Lord Kadizzles first piece of heavy equipment.

In the third grade Lord Kadizzle was farmed out to some farmers in West Virginia for the summer.  As a third grader Kadizzle got to drive this strange tractor. It was used to cultivate vegetables.  The largest piece of equipment Kadizzle ever got to run was a 70 cubic yard dragline that weighed over 400 tons.  That experience was brief and well supervised.  The operator tempted Kadizzle when he was working as a foreman at a strip mine to give it a try.  The last foreman that tried it pulled the bucket into the boom and got fired.  I think that was the plan,  so I took my turn delicately and got out of the seat.

Kadizzle has briefly flown a small plane on several occasions.  The mine was a great chance to operate some very large equipment.  When bored Kadizzle used to let the D10 dozer operator sit in his pickup and Kadizzle would push some dirt for awhile.  It quickly got boring.  Underground Kadizzle was a real shuttle car operator.   A shuttle car is a difficult piece of equipment used to haul coal underground.   The shuttle car has no reverse, you simply change to the other seat facing the other way and drive that direction.  Operating a shuttle car in narrow underground tunnels take a lot of skill.  Along the way Kadizzle has driven 180 ton haul trucks,  large sugar beet trucks, and operated some smaller cranes.  It all started back there with that old Allis Charmers Model G.