One of the challenges facing transportation agencies today is how to conduct accurate, timely, and safe bridge inspections. Maintaining bridges is important to ensure public safety, and bridge owners and engineers need to perform regular inspections to determine the structural integrity of bridges so that they can plan for maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement of those bridges.
Having trouble getting into that Christmas feeling? Too much taking and not enough giving in the world?
Well, one extremely skilled excavator operator in the US did hit bit to change all that. He extended a helping hand – in reality a bucket - to a baby deer trapped head-deep in mud on an extremely wet construction site.
The operator used his skills to gingerly lift the stricken animal to safety.
That wasn’t the end of it. There were, in fact, two deer, and the excavator operator rescued the second
