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It takes a steady hand to operate a piece of heavy construction equipment, and Finland-based excavator operator Juha-Pekka Perämäki is just the man to do it. In fact, he’s so good at it, he used a Hitachi medium excavator to stack and play with LEGO Duplo blocks. He must have nerves of steel, because he is so precise that it’s crazy.
When Perämäki is not working as a machine operator, he races rally cars. That helps explain his reflexes.
Want to see someone just as talented? In the second video, his colleague Petri Perämäki builds a tower of nuts with the same machine. This guy is just as precise and steady.
I would break every piece and cause like a million bucks in damage if I tried this.
[via Kotaku via Laughing Squid]
