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.
@christineburns It looks like it's from Starship Troopers
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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 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 -
@christineburns Is it taking a pee???
@RobeeShepherd Marking territory.
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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 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.
@christineburns I watched the video of the Llangollen excavator doing its stuff, and it made me ridiculously happy that such things exist.
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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@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. -
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.
ping @CrispinHughes
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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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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've been chatting about this with a friend few years ago. He has been operating such "spider" for highly specific renovation job in old church or castle.
He confirmed me it has real high value us-case to get into places that were never designed for excavators and save them enormous amount of time on workload that would have to be done by hands and lots of sweat.
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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.
freaking amazing
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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 Gosh I'd like to play with that. Or at the least watch it in action.
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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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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 @cstross * Breakdance electro intensifies *
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@christineburns Inb4 there are break dancing competitions with these crazy vehicles lmao.
@LevelUp @christineburns Ray-gun would lose to an excavator too.
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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
My grandson is going to be over the moon when he sees this! Thank you! -
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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