Cat 319D LN climbing onto rail car

As someone that played with a few Tonka toys in his time, this might be the most badass thing I've ever seen...

That is an impressive bit of maneuvering. Those machines are also incredibly capable and hats off to the engineers who design them.

I love the video, as was said, the impressive power to climb, but gentle enough to put a table cloth on for Sunday dinner. Incredible talent from a gifted operator.

Pure concentrated nostalgia. My mom used to have machine videos like this on her computer, and I would just watch them over and over again. Good times.

YES...& Thank you!! This operator is my Uncle and he knows exactly what he is doing! As for all those thinking he was stupid or would be in some kind of trouble from his boss...quite the opposite actually. They were all very impressed and to prove it a picture of my uncle doing this is hanging on a wall somewhere in most CAT offices! Go look for yourselves. No wrong doing going on in this video people, just a GREAT operator doing his job! :)

When a ramp just won't do.

What ever that very talented excavator operator is being paid, IT ISN'T ENOUGH !!! I would not have believed it, if I didn't see it with my own eyes. Amazing. Very steady hand on the twin joysticks. Greetings from Ontario, Canada.

After all the various ‘fails’ I’ve seen involving these machines, this operator appears damn impressive

No hesitation, truly an experienced operator.

How cute, a cat using it's litter box for the first time.

I operate a Cat 385C, have run a lot of these machines for many years, long reaches, Link Belts, Volvos you name it. Beautifully orchestrated work, get a real kick out of this. On the other hand gotta sympathize with the Witch Doctor on a few issues as well. Break a hydraulic line, bad fuel or other split second sensor malfunction, (which modern equipment is famous for) any number of glitches can mean a quick game over. Not to mention getting OSHA or in my case MSHA involved to any degree can wreck your day entirely. Once again, cool, good skills, not always practice.

These sorts of videos are always so cool! Some of these operators have a scary level of ability with their machines!

Da man! This dude knew exactly what he was doing. Not one wrong, or unnecessary move. A ballet.

I've ran excavators most of my life and have done similar manoeuvres like this climbing up and down quarry walls, creek and river banks, and large stockpiles of rock and various other materials. But I would probably be a little nervous climbing up on railcars this way. Hats off to a very skilled, confident and perhaps a bit crazy operator. Cool FN video though.

That is the definition of a smooth operator.

That was really amazing! A lot of talent, skill and precautionary insight. Thanks so much.

The point loads and forces on different components of a machine doing suchlike work must be enormous!

Those 2 "steps" are much easier to move around than a large ramp for a decent size loader with forks on it, not to mention that would be a long ramp and would have to be pretty intricate to hold that weight. Also, steel tracks on a steel ramp can be very slippery and any little slide could be.. shall we say "very bad".

This operator knows his machine very well. Impressive skills ,with such heavy equipment. He made this look easy!👌

That ole boy has some SERIOUS skills man!! Hell of a job!