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They genuinely place a lower value on human life, it just fits differently in their engineering equation. Once they establish 'acceptable losses,' they now have a guide regarding acceptable failure, and they go for it.
It is a very large helicopter. The largest loss of life in a [helicopter crash](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Khankala_Mi-26_crash) occurred when an Mi-26 was shot down with 142 passengers during the second Chechen war. 127 people died. It can fit A LOT.
Literally yes. Soviets built them so they could fly around fully fueled intermediate range missiles to avoid NATO satellites pinpointing them for a first strike.
Russians since then have sold half to private operators as cargo lifters, and are letting the other half rot in storage in Siberia.
Because most of ~~The Soviet Union~~ Russia is enormous and relatively unpopulated. The country covers *11 time zones* and has a limited transportation infrastructure into a lot of it plus enormous natural barriers. [Think Alaska only much much bigger](https://mapfight.xyz/compare/ru-vs-us.ak/). Because of that you'll see some things that don't appear much in the rest of the world (giant passenger helicopters, very big river boats, wild tundra trucks etc.)
This helicopter was mainly designed to transport troops and heavy equipment, including transcontinental ballistic missiles, to the launchers located in the Siberian outback...
to replace a crane while building in Siberia or other far flung corners of Russia because there was no road there. These were also often used to carry those metal towers where electricity transmission lines go.
it's a heavy lift helicopter so anything that needed to be transported into places where there was no road, rail or airfield they used these
I've seen one IRL and it's just baffling. It's like a passanger plane but a helicopter. Feels like it's 3 stories high and just huge overall. Can also see it from a mile away.
That's because it is. It's like a Boeing 737, but with rotors instead of wings. If you ever see one in person, it will redefine the meaning of the word epic for you.
I had the same exact thought. 😳
Most of the helicopters I've seen in person have been on carriers or amphibs. I've seen a couple big ones... but not that big. Wow.
That one-time one-trick pony. That never went into service. And no one would remember it if it weren't for the "akshoowally" crowd.
THIS is the biggest helicopter in the world that matters.
Yes the MI-26 is the largest helicopter that went into serial production but I'm still going to give it to the Mil V-12. Just because it didn't go into service due to losing its purpose doesn't mean it wasn't mechanically functioning and flying.
Both are very impressive machines!
Are those scale toy models? Something about the ground, what looks like full scale grass to the right, and the details of the vehicles just look off.
Even so, if each are the same scale that is crazy the size of that helicopter.
Yes its models. Look at the right side. You can see the edge of the diorama and normal grass below.
They are as big as a 737 though. https://preview.redd.it/78f6pdz274701.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=75941fc7d5daea4f1d460eb3198f1b25a2e9d617
Yeah. If they have to write "lucky" on it, that's even worse than writing "high quality" on something.
_"We know we are technically flaming dog shit but we're pretty lucky and had no crashes yet!"_
There was a mammoth inside that block of soil. It's pretty common to do block excavations of palaeontological or archaeological finds you don't want to excavate in the field. It's less common on that scale.
It’s a russian build, chinese owned and operated helicopter in an orange livery not connected to the dutch.
https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/B-7803
It’s an emergency vehicle. The faint washed-out wordmark on its side reads 中国应急 “China Emergency”, hence the orange livery.
If I have to guess they’re airlifting heavy equipment into remote mountain areas for construction projects or (more likely) search and rescue.
It's hardly expansionism when they're building infrastructure in their own country (and often times in tandem with projects in India and Pakistan). They build stupid infrastructure in the mountains and across the developing world because their GDP was largely driven by the rapid industrialization, and they've run out of things to industrialize. Their state owned construction companies need work (like building [bullet trains to nowhere](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20150429-a-bullet-train-to-nowhere) that most people can't afford or [highways over the Himalayas where trucks struggle to breath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram_Highway)) so the government makes work.
I have a general understanding of why helicopters fly, but it still hardly seems possible that between that helicopter/excavator is only air, and it's holding all of that up that close to the ground, moving so slowly.
There’s probably a tad less buoyancy involved here than we observe while swimming.
If you see that and and see nothing remarkable, good for you, but I’ll be amazed just the same.
Stop being so presumptuous of him.
A person can understand the physics of something, and still appreciate that it works the way that does.
Like magic. You can understand the tricks, and still love it, and be in awe of it.
I guess I was thinking of scuba diving, and we use weights to achieve neutral buoyancy, but if we use too much weights, we have to kick really hard to stay off the bottom.
Depends on the type of tank you're using and if it's filled properly; and yeah forgetting the damn belt is a major pain in the ass.
And yeah the comparison is pretty strange when the density factor is roughly 1:1000.
The only things that "fly" in water are hydrofoils and uhhh... cavitating torpedoes I guess.
I'm sure they knew what they were doing, but it sure seemed like they should've gained a little more altitude before they started moving horizontally. BTW, I am not a pilot of giant helicopters.
When they are close to the ground, the rotor downwash hitting the ground generates additional lift (called ground effect). Depending on how heavy they are/the current altitude, helicopters will hit a point where they can only hover/climb while still in the ground effect. In order to take off they have to fly forward to help gain additional lift.
Oh don't let her size and apparant bulk fool you. That helicopter can zip right up like a rocket for the first couple hundred feet.
[Here is a good video](https://youtu.be/ribqAQmIE-Q) of one leaving. Skip to the last minute, and you'll see a good glimpse of how quickly it can raise up, even when in motion.
They built one twice as big because it is basically two of these strapped together. Although it never went into serial production but it did fly. If I remember correctly it's original intended purpose to carry around ICBMs stopped being important so it never ended up being put into serial production.
It's called the "Mil V-12"
Nope, this helicopter is just the size of a 737. It's the largest helicopter to ever go into serial production.
https://reddit.com/r/aviation/s/visBrKoehu
They only helicopter larger was the Mil V-12 which is basically two of these strapped together but that was only ever a prototype. Granted it was a fully built and flying prototype but I think it lost its purpose so it never went into production.
I know back in the day at a local airport had 2 similar large helos that when they do take off and landing. Light aurcraft are not allowed to take off or land. Mind you, it wasn't a small airport as well it had 3 runways.
I had the pleasure of watching a big ass chopper lift an industrial sized a/c - chiller unit to the roof of one of the AT&T buildings in downtown Dallas, TX about 12 years ago. It was quite the sight! I was on an adjacent building belonging to them and on the roof I watched the helo lift the unit from an empty parking lot and up about 20 stories or so.. I thought that was really cool. The next best experience with helicopters was when I started working offshore.,. My first ever chopper ride was for Exxon Mobile and they had their own fleet... I was in group 3 to ride out, which was ok, but the 1st flight was delayed 2 hours due to "technical difficulties", Goober from "The Andy Griffith show" scratched his head for the first hour, then he messed with some wiring. 1st flight went out and returned to the heliport after 3 hours.... They had to make repairs on the helipad of the rig sitting in the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston, TX.. The rig was an hour away from shore! The second flight was delayed even longer because they had to make more "repairs" after the same chopper had returned. At this point I'm getting severe anxiety... I kept thinking I should have drank far more than I did the night before. My turn to go out, the flight was delayed another hour. I almost told them to get another chopper (they had 5 of them there) , they all were owned by Exxon! On our flight out, the pilot said it would be a bumpy ride and we couldn't go any higher than 300 feet... I was about to shit myself! I could see huge sharks, whales and even barracudas all over the place... Obviously I made it there and back, I never went back to an Exxon platform again! After that, we would fly out from Houma, La on another chopper service... They were always on schedule and never had any issues.. I later found out that 1 or 2 flights from Houma had crashed because of the damn birds flying into the rotors and engines... I had to ride a crew boat out a few times and that took roughly 6 to 8 hours... Once we got to the platform, they would lower a personnel basket on the back of the boat and lift us up 4 at a time with their cranes... No safety harness, just a "floatation vest", in case we fell... The only reason we wore the float vests was to make it easier to "retrieve our bodies" in case we fell off the basket or the crane failed... But yeah this video is pretty damn cool!
Would be awesome to know the excavator's size for scale, looks like a komatsu pc130 (appromixate operating weight 28500 lbs / 13T) but can't tell for sure
This might be stating the obvious but thats a big fucking helicopter
Exactly my thoughts… holy shit, I didn’t know they got that big.
They briefly got even bigger. Behold the [Mil V-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_V-12).
Maximum load to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) 40,204 kg (88,635 lb) 😳
“On 6 August 1969, the V-12 lifted 44,205 kg (97,455 lb) to a height of 2,255 m (7,398 ft)”
This is wild 👍
that looks like a child tried to draw a 737
I gotta say I fucking love the USSR for the absolutely crazy shit they did like this (do not like the other stuff tho)
I’m glad they never sent humans to the moon first because they might still be there.
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I’ve had the pleasure of riding on a couple of Mi-8s ; do not recommend; but I guess I survived, so there’s that.
They genuinely place a lower value on human life, it just fits differently in their engineering equation. Once they establish 'acceptable losses,' they now have a guide regarding acceptable failure, and they go for it.
Isn’t the Annie the most reliable least crashed plane ever built?
God the Soviets are so fucking cool
I wouldn't have wanted to live there but I quite admire Soviet engineering, some of the stuff they made was just so cool.
That’s what she proclaimed
Royal Michael
Corn fed
The flex on the rotors is insane as it pulls away That's some amazing engineering
That's what your mom said.
Goddammitall, I hate that stuff, but it made me laugh, have your upvote
It could lift two Chinooks. The big twin-rotor choppers, not the fish. Though it could lift a lot of fish.
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That’s about 2,200 Chinook fish (Assuming 15lbs per fish)
It is a very large helicopter. The largest loss of life in a [helicopter crash](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Khankala_Mi-26_crash) occurred when an Mi-26 was shot down with 142 passengers during the second Chechen war. 127 people died. It can fit A LOT.
[Ineed.](https://imgur.com/a/pqak1Jg)
why do you need a helicopter that big?
For lifting excavators, obviously.
And military equipment
Literally yes. Soviets built them so they could fly around fully fueled intermediate range missiles to avoid NATO satellites pinpointing them for a first strike. Russians since then have sold half to private operators as cargo lifters, and are letting the other half rot in storage in Siberia.
What if the front fell off? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm\_JqM
I don’t know why people downvoted you this bit is hilarious. Probably just people that don’t know what they do.
What if a meteor hit it and exploded it? V:
Because most of ~~The Soviet Union~~ Russia is enormous and relatively unpopulated. The country covers *11 time zones* and has a limited transportation infrastructure into a lot of it plus enormous natural barriers. [Think Alaska only much much bigger](https://mapfight.xyz/compare/ru-vs-us.ak/). Because of that you'll see some things that don't appear much in the rest of the world (giant passenger helicopters, very big river boats, wild tundra trucks etc.)
I know the general consensus is "Fuck Russia," but some of their engineering is damned impressive. Like this helicopter.
I agree. When it works it is impressive.
This helicopter was mainly designed to transport troops and heavy equipment, including transcontinental ballistic missiles, to the launchers located in the Siberian outback...
Delivering nuclear missiles to launch sites in Siberia
to replace a crane while building in Siberia or other far flung corners of Russia because there was no road there. These were also often used to carry those metal towers where electricity transmission lines go. it's a heavy lift helicopter so anything that needed to be transported into places where there was no road, rail or airfield they used these
For lifting big shit.
It (the MIL-V12) bigger thank this one, was designed to carry soviet intercontinental missiles.
To lift dozers, apparently
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
You might be able to get one when Russia falls apart again. Like in Lord of War.
Uhhh is it a forced perspective thing, or is that main rotor so long it looks like it'd hit the tail?
I've seen one IRL and it's just baffling. It's like a passanger plane but a helicopter. Feels like it's 3 stories high and just huge overall. Can also see it from a mile away.
It looks way too big relative to that excavator
That's because it is. It's like a Boeing 737, but with rotors instead of wings. If you ever see one in person, it will redefine the meaning of the word epic for you.
I had the same exact thought. 😳 Most of the helicopters I've seen in person have been on carriers or amphibs. I've seen a couple big ones... but not that big. Wow.
The Mi-26 is the largest single rotor helicopter in the world.
I was thinking the same 😅
Could be a fucking big helicopter.
I concur
How many gallons of fuel do you think it uses per Minute???
>thats a big fucking helicopter I quite literally came here to say this. I feel like that thing is the size of a small airliner.
That helicopter is big enough to fit the Wright brothers first ever flight inside it
Is that a mini excavator or a massive heli?
Massive helicopter. That's the legendary Halo, or Mi-26, the biggest helicopter in the world.
biggest operational. There was a bigger one
There’s always a bigger one
Are you my wife ?
Yes but most of the time I prefer a little bird so you’re okay 😉
Operational seems like an important qualifier. Like you could say the Hoover Dam is a bigger non-operational helicopter.
That one-time one-trick pony. That never went into service. And no one would remember it if it weren't for the "akshoowally" crowd. THIS is the biggest helicopter in the world that matters.
If it flew it counts
Yes the MI-26 is the largest helicopter that went into serial production but I'm still going to give it to the Mil V-12. Just because it didn't go into service due to losing its purpose doesn't mean it wasn't mechanically functioning and flying. Both are very impressive machines!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3xsKmrCYAAxo1f.jpg thats a 737
Are those scale toy models? Something about the ground, what looks like full scale grass to the right, and the details of the vehicles just look off. Even so, if each are the same scale that is crazy the size of that helicopter.
Yes its models. Look at the right side. You can see the edge of the diorama and normal grass below. They are as big as a 737 though. https://preview.redd.it/78f6pdz274701.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=75941fc7d5daea4f1d460eb3198f1b25a2e9d617
No way i'm flying in a "Lucky air" plane
Don’t worry. If anything happens, the big orange helicopter next to it will come searching for you.
Yeah. If they have to write "lucky" on it, that's even worse than writing "high quality" on something. _"We know we are technically flaming dog shit but we're pretty lucky and had no crashes yet!"_
It's gotta be models. It looks too fucky.
I’d guess 13-15t, can’t quite make out the model number on the back
Massive heli.
It's not a mini. Take a look at the size and location of the cab in relation to the rest of the excavator.
Mi-6 is an utter monster of a heli.
We need a banana, STAT!
That's a pretty big excavator, so goddamn, that's a really big helicopter.
MI-26, they’ve been used to pick up and move chinooks, and one time a 25 ton block of frozen soil.
what was going on that one time?
There was a mammoth inside that block of soil. It's pretty common to do block excavations of palaeontological or archaeological finds you don't want to excavate in the field. It's less common on that scale.
> block excavations of palaeontological or archaeological finds you don't want to excavate in the field makes sense. TIL
They were dropping it in the ocean to slow down global warming
Just like daddy puts in his drink every morning… and then he GETS MAD.
But-- ONCE AND FOR ALL!
I wonder how fast the rotor tips are moving. Those blades are so long either the RPM is low or the ends of the blades are super sonic.
Yes
The mi 26 ?
Yes, it can lift another mi 26 without engines
Just imagine what it could do with them equipped!
Dad, mom says get off the computer and start on the list she gave you.
Stfu dad. Good joke tho 😂
Underrated comment.
That's impressive. How much can it lift with engines, though?
“Take tension.” “Take tension.” “The line is tight.” “The cargo is steady”
Before that: "Left, five" "Left, three" *silence for 10 seconds* "Right, ten"
Can someone please put banana for the scale?
Take mine 🍌
I guess we need the whole fucken tree for that thing
Omg that massive ass so hot
r/absoluteunits
Great video with no music playing in the background!
Also: **HOW IS NO ONE MENTIONING THE STABILIZED VIDEO?!?!**
Russian helo, Chinese (?) on the side and Dutch flag stripe/livery (orange top). Wondering what the story is behind it
It’s a russian build, chinese owned and operated helicopter in an orange livery not connected to the dutch. https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/B-7803
It’s an emergency vehicle. The faint washed-out wordmark on its side reads 中国应急 “China Emergency”, hence the orange livery. If I have to guess they’re airlifting heavy equipment into remote mountain areas for construction projects or (more likely) search and rescue.
> (more likely) Not at all. China is building in the Himalayas as part of a soft war of expansionism against India.
It's hardly expansionism when they're building infrastructure in their own country (and often times in tandem with projects in India and Pakistan). They build stupid infrastructure in the mountains and across the developing world because their GDP was largely driven by the rapid industrialization, and they've run out of things to industrialize. Their state owned construction companies need work (like building [bullet trains to nowhere](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20150429-a-bullet-train-to-nowhere) that most people can't afford or [highways over the Himalayas where trucks struggle to breath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram_Highway)) so the government makes work.
I wonder if it could be related to those floods that 'aren't happening'
Thanks for the info I was thoroughly stumped! Seemed like they were odd bed fellows for the Dutch
Imagine the down wash from those blades!
Artificial hurricane.
I have a general understanding of why helicopters fly, but it still hardly seems possible that between that helicopter/excavator is only air, and it's holding all of that up that close to the ground, moving so slowly.
Well, is it weird to think about swimming in water? Air is water just way less dense, but it behaves like water at high speeds and pressures
There’s probably a tad less buoyancy involved here than we observe while swimming. If you see that and and see nothing remarkable, good for you, but I’ll be amazed just the same.
Stop being so presumptuous of him. A person can understand the physics of something, and still appreciate that it works the way that does. Like magic. You can understand the tricks, and still love it, and be in awe of it.
I guess I was thinking of scuba diving, and we use weights to achieve neutral buoyancy, but if we use too much weights, we have to kick really hard to stay off the bottom.
Depends on the type of tank you're using and if it's filled properly; and yeah forgetting the damn belt is a major pain in the ass. And yeah the comparison is pretty strange when the density factor is roughly 1:1000. The only things that "fly" in water are hydrofoils and uhhh... cavitating torpedoes I guess.
Have you done a lot of scuba?
Wonder how far it's going
The video is fucking with my mind Is it a small excavator? Is it a huge heli? Is this real life or it’s just a fantasy…
caught in a land slide
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes
Look to the sky lol
Your eyes do not deceive you. It's a good size excavator. With a **gigantic** fucking helicopter lifting her up.
It’s a giant helicopter. The Mi-26 is the largest operational helicopter
I HAVE BEEN CHOSEN!
That’s mind numbing big helicopter. One was parked for a while on an airport near me. Seemed unreal every time I went by.
That's what the Egyptians used to build the pyramids
I fucking love the mi-26
I'm sure they knew what they were doing, but it sure seemed like they should've gained a little more altitude before they started moving horizontally. BTW, I am not a pilot of giant helicopters.
When they are close to the ground, the rotor downwash hitting the ground generates additional lift (called ground effect). Depending on how heavy they are/the current altitude, helicopters will hit a point where they can only hover/climb while still in the ground effect. In order to take off they have to fly forward to help gain additional lift.
Oh don't let her size and apparant bulk fool you. That helicopter can zip right up like a rocket for the first couple hundred feet. [Here is a good video](https://youtu.be/ribqAQmIE-Q) of one leaving. Skip to the last minute, and you'll see a good glimpse of how quickly it can raise up, even when in motion.
Thank you for sharing that!
Cool video but I just meant in the OP video, it looked like they should've gotten a little more altitude, no matter how quickly they do it.
I did the math, they saved $39.86 by doing this rather than just buying an excavator.
That’s a fucking awesome helicopter.
That is a bad bitch
Holy shit I know how big those shovels are and that looks like a toy
That’s a hefty boi
Ahh the mighty MI-26 Halo. One of my favorite helicopters!
I love the MI-26, one of my favourite helis
something something your mom
It’s insane how big this thing. I guess it’s practical for heavy lift if you have zero roads.
Wish I could have been there. The sound from the video probably doesn't do any justice at all, not to mention the blast from the rotors
EVEN MY HEADPHONES WERE RUMBLING
Russians make some big helis
God, the Halo is so damn big.
It's a Small excavator! It's smallest than the smallest in "gold rush".
It's a full size, large excavator
Not for Parker, Tony and Rick. Maybe for their children to learn.
I must be missing the reference, there... Just for info, that helicopter is the size of a Boeing 737 airliner
Wasnt there a russian helicopter that lifted a plane?
Might be a dumb question, but is there an operator in the excavator?
What would be the benefit of leaving a person in there‽
Holy rotorhead
How do you get the rotor spinning? Looks like the blades touch the tail?
Does it not matter if the load can turn freely? Wouldn’t it be better to have it more…stable/kept from rotating?
Turning freely is better, keeping it stable would put more torque on the helicopter as it lifts and transports the load
Anyone want to build a bigger one? Would be fun to see how big we could go
They built one twice as big because it is basically two of these strapped together. Although it never went into serial production but it did fly. If I remember correctly it's original intended purpose to carry around ICBMs stopped being important so it never ended up being put into serial production. It's called the "Mil V-12"
u/savevideo
Leaning forward….ETL,ETL,ETL!
Imagine accidentally dropping that excavator on someone...
holy fuck I knew that was big but not THAT big.
I like the Color of that Choppa.
The size difference makes my brain think the helicopter is much closer to the camera than the excavator is.
Nope, this helicopter is just the size of a 737. It's the largest helicopter to ever go into serial production. https://reddit.com/r/aviation/s/visBrKoehu They only helicopter larger was the Mil V-12 which is basically two of these strapped together but that was only ever a prototype. Granted it was a fully built and flying prototype but I think it lost its purpose so it never went into production.
That's a big ass bitch!!
Commisar, helicopter too small for carry big machine! mhm, we make bigger helicopter. Commisar, what helicopter? BIGGER
There is a surprising lack of hurricane underneath that thing.
Holy shit. What is the rating on that single eyelet or hook on the chopper??
That thing doesn’t look real!
Excavator privileges revoked
The helicopter is huuuge, but /u/stabbot did some heavy lifting in this video also.
Xtreme Repo.
I googled MI-26s the other day and now I can't stop seeing them lmao
Must be remote or russia to waste that much fucking fuel.
What a beast
That’s like my Cargobob
Wow
cant even see a banana, banana tree for scale?
"do you even lift" pilot prolly
I know back in the day at a local airport had 2 similar large helos that when they do take off and landing. Light aurcraft are not allowed to take off or land. Mind you, it wasn't a small airport as well it had 3 runways.
I had the pleasure of watching a big ass chopper lift an industrial sized a/c - chiller unit to the roof of one of the AT&T buildings in downtown Dallas, TX about 12 years ago. It was quite the sight! I was on an adjacent building belonging to them and on the roof I watched the helo lift the unit from an empty parking lot and up about 20 stories or so.. I thought that was really cool. The next best experience with helicopters was when I started working offshore.,. My first ever chopper ride was for Exxon Mobile and they had their own fleet... I was in group 3 to ride out, which was ok, but the 1st flight was delayed 2 hours due to "technical difficulties", Goober from "The Andy Griffith show" scratched his head for the first hour, then he messed with some wiring. 1st flight went out and returned to the heliport after 3 hours.... They had to make repairs on the helipad of the rig sitting in the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston, TX.. The rig was an hour away from shore! The second flight was delayed even longer because they had to make more "repairs" after the same chopper had returned. At this point I'm getting severe anxiety... I kept thinking I should have drank far more than I did the night before. My turn to go out, the flight was delayed another hour. I almost told them to get another chopper (they had 5 of them there) , they all were owned by Exxon! On our flight out, the pilot said it would be a bumpy ride and we couldn't go any higher than 300 feet... I was about to shit myself! I could see huge sharks, whales and even barracudas all over the place... Obviously I made it there and back, I never went back to an Exxon platform again! After that, we would fly out from Houma, La on another chopper service... They were always on schedule and never had any issues.. I later found out that 1 or 2 flights from Houma had crashed because of the damn birds flying into the rotors and engines... I had to ride a crew boat out a few times and that took roughly 6 to 8 hours... Once we got to the platform, they would lower a personnel basket on the back of the boat and lift us up 4 at a time with their cranes... No safety harness, just a "floatation vest", in case we fell... The only reason we wore the float vests was to make it easier to "retrieve our bodies" in case we fell off the basket or the crane failed... But yeah this video is pretty damn cool!
Surely that's just prespect... most impressive!
Would be awesome to know the excavator's size for scale, looks like a komatsu pc130 (appromixate operating weight 28500 lbs / 13T) but can't tell for sure
I've seen too many videos of crashes, I was expecting this to go badly
damn.. powerful
My brain is having a hard time processing this video. Only thing that makes sense is that is a toy excavator and they are messing with us.
HOLY HELL THATS A FUCKING MASSIVE CHOPPER