Something new to play with
I got a new toy. Or, more precisely, the boss got a new toy and lets me play with it. Or, even more precisely, the boss is trialling a new toy and the toyshop hopes he will buy it, in the meantime, I still get to play with it.
Here it is. It reminds me of Sarah Michelle Gellar - some people think that it's really cute, others just think that it's funny looking. You can do all sorts of fun shit with it; lift heavy things, dig holes etc. The jib is telescopic, but I managed to delete that picture. You can even do weird shit with steering. You can have conventional, front wheel only steering, just like your pussy urban vehicles, or you can have four wheel steering, with the rear wheels counter steering, as in the photo, or...
you can make it crab-walk. Apparently you can use this machine for, ummm, useful stuff, too, but I've only been on it for two days, so that will have to wait. It does have some serious shortcomings, though: the operator's cab cockpit is roughly as roomy as a single seat kayak. More importantly, though - there is NO STEREO. So I broke it today. At least, I dropped a hay bale on it and broke one of the worklights off it.
Ahh well.
Here it is. It reminds me of Sarah Michelle Gellar - some people think that it's really cute, others just think that it's funny looking. You can do all sorts of fun shit with it; lift heavy things, dig holes etc. The jib is telescopic, but I managed to delete that picture. You can even do weird shit with steering. You can have conventional, front wheel only steering, just like your pussy urban vehicles, or you can have four wheel steering, with the rear wheels counter steering, as in the photo, or...you can make it crab-walk. Apparently you can use this machine for, ummm, useful stuff, too, but I've only been on it for two days, so that will have to wait. It does have some serious shortcomings, though: the Ahh well.
posted by Dirk at 4:18 pm
6 Comments:
groovy, a bit disappointing about the lack of a stereo though, i thought they all came with air-con and stereos now
Being a demonstrator you'd think it would have all the works and jerks. It has the antenna and speakers, but the dash panel where the stereo would go is blanked off.
The last demonstrator I played with was a Case backhoe. It had a six-stacker remote control MP3 in it. You had to reach further to pick up the remote than you did to adjust the stereo.
I didn't know you could use a Sarah-Michelle Gellar for digging holes. But then, thats why I come here - to learn.
Stilt,
you can dig holes with 'em - you can't fill leading roles with 'em though.
Those things are vehicles of the apocalypse. A building site I frequent has one and they are awesome: go anywhere, do anything, hoon around: great fun. You can't put buckets on them can though, or can you?
M!key,
you can indeed put buckets on them, straight loader buckets or four-way buckets, although you have to get out of the cab to put a four-way bucket on, so I don't use one.
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