i work at a auto salvage yard running every piece of equipment they got ( wheel loader, excavator, and a mini loader ) i started out working on the ground and thought i wanted to be a mechanic. now i wanna get into the earth moving industry

We need to make this channel bigger, he uploads daily damn near, and is very helpful

Brother my first word was backhoe too!! Your a legend i love you videos too they give great realistic non sugar coated insight and it helps a lot keep it up

My route for getting into the seat was by hiring on with an excavating company as a truck driver. I asked to get in on the floating, at which point they had to teach me how to use the things. Now, as a driver, and occasional 'stick puller', I don't even have to apply for jobs. I have been offered work by competitors while fueling my truck!

I am starting an apprenticeship for heavy equipment next year hopefully. Love watching your videos, very helpful!

This is very encouraging. I'm not only new to the industry but I'm a mature woman. I just applied at a training opportunity for a haul truck on a mining site. Fingers crossed they look past the no experience.

Good vid! , im third generation operator, started in my teens as a laborer. jackhammering shoveling, picking, learned that trade and slowly transitioned into equipment working for non union companies. then eventually got into the local for my state NJ, been in some years now. yes its hard work and long hours pay is great and benefits as well. Down side is not seeing my kids as much as i would like but my pops was the same way never saw him growing up. God bless and stay at it!

it took me to watch one video to subscribe...bro is super fuc...real...amazing work bro..big up much love...i hope your channel will blow up...very helpful..nothing but mad respect...peace and love to you and your beloved family...keep it up...you helping alot of people...love from canada

Really nice to hear your story Brian. What you said is definitely true. Be a sponge. We both been at it a long time. I think you will agree, we never stop learning. Thanks Brian.

Wow!! That is so amazing!! You are awesome!!

Been in real estate/sales for the past 20 years. I start trade school in August for HEO. Have no problem starting at the bottom, hopefully I'm able to make it. Wife's taking over the real estate business and Im going for something I've always wanted to do.

I want to venture into the industry but it's so hard getting job for the first time

Your first word is hilarious! Mine was excavator lol.

I know I’m coming into this comment section late but wanted to say I’m currently a class A driver for an equipment rental company and spend ALOT of time in and out of job sites and I’ve known for a couple years now I wanted to eventually end up in the HEO industry, I’m currently looking at the Wisconsin local 139 apprenticeship program but my biggest fear is the pay cut, my wife does work but I make double her yearly pay where I currently am, but I’m confident I can make up for it in a decent time frame, all I know is I’m almost 35 and want to make a career change before I get much older, the trucking industry pays well but it’s not what makes me happy so fingers crossed 🤞

Thanks for the videos and the information contained in this...am in Uganda and am an excavator operator as well..

I know the industry is hard work and can be back breaking, is there any advice on how to stay healthy as to not cripple yourself by the time you retire or minimize the effects of years of that type of work on the body?

I am still in grade school but I have been drawn to construction for all my life. I love anything to do with it, I plan on going into the industry I just don’t know which way I should go once I graduate. I live in Ohio so we have a union. But I also think becoming a laborer is a great choice. I still have a couple years left but I spend a lot of my time watching videos with equipment and how to become and operator and etc. I often think of what I want to do and how I want to do it. Just wanted to know if you had any suggestions. Also, I have one question, when you are in the apprenticeship program do you only work at training facilities or do you actually do job at job sites. I love your videos ,they are very detailed and entertaining. Continue the great work.

Apprentice with dans. Can confirm 615 water wagon is still out here

I am excavtor operator 21 years experience pipe line compny pdo and oxy in omen

You make great videos

Damn man, didn't see that coming.... that you were in the banking world. Have you ever noticed that the machine operator's normally stick around, while the truck drivers come and go? I mean off road truck drivers btw? Have you worked much in the quarry/gravel pits side of this industry? What's your favourite pice of equipment to operate and least favourite? And you 100% made the right choice to be there for your kids, time flys by way to quick and you want to be there to see them grow up and for the good memories. Thanks for sharing your how you got started, maybe you could do some story time videos because I bet you have some funny and interesting stories to tell like this one. I apologize for the long comment ha. 😁👍

You came into the industry from banking, I came into it from baking!

Any advice for a 29 year old guy looking to get into crane operating? My dad was a local 139 crane operator in WI until he died. I have talked to the union and he told me I'm a shoo-in because of my dad. What should I expect with an apprenticeship with the union? What will I start out doing? Is this the best route? I have no experience and no CDL but get told me they will train me and get me my CDLs. Thank you, great channel brother 🤙

I also did 5 years in the bank industry now im doing dz driving, and looking to become HEO or Crane operator...

I'm going to trucking academy to get my CDL but I want to drive flat bed or dump truck but I also want to run equipment as well.

Goodmorning, I've been thinking about getting into equipment operating, i'm 26, I don't really have much experience, i mean all the experience i have is : Ran a medium sized excavator trenching 4ft deep hole so my dad could run these long ass electrical lines, one time i excavated out the side of a mountain cliff area to run water pipes from a river to someones pump/filtration house up the hill a couple hundred yards away, and then i ran a skid steer for all of 10 minutes in a back yard once, and then i've done a shit to of ditch witching for underground electrical. I think I want to get into equipment operating, I make pretty good money now, i weld and supervise a maintenance crew at a plant, i make about $100k a year, but i'm under so much fucking stress, i've been working there 6 years, i'm to the point where if i'm going to be this stressed, it needs to be for myself. I don't really want to take a MASSIVE pay cut and go be a minimum wage operator somewhere that will take 5 years to train me to do anything, do you think it would be a bad idea for me to just save up about $35k over about 8 months and try buying a little track loader skid steer machine as my first piece of equipment and then kind of learn as i go, or see if i can find a mentor for it? I was thinking start off with the little skid steer because i could tackle a multitude of different jobs because with all the various attachments for them the possibilities are damn near endless, and then use that equipment to buy a little excavator after that? i'm trying to figure out how i can make this work, and what kind of jobs and things i could do with it as a beginner to gain some experience, like there is a ton of BLM land i can just go to and practice re-smoothing the roads and trails and shit and moving piles of dirt, that's not an issue, but like i know better than to try to take a job cutting a fucking grade when i have no idea what i'm doing. I already bought my house and stuff, so i'm at the point where i don't wanna just hit the complete reset button on my income and go live in my moms basement again but i want to find a way to get into the industry, main goal being to be my own boss.

Hell yeah you do landscaping. I do landscaping for my career as well. I'm working for a landscaping company called busy bee lawn service. What was your landscaping company centered around? Installs or maintenance? For me personally I really enjoy doing landscape maintenance.

I work for general contractor and have some equipment experience. I’m the sole bread winner with our first baby on the way. How did you weather the pay cut?

Lucky you had good family mine sucks

I'm 45 years old. Am I too old to pursue this life long passion

Would you consider mini excavator operator as heavy equipment operator experience?

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Feel like I want to leave Corp and go into Heavy Equip operator/ Construction but at 51 am I too old? Where to start?

At what age you started ?

is this for canada or us?

How do I get into this industry???