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Hot dog excavator driver delivers a hot dog, including onions

Finnish heavy machinery operator Juha-Pekka Perämäki takes his food seriously and likes to share what he makes, even if it is only a hot dog Click here to watch him use his Caterpillar 308 excavator to prepare a hot dog, right down to putting some onions inside and then delivering it to his friend standing on the sidelines.
July 13, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Finnish heavy machinery operator Juha-Pekka Perämäki takes his food seriously and likes to share what he makes, even if it is only a hot dog

Check the video below to see him use his Caterpillar 308 excavator to prepare a hot dog, right down to putting some onions inside and then delivering it to his friend standing on the sidelines.

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