fireman050
Senior Member
here are some pics of a job i was helping a friend on the crane we were using was a old american 5510 the hoe was a cat 318 took us about a week and half to tear it down and build a new one
what do you mean by the undercarriage spinning ninety degrees?
Well if he slid or the bank let go in the first pick he'dve been screwed. Turn the tracks 90* and there wouldnt be anything to worry about. 99% of excavator tipping photos are because the operator worked at a ledge with the tracks crossways and it gave in.
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Note to all wanna be excavator operators, look at first picture and make a note to NEVER put you or your machine in a similar position. :Banghead
There is not one reason I can see in the photos that the undercarriage was not spun 90 deg. :soapbox
finally somebody understands plus if he would have turned his tracks 90 degrees half of his tracks would have been over the ledgeThose are pretty strong words for someone that wasn't there. I can think of several possible reasons why there was no need to have his idlers facing his work. With that timber enbutment there nothing is going to cave in. You can call me MR. Wannabe Excavator Operator
I have to agree, while usually operating over the side is not the best way, in this case in the third pic you can see how digging over the front can be tipsy. Sometimes the job requires a less than perfect approachThose are pretty strong words for someone that wasn't there. I can think of several possible reasons why there was no need to have his idlers facing his work. With that timber enbutment there nothing is going to cave in. You can call me MR. Wannabe Excavator Operator
Those are pretty strong words for someone that wasn't there. I can think of several possible reasons why there was no need to have his idlers facing his work. With that timber enbutment there nothing is going to cave in. You can call me MR. Wannabe Excavator Operator
finally somebody understands plus if he would have turned his tracks 90 degrees half of his tracks would have been over the ledge
well at the time even if he wanted to spin the undercarriage he could not because of the truck and the road barriers behind himFireman, with his tracks straight he could travel out so over half his track was sticking over the edge, with his bucket down in the excavation/hole he would have been a safer position than in that first pic :IMO Grab what he wanted then track backwards till on level ground.