@kevin.pal6: Celebrating its 100 year birthday in style 🥳 #steamengine #steampower #steamshovel #construction #fyp

antonio_santos_131 :

Can’t convince me that these things don’t have souls

Bitter Water :

Shoveling coal into a machine that shovels dirt. Shoveling ratio 1:500

LincolnFFSternn :

growing up in the 70s, every excavator I saw was a steam shovel

Carter Camp :

Wow! Four guys used to be able to dig a cellar with this one machine in a day. Now it just takes one with the machine but 7 foremen and 2 engineers watching to make sure he doesn’t slack off

Robie jr 87 :

fire both needs to eat and breathe as far as I’m concerned steam engines of any kind be they tractors diggers or trains are just fire given a body and purpose probably as close to living machine we’ve ever devised

T4nk.T0nk :

they dug the panama canal with hundrets of these

Dead_Knight3 :

fun fact, we still actively use steam power, Coal and nuclear energy are really just steam cause your using the coal and heat from a nuclear reaction to make steam to spin a generator

FLINTMANDO :

“I must be careful, I must be careful”

play3r.1 :

I remember that book she left no way out so she became the boiler for the town hall

Curtis :

Where's the air conditioned cab? Operator cant get even a little bit sweaty 😂

DeplorableMe :

To think steam shovels dug the original Panama Canal.

Shane :

i’m convinced any steam powered equipment has a soul

Liam 💾 :

100th birthday? Needs a whole birthday cake in the firebox, stat!

duanepisarski :

Can’t imagine how hot it must have been for the crew

Frank :

Don’t mind me just here to dance

Degentang :

Got dam to be an operator back then.

Fire Elmo Brings Curses :

Oh lawd he comin’

laxen.nu08 :

servicetruckdude :

remember a crew of four people on one machine and make a hard decent living. now a guy has to run three machines at once and not afford to live

Zach🇺🇸 :

This video is actually epic

Dk4567 :

Mulle meck fast från dollarstore

Bear Kaneaiakala :

I still have mike mulligan and his steam shovel

honestashol :

That was a cartoon!?! I remember the book!!!

hdef1066 :

Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. I'm 55 and still have a copy on my bookshelf.

Tcpjam3r332 6 :

What a badass piece of equipment!!