Agree, Amy sure knows how to run a wheeled machine with a wrist and various attachments... First mistake Chris made was not taking his boots off... LoLzzZ 😂
Everyone should check out her video from the 2017 trade show demo. Its amazing what these machines are capable of with a skilled operator and a trailer full of attachments.
A few facts. Wheeled excavators are not as powerful as their tracked counterparts. This machine is also using a steelwrist rotortilt wich sacrifices breakout force for versatility. Wheeled excavators are used ALOT here in sweden. They are usually used regionally and the main benefits are that they are great tool carriers wich make them versatile on any construction site wich involves trenching for suage and drainage etc. They can quickly go from mission to mission thx to the wheeled drive. Also this particular model EW(Radius) is not about performance at all its only about versatility and being able to move with ease on cramped work sites.
Just got to operate a wheeled excavator for the first time last week. (Only operated tracked excavators for the past 7+ years) And i'm having a lot of fun. Not only because i was stuck in a 3.5 ton excavator digging marine clay that is hard as concrete... But also because its a lot of new and interesting stuff. Been using tiltrotators all throughout my career and you don't look like you'd need a whole lot of time with it to be proficient with it. The wheeled excavator i'm in now is fun to operate. Big plus is that i can steer it with the roller switch on the back of the left joystick. So i don't have to release the controls to reposition the machine. And having a trailer with me at all times is (While a pain at times) super convenient. Driving it between job sites gets a tad boring. But at least the stereo is good. Really hope i get to try out an EWR150E in the future. Thing looks sweet. And it being a volvo i suspect the cab is a nice place to be.
Quite the excavator, would definitely take some getting use. But it’s probably great for cities departments that need to run around and dig here and there. Thanks for sharing
in Sweden tracked excavators are only used on bigger workings sites. wheeled is the most common one. they are usually a little bit bigger than this one and they have a trailer to transport the attachments during transport and dirt during work. extremely versatile. skid loaders are not as common as in the states. skid loaders are only used when its narrows and tight. otherwise, it is a wheeled excavator or a huddig.
If anyone is interested to see the absolutely amazing capabilities of this type of machine.... Duckgirl is without doubt the one to watch. No disrespect Chris, as an operator you will really appreciate her talent.
I know that she's very good on that and I love the way she keeps the trailer with her to move materials and attachments. I just get bored watching her videos cuz she doesn't talk and she never lets us hear the sound of the machine she just plays music. I would like to see more of that over here in our country and a few people do have videos on UA-cam of trailers with their excavator. I would really like to see a Build-Off contest/challenge people building hitches on their excavators to see how different people building them differently.
"There's definitely a learning curve" Chris says. But Chris will learn the machine and have half the job done while the rest of us are trying to figure out how the controls work. That's okay; when we need a job done well we will call a professional.
Very Nice again Chris wheeled excavator with bucket on every angle usable, and atachment for grabbing a pipe for use in city's and small places must be a good machine Chris
They use that machine a lot in Europe to bed trenches with a wide bucket. They use those like we use wheel loaders. The Dirt Ninja has one and loves it, you a should watch him on his.
@@ChristianNorling I mean like a lock so you can move the blade directly forward and back without it moving up or down. Would help make grading a lot more accurate and efficient
@@kelseymafia you mean moving the bucket towards you? Well there is in a GPS system, you set a grade and some systems is coming up now where it controls the depth of the bucket so you stay at a level or incline etc. Basicly you can't go to low..
Chris I hope you like that unit it’s pretty good. But not for cleaning ponds by the way hope you got your equipment out of that big job at the lake because you all got a CAT 3 or 4 coming next week. Be safe god bless
@@DiggyTheDwarf but is so much more. You can get, Mower heads, sickel bars, grapples, stump grinders and much much more. It is like the swiss army knife of excavators.
As Jethro Bodine once said, "Man! I gotta get me one'a them!" Seriously, though, they fit tight in their niche market. I think they're better haulers and movers than diggers.
I would imagine one day Chris is going to get so popular he is going to have people calling him from all over the country to do jobs for them because he knows what he’s doing. He did 1000 times better than Stan.
It won’t be long now before I post that Volvo A60H model review! I’m waiting on it to hit shelves. I’ve got about three more weeks until I can start hunting for it.
Actually the video I was referring to was one that I’m going to be making in a couple of weeks for you and the rest of the YT audience. I thought you would want to be in on this because this truck that I’m going to be reviewing is larger than any current die cast version of the A60H and I know how much you like the Volvo equipment so when I saw this I said let’s dig 18 is going to flip for that. As of right now the largest diecast version of this truck is 1/32 scale. And I am pretty sure you have that in your collection because I saw the video that you put out when you were opening it. This model is almost the size of two of those diecast models and I just thought you’d want to see that because this toy company that I get most of my trucks from is officially licensed by Volvo, and this is also going to be one of the largest vehicles they have made. This toy company also pays very close attention to detail, and it will function just like the real thing does. This is not just going to be your typical unboxing. I intend to actually demonstrated in the video and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.
it’s kind of crazy how everybody knows how to make cat construction equipment, but Volvos are insanely hard to find as far as radio control, or 1/16 scale models are concerned. Bruder is the first company to ever tackle a Volvo project this size.
What a TRICK that thing is, Way more positions to learn.. 😰😱😩 The First time I Ever saw these little Toy backhoes was on the way to the Hotel in Korea, I LOLed... we were doing a RIM trip in the B 747 and overnighted there, a MAC run it was...
My Company got 8 wheeled Excavators , some of our 20T Wheeled Excavators are stronger than the 24T crawler Excavators... (Sorry for my bad English Im from Germany)
Why dont you guys have rotortilts/tiltrotators in the US? Makes everything so much easier. Wheeled excavator is really popular here in Europe, and specially Scandinavia.
Good to hear! Every job is getting so much easier. and faster if you can use it properly. You can change every bucket or whatever whitout getting out the machine Ferguson? Thats old news! Here in Norway, nobody buys a machine whitout it.
Marius Andersson yeah with out getting out. But that old news 30 years ago. A lot of quick hitches are manufactured in ireland and buckets. Ive been to Norway lots of times they have lots of wheeled diggers alright with weird boom configurations. Irish man wont buy something that doesn't look strong.
Yer you need to use it for a time to get it temte but trust me i drive a EWR160e volvo with engcon rotortilt and wen you haw it taemt then your machine turns in to a Swiss army knife 😉👑
In fact it does not, those are made of really hard and high quality components and if you are in Rocky Terrain you would buy it with a top/bottom Sandwhich hitch, so you can just disconnect it when using a breaker or Ripper. In the Company i work for some tiltrotators last two Excavators life.
You have said in the past that using sideways motion to backfill/grade is hard on things. Is that not so, when the bucket spins around? Speaking of bucket...What do you call this bucket type? Looks different...
@@DanielEismann I get that part but was wondering if this was some kinda special bucket? It appears odd shaped compared to what Chris runs. Didn't know if they have a name or model?
Pretty sure Chris was about to say "and that's why I don...(don't like wheeled excavators)" when it was a little tippy without the blade down, but remembered who he was representin'. ha! It's ok, I won't tell anyone bud. :)
It's som of a new experiens to come from a tracked excavator to a weeled one. Those things always fell's like they will tip every sekond, but after some hours on them you get som feeling with it and experiense they behave like a tugboat :-)
Hey Chris, Pretty cool machine. As others have mentioned, watching Duck Girl 86 operate a wheeled excavator with a "Tilty" as she calls it is very impressive!
I watch every woman in the UK on at UA-cam Drive this for her job a channel is Duck something I can't remember the actual name but this diggy is absolutely amazing the amount of gadgets you can use on it and the way she uses this is insane
Duckgirl is awesome cept she drives on the wrong side of the world. She and chris should have a baby that would be a hole digging lil sob! Chris stay safe looks like the hurricane has it's eye on you guys
It is unbeatable in urban terrain and really versitile. For the stuff Chris does its not useful but for stuff like cable plowing, work at construction sites etc they are great. Use them to unload trucks etc. Check out duckgirl and you can see the versatility and a superb operator of one.
put a trailer behind it for all the attachments you need and off you go. roadside works and so on, but can be used for most jobs. they make 20++tonnes machines on wheels.
thought you might get a kick out of this short video of a excavator bucket attachment scraping dirt off a concrete floor.. imgur.com/gallery/fz9Hcul looks like it might be made up of old cutting edges..
Duckgirl86 is the best operator on this type of machine I've ever seen. She has great vids showing this excavator and all its attachments in action.
You beat me to it, there is no one better than her to run one of these !
She's good no doubt about it. BUT she's like an average one here in Sweden. No braging, that's just the way you work with a machine over here.
totally agree !!! she's brilliant !!! in RUSSIA of such technology we can only dream !!!
Agree, Amy sure knows how to run a wheeled machine with a wrist and various attachments... First mistake Chris made was not taking his boots off... LoLzzZ 😂
Everyone should check out her video from the 2017 trade show demo. Its amazing what these machines are capable of with a skilled operator and a trailer full of attachments.
A few facts. Wheeled excavators are not as powerful as their tracked counterparts. This machine is also using a steelwrist rotortilt wich sacrifices breakout force for versatility. Wheeled excavators are used ALOT here in sweden. They are usually used regionally and the main benefits are that they are great tool carriers wich make them versatile on any construction site wich involves trenching for suage and drainage etc. They can quickly go from mission to mission thx to the wheeled drive. Also this particular model EW(Radius) is not about performance at all its only about versatility and being able to move with ease on cramped work sites.
Just got to operate a wheeled excavator for the first time last week. (Only operated tracked excavators for the past 7+ years) And i'm having a lot of fun.
Not only because i was stuck in a 3.5 ton excavator digging marine clay that is hard as concrete... But also because its a lot of new and interesting stuff.
Been using tiltrotators all throughout my career and you don't look like you'd need a whole lot of time with it to be proficient with it.
The wheeled excavator i'm in now is fun to operate. Big plus is that i can steer it with the roller switch on the back of the left joystick.
So i don't have to release the controls to reposition the machine. And having a trailer with me at all times is (While a pain at times) super convenient.
Driving it between job sites gets a tad boring. But at least the stereo is good. Really hope i get to try out an EWR150E in the future.
Thing looks sweet. And it being a volvo i suspect the cab is a nice place to be.
Quite the excavator, would definitely take some getting use. But it’s probably great for cities departments that need to run around and dig here and there. Thanks for sharing
this will hurt grade-all.
Heck, probably would have been the perfect machine for that sewer job you just did lol.
Sandy it sure would have! Lol
We have 2 wheeled excavators with rototilts for our county that replaced old gradalls
add a trailer to it and you can use it for attachments and dirt.
in Sweden tracked excavators are only used on bigger workings sites. wheeled is the most common one. they are usually a little bit bigger than this one and they have a trailer to transport the attachments during transport and dirt during work. extremely versatile. skid loaders are not as common as in the states. skid loaders are only used when its narrows and tight. otherwise, it is a wheeled excavator or a huddig.
I love what Volvo is coming up with. they are really thinking of the operaters and getting a job done fast.
looks like a "mall crawler" excavator :))
for sure good for inner city work and other small areas
Looks like Logger Wade had ahold of this pipe before you got there!
That's an awesome machine. I'd love to have a rototilt on my kubota excavator. I think it'd be pretty handy. Thanks for sharing your video Chris.
Nice machine, if you dug in tight areas often this would be a very useful tool.
Windshield is already busted lol
If anyone is interested to see the absolutely amazing capabilities of this type of machine.... Duckgirl is without doubt the one to watch. No disrespect Chris, as an operator you will really appreciate her talent.
Duckboy18
Cool machine would come in handy for setting poles or fence posts
Awsome Job Chris 😎
Big improvement on a wheelbarrow and shovel that's for sure .
I know that she's very good on that and I love the way she keeps the trailer with her to move materials and attachments. I just get bored watching her videos cuz she doesn't talk and she never lets us hear the sound of the machine she just plays music.
I would like to see more of that over here in our country and a few people do have videos on UA-cam of trailers with their excavator.
I would really like to see a Build-Off contest/challenge people building hitches on their excavators to see how different people building them differently.
Interesting attachments, liked it though
Nice work!
Permaculturists will be going nuts over that swivel and tilt attachment, they love those things.
"There's definitely a learning curve" Chris says. But Chris will learn the machine and have half the job done while the rest of us are trying to figure out how the controls work. That's okay; when we need a job done well we will call a professional.
Dang that’s cool, sounds a little underpowered tho
Wonder if it was in some type of economy mode?
Maybe half throttle
this machine is seriously that silent, i have driven one and they are seriously good machines
PS 400 seriously
Take some getting used to that for certain. Thanks for the video
My favorite youtuber! You make me want to run an excavator so bad it's not funny. Keep up the awesome videos.
Kinda looks like the first time i used a tiltrotator 😅 after a few days you get used to it.
Keep up the good work
Very Nice again Chris wheeled excavator with bucket on every angle usable, and atachment for grabbing a pipe for use in city's and small places must be a good machine Chris
Chris you get all the fun with all the new toys lol 😍
They use that machine a lot in Europe to bed trenches with a wide bucket. They use those like we use wheel loaders. The Dirt Ninja has one and loves it, you a should watch him on his.
It needs some sort of axis lock out like the tiger cat tree cutters have, would make this thing a lot more useful
It has a lock so it locks up all suspension and make it stiff.
@@ChristianNorling I mean like a lock so you can move the blade directly forward and back without it moving up or down. Would help make grading a lot more accurate and efficient
@@kelseymafia you mean moving the bucket towards you? Well there is in a GPS system, you set a grade and some systems is coming up now where it controls the depth of the bucket so you stay at a level or incline etc. Basicly you can't go to low..
Nice machine chris
Chris I hope you like that unit it’s pretty good. But not for cleaning ponds by the way hope you got your equipment out of that big job at the lake because you all got a CAT 3 or 4 coming next week. Be safe god bless
Crazy never seen a machine like that
That machine is perfect on your property at home Chris
he doesnt have any needs for an excavator at the farm
How do you know?
Plenty of space for a toy
@@stefanaxelsson513 ye it us and omg I can't believe u only drove one till now
@@DiggyTheDwarf but is so much more. You can get, Mower heads, sickel bars, grapples, stump grinders and much much more. It is like the swiss army knife of excavators.
Good job Chris. This machine seems awesome, so much functionality how many did you order..? You didn't break that window right...?
With the right shaped stick, you could use it as a back-scratcher. With a bit of practice that is.
Those machines are super cool. Wish I could afford one. Lol. Ur ahead of the learning curve too. Thanks for sharing. How much are they anyway ?
I run one of these, nice bit of kit but I've had nothing but problems lol
Better than Dirtmonkeys video!
Not a bad attempt considering that there are eight additional controls you had to address.
As Jethro Bodine once said, "Man! I gotta get me one'a them!"
Seriously, though, they fit tight in their niche market. I think they're better haulers and movers than diggers.
I would imagine one day Chris is going to get so popular he is going to have people calling him from all over the country to do jobs for them because he knows what he’s doing. He did 1000 times better than Stan.
It won’t be long now before I post that Volvo A60H model review! I’m waiting on it to hit shelves. I’ve got about three more weeks until I can start hunting for it.
should be out, I got one a couple months ago
Actually the video I was referring to was one that I’m going to be making in a couple of weeks for you and the rest of the YT audience. I thought you would want to be in on this because this truck that I’m going to be reviewing is larger than any current die cast version of the A60H and I know how much you like the Volvo equipment so when I saw this I said let’s dig 18 is going to flip for that. As of right now the largest diecast version of this truck is 1/32 scale. And I am pretty sure you have that in your collection because I saw the video that you put out when you were opening it. This model is almost the size of two of those diecast models and I just thought you’d want to see that because this toy company that I get most of my trucks from is officially licensed by Volvo, and this is also going to be one of the largest vehicles they have made. This toy company also pays very close attention to detail, and it will function just like the real thing does. This is not just going to be your typical unboxing. I intend to actually demonstrated in the video and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.
it’s kind of crazy how everybody knows how to make cat construction equipment, but Volvos are insanely hard to find as far as radio control, or 1/16 scale models are concerned. Bruder is the first company to ever tackle a Volvo project this size.
You guys should get one
Time to upgrade the Yanmar :)
What a TRICK that thing is, Way more positions to learn.. 😰😱😩
The First time I Ever saw these little Toy backhoes was on the way to the Hotel in
Korea, I LOLed... we were doing a RIM trip in the B 747 and overnighted there, a MAC run it was...
So what do you think of that steel wrist?
I think it’s better for city or townships who do road maintenance. Where as you are probably out off road 99% of the time.
Duckgirl 86 is gonna love this one
That would be a killer with a brush cutter on the end of it.
For some reason I always thought you would have ended up with one of these attachments
Imagine having a thumb on the bucket as well...... You'd run out of fingers for buttons Lol
Operator-jos, he is also very powerful
My Company got 8 wheeled Excavators , some of our 20T Wheeled Excavators are stronger than the 24T crawler Excavators... (Sorry for my bad English Im from Germany)
Why dont you guys have rotortilts/tiltrotators in the US?
Makes everything so much easier.
Wheeled excavator is really popular here in Europe, and specially Scandinavia.
not used in ireland really. All track machines. Government uses tractors for hedge cutting motorway grass cutting
They are slowly getting popularity here . We have 2 machines with rototilts for our county here in Canada.
Alex Moore never seen on in the flesh. Were way ahead though on quick hitches
Good to hear! Every job is getting so much easier. and faster if you can use it properly.
You can change every bucket or whatever whitout getting out the machine Ferguson? Thats old news!
Here in Norway, nobody buys a machine whitout it.
Marius Andersson yeah with out getting out. But that old news 30 years ago. A lot of quick hitches are manufactured in ireland and buckets. Ive been to Norway lots of times they have lots of wheeled diggers alright with weird boom configurations. Irish man wont buy something that doesn't look strong.
So this is finally coming to the USA
I usually see those with ditch buckets.
Duck girl has one over in Europe she has vids on YT , by the looks of her operating she has been using one for years.
Do they make a big machine like your 250 with that same rotating bucket with the grabber and s thumb?
Yer you need to use it for a time to get it temte but trust me i drive a EWR160e volvo with engcon rotortilt and wen you haw it taemt then your machine turns in to a Swiss army knife 😉👑
Watch DuckGirl86 videos. She is awesome operating this machine.
But can it do a burnout?
Then, after you buy this machine, you can call trimble and get full machine control?
Did someone hit the windscreen with the pipe
a salesman did lol
So how did u like it so far and in the future are u thinking of ever getting one
😁🍺
Hey Chris, are you going to be affecting by TS Florence if it continues it's current path? Its predicting towards SC and NC
Yes
@@letsdig18 be safe out there
Is the new hole on the end of the pipe you laid an expensive feature from the manufacturer lol.
As everyone else check duckgirl86.
Here in Sweden we have hade rotation and tilt attachment for 15 20 years.
I have to my volvo 16 different buckets.
why do you use it as a tracked excavator tho?
Are the hydraulics pretty slow? They look like it from the video
Are you going to get one?
The steel wrist rocks the machine is ok
Chris, If Volvo let you use that machine for year, how many jobs would you realistically be able to use it on?
its hard to say a wheeled machine, probably not much, Id use that attachment on a track machine far more
Might be good on the 160.
Couldn’t imagine how sloppy that attachment might get after 6-7 thousand hrs
In fact it does not, those are made of really hard and high quality components and if you are in Rocky Terrain you would buy it with a top/bottom Sandwhich hitch, so you can just disconnect it when using a breaker or Ripper. In the Company i work for some tiltrotators last two Excavators life.
You have said in the past that using sideways motion to backfill/grade is hard on things. Is that not so, when the bucket spins around? Speaking of bucket...What do you call this bucket type? Looks different...
That's a tiltrotator
@@DanielEismann Is that what the actual bucket is called or the action of bucket?
That's the attachment between the bucket and boom
@@DanielEismann
I get that part but was wondering if this was some kinda special bucket? It appears odd shaped compared to what Chris runs. Didn't know if they have a name or model?
That bucket model is quite common in Scandinavia
are they really heavy?
Pretty sure Chris was about to say "and that's why I don...(don't like wheeled excavators)" when it was a little tippy without the blade down, but remembered who he was representin'. ha! It's ok, I won't tell anyone bud. :)
It's som of a new experiens to come from a tracked excavator to a weeled one.
Those things always fell's like they will tip every sekond, but after some hours on them you get som feeling with it and experiense they behave like a tugboat :-)
are you going to buy one of these
no, volvo brought in a group of people to test new machines
Rototilt is a Swedish invention, surely it is good? 🇸🇪👍
Hey Chris,
Pretty cool machine. As others have mentioned, watching Duck Girl 86 operate a wheeled excavator with a "Tilty" as she calls it is very impressive!
I watch every woman in the UK on at UA-cam Drive this for her job a channel is Duck something I can't remember the actual name but this diggy is absolutely amazing the amount of gadgets you can use on it and the way she uses this is insane
like the attachment but don't like it being on wheels looks more bouncy
This makes me laugh!! A bucket and a thumb!! all thats needed!! but yes after a bit of practice its just like a video game!! lol
Duck girl would be proud of you. Lmao
Duck girl makes it look real easy.......
Hey Chris, I just found a Girl that runs one of these, looks like
Europe to me... Duckgirl 86... !! She’s pretty darn good to. 😜👍😎
Anyone know what the price point is on this in USD or CDN? Great Job Chris.... you guys needs one of these...save on shipping costs lol
From the 2 seconds of googling I did a 2017 model is about $220,000
more like 30000usd
and 1 second of that to realize you were an ahole. :)
@@RockBrigadeCommunityForum and how is that exactly?
google it :)
Are you just testing this machine out or did you buy it
As I know he spend som of his vacation at the Volvo customer center to try out their new equipment.
Duckgirl 86 would be proud ! ! !
Not even a comment about what you think of the machine? Come on!
Chris its a nice little machine But Its not you for the work that you do have a good one
Looks cool but very underpowered
Selling Volvo’s. Good job. Make them pay you. Lol.
HEY CHRIS, I KNOW UR GOOD ,I KNOW ITS UR FIRST TIME BUT BUT THIS GIRL !!!! DAMM GIVE HER A WATCH. DUCKGIRL
Duckgirl is awesome cept she drives on the wrong side of the world. She and chris should have a baby that would be a hole digging lil sob! Chris stay safe looks like the hurricane has it's eye on you guys
That’s not Carolina dirt. Hard clay and a lot of Limestone.
You need to watch
DUCKGIRL 86...she makes these machines look simple...
Ricky dBradby
Seems like this machine does everything well but nothing great.
It is unbeatable in urban terrain and really versitile. For the stuff Chris does its not useful but for stuff like cable plowing, work at construction sites etc they are great. Use them to unload trucks etc. Check out duckgirl and you can see the versatility and a superb operator of one.
put a trailer behind it for all the attachments you need and off you go. roadside works and so on, but can be used for most jobs. they make 20++tonnes machines on wheels.
ua-cam.com/channels/8DKUYhMBW5Evs4eGndbl-A.html
meant for grading and finish work not so much for heavy excavating
thought you might get a kick out of this short video of a excavator bucket attachment scraping dirt off a concrete floor.. imgur.com/gallery/fz9Hcul looks like it might be made up of old cutting edges..
That thing got a Kohler engine on the back? Sounds like my friggin log splitter..haha