Stand well back! Don't try this at home!!

bradley martin · Jul 18, 2008

My brother send me these slides of a demonstration. I don't have any additional information but it appears to be from a trade show somewhere in south east Asia. It would take nerves of steel and superb skill IMHO.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 18, 2008

You could remove the "nerves of steel" part if the excavator was operated by remote................

bradley martin · Jul 18, 2008

Glenn; There appears to be an operator in the cab in the first 2 photos ( more visible maybe in the larger vesion of the photos sent me). Maybe "lack of brains" would be a bigger requirement!!

Bill(Wis) · Jul 18, 2008

"Be careful" means different things to different people.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 18, 2008

LOL......True, still fairly impressive though..........

Nancy Howell · Jul 18, 2008

And the reason you would want to do this is?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 18, 2008

That's what happens when you let them kids grow up with legos and erector sets instead of TV and electronic games

TripleRange · Jul 18, 2008

I can just imagine what would happen if one of those Hydraulic lines burst.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 18, 2008

Nancy,
C'mon, you never did any show off thing just because you could ?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 18, 2008

Theoretically there'd be counter-balance/line-lock valves for the cylinders that'd protect against blown hoses/lines...........I certainly wouldn't want to be the operator depending on them though!!!

RobMD · Jul 18, 2008

That tower has to be made of solid steel in order to take the torque as the excavator rests its tracks in the slots.

A very expensive tower, and a very dangerous stunt indeed.

Pitalplace · Jul 18, 2008

(quoted from post at 10:58:33 07/18/08) And the reason you would want to do this is?

Because you can!

bill mart · Jul 18, 2008

how is he locking the machine to the tower when he moves the boom to a higher purchase?wouldnt the counter weight pull him off?

kyplowboy · Jul 18, 2008

That is sweet!

I am not smart enough to post pics but my brother sent me an email kinda like that a while back, a guy walked a back hoe up the end of a rail car. He drove/walked it about 12 cars up to empty out a coal car that had jumped track so they could get it back on. Pretty wild, if some one here ever gets a hoe on 3 wheels the E,H,&S guy is have'n a stoke and throw'n paper work over his head.

Dave

Don-Wi · Jul 18, 2008

Those pictures were on here a few months back. They actually make attatchments for the backhoe that makes it able to do that safely. They use them to dump gravel along the rails during construction too. Still crazy though...

Donovan from Wisconsin

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