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Crazy buggers
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vassy66T1 Wow ... are U reading this?
2,120 posts · joined Jun 2003 ·
Impressive German Engineering
vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber
4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·
haha awesome!
dam that would hurt if he slipped. Wonder how many people they lost practicing that?
dam that would hurt if he slipped. Wonder how many people they lost practicing that?
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donn Wolfsburg Elder
3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 ·
Mad bastards !😵💫😵💫🤪🤪
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
Kombi_Rescue Wolfsburg Wizard
440 posts · joined Feb 2005 ·
new way of doing donuts in a car park !!!!!
Flintstones Custom Title Time!
1,077 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
high density parking, perhaps?
Good effort though😂
Good effort though😂
cam070 Custom Title Time!
1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 ·
Madness but carefully calculated German madness
Smiley Veteran Volks Folk
2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·
It's a very impressive stunt. But also incredibly dangerous.
The hydraulics on a digger like that are designed to work in the opposite direction at what they are being used to climb the tower. They are made to have maximum power while retracting, so while digging they have the most force when pulling the bucket through the ground towards the machine. During climbing the tower they are working in the opposite direction. I'd hate the think of the stress the systems were under lifting the machine like that, given it would weigh many times what the hydraulic are rated to lift. If something had have blown it would have come down very quickly. And I can't believe that idiot TV presenter was standing directly under it while climbing!!
This is probably just me overthinking everything. These people are German! So it was probably modified to perform the stunt. Very impressive feat. I like the other machines parked around it on the little ramps holding the tower down.
Smiley 🙂
The hydraulics on a digger like that are designed to work in the opposite direction at what they are being used to climb the tower. They are made to have maximum power while retracting, so while digging they have the most force when pulling the bucket through the ground towards the machine. During climbing the tower they are working in the opposite direction. I'd hate the think of the stress the systems were under lifting the machine like that, given it would weigh many times what the hydraulic are rated to lift. If something had have blown it would have come down very quickly. And I can't believe that idiot TV presenter was standing directly under it while climbing!!
This is probably just me overthinking everything. These people are German! So it was probably modified to perform the stunt. Very impressive feat. I like the other machines parked around it on the little ramps holding the tower down.
Smiley 🙂
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donn Wolfsburg Elder
3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 ·
yeah, you can bet ya nuts that there was a fair bit of "redesign" done to the machine, after all a publicity stunt like that wouldn't want to go wrong. 🙅
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Andy Andy\'s Adventures
2,820 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·
There's nothing standard looking on that machine, it's custom built for the job. Hydraulics will have no issues with a load like that and plenty more. There's also a fair amount of fail safe built into the system if something lets go.
That being said it's a seriously impressive stunt, and a credit to them and their design/manufacture team. That operator has much bigger balls than I will ever have too!!
That being said it's a seriously impressive stunt, and a credit to them and their design/manufacture team. That operator has much bigger balls than I will ever have too!!
whathaveidone Custom Title Time!
1,559 posts · joined Feb 2010 ·
This is probably just me overthinking everything.
Your not the only one over thinking.looks like they thought long and hard about it too!!!!! The Jib on that machine is about 3 time the thickness of a standard one. With duel hydrolic cylinders and the huge one in the middle there was no way it would fail. Would have been fun but!!!!!!
Your not the only one over thinking.looks like they thought long and hard about it too!!!!! The Jib on that machine is about 3 time the thickness of a standard one. With duel hydrolic cylinders and the huge one in the middle there was no way it would fail. Would have been fun but!!!!!!