Thread: A CLEVER BACKHOE OPERATOR

that's amazing.

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

Herzog - Cartopper Material Handler

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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

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