An ad for you retired CAT guys....

[mwilson]

http://paid.outbrain.com/network/re...590541&pv_id=a27d5e5d2959e35b890573eef369b418

Watch the video in it as well...

Mike.

 

[Jim W]

Thanks, Mike.
I know one of the tests that the Demo operators at Edwards Demonstration area must be able to do is pick up and egg without breaking the shell using a 300 series excavator. I have seen this down and it is just amazing.

Jim W.

 

[mwilson]

Hit the "Built for it" in the text of the write-up, there are two more that I just found..

One where they are playing "Jenga" with 600lb. hunks of wood and another for the CAT smartphone......

Mike.

 

[TFucili]

There are operators, and there are O-P-E-R-A-T-O-R-S.
I love to watch a truly gifted operator make a piece of equipment sing.

 

[Mikey-KE7LBB]

Pretty impressive indeed!

Here's one that impressed me on operator skill...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1CMSV81_ws

The others are not so skilled lol!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY7lBw28bEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHC8F6jQEPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1TIx1ZjFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHggO5UQn8U

 

[JR]

How bout this guy, he must have a set of bowling balls in his shorts :-laf

http://youtu.be/VRfBJIzNrYw

 

[Mikey-KE7LBB]

How bout this guy, he must have a set of bowling balls in his shorts :-laf

http://youtu.be/VRfBJIzNrYw

The trip back down would be much worse... It always is lol!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbkTncjEOs

 

[mwilson]

I've always figured that getting the boom in the right place the first time is the trick to that. The 180 degree rotation while tipped up like that is quite a sensation.

I used to be the designated lowboy b*itch and had to move all kinds of equipment. Trying to move and load a piece of equipment that you might run twice a year really gives one a case of heartburn. One excavator would be set one way on the joysticks, the next one would be opposite. Do or die........

Mike.

 

[JR]

We use to pour refractory in 36" pipe spools of different lengths for a chemical plants reactors. The pipe was the "offgas" or the outlet piping off the reactor and was lined with 4 1/2" of a high temp refractory to withstand the 1800* temps coming out of the reactor. Part of the contract was always to hammer the old refractory out with a rubber track mini and a rock crusher with a 4' bit on the end of it. The spools ranged anywhere from 4' to 10' and weighed anywhere between 2500# and 8000# and were flanged on both ends to bolt together. The trick was to stand them up on end so you could use the downforce of the machine to crush the refractory which was several times harder than concrete and anchored to the inside of the pipe with spragues (kinda like rebar only welded to the pipe) Some of the pieces weighed alot more than the machine was capable of curling so it was all a game of physics and balance. And once you had the boom curled in the pipe to stand it up you were committed and it didn't always work out trying to stand them up and the pipe would occasionally win and take me for a ride :-laf
You learn real quick what works and what doesn't, and what doesn't work you don't do again.