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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:32 pm
by GB_Groundworks
heres a video i made for some friends of mine of the digger forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v....TOO0yiw
amazing bits of kit
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:39 am
by Captain Concrete
Seen these in the alps there amazing what they get up too.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:27 pm
by dig dug dan
these have been on arbtalk. The guy who was flailing the first lot in an ordinary excavator took a video of it
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:50 pm
by mickg
nice bit of kit
why the tether is that a UK HSE issues as the videos I have watched of the same machine on a steep hill was not tethered
on steep slope
this video is the first time I set eyes on one, takes some guts working on a slope so steep
sideways on a hillside working in a vineyard
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:15 pm
by lutonlagerlout
those crazy Italian stone guys
vertigo
LLL
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:18 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Yeah was Severn Trent health and safety officer specifying it and to reduce erosion on the slope that might wash into the reservoir. They are go anywhere but can make a mess, the more mountain ones have small wheel and longer legs.
The way they run the hydraulics is something else they have a power line with dedicated pump, only 9 ton machine but equivilant hydraulic power of 21 tonner with only 80 litres of diesel in an 8 hour day.
Yeah it was my mate Eddie job, he had the long reach and was driving the anchor excavator, he's got one of the most tricked out excavators you'll ever see.
The Menzies run to something like £250k new, tyres on that are £2500 a pop!
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:27 pm
by Kuts
thats some arse nipping stuff :rock:
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:38 pm
by mickg
£250k for a new one blimey that's some cost for a small size machine