wisd0m says:

This seems like such a bad idea.

McCullough says:

But, But, Why????

Tom Woolf says:

Just because you can do something, does not mean that you should do it…

However, that was just very, very cool, and I’m certainly glad they DID do it.

Likes2LOL smh says:

So does Wetten Dass ≡ WTF?

Likes2LOL admiring the thrown gauntlet says:

This could start a new genre of heavy equipment performance art. Time for Deere and Komatsu to step up and show the world what they’ve got!

Jim W. says:

Amazing German/Austrian Engineering Stunt?

Starting the Spice Girls new career as spokespersons for construction equipment?

BertDawg says:

I agree with McCullough (#4), aside from demonstrating that a fellow CAN function with balls like a camel – WHY?

deowll says:

That is a fine piece of equipment and they proved it. The driver was highly skilled, absolutely insane but skilled.

sargasso says:

I watched a roading contractor in Taranaki do exactly this, to unearth a large bolder overhanging a highway. Climbed a 200ft cliff with an excavator. Dig a little platform, crawl into it. Dig another, and so on. No safety belt, no head protection, not even a parachute. Finished the job, crawled back on down for a cup of tea and a sandwich.

Cap'nKangaroo says:

#10 Actually, John Deere and Liebherr cooperate in the construction equipment segment. The JDeere factory in Dubuque, IA makes bulldozers of a certain size for Liebherr while Liebherr makes the bigger 950 and 1050 models for Deere. And JDeere imports from Liebherr the 244 and 344 model payloaders.

And Liebherr has a factory in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia that builds a mining dump truck as big as Caterpillar’s. It is rated at 280 tonnes. I hauled the cab/superstructure for one with dimensions of 13 ft by 25 ft. So the machine sits at least 25 ft wide. It went out to an open-pit coal mine in the Powder River region of Wyoming.