Real Giant Mecha!

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:06 pm

The Finns use giant bug-mecha in the lumber industry:
http://www.plustech.fi/WalkingVideo.html

Guy in england builds giant robot from Mini Cooper:
http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/
Watch the car-stopping video especially.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:46 pm

The minicooper one was amusing, but completely fake

DIDGIN · Post by **DIDGIN** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:13 am

Ah! The Finns are gonna take over the world with their lumberjack mechas! It's now up to Shonen Knife to save us!

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:59 am

MWAHAHAHAHA! Your puny little-boy knife can not stop us! We will march on, crushing all resistance, stopping only for coffee break, lunch break, weekends, holidays, four weeks of vacation in summer and one in winter...

Lancustran · Post by **Lancustran** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:07 am

None for Spring or Autumn? YOU MONSTER

Wilmo · Post by **Wilmo** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:03 am

the finn one looks like a giant grasshopper..

Legmuscle · Post by **Legmuscle** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:19 am

That's pretty neat. I can't imagine what you'd use it for, but it's really neat.

Smask · Post by **Smask** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:03 pm

legmuscle wrote:That's pretty neat. I can't imagine what you'd use it for, but it's really neat.

The ability to work in sensitive enviroments.

Legmuscle · Post by **Legmuscle** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:04 pm

You mean the ability to move around really slowly in a sensitive environment that can also accomidate a big, heavy machine.

The only reason I could think of that you'd need such a thing is if you wanted to bring something big and heavy over a wide area of uneven terrain, and didn't care how long it took to get there. However, it doesn't look like that thing has any place to store cargo.

I'm sure eventually they'll make one that's either faster or can carry stuff, but right now it's just a gizmo that looks pretty cool, like that jetpack that can only carry you about 30 meters.

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:11 pm

It's actually being used in the logging industry. The idea is that it doesn't rip up the ground like treaded or big-tired trucks. Since you don't cut down trees in huge numbers (clear-cutting is bad), you don't have to carry a whole lot of them at one time. So the bug-mecha carries the cut trees out to the access road as they're cut while doing minimal damage to the forest.

Legmuscle · Post by **Legmuscle** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:36 pm