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Today i spent about an hour sitting in the hospital car park watching the deconstruction of the old nurses home.

Four huge machines systematically pulling the building apart. The one that struck me the most was a monster of a thing, with a 5 floor reach, and a set of swivelling jaws attached to the end....that guy was pulling steel beams out of places i couldn't even see.
He could pull a wall apart, or knock off a single brick....amazing man/machine interface.

Anyway, while watching it struck me that these guys would make great helicopter pilots.... situational awareness,super sensitive control input.....i wonder if any of them are?


Just a thought.

Marty you get good engineers and you get the bad , Rick stopped in yesterday mentioned a near ####-up that he would have payed for due to a bad measurement , course he contracts himself for placement off double glazing , chap did the measure under wrote the job by 50% - got fixed , but situational awareness don,t think so .

When i was engineering in one off my old workplaces had a very similar problem , using / mixing imperial with metric , i could not get through this so called design/development person what would happen with 316 stainless steel and brass and ... well failure after product went out .. $100US to the US Army , situational awareness. no brain death .

I think these guys would be the cream of the crop operating machinery like this , we saw them many times here in Christchurch since the EQs picking and pulling thing down but also to pick items out maybe they should be chopper pilots.

Situational awareness.

Hi Marty that would of been great to watch. To answer your question, yes some have become chopper pilots and yes they do pick it up really quickly. I suppose the motor skill of making each hand do different things simultaneously is the key.

H500Fan wrote:

QUOTE (H500Fan @ Jul 10 2011,8:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Marty that would of been great to watch. To answer your question, yes some have become chopper pilots and yes they do pick it up really quickly. I suppose the motor skill of making each hand do different things simultaneously is the key.

Thanks for the reply H5......it was a really random thought, Im glad it now has a little substance....cheers .
It was great to watch, but sad as it is...there will plenty of chances to see a whole lot more around here over the next few months....will take the camera next time.

Just found a couple of pics of similar beasts.......amazing things,

DAMN, what are your feeding you excavators down there apart from buildings. Those are monsters, cheers for sharing Marty.

Rotordude wrote:

QUOTE (Rotordude @ Jul 10 2011,10:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

DAMN, what are your feeding you excavators down there apart from buildings. Those are monsters, cheers for sharing Marty.

At the moment their on a diet that consists of most of the CBD......very high fibre

Your dead right about the chopper pilots Marty! My dad runs a trenching and cable-laying buisness (so he is flat-out at the mo) and he has been to confrences and that sort of thing where they talk about exactly that, digger drivers becoming heli pilots.

It means I jump in an excavator any chance I get!

connor wrote:

QUOTE (connor @ Jul 11 2011,2:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Your dead right about the chopper pilots Marty! My dad runs a trenching and cable-laying buisness (so he is flat-out at the mo) and he has been to confrences and that sort of thing where they talk about exactly that, digger drivers becoming heli pilots.

It means I jump in an excavator any chance I get!

Good on you....Ive always wanted to have a play in one of those things....did you see the pic i posted for you a couple of days ago on this thread.

Funny old thing life....i was at the hospital today (may as well move in) and i was talking to a young lady from Canada...as you do...who was there visiting her brother , Anyway, we got talking , and went for a coffee.....turns out her partner was a chopper pilot.
He had been flying the S-64 , i think she said it was in new guinea.....but before that he had been an excavator, log lifting/cutting operator.
Not sure what he's doing now....but he's going to be flying in oz from August..........SO........

Im going to learn how to operate an excavator , as you get to meet real cute woman...AND....you turn into a chopper pilot

Well its just a theory at this stage

You've just mapped my career marty!

Thats my boy of course you have a jump start...you have an excavator already!

BTW your signature pic looks good.