Modern "walking" spider excavators were capable of incredible stunts (5 photos + 1 video)

Even after seeing such a “spider” excavator on paper, you can be surprised. He is even more amazing in real life. Due swivel joints and outriggers, stabilizers and tilt wheels such mechanisms have an incredibly wide range of possibilities.





At the same time, the first models began to appear in the 60s. last century. And the real flourishing of design thought in this direction fell on the 70s, when a telescopic hydraulic cylinder.









Modern walking excavators are even more powerful than traditional earthmoving machines. However, they did not receive wide distribution due to more complex design and higher cost service. The owners may not lock them up, because the hunters take possession it is very difficult to find such equipment. Looking at how they work, you can admire this "feast of hydraulic equipment", realizing that all this was invented by people. It also comes to mind how they are difficult to manage.



These machines were originally designed for steep snow conditions. slopes of the Swiss Alps, where conditions are close to extreme. Them The authors are considered to be two engineers - Josef Kaiser and Ernst Menzi. However, immersion in business ruined their friendship and they began to build "spiders" each in their own way, and their firms still compete. Thanks to innovations and technologies, a working excavator looks like a steel animal, not machine.