The Cellar / Heavy Equipment

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/12/2021 4:12 am

Big toys for big boys and girls...

**Posted by griff** 4/12/2021 5:51 am

Mad Max would be proud. I'd like to see the drivers compartment.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/14/2021 2:52 am

Here's something Max could use, I wonder if that crane in the background is part and parcel of this rig.

**Posted by griff** 4/14/2021 5:50 am

What could go wrong?

**Posted by tw** 4/14/2021 8:28 am

What did nature do before we had machines?

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 4/14/2021 11:33 am

That's just a f'n lawnmower!

**Posted by Flint** 4/14/2021 12:18 pm

yeah, in the same way that a nuclear bomb is just a bit of copper wires and old rocks

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 4/14/2021 3:38 pm

Busier than a one-armed paperhanger trying to keep that $50,000 mower out of the ditch while wiping out the family of ducks that nest there every year.

**Posted by BigV** 4/14/2021 9:56 pm

good luck bro

I'll hold your beer.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/15/2021 4:02 am

I wonder where the operator is and how they got out of it?

**Posted by glatt** 4/15/2021 7:25 am

If I were driving that thing. I imagine I would pull it forward about 6 feet or so and then park it and mow with the arm. Stop mowing and drive it forward another 6 feet and repeat.

eI also imagine the operator is taking the picture, but I wish there was a video of them getting out and getting back in again

**Posted by Luce** 4/15/2021 9:03 am

When you have taken quite enough crap on the on ramp.

**Posted by Gravdigr** 4/15/2021 9:17 am

glatt wrote:
If I were driving that thing...

I would almost bet it has a remote operating capability, like some cement trucks, and cranes, and such.

**Posted by Gravdigr** 4/15/2021 9:18 am

I am never not impressed by the digr in Luce's post.<--See what I did there?

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**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 4/16/2021 5:34 pm

I have about 200 yards of irrigation ditch that has weed and blackberry monsters that have been fighting me for fifty years. I mostly use pruners and a string weed-whacker.
This is another of Berky's engineering marvels. Can you find the name on the red thing above/
https://www.berky.de/458-2200-slope-mower.html

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/16/2021 9:52 pm

Someone commented it is built by Berky but it's not on their site and no evidence it was.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 4/17/2021 11:32 am

xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Someone commented it is built by Berky but it's not on their site and no evidence it was.

It says Berky vertically on the left front strut.

I have asked before why all the ways there were on the old board to expand or zoom pics are gone.
Bruce said once to get a bigger monitor, but I thought he was kidding.

**Posted by BigV** 4/18/2021 1:42 pm

I found evidence that it's a Berky ditch mower.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/19/2021 9:18 pm

Diaphone Jim wrote:
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Someone commented it is built by Berky but it's not on their site and no evidence it was.

It says Berky vertically on the left front strut.

Damn, I spent 20 minutes trying to enlarge and read the stuff on the front of the cab,and never noticed the strut.

I have asked before why all the ways there were on the old board to expand or zoom pics are gone.
Bruce said once to get a bigger monitor, but I thought he was kidding.

That was long long ago on a board far far away.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/14/2021 4:23 pm

I've seen radial engines in planes, boats, motorcycles, cars, but this is the first stationary radial and it's a monster.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/15/2021 12:05 pm

Wow.
More:
https://oldmachinepress.com/2014/01/12/nordberg-stationary-radial-engine/

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/15/2021 12:17 pm

Noisy, ya think?

https://imgur.com/fucOJMD

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/16/2021 10:56 am

Well, I guess not, From a comment on the first link above:
"They ran on natural gas and were HUGE and amazingly quiet! If you stood by a cylinder head all you could hear was a muted chuff, chuff, chuff.. as the cylinder fired."

I wonder what they did with the exhaust.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/16/2021 12:07 pm

Not the diesels though. LoL

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 6/15/2021 10:39 pm

Back in the '50s a Canadian company, Willock, came up with a modification to a truck frame that would help keep four wheels on the ground for 4WD over rough terrain.
I think I'd want a way to lock the swivel for over the road use, it shouldn't be difficult.

From the pictures I can see a hella strain on the driveline. When the rear differential twists it’s geared/splined solid back all the way through the drive shaft and trans to the clutch.