Menzi Walking Excavator - Best Video Ever!

[treemuncher]

During my surfing over the holiday weekend, I came across this video of a Menzi A91 4x4 climbing onto what looks like a shipping container that looks to be 12'-15' tall, a twirl and then a dismount. All of this was done in under 5 minutes. The capabilities of this equipment is somewhat mind-blowing! Gee, I wonder if the operator was wearing his seat belt?

link to this address here: http://www.voelkerequipment.com/menzivideo.html

Even with a dial-up connection, this video is worth the wait! :thumbsup

I own an old Menzo 5000T but now I have my sights set on something a little more advanced when finances allow.

I hope everyone else who views this enjoys it as much as I have.

 

[wyldman]

Cool video.

Click here for a page containing a whole bunch of videos.

 

[Countryboy]

Good find Treemuncher and wyldman. :thumbsup

Have to add those to the collection. :yup

 

[wyldman]

If you browse around the different categories,there are videos (LOTS of them) on every page.There has to be 30 -40 videos in total.

 

[itsgottobegreen]

Dude that is so cool. Talk about a machine that you can brown your under pants very easy.

 

[imjustdave]

So are these machiens good at standard stuff I might use a excavator for, Looking to by a 5 ton class mini but these machines seem to have a big advantage when climing or hilly areas, Looking for some advice on where this machine excells and doesn't

 

[miKe F.]

Wouldn't catch me dead in an excavator on those hills :bouncegri

 

[Mark Oomkes]

Wouldn't catch me dead in an excavator on those hills :bouncegri

Not on the hills, just at the bottom when you roll down it.

 

[CascadeScaper]

There's a lot of steep slope work in my area to be done with a machine like that. A guy I personally knew had two Schaeff HS40's a few years back, those machines were responsible for a lot of his business and he had two 15 ton excavators, dozer, backhoe, couple dump trucks, typical excavation contractor that branched out into some serious specialty work. If the demand was high, and I think it will be in my area even more than it was in the past, I'd buy one in a minute. Nobody has one, you can charge what you want (within reason) and when it really comes down to it, being able to tackle a job nobody else can do is a good feeling. I love a good challenge, life threatening or not. I actually ran one of the Schaeff's as a kid, I must've been 13 or so.

 

[proteksandblast]

Very cool, operator must have lots of nerve!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BrianHay]

Here are some more videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/rhorat

Click on Kaiser short to see this one. I havnt watched the others yet.
http://virtualvault.freedom2surf.net/2965341

 

[tw_692000]

During my surfing over the holiday weekend, I came across this video of a Menzi A91 4x4 climbing onto what looks like a shipping container that looks to be 12'-15' tall, a twirl and then a dismount. All of this was done in under 5 minutes. The capabilities of this equipment is somewhat mind-blowing! Gee, I wonder if the operator was wearing his seat belt?

link to this address here: http://www.voelkerequipment.com/menzivideo.html

Even with a dial-up connection, this video is worth the wait! :thumbsup

I own an old Menzo 5000T but now I have my sights set on something a little more advanced when finances allow.

I hope everyone else who views this enjoys it as much as I have.

thats a cool i think that might fun to run think they would let us demo one.....lol..:beatsme

 

[bobcat ron]

I loved that mower idea, spits the material away from the ditch!

 

[BrianHay]

I just finished uploading 98 pics from my laptop for you guys I think you will enjoy them.

But first the disclaimer:
These are NOT my own pictures. It's a collection of pictures I got off the net while researching buying my own. If any of the pictures in this collection are yours please let me know and I will remove and/or credit you for them

Here is the link

If you look right bellow the Gallery logo you will see some little icons. Click the one on the left and a menu will slide out with a full screen slide show option.

 

[Foster]

Nice pics Brian, Have you been able to run your machine yet? How do you like it? Any of pics in there of yours?

 

[mike69440]

Darn! Scary.

I imgine they cable off the machine to safe anchors working a 60 degree slope?

 

[BrianHay]

I haven't taken delivery of mine yet...should be here really soon though

This is it. It's a 96 Kaiser X4M TurboStar

If it gets to crazy Mike there is a winch mounted to the undercarriage to tie off with. It will go almost vertical using the winch and will do 60 degrees safely without it.

 

[dayexco]

i know we've discussed this in another forum, but after looking at your pics, i can see "maybe" 1 out of 10 situations in those pics posted that i couldn't do the same thing with my excavator .....you'll definitely be in a niche market.

good luck

 

[BrianHay]

Yup you could do it but the job would cost way more then if a I did it because it would take you way longer to do. While your busy trying to get set up and figure out how your going to sit on those slopes...or even get to them I'm well into the job already. I'm half the size of a 200 track machine but have the same power, digging depth and reach. I'm as mobile as a rubber tire back hoe and have 7 more auxiliary hydraulic lines (5 on the stick plus 2 more for the winch). Those lines power a list off attachments a mile long. A few of the more useful ones are (excluding the obvious like hammers and packers)

Mower
Feller Buncher
Mulcher
Drill
Processor Head
Crane Gear
Grapple Bucket
Demolition shears
Swivel and continuous 360 degree rotation of any attachment

I can do anything a conventional machine can and a whole more.
You seem to think it would be a hard machine to find work for, what am I missing here?

 

[bobcat ron]

What's the max roading speed crusing around?