Twelve-Tonne Tea-Pourers and Serious Stuff | A Gallery from Spectrum | RNZ National

Excavator operators demonstrate skill and precision in using their 12-tonne diggers to pour tea from a teapot attached to their massive claw-buckets and even add a teaspoon of sugar but there’s also the serious stuff.

Welcome to the Top Guns.

Anyone for tea?

A closer look.

One sugar or two?

Steady does it.

Popping the champagne cork.

Manipulating the hoop along the convoluted pipe.

Now the serious stuff. a few centimetres miscalculation can do $100,000 worth of damage on a real job.

Former National Champion Aucklander Brian Hoffmann won the One Day Job.

Kids Corner, the prize is a bottle of soft drink lifted from the tub.

In need of a helping hand.

I'll do it my way.

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