The climbing machine!

[Iain]

Hi
Nothing to do with renewables but quite amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=RobaJKGMMiE

Iain

[JohnS]

Brilliant

[Pat_]

erstaunlich!

[wookey]

Gotta love those Austrians. If it's not implausible woodwork, it's foolishness with machinery. He cheated a little with those hooks between the tracks, though, rather than relying on the tracks wedging :-)

And there must be some really clever power+hydraulics slip-ring arrangement in the main cab to track bearing. How does that work?

[biff]

the whole exercise was daft.
                         it was just an add for digger hydraulics. like the ex60-1 it must have duel pumps but he still required the full use of his expertise to get the digger to lift itself up.the only thing special about the whole thing was the fact they could find someone daft enough to do the stunt.rams have been known to pull their seals and colapse.
                                           biff
                                                                                               

[Heinz]

the whole exercise was daft.
                         it was just an add for digger hydraulics. like the ex60-1 it must have duel pumps but he still required the full use of his expertise to get the digger to lift itself up.the only thing special about the whole thing was the fact they could find someone daft enough to do the stunt.rams have been known to pull their seals and colapse.
                                           biff

I was thinking similar thoughts as I watched the presenter bloke standing underneath, wouldn't have been me. It's like standing under a crane load, not a good idea as things do go wrong. The digger was secure to the tower by at least one mechanical attachment even if the hydraulics failed, but would the tower have coped with the load if the hydraulics failed and the digger suddenly dropped 20 feet? Don't think so.... 

H