Heavy Machinery

To the layman, heavy machinery is a bit of a mystery. As a subject it belongs to the realm of men who drive things, build things and talk intensely about engineering. This is not a criticism but recognition of how society has changed.

In times gone by men, especially working-class men, were expected to work with heavy machinery and know an awful lot about it. Today there are few opportunities to work with heavy machinery, men are more likely to work in a service industry and sit behind a desk in front of a computer monitor. The men, and it is nearly all men, who do work with heavy machinery tend to be looked down upon by everyone else as mainly manual workers. In one sense they are as they have to operate the heavy machinery manually, but don’t forget that heavy machinery can be, and most certainly is, very complicated and people that operate heavy machinery have to be very highly skill and undergo a great deal of training.

The training people (we will call them people just to be politically correct) undergo is as much to do with the current health and safety laws as it is with actually operating the heavy machinery itself. This just underlines the potential danger there is in using heavy machinery and the skill required by operators to use it.

Heavy machinery is use to shape our environment by being used to built things like the big and iconic buildings that shape our cities, bridges that cross our rivers and the transport infrastructure we use to move about.

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