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VIDEO: Rudolph gets a lift from a skilled excavator operator

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
December 21, 2016 Read time: 1 min
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.

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