This looks fun!

[Diggin It]

Note the positionable wheels.

 

[Agvg]

You need a bit of training....

 

[Agvg]

History - Menzi Muck AG

 

[Jstpssng]

The first pic would be fun. The second two, not so much. The guy I have to wonder about though is in the last, standing downhill from the excavator.

 

[mrmikey]

That would be fun, as long as you weren't paying for up keep LOL. I couldn't begin to imagine the hydraulics and electronics to run that and keep it upright...............Mike

 

[Agvg]

Skills

 

[Agvg]

Some pics from a road construction site here I NorwayView attachment 628721

 

[Big Barn]

We used that design to crawl down into our deep sided drainage ditches over 50 years ago. The machine was wheelless though.

Incredibly cool! Thank you for the scenic photos.

 

[radios1]

it takes a very special person, that don't care much about staying alive to operate these machines in most of these pictures, the first one is ok, but on a hill maybe hundreds of feet up?. that's just insane!.. I guess they figure on bailing out safely somehow, but on a steep hill?..

 

[PILOON]

Gee, you sure would not grab the wrong valve in some of those situations.

That or oversized labels!

 

[Streetcar]

Had a contractor use a menzi as base for drill rig. Similar size to video cost was 500,000. Long wait time for parts in ohio

 

[Diggin It]

Alongside the road would be no issue. But for those remote locations, it seems getting to them and getting set up would be more risky than the work itself.

 

[bunyip]

Would be useful at home for mowing the ditch out the front of our place, about 10' wide and 6-7' deep, swallows the odd drunk driver.

 

[Citydude]

How come the Europeans are light years ahead of North America in equipment design?

 

[4570Man]

How come the Europeans are light years ahead of North America in equipment design?

Americans fear change.

 

[Industrial Toys]

No worse than those guys that go atop rail cars using a backhoe.

Thing looks like something from "war of the worlds".

There used to be one close by here. Gone one day, never to be seen again.

The one picture. I wouldn't be standing on the down side of that thing on a slope. Ready to be pinned against that sheet piling or whatever it is.

 

[4get gto]

Gee, you sure would not grab the wrong valve in some of those situations.

That or oversized labels!

Was thinking the same thing. But I'm sure they have a BX and a BH at home to practice on.. .

 

[Rustyiron]

How come the Europeans are light years ahead of North America in equipment design?

Apparently no level ground:laughing:

Those operators are definitely "cowboys" but note the cable (winch?) on the 3rd pic drilling rock. There's more amazing stuff on youtube. Enter Menzi Muck, spider, or walking excavator.

 

[Citydude]

I guess the "good old American ingenuity" quote holds true. Old being the operative word.

Americans fear change.

 

[shovelmike]

Kinda like: There are old operators, and there are bold operators, but there are no old bold operators.