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.
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
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.
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!"
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
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.
@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.
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 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 .
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.
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.......
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.
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
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.
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.
@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!!!!
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
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.
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.
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?
I hope this is not the training for the licence
Only in Germany lol
This video clearly shows the power of hydraulic systems. Simply Amazing !
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...
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.
This is cool but...I kind of want to see him bring it back down haha
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!"
This was just AWESOME !! And here i sat thinking "I thought i had skill". That was very very nice
my next video recommendation is a work safety video called "shake hands with danger"
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 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
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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.
There are any safety measures? I don't see anything which will stop the excavator from falling if it somehow loses grip?
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.
Years later, it's still stuck up there like a cat that goes too high
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No, it's Not.. than it would be a Caterpillar. 😅
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.
German engineering.
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@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 looks like great fun to me. a challenge, and your skills to finnish it.
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?
How does he get down again? Is there the video for that?
What I would like to know is when this guy climbed down did he have to sign zee papers?
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.
Download the video and put it on reverse. ANd you see how it comes down
LMFAO
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
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
Besides the arm what other mods were done,looks like it was reinforced at the stress point on the tracks...
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 .
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
How long did it take to get down?
can i see the video of that excavator going back down?
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.......
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.
now how do you get back down?
how does it get back down?
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.
How do you practice something like this???
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
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....
How is this excavator fall down?
Respekt men for operator!!!!
that looks like a fun job....where do i sign-up
Balls and skill! A lot of it!
Is it for a circus show...??
The application can climb and fall how strong is it to protect the operator when falling...??
Wonder if any parts on this LIEBHERR are made in the USA
how did it get down?
IS that thing a magnet?
i like how the reporter was standing right underneath of it
Man that is so cool!..... But what if that thing stalls out doing that. I'd hate to be that mechanic!
How did he get down did a crane come in and lower it down?
How does he get it back down?
What is need it for?
Is there another video of him climbing down?
So how do you get down?
how did he climbed off?
I never knew this was even a thing. I will sleep amazed tonight.
anyone can tell me that it serves.
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.
i would love to see how he make that machine climb back down :D
now how the hell do you get down?
Would Now be a bad time to run out of diesel?
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The best! Красавчик!Аъло гап нест мардуми немисба!
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.
@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.
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!
Not sure what his seatbelt is gonna do in the event it failed...
凄～い！ところでどうやって降りるの？
Excellent observation, Captain.
How does he get down?
That must have some realy powerful hydrolics
Seems fairly straight forward.
You just need a big set of ba..s
trust my words...
There's more than meet the eyes!!
Gut danke für die video
Getting Over It 2
You couldn't pay me enough to do this.
niesamowity człowiek! amazing guy!
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!
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.
Is that city hall in Vienna?
That was awesome!! Still think i could have done it faster just would have needed a change of underwear haha
are you hireing?
so how'd he get down
Those sheer pins are fucking crazy
Nice skills! Nice video!
Für Liebherr lohnt es sich, ein Menschenleben zu riskieren, um Werbung zu machen!
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
a equipe ta de parabens
How does it not fall when the arm isn’t holding on???
LMAO, this f**king amazing :D
I bet Libherr had some fantastic sales after this :-)
Lmao
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.
the most beautiful thing i saw
Very nice wonder full so amazing ohh my God nice man
Totally holding its self up the strength of the track chain at some stages