I drove a digger yesterday. Did some digging and loading with it too. I think I did well considering it was the first time I did anything remotely similar (if you don't take driving a fork lift into account).
How, you ask?
Opening scene:
A cool summer's day. Evening is approaching (late afternoon). Clear sky. Sunshine. A weekend place. Two strapping men carrying boulders around. Sweating substantially. Seems like they're trying to clean up a strip of land of rocks and rubble. One younger, in his twenties, one older, reaching 50. A truck carrying a digger is seen slowly making it's way through the forrest, up a slope, towards the weekend place.
Scene 1:
The owner of the diggger unloads the machine, equips it with the bigger of the two "spoons" he brought with him for the digger, cleaning up rubble as instructed by the older of the two men, previously clearing rubble manually. He's loading the dirt and the rocks onto his truck, previously used to transport the digger, which he, when full, unloads a few meters away, using the material to level the terrain.
Scene 2:
The owner of the digger suggests he has one of his employees come back later with his digger to finish the job.
The jounger of the two men, previously carrying rocks arround, suggests, in a humorous manner, he could finish the job himself in about 15 minutes.
The owner of the digger, not being clear, if he's amused, annoyed or just tired from a long day at work... or all of the above, accepts the humorous remark as a challenge and decides to give the strapping young lad a go at it (the owner was later decided, by that strapping young lad, to must have been temporarily insane, to say the least).
Scene 3:
Ironically, the kid cleans up the rest of the mess within 15 minutes without causing any damage to the "log cabin", the digger or the truck he was loading (...pure ownage).
Note to self:
1. word "previously" used too much in scene 1
2. sentences too long and complicated
3. too lazy to correct/rewrite
Epilogue:
It took a few mintues to master the monster... the two joysticks used to manipulate the "spoon", the joints and the rotation of the digger around it's axis (2 joysticks, each has two functions).
It would take years to master it as well as the owner (what he could do with the thing was simply sick... Darth-Vader-Yoda-master-jedi-using-the-force kind of stuff).
Driving around is fun, since you control each of the two caterpillar wheels separately (... for steering).
There is a sort of a "sweeper" placed in front of the digger (see pic) that can be lifted up or lowered down and is used to balance the machine on unlevel terrain and/or to push stuff around in front of the digger.
It doesn't have a milage meter, it measures it's useage in actual ammount of time (hours, minutes...) it has been used.
It's fun.
Note to self 2:
1a. knowledge of english deteriorating at an alarming rate
1b. start reading books in english to improve and reach former master jedi english skills
2a. would help you in school as well, considering that in the 17 years our country has been independent, there hasn't been a single expert in most of the fields we have to cover in different classes, that would have sat down and wrote a peace of educational literature in our own language and according to the demands of the class he/she is teaching (most of our literature is in english). The few classes that have literature available in our own language, generally have that literature additionally equipt with a booklet including all the (gross) mistakes that can be found within it.
2b. annoying...
Lessons of the day:
The beauty of life can be found in many little things that don't always capture one's attention at first glance.
People don't seem to want to do things, if the only purpose of those things is to help other people (out), without any personal (financial or other) gain (refering to Note to self 2, point 2a).
Peace out,
Spawn
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Ne razumem nauka dneva :D
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