A CLEVER BACKHOE OPERATOR

[hodgo]

I thought the comments about the skilled bob cat operator were justified but have look at this bloke and his skills with a backhoe . If it fell off what would you tell the insurance company.

Hodgo

[harry]

that's amazing.

[long stroke]

:o:o:o:o:eek::eek::eek::eek:

[drivesafe]

The Yanks might get away with that but I wonder how Workcover would view such an operation?

[Sprint]

Herzog - Cartopper Material Handler (http://www.herzogcompanies.com/rrservices/cartopper.php)

[harry]

ooh, thought it was a once off smarty, but its a company doing lots of them you wouldn't want to blow a hose while loading, the rops cage woldn't stop much from that height.

[Bigbjorn]

Used to be fairly common practice to load and unload these types of machine to and from flat-bed trucks using their own lifting and pushing capacities. Never saw one put up on top of a high side rail wagon or truck though.

[muddydigger]

ooh, thought it was a once off smarty, but its a company doing lots of them you wouldn't want to blow a hose while loading, the rops cage woldn't stop much from that height.

Machines now have to have valves placed on them (cant remember the name of it but its a saftey valve) that locks the hydrolic sytem incase of sytem failier, but it wouldnt stop a a catastrphy happening in this case, not to mention only one pin is holding the hoe on the machine and if that went its good night Irean. I am failry sure that occupational health and safey says machine need to be loaded via substaial rambs and cant self load now.
Its an impressive set up, no way would i get in the machine and do it though, one component failier and your guna have a bad day.

[mrapocalypse]

:eek:............................................. ..............................A TUNNEL!!!!!!!!!

[Davo]

A video showing the same sort of thing was used during some safety training I did. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should! :p

[dobbo]

If it happened at my work the operator would not be operating it again, he'd probably be promoted into a position where he can do no harm to either himself or others.