Liebherr, German for Crane Porn.

True story.

And here: http://videosift.com/video/Liebherr-Ultimate-Car-Wash

And here: http://videosift.com/video/High-Pressure-Car-Wash

Nope, Germans (and Swiss and French).

This is a different camera angle of an "experiment" done by German "Science"-TV-Show "Galileo". This was when they were trying to be all Mythbustery and supposedly were trying to find out how much force was in a waterfall (I don't know you, but I gernerally don't park below switched off waterfalls). The Science-level in "Galileo" is abysmal and way below the level of a good children's education show.
They were helped by Swiss company Liebherr with their Liebherr R9800 mega crane, which is beign built in France.
The full video (in German) is here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xacbds_galileo-wasser-fall-liebherr-r9800_auto

I'll take crawler excavator as a more apt description of it, at least you'd know it came on tracks. Not sure what you'd call that attachment on it, looks like it was special made since it has all the swirl marks on the contact side of it.

All I know is I wouldn't want to work on the crew that referred to everything that digs as an excavator, most of em have multiple on site. Rubber tires so they can get up on the street, tracked for when it doesn't matter if the terrain is tore up. And if you want to be really anal about it, anything that doesn't have a digging implement attached to it shouldn't be called an excavator and "backhoe" describes the direction the bucket travels to pickup dirt (toward the machine). A "shovel" bucket works just like a shovel...so away from the machine.

So technically what I called a "backhoe" in my first post should be rephrased to say "Backhoe loader". This machine in the video while listed as an excavator on the companies website, technically can not excavate anything with it's current attachments. So I guess we can refer to it as a crawler tractor with a boom since that describes it more accurately.

Being super anal is tiresome. It's definitely not a backhoe though, it's other descriptions aside from a Liebherr 312 are very debatable apparently.

It looks like a Liebherr 312, which they classify as Crawler Excavator. If you noted from the video it's a 1997 production. I didn't see a 312 in their lineup but there was it's obvious descendant a 313.

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Did someone request slow motion? How about higher quality? Would you like more angles from which to view the destruction? Your wish is my command!

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This is apparently an r9800 liebherr excavator. This boasts a whopping 42m³ bucket capacity (http://www.liebherr.com/me/en/products_mc.asp?menuID=106220!11929-0) ie. if it was full it would have 42tonnes of weight as a cubic metre of water weighs a tonne. So there is say more than 35tonnes of water "washing" that car. Anyone want a shower?

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