No spills for Tai Poutini students
Students of Tai Poutini digger school show off their skills with an excavator
If you ever need someone to pour you a glass of beer, the students of Tai Poutini digger school will be able to help.
Students from the polytechnic have been showing the skills of pouring beer and balancing full wine glasses using an excavator at the annual Waikato Regional Excavators Fieldays competition.
Joon Oh had never driven an excavator 18 weeks ago, and at the end of the course he is able to balance the glasses without spilling while he turns the machine.
Oh left his 12 year career in real estate to learn to drive loggers and excavators.
“The first time it is a bit scary,” he said.
Oh, who also holds a physics degree, said he wanted to go into this industry because it is full of jobs and a lot of money.
“It took about eight or nine weeks to pick up,” he said.
Balancing wine glasses may look hard, but Oh said it was easy once he learnt.
Kris Fannin, tutor at Tai Poutini said there will be 14 students demonstrating over the four days.
“The hardest one is to get the ball on the manhole riser,” he said.
The demonstrations provide an insight of what will be in the competition this Friday and Saturday.
