The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen!
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns Inb4 there are break dancing competitions with these crazy vehicles lmao.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns I watched the video of the Llangollen excavator doing its stuff, and it made me ridiculously happy that such things exist.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns@mastodon.green
Wow!
What a brilliant idea and even better: application.
OK, maybe it's just me being me, maybe i've been on the forks of Misskey too long, don't care but I am imagining a group of them dancing to Strauss waltzes. -
The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns I've been chatting about this with a friend few years ago. He has been operating such "spider" for highly specific renovation job in old church or castle.
He confirmed me it has real high value us-case to get into places that were never designed for excavators and save them enormous amount of time on workload that would have to be done by hands and lots of sweat.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
freaking amazing
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns Gosh I'd like to play with that. Or at the least watch it in action.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns @cstross * Breakdance electro intensifies *
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
I'm sure that temptation is tempered by the inner ear of the operator going "Whoa, didn't see that coming..."
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns is 57 too late to decide I want to drive one of these when I grow up?
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
Adds many many degrees of difficulty to an operator 😂
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@christineburns@mastodon.green
Wow!
What a brilliant idea and even better: application.
OK, maybe it's just me being me, maybe i've been on the forks of Misskey too long, don't care but I am imagining a group of them dancing to Strauss waltzes.@AnguaDelphine I had them visualised as the Tiller Girls or Rockettes
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@christineburns Found a documentation about this model, running for almost one hour and showing its application 'in the wild'. German language, but English subtitles available:
https://youtu.be/vEXB2G6k9LI😮 My grandson is going to be over the moon when he sees this! Thank you!
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Adds many many degrees of difficulty to an operator 😂
@greatlaketrout I suspect they steal children and grow them into becoming part of the machine — a bit like Cybermen.
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@greatlaketrout I suspect they steal children and grow them into becoming part of the machine — a bit like Cybermen.
Makes TOTAL sense.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns I always marvel at what otherworldly skills it must take precisely to control these machines, and even elegantly so.
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The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns My grand-niece is a heavy equipment operator, she would love one of these.
I knew a guy who could operate equipment on the steepest of slopes with the grace and agility of a ballerina. His equipment would dance. It was glorious. -
The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was in action this week, clambering down into the bed of the breached Llangollen Canal to help dig out narrowboats that had been washed into the void.
@christineburns I saw that! Amazing piece of kit!
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Informazione indipendente, media. lotte sociali al centro Ararat il 3 marzo
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@hikingdude ooooooh got it! 😮
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La campagne du Pacte du Logiciel Libre se poursuit, on a besoin de votre mobilisation. Les élections ont lieu les 15 et 22 mars 2026.
Et si vous contactiez les candidates et candidats de votre commune pour les sensibiliser au logiciel libre ?
Et, pourquoi pas, les encourager à signer le Pacte du Logiciel Libre ?
La liste des signataires, et le pacte, sont disponibles 👉 https://www.candidats.fr/post/2026/02/24/%C3%89lections-municipales-et-communautaires-2026-Liste-des-signataires-du-Pacte-du-Logiciel-Libre
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@coso_come_se_chiama Onder si sta rivoltando nella tomba
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Trumpismo come state of mind. "Cosa ci comprate, per avere il nostro ombrello nucleare, che comunque decideremo noi se usare?" (come ribadito da Macron, peraltro)
Prepariamoci per il prossimo EliseoEuropeans need to buy French if they want nuclear protection, says Le Pen https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-europe-buy-french-nuclear-protection/
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@jascha 😆
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Intelligence 2026: tecnologia e minacce ibride al centro della sicurezza nazionale italiana
L'innovazione tecnologica e l'intelligenza artificiale stanno ridefinendo i confini della sicurezza. Emergono rischi legati a campagne di disinformazione, spionaggio cibernetico e minacce multidominio che mirano a destabilizzare le istituzioni e le infrastrutture critiche.
https://www.sicurezzanazionale.gov.it/contenuti/relazione-al-parlamento-2026
Grazie a @iam0day per la segnalazione
