largest piece of machinery youve ever operated

[martinss01]

If I may hazard a guess, it appears to be a Palladin Self-Propelled Artillery Gun.

Its protection and armament (and most things) are quite different than a battle tank.

This is basically an artillery peice that is self contained.

yep, looks like an m109 to me as well.

 

[Ginn & Juice]

Cockdozer....

 

[BB73]

A forklift, not counting RV's or rental trucks.

 

[Muck]

2 pages in,

what the fuck, is nobody going to say "my Penis"?

Why? How many posters have you let operate your penis?

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

No cool military vehicles for me.
One summer my job for a construction company was to cut up flat bed trailers for scrap. I used an oxy-acetylene torch , a giant hyster forklift and a crane. It was a hot but fun and a once in a lifetime job. I was pretty good at rigging the pieces and picking them up with a crane.

 

[bigtenbadboy]

Some of my duties at FedEx Ground include switching trailers occasionally. I can move around and back up 53 ft trailers with my eyes closed almost. I don't have a CDL though only a yard switching certification. I think I'd be scared shitless driving a semi on the open road.

 

[Brutus1]

A Komatsu 930E
2700 HP with a payload of 640,000#

 

[jimotis4heisman]

cat d9 in college working on a highway berm. its over 50 tons.

ran a d9 again this weekend and a cat 385

so you can understand the size/power of a d9
YouTube - Armored D9 Dozer crushing cars in Iraq
YouTube - Cat 385bLME

 

[Jake]

I've driven an 18 wheeler (badly, and not very far), a forklift (summer job), and operated a metal stamping press (same job), but I'd really like to drive that big fucking Komatsu dump truck.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Terex Trac Hoe. A 300, I believe. Last summer when the company I worked for demolished the old West Jeff HS. That was fun. Mostly, I picked up shit and seperated scrap and ran a fire hose, but for a bit, I got to fuck shit up.

 

[scooter1369]

Tron's mom's vibrator

 

[BUCKYLE]

Tron's mom's vibrator

It's the same model used for concrete.

 

[Apache]

Road Grade

I was a college student and was a laborer doing cement construction for streets. The grader operator was grading the ground between curbs we had already poured so that we could pour rough base underneath the blacktop. He told me to more the grader. I starter her up, put her in gear, raised the blade so I could move the grader. Started to move the grader, promptly tore out about 40 feet of curb. Boy did I get an ass chewing.

Apache helicopter.

 

[cincibuck]

I was the Maintenance officer for an artillery battalion and got to drive an 8" Howitzer, self propelled. Basically an 8' howitzer riding on a medium tank body. I didn't have to parallel park the thing.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Tron's mom's vibrator