I'm going to declare B.S. on this one. The tower is just too carefully constructed to enable this climb.
I consider that this guy is not up to some of the operators I've seen, and I'm sure you have seen some better ones, too. Hell, the treads still had paint on them!
Sorry Leibherr, too much of a staged event.
Bob G.
I agree with Bob.
It looks impressive because that's the way it was engineered to be.
I'm more inpressed with the engineering / drafting of the concept than the operator or the machine.
Remember the pics of a guy climbing into a rail car with a back hoe?
Now that was impressive!
IMHO...
Tim
I remember that one. If it is the same one I saw, I beleive the pads on the backhoe had been modified specificaly for that as well. That one was a little higher on the difficulty scale.
jrw159
Oh I agree, it is clearly a staged event. The tower appears to be designed specifically for this. And Yes the the engineering involed is impressive.
I wonder if the guy operating it IS the engineer? Either way, I still say you gotta have a set to do it. Not a lot to doing it as far as difficulty. :-)
jrw159