It’s been over a week since we featured any trucks  or equipment ending up on the wrong side of the drink. Fortunately cameras are pointed everywhere and at everything to keep us entertained. Today we have an incident from Bangladesh, home of the famous ship breaking industry.

This crew finds themselves needing to move a mid sized excavator. A lowboy trailer would be too easy, or maybe there were none available. Hey, a boat! It appears they built a little earthen pier to reach the boat, so the boat could stay in deep enough water. I’m guessing these cats  are BangShift readers and remember the Russian guys trying to back a semi onto a barge that wasn’t secured to terra firma. They have tied the boat to land with the finest clothesline available. They tiptoe across the makeshift loading ramp towards the boat. Boards have been laid across the boat but not secured. As soon as the excavator starts onto the vessel the boards tip up and the boat tips down. We have plenty of deckhands encouraging the operator to keep coming. They all stand on the boards because about 8 Bangladeshis weigh more than the 30,000 pound backhoe. Things keep getting worse, but everyone keeps waving him on. The operator smacks a guy with the bucket and into the water. That’s going to leave a mark. The solution is to keep coming. It isn’t until the boat starts to sink that they decide this is a really bad idea. They swing the house and try to plant the bucket, but the loading ramp isn’t compacted very well. The operator finally realizes there is no recovering from this situation and bails out. The boat sinks, the excavator sinks, and the entire crew goes for a swim.

I guess it beats working in the ship breaking yard.