elevator going up

I was poking around teh intrawebs looking at the construction barrel monster, and came across this little bit of "hey look what I can do"...discuss:

ahh summ

yea, those loader operators are a crazy bunch. I saw one at a construction site (house my uncle and I were building) walk his sideways into a smaller section of the basement he was digging.

WOw soo thats what it's doing??

Yeah, I used to have a friend that operated a Menzi Muck, which is sort of a backhoe without the front half, that unloaded rail cars. He could climb up on to them by himself too.

I just hope theres no tunnels between "all aboard" and "next stop Albuquerque"

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/safety/132905-didnt-know-where-post-one.html

I saw a backhoe on a RR car while they were grading the tracks & wondered how they got it up there?!?!!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE02TxLlRQU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rW2WHnj0HA

In the last picture it looks like a robot scorpion.

20+ years ago when I was younger and dumber and running a backhoe for a living I used to be able to put one on a loading dock. Basically a 5 foot high step. The power of hydraulics is an awesome thing to behold. It was an old Ford 555. Man that thing was strong.