Using a mini excavator up a stairwell - GIF

Using a mini excavator up a stairwell.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...492#post122734
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...342#post122017
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...460#post122568
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...300#post121763
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...173#post121094
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...041#post120329
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...026#post120263
Excavator installs its own ripper
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...954#post119929
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...9405#post89239
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...6361#post83520
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...7728#post86152
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4424#post79928
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1749#post75056
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...6781#post84357
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...6492#post83778
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...6158#post83176
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...757#post118816
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...412#post122182

Back in the 90's I had a customer who owned a Kobelko 007 not the smallest but still small enough to go through a 32" door. Maneuvering them up and down stairs does not take a rocket scientist to figure out how to do it. you descend with both the spade and the boom facing downward that way you can arrest your motion use the spade to hold you in place while you swing the boom around if need be. then let the bucket or attachment be your crutch while you lower yourself or use it to help puse yourself back up the stairs. A good operator can claw his way up a wall up to almost 2/3 rds the max digging depth with 1 of those
That guy in the video didn't know squat about what he was doing.

Next gif...he begins to chip away at the stairs he's on