HEAVY EQUIPMENT IS FUN TO RIDE


Just outside Allegan there is a heavy machinery scrap yard. In front of the scrap yard there are easily 100 different plows, buckets, and scrapers, removed from the machine that once moved them. They range from bobcat size to flatten a mountain size. The giant earth moving scrapers make sweet little transitions. The one I'm riding here is one of the smaller ones, in front of three larger ones that are blocked in. Then there's one hidden behind a ton of junk that makes these look small. While I was riding, a guy in a giant fork truck was driving around the lot moving shit. He never saw me, or just didn't care. I wonder if he would have moved the junk to get to the big one if I asked nicely. I doubt it, but you never know. I should have asked him. Videos: Top, scraper air, Bottom, bucket bump jump. Pictures: Left, the only accessible scraper. Right, 10 second timer plow ride, poor timing.