This Excavator Operator is About to Have a Really Bad Day

These guys tried to load a large excavator onto a flimsy barge and it didn't go well.

Here's a reminder of that old saying that you don't try to put 100 pounds of potatoes into a 50 pound sack.

That goes double for a very large piece of construction equipment being loaded on a boat that barely floats empty.

Check it out:

That was just an odd choice. He had to know it wasn't going well when his buddies all started bailing on him. He gave it the old college try when he spun around and tried to dig in, but it was all over by then anyway.

Thank goodness he got out! He almost caught the bucket to his head and got buried by dirt, but he made it.

What's next, trying to float fully loaded dump trucks across a river? Yeah you can see that right here.

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