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| Hitachi EX 60 Excavator Making a Small Gravel Parking Lot |
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This is the same basic video as the other one I
uploaded, entitled 'EX 60', but about a minute and
a half shorter. I uploaded it to experiment with
resolution settings. This one was created at
320x240, while the other one was done at 640x480.
I wanted to see how much of a difference it would
make in the YouTube converted version. They both
look about the same to me.
Using a Hitachi EX 60 excavator to construct a
rough angle parking lot at a road side in front of
a building supply company in Vancouver, Canada.
NOTE: Sorry about the rough pixels. Honestly, it
looked much better before I uploaded it. I guess a
lot of the resolution was lost when the YouTube
site converted it.
I am a rather pleased with the way this vid turned
out; actually, this is my first 'head cam' video
that I can honestly say turned out pretty much as
I had hoped. I was having a bit of a rough go of
it, what with trying to get the camera up and down
angle just right, as you probably can tell from
watching some of my other 'at work' type videos. I
tried tilting my hard hat to a much more forward
angle this time, and pretty much hit the target
bang on. What you see in this video is pretty much
what I see when operating the excavator, but with
a markedly narrower field of view, obviously. The
camera still cannot follow my eyes' movement, just
the movement of my head.
One thing that I found interesting: When I watched
this video full-screen before uploading it to this
site, it occurred to me that what I saw on screen
was pretty much the perspective that I saw when
sitting in the cab, distancewise, in other words,
the size of the objects on screen was pretty much
the same as what I saw through my own eyes when in
the machine, which I think is a plus. The down
side is that the video gets a bit shaky at times,
due to the bouncing and shaking of the machine. I
left it in, rather than trying to stabilize it, as
I would have had to give up too much of the image,
and at some points, you would not have been able
to see important aspects of this video, like the
dozer blade, for example, as they would have been
removed from the edge of the picture.
I would ask two things of you: Please RATE this
video, and PLEASE COMMENT on it. I'll be grateful
if you would do that for me - be they favorable or
unfavorable comments.
I'm also open to your suggestions for future
videos. I do not currently have access to a cat or
backhoe, sorry (used to have, but that doesn't
help now). But I will be doing a few more later on
with an EX 200 (hopefully on a commercial
demolition job somewhere) and a dump truck. Well,
maybe not the dump truck, but we'll see.
On another note, I'm looking for someone who would
be willing to ride shotgun in a garbage truck
(front loader, so no picking up garbage bags, just
picking up cans with the forks) with me on one
Saturday, to do camera work. There are a few
different angles, etc, that I want to play with
(eg: getting some overhead shots of the packer
blade doing its thing, which I can't do solo, as I
need someone in the cab to push the button for the
blade; getting a side shot of the rear door
opening and the blade pushing the garbage out,
etc), and try to put together a better garbage
truck video or three, than the ones I've been able
to do so far.
You'd have to pack your own lunch, and the only
pay would be the pure, unadulterated joy of riding
in a garbage truck (quite a glamorous thing,
really ;p) . But if you're into that, and live in
the greater Vancouver area, let me know. I usually
start at about 3 am, as it's a 12 -13 hour shift,
and I like to get it done before the transfer
station closes. The shop is on the North Shore.
Tags : virtual heavy equipment operator bulldozer dozer kimchiman northern building vancouver supplies ex 60 ex60 excavator |
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Affichage : 45379
Durée : 504 s |
| Komatsu PC1600-1 Excavator |
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For a few years I brought Japanese domestic mini
excavators over from Japan with my father and we
refurbished them and made a bit of $$ on the sale.
The bigger guys in Vancouver eventually took this
over for less profit and squeezed us out. However
we sold 100-150 mini excavators and we always got
offers on larger ones.
Like this Komatsu PC1600. Now that we're placer
mining today, I look at the volume of gravel that
this excavator can move, and the distance it can
move it, and thats truly unbelieveable. This is a
great looking old excavator - Im guessing late
80's vintage, and it' s in great shape. I couldn't
imagine the fuel bill!
A great video. Thanks to THI Corporation japan
Tags : Komatsu PC1600 excavator japan |
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Affichage : 72937
Durée : 117 s |
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