Weird Backhoe

[Puffie40]

yes, I found this on another forum (http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19999&st=0)

http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/31630/31630_1100722726_medium.jpg

Russian backhoe, edited to have four 'hoes instead of one. Dad say it probably works better than the wheeled variant!

[Cpp]

Woah! Spiderbot doser football with a tire! That's my car of dream there ^^

[Doubble Dutch]

Give me less rust and some more spikes and perhaps I'd take it.

I prefer:

http://www.beautifulvista.com/Recent_Photos/Recent_Trips/Glacier_Trip_Photos/Worlds_Largest_Truck.JPG

[Fawriel]

I have no idea what that is, but I want it!

[Radium]

DoubleD, Puffy's spider could take on your dumptruck house any day.

[ThunderPX]

'Giant enemy crab' were my first thoughts.

[FQuist]

I'm afraid you're going to lose, DD.

<img src="http://frank.politiekblog.com/misc/jcf/Trencher2.jpg">

[Doubble Dutch]

DoubleD, Puffy's spider could take on your dumptruck house any day.

Actually, I can run over his spider any day.

And Fquist; how are you actually planning on moving that miner? It needs a support crew of 128 people just to run. Imma drive up behind it and sever its fuel lines.

[Xobim]

I'm afraid you're going to lose, DD.

[img]
*bows*
I wonder why Mammoet never makes that kind of stuff...

Stijn: avoid quoting giant images

[Puffie40]

Double dutch, Ye should cower, as Sparwood is not 300 klicks from me, and is easy pickin's for my spider backhoe and the backup bulldozer! YOUR TRUCKS MINE!! :D

http://www.album-mmt.it/data/media/202/acco_3.JPG

[KRSplat]

OMG OWNED

http://www.fenderforum.com/userphotos/photo.php?id=13203

[Stijn]

http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/nobell/images/sw02.jpg

[Monolith]

That thing's pretty big.

[Fawriel]

Just try to picture the cost of the insurance or even the garage for that thing... *rubs chin*
Besides, the design of the Death Star is somewhat old-fashioned, innit?

[Strato]

That design is. It's not even finished.

[Birdie]

http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/community/lightwave/andersson/images/borg_cube2.jpg

[Pako]

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7403/ressetitankre8.jpg

[Birdie]

[Image]
;( That thing could never defeat a borg cube.

[Murderbeam]

http://employees.csbsju.edu/rsorensen/modelcitizen/trekships/misc/8472-1.jpg
THIS CAN!

[cooba]

You're all turning this into a picture war >:(

[Fawriel]

http://www.happytimeclowns.com/clown-car.jpg

[Xobim]

That'll probably scare them to death...
<a href=http://www.hpwt.de/2Weltkrieg/Dorae.htm><img src=http://www.hpwt.de/2Weltkrieg/Dora.jpg></a>
80 cm diameter grenade; hmm, that should do it...

[Murderbeam]

http://www.uxaos.ru/images/UT2004/SPMA.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/UnrealLeviathan.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/UT2004_scorpion.jpg
You can't beat Unreal.

[Fawriel]

Yes, you can!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg

[Erik]

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/4157/mac2lg8.jpg

[Risp_old]

http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/wp-content/monty-python-foot.jpg

[Fawriel]

Risp winz0rs!

Now let's all shup k


...so, is this backhoe real? It doesn't look too functional, more like an easter egg enemy from some sci-fi game.

[Xobim]

Probably. Man has made crazier machinery...

[Radium]

...so, is this backhoe real? It doesn't look too functional, more like an easter egg enemy from some sci-fi game.The forum Puffy linked to says it's a render. Which, if you study it hard enough, is quite believable.

[Fawriel]

Yeah, I thought it looked like something made with a 3d graphics program..
...those shovels would be horribly inefficient as a means of transportation anyway.

[Radium]

...those shovels would be horribly inefficient as a means of transportation anyway.On a road. I think in the hands of a skilled pilot it could handle something like a canyon very well.

[Xobim]

And you can park a car under it if you raise the cabin!

[Puffie40]

And you can park a car under it if you raise the cabin!

And cut your transportation fees in half!:D "No Officer, there is no spider trying to eat my car!"

On a road. I think in the hands of a skilled pilot it could handle something like a canyon very well.

You are absolutly correct. While the four-legged backhoe might be a edited picture, there are in fact "Walking Excavators" that are used to manuver difficult terrain. (They are fairly common in europe, but not around here)

http://www.aisconstruction.com/images/Equipment/s2_walking_bigcut4.gif

They have wheels on one end and use the stabilizers on the front of the excavator to "Walk" along. All four legs are independantly operated to help level the machine out

This page describes them nicely (http://www.stockerconstructionsitka.com/pages/spiderhoe.html)

[Xobim]

Those machines are used in Finland too, but those have six legs and an arm to cut down trees. Pretty unusual that America doesn't have "spiderhoes"...

[Doubble Dutch]

My truck is a real picture, it owns t3h renders.

The biggest machines we have in my country are for mining coal; they're like, 20-40 tons max, but we have the advantage that you'd actually have to *ship* your machines over here first.