Do not try this at home

[TMKIWI]

The crazy German's are at it again.

Liebherr

Notice the announcer is standing directly below.

[SachsGS]

I wonder if the operator was paid overtime?

[riffraff]

I want to see him bring it back down

[citabjockey]

Huh, no hardhats required on this construction site? What would OSHA say?

[MichaelB]

Crazy.  I wonder who paid for that though, seems like a lot of money wasted for nothing.

[SachsGS]

The stunt was obviously financed by Liebherr to promote their construction equipment.The engineers who developed that machine must be pretty confident about all their stress calculations to allow such a demonstration.

[JohnN]

The engineers who developed that machine must be pretty confident about all their stress calculations to allow such a demonstration.

No matter what calculations the engineers came up with, that operator has balls of steel!

[TMKIWI]

The engineers who developed that machine must be pretty confident about all their stress calculations to allow such a demonstration.

I would be more worried about the guy who crimped all the hydraulic hoses. Thats your weak link.

[scotty dog]

I had the same thought as TMKIWI. The hoses and the rams would want to be put together properly...

[Super Trucker]

I used to run a trackhoe,all kinds of equipment, dozers,drill rigs, 28 cylinder train. I bet they turned the engine up, and the hydraulic pump up, there,s alot of tricks you can do with a trackhoe.  Say you need to get to a area,and there,s a 20 ft. deep pit, you just boom down get 1 track in the air, then track forward and boom down while swinging the boom to keep up with tracking. That way all you need is 3 feet of land and you can put the track hoe anywhere. There alot of fun to operate, but gets borring after a while.