Operating Heavy Machinery while under the Influence of Childhood

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So, we come across a lot of wild stuff on the Internet. We’re basically always online looking for inspiration, entertainment and cataloguing the crazy of the web. Some stuff we share with you and some we don’t. This one? I just don’t even know where to start.

Check it out…

Should this be happening? Is this okay with you? I can’t decide whether I should be impressed a 2.5-year-old is competent at operating machinery that I have no idea how to manage, or be afraid for his life.

You tell us:

Should this kid be able to operate this excavator by himself?

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6 Comments

  • Larry says:
    at 2:20 pm

    I find it hard to beleive that this is even rule. Crazy that a kid this age is handling heavy machinery.

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  • Jess says:
    at 4:23 pm

    I’m gonna be the “weird/bad” guy on this one (I feel it in my loins), but I’m not surprised or appalled by this at all.

    For years and years small children learning the tools and techniques of operating machinery that will eventually become their vocational skills or trades has been commonplace. Especially in the agricultural world. If I were opposed to this image, wouldn’t it stand to reason that I should be reacting to a 2.5 year old in a restaurant handling an iPad with ease and finesse in the same manner?

    The only difference now is that we city folk have YouTube to see the beginning stages of the manual labor side of the world first hand. ::shrugs::

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  • Mama Wien says:
    at 11:53 pm

    I can tell you this: my toddler would give his left chubby arm to play with a real excavator!
    (Not his right arm though, because then he wouldn’t be able to operate it anymore…)

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  • jennifer says:
    at 10:50 pm

    That child looks competent. I think it would depend on the child. I applaud these parents.

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  • Jess says:
    at 1:06 pm

    Honestly…I’m on the fence. Yes, if it’s real then kudos to the parents for having an awesome toddler and to the toddler for just being awesome. On the other hand…(again if it’s really real) shame on the parents! At any given second the toddler could just say, “the hell with it” and the whole thing could go crazy and tip over and then said toddler would be dead or seriously injured to say the least. Then the parents would be horrified and probably get divorced because they’ll blame each other for the injury/death of their toddler.

    So is “it worth it?” should be the question we ask.

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  • Neeroc says:
    at 4:40 pm

    My twin nephews’ father is a backhoe operator. They’ve been in that thing since they could first crawl in to it, so I might have an undue redneck influence, but all I can think is that those are some damn fine skills that kid has, and also he’s probably safer in the cab.

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