The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen!
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
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@christineburns Inb4 there are break dancing competitions with these crazy vehicles lmao.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
I'm sure that temptation is tempered by the inner ear of the operator going "Whoa, didn't see that coming..."
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns is 57 too late to decide I want to drive one of these when I grow up?
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
Adds many many degrees of difficulty to an operator
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@christineburns@mastodon.green
Wow!
What a brilliant idea and even better: application.
OK, maybe it's just me being me, maybe i've been on the forks of Misskey too long, don't care but I am imagining a group of them dancing to Strauss waltzes.@AnguaDelphine I had them visualised as the Tiller Girls or Rockettes
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@christineburns Found a documentation about this model, running for almost one hour and showing its application 'in the wild'. German language, but English subtitles available:
https://youtu.be/vEXB2G6k9LI -
Adds many many degrees of difficulty to an operator
@greatlaketrout I suspect they steal children and grow them into becoming part of the machine — a bit like Cybermen.
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@greatlaketrout I suspect they steal children and grow them into becoming part of the machine — a bit like Cybermen.
Makes TOTAL sense.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns I always marvel at what otherworldly skills it must take precisely to control these machines, and even elegantly so.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
New to me, and I used to operate excavators, pretty cool and also kind of crazy, I for-see crazy accidents and off balance tumbles with heavy loads and operator miscalculating, there's a reason you need good contact with the ground.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns My grand-niece is a heavy equipment operator, she would love one of these.
I knew a guy who could operate equipment on the steepest of slopes with the grace and agility of a ballerina. His equipment would dance. It was glorious. -
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My grandson is going to be over the moon when he sees this! Thank you!