operator probably needs half of his shift to grease all these joints lol its truly an amazing, and highly specialized machine. i cant imagine how much training the operator has done to control all these features so smoothly
@@azzorzer it has about 10 greasing points on each wheel, and roughly 15 points on the arm. That's a lot of greasing. But yeah, I was making a joke about the complexity of this thing
@@OmmerSyssel i do it for a living, i work at a place that rents out machines such as excavators and wheel loaders, im the Guy who do all the repairs and maintance
@@azzorzer I find it very hard to believe you. I work and service all sorts of equipment and dry clay or Cement is a pest, along with lazy and careless drivers. Even Power washing these complex machines with lots of hidden joints and greasing points takes loads of time and effort. Are you Italian?
@@sixupsprite5501 technology like this never gets boring. On the other hand, anything that requires little brain power but looks impressive, but is done by nothing but onboard computers *is* boring. Driverless technology…..never a truer misnomer. F1……proper clutch,gear change, throttle control…erm nope. No manual override
@@rich1879 well you can see what is and what isn’t automated. Pretty much all of that is driver skill over and above what it was built to do. It’s pushing the envelope which is impressive. A helluva lot of pro drivers will look at that and easily say, “I’ve never done that and never knew it could” because they just do work that is required of them daily. This is a pro driver/tester for he company. Showing its limits and knowing his
Yeah the operator in the vid is good but we know what we have out there in the workforce lol. These will flip super easy with average skill level operators.
I'd imagine half the battle of designing something so complex, is making the controls comprehensible enough for someone with limited knowledge of it to pick up and use quickly without spending even more on lengthy training process.
I can imagine this making mining operations much easier in adverse terrain. The longer wheel base also allows heavier loads and a longer arm without tipping
@Anon Anon depends upon the job, look here climbing down into an emptied water reservoir: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f_XiSfdIvo0.html Greetings from Germany.
A forebearer of this was marketed unsuccesfully in Canada in the 1980s. It was the "Canadian Climbing Backhoe", an uninspiring name choice. It had 4 legs with wheels on the rear pair. The front legs walked. It could dig a deep hole, step down to the bottom with front legs and dig another hole within the first. The cab pivoted in one plane to remain level. It was a very slow one trick pony and disappeared after a few years of fruitless promotion.
This vehicles nickname is "high maintenance". It is customary for tired operators to accidentally remove one of its legs. The drivetrain of one was once abandoned after driving into deep mud, the legs extended for extra wading capability quickly sunk and the bottom half was written off. The top was disassembled mechanically and sold.
LoL, I was trying design a 4wd that had chassis like that. This 1 even better I didn't even think of having a cab that spins. Independent arms & electric wheels obviously. How funny. Pretty good!
Tons of extra, very expensive, one source components for a knuckle headed operstor to break, but all in all not overly complicated, straight forward engineering, I like it.
