Cities bring fun, expertise to Heavy Equipment Roadeo

A young girl honks the horn in a City of Carrollton excavator at the Heavy Equipment Roadeo and Touch-A-Truck event on May 20, 2026 as a Carrollton public works department employee and another community member look on.

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A Carrollton public works employee competes for the fastest time sliding a five-gallon bucket across a wooden railing.

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A Farmers Branch public works employee frowns in concentration as he carefully lowers a traffic cone onto a stack of tires as the final step of a skills challenge at the Heavy Equipment Roadeo on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

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A crowd watches an operator from the Carrollton public works department demonstrate the dexterity of an excavator equipped with a tiltrotor attachment at the Heavy Equipment Roadeo on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

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A Carrollton public works employee competes for the best time stacking tires using a clamshell excavator bucket at the Heavy Equipment Roadeo on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

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A Carrollton public works employee gingerly drags the battered five-gallon Lowes bucket used in the challenges across a wooden rail by two of the four forks of a backhoe bucket during a skills competition on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

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A young girl’s family shows her how to honk the horn in a city of Carrollton excavator at the Heavy Equipment Road and Touch a Truck event on May 20, 2026 as a Carrollton public works department employee and another community member look on.

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Families explore the Heavy Equipment Roadeo on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 during a break between events.

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Farmers Branch public works employees pose for a group photo in front of a Gradall telescopic-boom excavator after the Heavy Equipment Roadeo on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

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Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2026 10:49 am

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Metrocrest community members watched machine operators demonstrate their skills and learned about how the Farmers Branch and Carrollton public works departments help maintain their cities at the Heavy Equipment Roadeo and Touch-A-Truck event in the Tommy Standridge Stadium parking lot on Wednesday, May 25, 2026.

Public works employees from both cities competed to see which of them could get the fastest time precisely stacking tires and traffic cones on pallets or sliding a five-gallon Lowe’s bucket across a narrow wooden rail as families watched. Families and children also examined construction machines up close, clambered into the cabs and honked the horns.

Other public works employees ran carnival-style games, told community members about their jobs and equipment and passed out public works merchandise and information as well as snacks and soft drinks.

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