Using a mini excavator up a stairwell - GIF

**Jon** · Dec 11, 2018, 10:05 AM

Using a mini excavator up a stairwell.

Previously:

Quenching a pile of hot excavator teeth - GIF
Amphibious excavator poling itself downriver - GIF
Excavator with telescopic arm - GIF and video
Excavator rock transfer dumper fail - GIF
Excavator collapses hillside - GIF
Wheel crawler excavator - GIF
Excavator packs up its own attachments - GIF
Excavator installs its own ripper
Excavator repairs itself - GIF
Skid steer stuntman
Self-loading Bobcat GIF
Excavator slicing tree GIF
Swinging around on excavator bucket
excavator prepares and serves hot dog
Self-loading excavator GIF
Excavator playing goalie in giant soccer game GIF
Excavator travels downhill
Walking spider excavator - GIF, video, photos
Mini excavator post driving attachment - GIF

**Frank S** · Dec 11, 2018, 07:17 PM

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.