Spidex All Terrain Excavating Inc.

Did You Know?

Seventeen things about the spider.

The walking excavator does things conventional machines can’t. Here are the details that surprise people the first time they see it work.

  1. 01 Domenic is a certified operator for walking mobile excavators.
  2. 02 The spider can operate in water up to 6 ft deep.
  3. 03 It crosses railway tracks without any risk of touching the rail.
  4. 04 The single largest equipment-related source of construction-site pollution is hydraulic fluid — Spidex runs fully biodegradable fluid exclusively.
  5. 05 The spider works on slopes steeper than a person can walk.
  6. 06 It fits under a ceiling height of less than 10 ft.
  7. 07 Through an 8 ft × 10 ft gap it can lift 2,500 lbs and reach 26 ft.
  8. 08 The machine only needs refuelling roughly every 30 hours.
  9. 09 It overcomes obstacles up to 5 ft high without touching them.
  10. 10 Every bucket can be reversed to work in the opposite direction.
  11. 11 The crane attachment reaches up to 42 ft and can lift gunite hoses or almost anything else.
  12. 12 For hard-to-reach sites, a crane can safely transport the spider to the worksite.
  13. 13 The spider has enormous stability on snow pack.
  14. 14 It can dig directly underneath itself — invaluable in confined areas.
  15. 15 On tires it travels at a maximum of 12 km/h.
  16. 16 Working on side slopes is easy with the spider.
  17. 17 The winch drags and lifts objects from far away.