You, like me, have definitely looked at a giant earth mover before and thought, "no, this is wrong. All wrong. This thing's true purpose has never been realized." But there, the thoughts stopped, for True Perfection Is Unknowable. Until now, when a bunch of Finns turned one into a giant bungie swing.
Something tells me that helmet will do absolutely nothing for this poor man's fate should any piece of the requisite safety equipment break, but I don't think I care. You'd be going out in a blaze of beautiful, pure glory.