Comments on: Boys and their eight-ton toys http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:14:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: reyalp http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1776 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:49:10 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1776 <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RmvhCpEKAjY&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RmvhCpEKAjY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> no further comment

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]]> by: kamikrae-z http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1764 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:11:20 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1764 m56, for some reason that series of pictures put a comic image in my head of an elephant maneuvering around with just its (admittedly rather oversized) trunk and tail. This whole aspect of heavy machinery gives a whole new angle to the concept of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping" rel="nofollow">bootstrapping</a>. m56, for some reason that series of pictures put a comic image in my head of an elephant maneuvering around with just its (admittedly rather oversized) trunk and tail.

This whole aspect of heavy machinery gives a whole new angle to the concept of bootstrapping.

]]> by: m56 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1763 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:55:24 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1763 foobar77, So true! It is such a sad sound. Catpain_Balkudder, Good find! Here is a pretty relevant set of four pictures showing a backhoe / bucket loader thing lifting itself up onto the top of a train hopper car: http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/archive/archive_51-100/photo73.htm foobar77,
So true! It is such a sad sound.

Catpain_Balkudder,
Good find!

Here is a pretty relevant set of four pictures showing a backhoe / bucket loader thing lifting itself up onto the top of a train hopper car:
http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/archive/archive_51-100/photo73.htm

]]> by: DBT http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1762 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:43:46 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1762 +1 "Mommy, I found a sick digger on the side of the road. He can't move his wheels. Can I keep him? ... Awww ...Pleeeese?" +1

"Mommy, I found a sick digger on the side of the road. He can't move his wheels. Can I keep him? ... Awww ...Pleeeese?"

]]> by: foobar77 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1758 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:59:44 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1758 I just love the sad sound of the inch-worming backhoe scraping it's bucket along the road. It's almost animal like. Plus the directions the cars take to get around it is also quite amusing. I just love the sad sound of the inch-worming backhoe scraping it's bucket along the road. It's almost animal like. Plus the directions the cars take to get around it is also quite amusing.

]]> by: allsub http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1757 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:22:45 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1757 It's pretty impressive what a good operator can do with a machine he knows well. It's scary what an insane operator can do with just about any machine. The video of the combination excavator, the tractor with the dozer bucket on one end and excavating backhoe bucket on the other end, pushing itself along the road isn't too uncommon, I've seen the things moved all over by the hoe bucket. When the driver is swiveled around towards the hoe and the outriggers are down he can't move it with the transmission, good operators can scoot the machine all around with the bucket. The most impressive thing I've seen is watching a rubber-tired excavator yanking a broken-down manlift across 3 lanes on the interstate. We were working at night and the manlift broke down with the boom out about 50 feet. We could only close down traffic in 15 minute increments, the operator had to drag the manlift out of the median, across 2 lanes, across the shoulder down the ditch and off the road, all in 15 minutes, all with a backhoe that weighed less than the manlift it was dragging. It's pretty impressive what a good operator can do with a machine he knows well. It's scary what an insane operator can do with just about any machine. The video of the combination excavator, the tractor with the dozer bucket on one end and excavating backhoe bucket on the other end, pushing itself along the road isn't too uncommon, I've seen the things moved all over by the hoe bucket. When the driver is swiveled around towards the hoe and the outriggers are down he can't move it with the transmission, good operators can scoot the machine all around with the bucket. The most impressive thing I've seen is watching a rubber-tired excavator yanking a broken-down manlift across 3 lanes on the interstate. We were working at night and the manlift broke down with the boom out about 50 feet. We could only close down traffic in 15 minute increments, the operator had to drag the manlift out of the median, across 2 lanes, across the shoulder down the ditch and off the road, all in 15 minutes, all with a backhoe that weighed less than the manlift it was dragging.

]]> by: Catpain_Balkudder http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1755 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:21:10 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1755 <p>There is also some fun to be had with 62-ton toys...</p> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xhbBWNcV5dA&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xhbBWNcV5dA&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> There is also some fun to be had with 62-ton toys...

]]> by: phrantic http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1754 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:40:03 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1754 I wonder what it takes to get on the JCB Precision Driving Team? I wonder what it takes to get on the JCB Precision Driving Team?

]]> by: lordbritish http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1752 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:09:42 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1752 Have you seen Top Gear's own tractor races? If you're not familiar with them, they did an episode where they were planting crops for bio-fuel, and naturally they had to test their tractors. Part 2 of 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JAQKdblaneM Have you seen Top Gear's own tractor races? If you're not familiar with them, they did an episode where they were planting crops for bio-fuel, and naturally they had to test their tractors. Part 2 of 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JAQKdblaneM

]]> by: morrieD http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1751 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:54:55 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/boys-and-their-eight-ton-toys/#comment-1751 i so much want one of these to play with. Again. (that doesnt' count, it was only a Tonka) i so much want one of these to play with. Again. (that doesnt' count, it was only a Tonka)

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