@mudrunner112 Technically this is a backhoe. So is your excavator. It moves dirt by pulling its bucket back towards itself as opposed to pushing away like a man with a shovel or a steam shovel. That’s how the term originated.
@1D5dozer That is how most people use the term "backhoe" today. I think I just had to sit through some training video the day that I posted that and learned where the term came from. Here in NW Missouri we usually call excavators "trackhoes".
@jerrymat79 I always thought a "backhoe was on a Tractor (like a Case 580) because the loader bucket was on the front and the hoe was on the back. Excavators are called just that or "crawlerhoe" at least here in Wisconsin USA
Ah, so there IS a cable attached to him. Difficult to see it, even when it's zoomed it. But certainly makes sense; one thing that's important about being up high is to *not fall in the first place*. I've worked on roofs and dormers, with only a hemp rope around my waist. It probably wouldn't stop me if I fell, but it gives me something to grab ahold of so I *don't loose my balance in the first place*. It takes a very strong rope to arrest a falling man, but only a small one to keep him from falling in the first place. Likewise, I suspect that this cable is mostly to keep the machine from rolling over, and is a good idea on a hill that steep. I'm curious why they have those small wheels on the front (I assume that's the front, anyway) though; is that to make it easier to steer? Like one a normal tractor? The only other Menzi Muck's I've seen had four big tires. Oh, and to the person below, who advises that they just "leave the dirt alone", how about for a second we stop and consider they *probably have a very good reason to be digging where they are*. Contractors rarely waste time playing in the dirt for the hell of it, especially putting an very expensive machine in a risky position to do it. Just because it's not immediately obvious to you what they are doing, doesn't mean they don't have a good reason for doing it. He wouldn't be digging on a hillside unless it needed to be done.
Impressive machine operating, but what's the use of shifting earth on such a hill? Just leave the hill as it has been for ages? nobody gets harmed by leaving it alone?
I did not mean to upset you.but any thing with a boom & bucket on it. I call a backhoe.that's what I call our 235 trackhoe most of the time.I am sorry.
@taylor20ize Look, from one troll to another: You cant just make one sloppy, typo filled sentence with no punctuation and leave it at that. You've got to sell it, throw in some flavor text! Think big, think bold! Do it like this: "I have operated this very machine on a 60 degree gravel incline. This guy is clearly a greenhorn amateur and still in training. I could dig a pit around him before he even finishes that one spot. Dont waste our time with this entry level crap."
Balls of steel,and faith in that wire rope,Awesome.
I love watching those things work, I'd love to try it one of these days.
have seen these working in Austrian mountains, opperators are very skilled !!! you can make NO mistakes.
I have been around heavy equipment for 30 years and never seen a backhoe on that steep of ground that's a good operator.
Damn!!! That Operator knows what he's doing.
There goes our beautiful mountains.
That god for the cable holding him from tumbling down the hill!! Big balls anyway!
Its WOW ! Respect !!!
svaka cast majstore
@mudrunner112 Technically this is a backhoe. So is your excavator. It moves dirt by pulling its bucket back towards itself as opposed to pushing away like a man with a shovel or a steam shovel. That’s how the term originated.
@mountfields Do you comment all these Menzi Muck-videos the same way?
@1D5dozer That is how most people use the term "backhoe" today. I think I just had to sit through some training video the day that I posted that and learned where the term came from. Here in NW Missouri we usually call excavators "trackhoes".
very impressive
nifty!
@jerrymat79 I always thought a "backhoe was on a Tractor (like a Case 580) because the loader bucket was on the front and the hoe was on the back.
Excavators are called just that or "crawlerhoe" at least here in Wisconsin USA
Ah, so there IS a cable attached to him. Difficult to see it, even when it's zoomed it. But certainly makes sense; one thing that's important about being up high is to *not fall in the first place*. I've worked on roofs and dormers, with only a hemp rope around my waist. It probably wouldn't stop me if I fell, but it gives me something to grab ahold of so I *don't loose my balance in the first place*. It takes a very strong rope to arrest a falling man, but only a small one to keep him from falling in the first place. Likewise, I suspect that this cable is mostly to keep the machine from rolling over, and is a good idea on a hill that steep. I'm curious why they have those small wheels on the front (I assume that's the front, anyway) though; is that to make it easier to steer? Like one a normal tractor? The only other Menzi Muck's I've seen had four big tires.
Oh, and to the person below, who advises that they just "leave the dirt alone", how about for a second we stop and consider they *probably have a very good reason to be digging where they are*. Contractors rarely waste time playing in the dirt for the hell of it, especially putting an very expensive machine in a risky position to do it. Just because it's not immediately obvious to you what they are doing, doesn't mean they don't have a good reason for doing it. He wouldn't be digging on a hillside unless it needed to be done.
@1D5dozer Same in England, I would call this kind of machine an excavator, or a digger, and would call the bucket on the back of a tractor a backhoe.
@unstuck4x4 wire rope? oooh yeah i see it now you pointed it out.
id ski there!
@wstk123 And also anchor cable of steel. ;)
bbbbbbballs of steel
Impressive machine operating, but what's the use of shifting earth on such a hill? Just leave the hill as it has been for ages? nobody gets harmed by leaving it alone?
I did not mean to upset you.but any thing with a boom & bucket on it. I call a backhoe.that's what I call our 235 trackhoe most of the time.I am sorry.
@taylor20ize Look, from one troll to another:
You cant just make one sloppy, typo filled sentence with no punctuation and leave it at that. You've got to sell it, throw in some flavor text! Think big, think bold!
Do it like this:
"I have operated this very machine on a 60 degree gravel incline. This guy is clearly a greenhorn amateur and still in training. I could dig a pit around him before he even finishes that one spot. Dont waste our time with this entry level crap."
he got gonads
a normal digger would climb that hill piss easy, without a cable! twice as fast.
thats lame I whant to see some skill im a operator and that isint nothing