WTF was happening in sandboxes in the 50's?!

Have a look at this bucket loader toy.  Seriously, look at this thing!  This aint your daddy's sandbox toy.  Actually, if your dad was a baby boomer, then it might have been, but that's beside the point!  This incredible toy was manufactured by Doepke Model Toys from Cincinnati Ohio in the 1950's.  It's BIG, heavy, made of rusty steel, and it has dangerous pinch points and sharp edges.  All these wonderful features, combined with a sophisticated chain-driven mechanism, make it so damn cool that I get mad just knowing that I was deprived of toys like this in my era.

I decided that pictures alone didn't capture how awesome this toy is, so I made the following dorky video to illustrate the point.  Enjoy!