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VIDEO: Wheel loaders turn on each other in Chinese street battle

Irate Chinese construction workers decided enough was enough and took to the streets to settle their turf war, caught on video by a bystander. At one point, a wheel loader is seen charging in from the left, coming to the rescue of his overturned fellow loader. He almost rights the stricken machine that is lying on its side. After the dust had settle, their site managers might have had something to say about their use of company equipment. So where exactly to old dozers go to die? Are they carted of
April 19, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Irate Chinese construction workers decided enough was enough and took to the streets to settle their turf war, caught on video by a bystander.

At one point, a wheel loader is seen charging in from the left, coming to the rescue of his overturned fellow loader. He almost rights the stricken machine that is lying on its side.

After the dust had settle, their site managers might have had something to say about their use of company equipment.

So where exactly to old dozers go to die? Are they carted off to a special scrapyard where the ‘carcass’ is broken down after all useable parts are stripped away?

In the US state of Nevada, one onlooker videoed the final moments of an old bull dozer – apparently an International Harvester, according to one viewer. %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Click here Visit Youtube \Video false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rDhY7GMJeI false false%> to watch as a tracked front loader picks it clean and tries hard to bash down the remaining hulk into small bits. R.I.P.

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