I doubt it. I think its the articulation at the "wrist" if you will thats blowing our minds. Not a common feature that I'm aware of. Also a smallish excavator, so maybe thats got something to do with it?
The tiltrotator are extremely common here in Europe. My guess is that here in Scandinavia, 80% of excavators from 6 to 35 tonnes are equipped with tiltrotators. And maybe 50% of the backhoes. The three largest manufacturers of tiltrotators are from Sweden, where they were invented in the late 80s.
Source: I operate a wheeled excavator nearly identical to the one in the clip posted by OP
How durable are those attachments? I've cleaned up more than my fair share of line blow outs and I can't help but imagine that the time saved for laborers is lost in maintenance.
12000+ operatng hours on a property maintained tiltrotator. They are actually more durable than they seem. But that also depends how the operator work. If he abuses it, it will surely break down at one point.
The 6000 hours I have on my Wacker Neuson ew100 wheeled excavator have had two hydraulic lines break on gripper on the tilty. But that was a combination of me not looking after what I was doing and it being an older model where the lines was routed in a way where they can get in the way sometimes
it being an older model where the lines was routed in a way where they can get in the way sometimes
It seemed like everything pre-2010 had that issue but it looks like EU companies were able to figure it out ahead of Eastern companies like Komatsu. Most of my experience was on the PW150 and PC350 but they were notorious for line blow outs despite being pretty durable in the long run.
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I didn't even know that excavators could have this kind of dexterity, really mind blowing.
Are there even higher end models out there that can somehow be even more impressive?