Amazing German Engineering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3j6HaAieEU&feature=email

I watched that, and just kept thinking wow thats pretty cool, then, wait it does that too? Whoa.

Leave it to the Germans to build the weedwacker from hell.

More Germans having fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBMUvAUPTGM

Listening to the host I can only think, "Do you vant to touch my monkey?"

Curmudgeon wrote: Leave it to the Germans to build the weedwacker from hell.

Yes, but I doubt they would ever use it. I haven't seen a single mowed stretch of grass since I've been living here.

I'M GERMAN!!!! I'M AN ENGINEER!!!! I'M AMAZING BY ASSOCIATION!!!!

it figures

i'm pretty sure they're not the first ones to think of this, i've seen these working steep slopes along the highways for quite a while now.

Wow. They can barely fix the roads around Pennsylvania much less take care of the grass along side of it.

I put a remote camera system on a very large Liebherr crane at Port Everglades. Engineering and quality were VERY impressive. I'm sure the price was,too.

When you don't have access to a large pool of illegal immigrant labor, you come up with some impressive and expensive stuff!

They have quite a few immigrants in Germany, mostly Turkish. They may not be illegal, but I'm sure they are willing to work for less...

Hopefully the giant weedwacker is built better than our very expensive German brewhouse at work...if it isn't, it's going to be fairly unreliable for it's first 6 months.

All they need to do now is have it tow this thing behind it:

http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/casestudy/gtri-prototype-pavement-crack-detection-sealing

that is very cool.... all the more reasons Germans should not be left to their own devices.

One of my best friends is from Cologne Germany... if you follow him after he has been programming a lighting consol.. he does beautiful work, but you need to figure out his logic before it makes any sense in how he programmed it