This is epic. This magnificent beast has winched one of the narrowboats out of the breach on the Llangollen Canal. They ain't messing. These are the boys to get the job done.
More information. They are using this spider excavator, check the video. Guess what, there is a woman in the driving seat, and it is only the third time she is working with it. How cool is that. This photo is from a job in Gargrave in North Yorkshire. On hire from WM Plant Hire.
More pictures and information coming out about Aimee the Spider driver. Lots of complimentary comments. She should be proud of herself.
Aimee’s incredible skill and patience, not to mention bravery when you see just how precariously she was perched next to Ganymede, is highly commendable!
Great work by all involved from start to finish. That spider digger was a proper piece of kit. Well done to Aimee, great driving.
AIMEE is the brightest star. 
Someone please put her up for some sort of award, if there is such a thing for digger drivers?
In other news. . . . . .
Heidi, The Narrowboat Pirate, has a new video out. She is trapped on a 30 mile stretch of the canal and has decided not to get craned out for the time being. She is in an area that she loves, she has her campervan not far away and will go off on some adventures in that. Her parents are close by, so plenty of scope for more videos until the canal can be restored, which I think will be rather a long time.
I took some photo's yesterday so I will be back later. Now it's time for breakfast.
Toodle pip. ilona
Research can lead you into all sorts of rabbit holes.
ReplyDeleteMore info on the Spider Excavator.
The walking excavator was invented in 1965 and 1966 by the two companies Kaiser and Menzi. In 1965, Kaiser produced the prototype, the MUK 2000. The first series-produced model was the Kaiser MUK 3000, which was developed by Kaiser in Liechtenstein and built by the then 69-year-old Swiss manufacturer Ernst Menzi (1897–1984).[1] MUK stood for Menzi, Untersander, and Kaiser.[2] Due to disagreements, the two companies went their separate ways, and Menzi sold the walking excavator under the name Menzi Muck
I watched Amy, I think she's called, on YouTube digging the channel on the canal and the bigger machines winching the narrowboats out. Those people working the machines are fantastic at their jobs. So professional, and the CRT folks who put the temporary dams in until they worked out how to do it. Absolutely amazing work! I'm glad they've got the boats out and I hope they're not damaged too much and can get back to normal soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that info. It has inspired me to do some more digging. There are more photo's on faceboook.
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