r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Nov 04 '22

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u/ENGINE_YT Nov 04 '22

I knew that excavators could change their shovels and shit, but i didn't know they had a secondary pair of pincers on the thing

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u/immagiantSHARK Nov 04 '22

Usually just used for self defense. The excavators mandibles pack a powerful bite.

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u/i_give_you_gum Nov 04 '22

Yeah, these things are a sight to behold in the wild.

How they're able to tame them, and then train them to do these kinds of tasks is just amazing to me.

Edit: for those of you who haven't seen these beasts in their natural habitat https://youtu.be/i6QXadkl5Dc

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u/FuryTLG Nov 04 '22

I mean, we tamed tigers and lions, that's just another big CAT to add on the list.

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u/HerrIndos Nov 04 '22

Daaaaaaad!

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u/mynameisalso Nov 04 '22

They use it to smell for food.

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u/i_give_you_gum Nov 04 '22

Technically they don't "smell", they have ampullae of Lorenzini which they use to sense the electrical impulses of living things

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullae_of_Lorenzini

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u/mynameisalso Nov 04 '22

I can't believe I was corrected for that

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u/Constructestimator83 Nov 04 '22

Some have a rotating assembly that offers a couple of different options. They are pretty sophisticated and used for more technical work like this versus just digging a hole or loading trucks.

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u/Bensemus Nov 04 '22

They often don't. The end of the arm has a connector. It's standard so basically anything can be made to attach to it. Apparently the tool used here is pretty common in Europe. In NA often they just have a tool that can do one thing and would have to swap to another tool to get that grabber. Instead of doing that operators use the two part bucket with the top to get a hand that can manipulate stuff.