Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Humour => Topic started by: Martin (Admin) on November 24, 2008, 01:12:48 pm
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What ever the operator of this track hoe gets paid, it is not enough!
This tower was built to show off the physical power of the excavator.
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one Brave fellow
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"Pass me my brown trousers...."
Rich
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Are these thing fitted with Airbags or parachutes?? Thats an incredible feat and what an advert... British of course!
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:o :o :o
Hate to think what that liability policy cost 'em!
Chuck
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Now I got to use the rest of the day hunting through the www for the video <*<
Most impressive!
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Are these thing fitted with Airbags or parachutes?? Thats an incredible feat and what an advert... British of course!
I dont think LIEBHERR are british though I could be wrong about the type of excavator in the picture but it is in thier colours and style.
And could you see elf n safety letting that happen here in safekingdom? {-) {-)
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Hmmm....You could be right on all counts there CAT, I will retract my 'British' remark. Perhaps someone could truly identify the manufacturer for us, great stunt though!
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Perhaps someone could truly identify the manufacturer for us, great stunt though!
As far as i can find out, its a Liebherr (German) excavator... possibly..
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What about this one ,
A dragster JCB top speed 150mph
daz
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how about Dancing JCB's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBAzRc5vXE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBAzRc5vXE) {-) {-)
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Oh yes , those guys are amazing they must practice loads :-)) :-)) :-))
daz
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Looking at the close proximity of the audience as well as other H&S issues.
Not in EU. So maybe done in Russia or in Asia.
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Martin. Where did you find the pictures?
Not sure its a Liebbherr. Looks a lot like one I know, but its just some thing about the logo. Just looks wronge.
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Don't really know what make it is, I just used JCB as a generic term!
Can't remember where the photos came from, may have been an email....
Just done a web search, can't find the "JCB" in question but did find these..... :o
(http://208.116.9.205/10/content/11387/1.jpg)
http://www.kontraband.com/pics/11387/Climbing-Digger/
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http://www.contractjournal.com/blogs/digger-blog/2008/11/amazing_climbing_excavator_stu.html (http://www.contractjournal.com/blogs/digger-blog/2008/11/amazing_climbing_excavator_stu.html)
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Well I've found the same photos on about eight sites now but stilll can''t find a video of it <:(
The program it came from in the first place is a German TV show Wetten Dass? but cant find it there, (no good at German).
One day it'll turn up
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Caterpillar Wheelies! - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX_o981HkA (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX_o981HkA)
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I think JCB workers are on short time at the moment, lots of competition in construction equipment these days.
That is a CAT climbing the railcar can't see the model no. Whether its short for Caterpillar I can't remember think it is. Also looks like N. America by the r.r. sign.
Seaspray
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Caterpillar Wheelies! - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX_o981HkA (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX_o981HkA)
Remind me not to go to that builders merchants - takes HOURS just to get a bag of sand %) {-) {-) {-)
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On a similar thread has any one out there watched the team from H E SERVICES "dancing diggers" OH that company also hold the record for the fastest NON STOP drive from John-O-Groats to Landsend in a JCB 3CX. they have a bobcat which is used to wheelie and a fleet of construction machinery that is used in their displays.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tlBAgLQGV3s
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vQq4cseYq9g&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TsOIURoL-fQ&feature=related
I dont think these clips are of H E Services though.
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ballancing that frame-steer takes some doing.
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The loading shovel wheelie is done with the bucket full of steel and the counter weight made of fiberglass.
R,
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H.E. Services Is just down the industrial estate from me. At their entrance is a sign called Diggerland, where the kids can have a go on the machines.
Don't know if it is same company but see their lowloader on the roads often.
Seaspray
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Thats them :-)) I did a few months work for them during my leave periods. they used to be at the old cement works in Snodland (dont know if they are still there) after the non stop run the engine + most of the weight was removed from the white JCB 3CX and it was lifted onto a roof at that depot.
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hi all well here how to get them off a truck with out a ramp.
john
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FE02TxLlRQU&feature=related
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I think they're still down the Medway City Estate end of Whitewall Road on the corner.
Years ago you had to take the rear trailer wheels off. Lately I've seen them disengage the trailer just behind the 5th wheel arch lowering the nose of the trailer to the ground. I've also seen the digger drivers drive of the trailers with the aid of the bucket
Seaspray
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Before swan and goose neck drags the way to load and unload was with a few old railway sleeper lumps and drive off the side of the waggon.
now with modern drags it is easy to demount the fifth wheel from the bed and drive the machine straight off.
I have done both and to be honest its quicker to climb off the side ! but the truck owners dont like it that much as there is a risk of some edge damage if you get it wrong.
R,
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A Big Digger weighing 8 tons is on top of a flatbed trailer and heading east on Interstate 70 near Hays, Kansas.
The extended shovel arm is made of hardened refined steel and the approaching overpass is made of commercial-grade
concrete, reinforced with 1 1/2 inch steel rebar spaced at 6 inch intervals in a criss-cross pattern layered at 1 foot vertical spacing.
Solve: When the shovel arm hits the overpass, how fast do you have to be going to slice the bridge in half??
(Assume no effect for headwind and no braking by the driver...)
Extra Credit: Solve for the time and distance required for the entire rig to come to a complete stop after hitting the overpass
at the speed calculated above? Yes, you can neglect friction. USE MPH or KMH
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And the amount of time the truck driver has left in employment will be inversely proportional to the cost of the new bridge.
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and for 20 brownie points - why is the arm in the MIDDLE of the slot? Did it "recoil"? Or did he try to reverse out??
I can work out why the two side ballustrades are intact, the arm must have hit the underside corner and 'jack-knifed' upwards, but why did it end up THERE {:-{ {:-{
Also, if it was travelling from right to left (indicated by the cut in the side of the bridge) how did the arm end up HIGHER than the sides given that the machine is still flat on the ground? Surely the arm would be pushed downwards? If it was travelling from left to right, as I initially thought, how did the cut get right to the side but didn't damage the ballustrade, and then end up some distance back from the 'end' of the cut??
Come on Martin - tell us ok2
Danny
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A good ad for the toughness of Hyundai plant.
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The excavator boom and dipper arm are pivoted at several points, the arm would have been "stowed" in the folded position, this has left the dipper ram head at the most highest and the most furthest forward point,
As it struck the bridge the fulcrum action started to lift it which caused further hight thus the dipper/boom broke through the road surface but had not at that time damaged the first balustrade, momentum would carry the steel construction through the "box section" concrete all the time lifting the boom/dipper at an ever increasing angle, The low loader trailer grounded out and a final resting place for the machine ensued. the trailing balustrade is damaged by the "flicking up of the attached loading bucket, this is able to do as there is no longer any hydraulic oil within the ram and pipe work system to stop it from movement.
Sadly this type of accident has happened in England (South London) 5 persons died when a walk overpass was hit in the very same way.
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I think it is just photo fakery. There are just so many improbables but above all the forces at work are so incredible as to give the lie to the images.
Roger in France
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A rather narrower bridge over the Whalley bypass got swatted in a very similar way about 25 years ago. Remember that bridges are built for lightness and the ability to not fall down under load - they are not built to withstand attack from the side apart from the legs, which can usually be relied on to attract some attention within their expected lifespan. The edges will be heavily built, the bit between the side less so, hence the right hand side appears relatively undamaged, but the underside and far side have suffered as the rather solidly built steel arm was wedged through.
Strange things happen when energy gets dissipated in an accident.
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What ever the operator of this track hoe gets paid, it is not enough!
This tower was built to show off the physical power of the excavator.
Thanks to Big Jim for sending me this video of the climbing JCB ( Liebherr )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RobaJKGMMiE
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Great video........what a promotion!
John
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Wow, absolutley amazing.
And was that the spice girls n the studio?!?!? Bonus! {-)
Greg
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On a similar thread has any one out there watched the team from H E SERVICES "dancing diggers" OH that company also hold the record for the fastest NON STOP drive from John-O-Groats to Landsend in a JCB 3CX. they have a bobcat which is used to wheelie and a fleet of construction machinery that is used in their displays.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tlBAgLQGV3s
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vQq4cseYq9g&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TsOIURoL-fQ&feature=related
I dont think these clips are of H E Services though.
Having driven Bobcats I can assure you it is relatively simple to get them to "Wheelie".
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wheely the one i used was more like a weeble , had it on it's roof a couple of times and it still went back on it's wheels.
Real fun to opperate .
daz