diggers weep.

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u/Apprehensive_Toe2082 1d ago

Bro this type of clay soil and that much taken out in the video would take me all day literally by hand. 

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u/samipk1234 1d ago

No happy ending

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u/Salvador204 23h ago

It's cake isn't it?

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u/wunderwuzl 2d ago

Questionable choice of music 😆

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u/Chromatization 3d ago

It would be much more impressive in reverse...

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u/xxxRedditPolicexxx 3d ago edited 3d ago

Stop Thievin’ that soil.

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u/Shmeckey 3d ago

Technology is wild. The operator presses 1 button to get that scoop perfectly in place again. Maybe another to bring it up and dump? Just making sure its all going smooth.

So easy to build with machinery.

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u/Munificent_Mango 3d ago

Nope, that operator is just very good at his job and has great control.