Check out this kid.

[figbo]

I was throwing rocks at his age.

http://static.video.qq.com/TPout.swf...id=r010673xh67

[nick c]

Cool

[Sarajevo]

Poor kid will spend long enough working - he doesn't need to start at age 6/7.

[withthesword]

damn, he handles that thing better than me >.<

[unclesallie]

Amazing!

[wantonebad]

Hello, child labor laws!!! Oh wait, wrong country. Hey since there is no law against this he's pretty good at it, wonder what he makes .12-.14 cents an hour?


Oy!

[East Bay Rider]

Video won't load on my iPad. Is it available on YouTube?

[sleddog]

A good thing OH&S isn't in jurisdiction....

[chicfarmer1]

Charles Dickens weeps.

[Lion]

Wow...they start them young over there.....wonder if he has a 401K plan???

Take it easy.....Leo

[rainman_16]

Amazing! He's the young Tiger Woods of heavy machinery

[rfknauss]

[GradyPhilpott]

Back in the Seventies, I operated one of 5 front end loaders on the loading dock of a potash mine in Carlsbad, NM, among other machinery.

By far the best of these to operate were the three Caterpillar 950 loaders that we'd use to fill hoppers in the warehouses. These were articulated machines like that one, but somewhat larger and with a more robust hydraulic system.

Three rooms in the older warehouse had hoppers similar to that one and the three rooms in the newer warehouse had sunken hoppers, so you could just build a pile on top of the grate.

I would spend 8-16 hours a day doing that in one of those rooms in one of those warehouses and did that fairly often, along with loading boxcars, hopper rail cars and semi-trailers, and sometimes operating the bagging machine for loading bags on boxcars.

Operating the loaders, especially in the new warehouse with the sunken hoppers, was probably the most fun I ever had on any job I ever had, but the dust was a real problem working inside as we did.

Having a bucket that would hold 2.5 tons and belts that would run at 4 tons a minute meant that you had to really stay on top of the job, if you ever wanted to take a break, so after months and months of doing that, I got to be pretty good at it.

So, it is with some level of competence that I say that that kid really knows what he's doing and besides that he doesn't have the advantage of operating the bucket from the seat where the levers would be more accessible.

Now, should a kid that age be doing all that?

Probably not, but what are you going to do?

[MilgaussMan1]

in china they start them young! kinda like nascar and open car in europe/america...

in america the new sport is BMX/skateboard.

[figbo]

I think he's 5,pre-schooler.

[MonBK]

What's the big deal, that loader has Power Steering, besides it's not a kid but a 47 year old midget.

[cajunron]

I surely hope he doesn't fall out of the cab and under those wheels. It looks kinda dangerous to me, but what do I know?

[ROGERWILCO357]

hey kids can have the dexterity to play video games why not a machine probably his dad owns the place and taught him good for him he will have his Rolex in no time. I saw on the AX men the one guy taught his kid how to grab the wood and stack it on the trucks and he was like 4 or 5 yrs old incredible stuff kids are very adaptive and surprise me all the time.My kids do stuff on our computers that took me years to learn seems the learn over nite..
After seeing it again wow that kid drives better than most I see on the road today..

[Tri-Tip]

Not sure how he has the strength to even turn the wheel. I played with one of those once, and it was not easy to drive.