Just for information to the excavator fans in the world, who don't understand German: The operator cant really see where the plate on his arm is located and if it is in the correct position. He gropes his way along the structure and by the feedback he gets from his machine he assumes where his arm is currently located. The most difficult part was on the top of the 20m high structure
Das war damals eine der spektakulärsten Wetten bei Thomas Gottschalk. Was haben wir seinerzeit vor dem Fernseher mit gefiebert. Sagenhaft! Auch heute noch ein Gänsehautmoment.
While talking they mention that the tower weights in at 20 tons, the 4 caterpillars on the side as counterweight weight in at another 70 tons. The caterpillar weights in at 15 tons and is usually designed to "only" lift 3 tons. It is happening in a German Show called "Wetten dass.." ("(I) bet that...." which sometimes has all sort of really crazy bets.
Even with a very powerful hydraulic system, this takes a lot of skill and big nuts to do this. When I accidentally pull the front wheels of the ground with a backhoe it scares the shit out of me.
Yup. I was in a skid steer, clearing out some wooded area... and there were gullies, where water had washed away ground, anyways, was trying to be careful and keep this in mind when I started working on one stubborn tree, trying to up root it, and accidentally backed into/fell into a gully (Ground gave away)... Now it was just a little shirt drop, probably one foot, but scared the spirit right outta me. ESPECIALLY.. being as I was staring at a forest, and then went to staring at the sky pretty damn quick.
when growing up we had two bobcats my dad and I used to take them out in the snow and stand them on their backs then start spinning so theyd spin up on one wheel... point is comfort is something that comes with time and understanding what might happen... when it happens by mistake it scares ya
The things we can do with our machines. Simply amazing when put together with our curiosity of "Hmm.. I wonder what else this new thing we created can do.. LET'S TRY IT!"
onyabike oo lol wrong, so wrong, on many levels, there's nothing except the flow pump to lock "anything" on these machines, and the o-rings fail in them all the time, on top of that, if you place the load on the cylinders in a certain way they'll overload and force the fluid from the cylinders back through the pump into the reservoir. I've done it quite a few times :P
ReadOrDieDW what he means is once that plate is locked in even if the hydraulics fail totally he will only drop the length of the boom rather than fall to the ground
It looks easy kinda like climbing a ladder..... but it takes real skill and precision and one big set of BALLS. Well done to the driver. Im driving 25yrs and i would chance up some steep places but i wouldnt chance that one.
I do like the stunt part , however it just seems easier , faster and more convenient to raise the excavator to the roof by crane . Not to mention you cut the cost of labor of having to build that tower and tearing it down , not to mention that you would probably have a crane on site .
@nws15 No, he is using the excavator's hydraulic arm to pull it up, the way he secures it, if you look closely at 6:00, is that he wedges the main head plate under a shelf on the tower, so that when he lifts, the shelf keeps the top part of the head from lifting, and incredible friction keeps the bottom part of the head from slipping.
It's pretty amazing when you think the excavator is designed to dig holes in the dirt, but it's arm is strong enough to support it's own weight. 10,000 kilo grams is over 22,000 lbs, or over 11 tons.
Very cool demonstration, the operator didn't look very cheerful in fact he looked bored shitless, I suppose he was concentrating and he's probably done it dozens of times. Anyway, what a fantastic piece of engineering, would be interesting to see if they could go higher or cross over to another tower for the descent.
I used to be a high rise window cleaner. Every morning in the buck hoist on the way up someone would say" Man yall are crazy and must have the biggest nutz" id look at em real serious and take off my safety glasses and say "Wanna see em" Never flashed my sack but always some hilarious responces
Val Troy, I was stateing that it was pointless in the function of climbing the tower. Yes, it shows great skill from the operator and the quality of the machine but it is still a stunt showing a capability that will never be used in its normal functioning parameters.
Darwin Simmons If it can lift its own mass it is significantly more valuable to a skilled operator because they are less limited. Of course it also means an unskilled operator can capsize the thing.
Capabilities can be noted on paper. To go out and show that it can climb a tower shows that it can do something that NO operator will ever need to do in the workplace. But if you have to toot your own horn then I guess that is what they need to do.
My friends said this is impossible.. but then i told them what just 1 hydraulic cylinder could do to one of thoes machines.. and it has atleast 2-3 of them... The ammount of power in thoes things are so immense, its just that amazing to watch.. and of course if my friends don't belive me on how strong a hydraulic is, i can always shot them what it would do to their car aswell :P
yes, my dad is a diesel and hydraulic mechanic and i drive semis so yes, you are right, now regarding that eguipment it has 5 pumps to each cylinder there is one pump or two so yes with the right person it willl do wonders.......
Yes his is. The plate on the end of the excavator stick has two pins that come out and lock into the tower reciever plate (notice the holes), look at 3:50, you can see the pins, you can see the holes. At 4:59 you can see the two hooks on the front of the machine that hook into the tower. As I said, at no time is the excavator not mechanically locked into the tower. Good bit of engineering.
Great promotional stunt. Not that it was specially modified along with the structure or anything though just to climb. It shows that it is strong and agile. Purposeless as far as the climbing function goes though.
I wouldn't say purposeless really, the fact that the machine can "pull it's own weight" is just one point this proves along side the fact that it shows how well built the thing is. But that's nothing compared to the driver... He's the most important part. It's not simply the fact that he did the stunt, but the fact that you could see he was confident in his machinery. It shows how an experienced operator knows that this machine can do what he wants it to do and will not fail him.
And how many of those people tried going at sensible speeds, accelerating gently in order to stay in control of the car? I'm gonna give it a wild guess: not a single one. The whole idea behind sitting in a F1 car is power and speed. You go as fast as you can until eventually you push past your skills. That still doesn't mean they couldn't drive the car, it just means they couldn't drive it as good as the pros.
Not not allways the case.. If the machine "bleeds" meaning lossing hydrauc pressure or leaking fluid or other wear and tear this could be the case, but if it is brand new it you could extend the bucket/attachment with the boom and stick in the air two feet from the ground or 30 and it will stay like that 9 times out of 10.
Yes and no, two different types of skill sets: Excavators are very linear in the relationship between the controls and the actions they control. When you move the control stick the action it controls happens so quickly it is effectively in real time, and it is a very predictable action based on a few simple factors which are easy to compensate for. When you swing the boom and reach the point you wish to be at you can simply release the control and it will self-center and the action of movement will immediately stop. It may not be very smooth and it may swing a small amount based on how tightly everything is connected (New/well maintained vs the opposite), but there is very little lag or variables that effect the control/action relationship. In fact the biggest variable is usually the surface the machine is sitting on. Pavement, steel, rock, or hard packed earth is pretty linear and predictable, sand and mud takes more experience and skill. If this operator didn't have a crowd of people and was being filmed, I'm sure that he could have done this extremely smoothly without any wobbles with a little extra time. As it is he still did extremely well. What people don't realize is, is how safe this actually was, even if a hydraulic hose or seal ruptured the worst thing that would happen is the boom would fully extend in a second or two and the rest of the machine would drop down and slam into the tower tail end first at an angle slightly past vertical as the biggest concentration of mass would then be in the bottom back end of the machine (Engine block). However, it would do so over a 1-2 or more second time period. I would imagine they took a machine that had just completed a couple hundred hours of break-in and replaced all the hoses and seals, run it for another few hours to let them all bed in and at that point you have a super predictable and thus safe machine Piloting a helicopter is a serious exercise in time lag (much more so than a fixed wing craft), the time between when you want something to happen and how far before that moment in time you must begin moving the controls to effect that action, and because of this there is no direct feedback, you must have enough experience to be able to extrapolate how far and for how long you must move the controls to effect the movement you want. You can't just move the control stick in one direction and hold it there until you reach the point you want to be at because at that point it will continue onwards in it's movement for several fractions of a second, AND, the length of time lag is anything but a set amount and there is no linear reaction chart, it depends on dozens of other factors that all must be part of the operator's control actions. This is why while some people can just get in a plane and have a pretty smooth first flight and then quickly master basic control, NOBODY has a smooth first flight in a helicopter, and mastering basic control is directly related to time/experience flying. The one area rotary wing pilots seem to master faster (proportionally) is effecting consistently smooth landings because unlike a fixed wing craft, you are not committed to a glide path, you can edge your way down the last few feet.
wait until you see the video where the dude pours a glass of wine with an excavator. and makes breakfast. fries an egg on a skillet. I am dead serious. it happened
@Duron13 It's impossible for someone who didn't know how to drive a Volvo to do it too, that doesn't mean it's super complicated to drive one. I bet anyone could learn to shoot a target at 400 m if they had a support for the rifle that kept it absolutely still at all time, and a scope which told them how to adjust for windspeed. Basically the same as what we have in this vid, an excavator specifically altered for this very purpose. It's not an excavator of the shelf, so to speak.
@Roxfox Being designed to be able to go 300+ kmph doesn't mean it's undriveable at 50 kmph. I haven't said that anyone will be able to beat Michael Schumacher, I said anyone can drive it after some instructing. Excavator schools are generally not 4 year courses. More like 2 months, and the majority of the time isn't for learning how to drive one, but learning how to use one in different conditions. The conditions in this video aren't that complicated, thus, it won't take long to learn it.
To the guy that made the comment, "It's not like they are going to dig any holes on the roof" No Shit Sherlock!! It was done to show how well the company makes there Excavators & Heavy Equipment!! Sheeesh!!!!
Just for information to the excavator fans in the world, who don't understand German:
The operator cant really see where the plate on his arm is located and if it is in the correct position. He gropes his way along the structure and by the feedback he gets from his machine he assumes where his arm is currently located.
The most difficult part was on the top of the 20m high structure
If only my Liebherr fridge was this exciting
But how does it work?
Das war damals eine der spektakulärsten Wetten bei Thomas Gottschalk. Was haben wir seinerzeit vor dem Fernseher mit gefiebert. Sagenhaft! Auch heute noch ein Gänsehautmoment.
This video clearly shows the power of hydraulic systems. Simply Amazing !
I hope this is not the training for the licence
Only in Germany lol
The operator has the look of confidence. This was a great stunt.
most cold blooded operator in the known universe!Liebherr must give him a medal!
I would NOT want any of those welds to be mine...
And I wouldn't ever want to hire you as a welder.
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it was a joke, you Melvin
@@funkyzero the Melvin's are on of my favorite bands! Thanks for the clarification...
my next video recommendation is a work safety video called "shake hands with danger"
This is cool but...I kind of want to see him bring it back down haha
While talking they mention that the tower weights in at 20 tons, the 4 caterpillars on the side as counterweight weight in at another 70 tons. The caterpillar weights in at 15 tons and is usually designed to "only" lift 3 tons.
It is happening in a German Show called "Wetten dass.." ("(I) bet that...." which sometimes has all sort of really crazy bets.
Even with a very powerful hydraulic system, this takes a lot of skill and big nuts to do this. When I accidentally pull the front wheels of the ground with a backhoe it scares the shit out of me.
i sat a bobcat on the ass end and i about shit my self.
I'd be more afraid of a weld popping or hyd line busting... it takes a lot of faith in the equ to do something like this and I just don't have it.
Yup. I was in a skid steer, clearing out some wooded area... and there were gullies, where water had washed away ground, anyways, was trying to be careful and keep this in mind when I started working on one stubborn tree, trying to up root it, and accidentally backed into/fell into a gully (Ground gave away)... Now it was just a little shirt drop, probably one foot, but scared the spirit right outta me. ESPECIALLY.. being as I was staring at a forest, and then went to staring at the sky pretty damn quick.
when growing up we had two bobcats my dad and I used to take them out in the snow and stand them on their backs then start spinning so theyd spin up on one wheel... point is comfort is something that comes with time and understanding what might happen... when it happens by mistake it scares ya
Lol I stick the boom out so I can do wheelies on purpose.
The things we can do with our machines. Simply amazing when put together with our curiosity of "Hmm.. I wonder what else this new thing we created can do.. LET'S TRY IT!"
There are any safety measures? I don't see anything which will stop the excavator from falling if it somehow loses grip?
The only thing I would be worried about is a hydraulic hose busting !! Game over!
once the arm is locked into place it cant fall. Even if the hydraulics fail
onyabike oo lol wrong, so wrong, on many levels, there's nothing except the flow pump to lock "anything" on these machines, and the o-rings fail in them all the time, on top of that, if you place the load on the cylinders in a certain way they'll overload and force the fluid from the cylinders back through the pump into the reservoir. I've done it quite a few times :P
ReadOrDieDW what he means is once that plate is locked in even if the hydraulics fail totally he will only drop the length of the boom rather than fall to the ground
Darren Gibson
But you cant tell some people. ;)
onyabike oo what sort of donkey are you that you can somehow overload the ram and force oil back through pump
Der Laberkopp geht einem auf die Nerven, doch die Nummer ist echt Klasse.
This was just AWESOME !! And here i sat thinking "I thought i had skill". That was very very nice
Years later, it's still stuck up there like a cat that goes too high
Sykokiller +
No, it's Not.. than it would be a Caterpillar. 😅
4:14 what's stopping it from just tipping over backwards? and what's supposed to be at the end of the arm? a magnet?
It looks easy kinda like climbing a ladder..... but it takes real skill and precision and one big set of BALLS. Well done to the driver. Im driving 25yrs and i would chance up some steep places but i wouldnt chance that one.
I do like the stunt part , however it just seems easier , faster and more convenient to raise the excavator to the roof by crane . Not to mention you cut the cost of labor of having to build that tower and tearing it down , not to mention that you would probably have a crane on site .
Download the video and put it on reverse. ANd you see how it comes down
LMFAO
was the editing done in the late 80's?
Well, the entire thing happened in the very eary 90s ;)
NIOC630 oooooooooooooo I thought this was new..... well I feel like an ass... thanks.
NIOC630 I was wondering when the spice girls became popular again, that makes sense lol.
@nws15 No, he is using the excavator's hydraulic arm to pull it up, the way he secures it, if you look closely at 6:00, is that he wedges the main head plate under a shelf on the tower, so that when he lifts, the shelf keeps the top part of the head from lifting, and incredible friction keeps the bottom part of the head from slipping.
Besides the arm what other mods were done,looks like it was reinforced at the stress point on the tracks...
It's pretty amazing when you think the excavator is designed to dig holes in the dirt, but it's arm is strong enough to support it's own weight. 10,000 kilo grams is over 22,000 lbs, or over 11 tons.
10,000kg is 10 tons
@@DitchCudhaa i love you for correcting this 9 years after the original comment was posted. Alpha male energy
@@DitchCudhaa10,000 kg is 10 tonnes. 22,046 lbs, or 11 tons
@@omniphile. Is there any problem with correcting past mistakes? E.g. the holocaust
Very cool demonstration, the operator didn't look very cheerful in fact he looked bored shitless, I suppose he was concentrating and he's probably done it dozens of times.
Anyway, what a fantastic piece of engineering, would be interesting to see if they could go higher or cross over to another tower for the descent.
What I would like to know is when this guy climbed down did he have to sign zee papers?
The weight is in the back of the machine and his tracks are only partially in what is holding him in until he locks the boom in?
Any piece of heavy equipment built by the germans is badass and far exceeds specifications and quality standards
How does he get down again? Is there the video for that?
that looks like a fun job....where do i sign-up
Here cause of Reddit. Cool video even if old. Read the comments to find out it actually locks in with hydraulic pins and not just hanging. Awesome
I used to be a high rise window cleaner. Every morning in the buck hoist on the way up someone would say" Man yall are crazy and must have the biggest nutz" id look at em real serious and take off my safety glasses and say "Wanna see em" Never flashed my sack but always some hilarious responces
Val Troy, I was stateing that it was pointless in the function of climbing the tower. Yes, it shows great skill from the operator and the quality of the machine but it is still a stunt showing a capability that will never be used in its normal functioning parameters.
Darwin Simmons If it can lift its own mass it is significantly more valuable to a skilled operator because they are less limited.
Of course it also means an unskilled operator can capsize the thing.
Capabilities can be noted on paper. To go out and show that it can climb a tower shows that it can do something that NO operator will ever need to do in the workplace. But if you have to toot your own horn then I guess that is what they need to do.
Is it for a circus show...??
The application can climb and fall how strong is it to protect the operator when falling...??
Is there another video of him climbing down?
Wonder if any parts on this LIEBHERR are made in the USA
how does it get back down?
How long did it take to get down?
it looks like great fun to me. a challenge, and your skills to finnish it.
How do you practice something like this???
How is this excavator fall down?
can i see the video of that excavator going back down?
How did he get down did a crane come in and lower it down?
What is need it for?
My friends said this is impossible.. but then i told them what just 1 hydraulic cylinder could do to one of thoes machines.. and it has atleast 2-3 of them...
The ammount of power in thoes things are so immense, its just that amazing to watch..
and of course if my friends don't belive me on how strong a hydraulic is, i can always shot them what it would do to their car aswell :P
yes, my dad is a diesel and hydraulic mechanic and i drive semis so yes, you are right, now regarding that eguipment it has 5 pumps to each cylinder there is one pump or two so yes with the right person it willl do wonders.......
now how do you get back down?
Easy with the right kit! Would not like to be in his shoes if one of his booms fails though? Coming down would be the hardest.
how did it get down?
How does he get it back down?
please what is the name of the symphony of the minute 1:00
Liebherr Créative Technologie
/watch?v=Nx5c_JZIM6M
Man that is so cool!..... But what if that thing stalls out doing that. I'd hate to be that mechanic!
Would Now be a bad time to run out of diesel?
So how do you get down?
IS that thing a magnet?
Totally holding its self up the strength of the track chain at some stages
i like how the reporter was standing right underneath of it
Name of music that starts at 0:44?
Yes his is. The plate on the end of the excavator stick has two pins that come out and lock into the tower reciever plate (notice the holes), look at 3:50, you can see the pins, you can see the holes. At 4:59 you can see the two hooks on the front of the machine that hook into the tower. As I said, at no time is the excavator not mechanically locked into the tower. Good bit of engineering.
That's quite a sales gimmick! I can't see a practical use for it but that aught to sell quite a few of those!
German engineering.
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@@bakagajin9954 was laberst du wie eine scheiße
Great promotional stunt. Not that it was specially modified along with the structure or anything though just to climb. It shows that it is strong and agile. Purposeless as far as the climbing function goes though.
I wouldn't say purposeless really, the fact that the machine can "pull it's own weight" is just one point this proves along side the fact that it shows how well built the thing is.
But that's nothing compared to the driver... He's the most important part. It's not simply the fact that he did the stunt, but the fact that you could see he was confident in his machinery. It shows how an experienced operator knows that this machine can do what he wants it to do and will not fail him.
i would love to see how he make that machine climb back down :D
how did he climbed off?
anyone can tell me that it serves.
The Real Question is How does he get down?
One does not simply "get down"
the same way he got up dumm ass
Unless you want to die or waste hundreds of thousands of dollars, then you go back down the same way you got up lol
he puts everything in nuetral. dah.
I never knew this was even a thing. I will sleep amazed tonight.
Is that city hall in Vienna?
And how many of those people tried going at sensible speeds, accelerating gently in order to stay in control of the car? I'm gonna give it a wild guess: not a single one. The whole idea behind sitting in a F1 car is power and speed. You go as fast as you can until eventually you push past your skills. That still doesn't mean they couldn't drive the car, it just means they couldn't drive it as good as the pros.
Not not allways the case.. If the machine "bleeds" meaning lossing hydrauc pressure or leaking fluid or other wear and tear this could be the case, but if it is brand new it you could extend the bucket/attachment with the boom and stick in the air two feet from the ground or 30 and it will stay like that 9 times out of 10.
Not sure what his seatbelt is gonna do in the event it failed...
How does he get down?
That guy would be a hell of a helicopter pilot!!
Yes and no, two different types of skill sets: Excavators are very linear in the relationship between the controls and the actions they control. When you move the control stick the action it controls happens so quickly it is effectively in real time, and it is a very predictable action based on a few simple factors which are easy to compensate for. When you swing the boom and reach the point you wish to be at you can simply release the control and it will self-center and the action of movement will immediately stop. It may not be very smooth and it may swing a small amount based on how tightly everything is connected (New/well maintained vs the opposite), but there is very little lag or variables that effect the control/action relationship. In fact the biggest variable is usually the surface the machine is sitting on. Pavement, steel, rock, or hard packed earth is pretty linear and predictable, sand and mud takes more experience and skill.
If this operator didn't have a crowd of people and was being filmed, I'm sure that he could have done this extremely smoothly without any wobbles with a little extra time. As it is he still did extremely well. What people don't realize is, is how safe this actually was, even if a hydraulic hose or seal ruptured the worst thing that would happen is the boom would fully extend in a second or two and the rest of the machine would drop down and slam into the tower tail end first at an angle slightly past vertical as the biggest concentration of mass would then be in the bottom back end of the machine (Engine block). However, it would do so over a 1-2 or more second time period. I would imagine they took a machine that had just completed a couple hundred hours of break-in and replaced all the hoses and seals, run it for another few hours to let them all bed in and at that point you have a super predictable and thus safe machine
Piloting a helicopter is a serious exercise in time lag (much more so than a fixed wing craft), the time between when you want something to happen and how far before that moment in time you must begin moving the controls to effect that action, and because of this there is no direct feedback, you must have enough experience to be able to extrapolate how far and for how long you must move the controls to effect the movement you want. You can't just move the control stick in one direction and hold it there until you reach the point you want to be at because at that point it will continue onwards in it's movement for several fractions of a second, AND, the length of time lag is anything but a set amount and there is no linear reaction chart, it depends on dozens of other factors that all must be part of the operator's control actions.
This is why while some people can just get in a plane and have a pretty smooth first flight and then quickly master basic control, NOBODY has a smooth first flight in a helicopter, and mastering basic control is directly related to time/experience flying. The one area rotary wing pilots seem to master faster (proportionally) is effecting consistently smooth landings because unlike a fixed wing craft, you are not committed to a glide path, you can edge your way down the last few feet.
I didn't ask for a huge commentary, just making a little joke! But thanks! And I study and have flown helicopters and operated equipment, both!
69adrummer Holy crap! I couldn't believe the comment they wrote to you either....
now how the hell do you get down?
How does it not fall when the arm isn’t holding on???
You couldn't pay me enough to do this.
Balls and skill! A lot of it!
Does anybody know the name of the first two songs?
What kind of excavator are they even advertising? It's an ad right, not just a stunt?
It's just a stunt, it's from "Wetten, dass... ?" the most popular tv show in the german speaking areas. Nowdays it comes around once a year.
are you hireing?
I'm more impressed with the tower and it's strength.
An excavator that can do pull-ups. What an age we live in.
wait until you see the video where the dude pours a glass of wine with an excavator. and makes breakfast. fries an egg on a skillet. I am dead serious. it happened
@Duron13 It's impossible for someone who didn't know how to drive a Volvo to do it too, that doesn't mean it's super complicated to drive one.
I bet anyone could learn to shoot a target at 400 m if they had a support for the rifle that kept it absolutely still at all time, and a scope which told them how to adjust for windspeed. Basically the same as what we have in this vid, an excavator specifically altered for this very purpose. It's not an excavator of the shelf, so to speak.
trust my words...
There's more than meet the eyes!!
@Roxfox Being designed to be able to go 300+ kmph doesn't mean it's undriveable at 50 kmph. I haven't said that anyone will be able to beat Michael Schumacher, I said anyone can drive it after some instructing.
Excavator schools are generally not 4 year courses. More like 2 months, and the majority of the time isn't for learning how to drive one, but learning how to use one in different conditions. The conditions in this video aren't that complicated, thus, it won't take long to learn it.
Seems fairly straight forward.
You just need a big set of ba..s
Respekt men for operator!!!!
To the guy that made the comment, "It's not like they are going to dig any holes on the roof" No Shit Sherlock!! It was done to show how well the company makes there Excavators & Heavy Equipment!! Sheeesh!!!!
Well,I would've never imagined anyone trying something this crazy or out of this world! LOL!
IDK whos balls were lager, the welders, the operator, or the guy standing underneath it. tough call there
Song at 0:42 ? loved!!!
LMAO, this f**king amazing :D
I bet Libherr had some fantastic sales after this :-)
Lmao
凄～い！ところでどうやって降りるの？
VERY cool!!.. sure would suck if it blew a hose or one of those welds in the steel gave way..yikes
That must have some realy powerful hydrolics
Für Liebherr lohnt es sich, ein Menschenleben zu riskieren, um Werbung zu machen!
y'all got some weird amusement park rides. it should have more seats.
so how'd he get down
good show but whats the point of this are the trying to impove sale or what