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Hahahaha.... Great work  Quote:Finnish service engineer sets mini excavator world recordhttp://www.khl.com/magazines/construction-europe/detail/item56986/Finnish-service-engineer-sets-mini-excavator-world-record/Finnish service engineer Jukka Mutanen is due to enter the Guinness book of World Records following a mammoth drive across Finland in a mini excavator. Starting from Hanko in southwestern Finland on 1 June, he reached Kuusamo in the north east of the country on 29 June. Mr Mutanen made the 942 km journey in a Sunward SWE17B mini excavator, driving at its 4 km/h travel speed. This clinched him the world record for "Personal continuous furthest driving with a mini excavator." He was greeted at the finishing line by a crowd of some 3000 Kuusamo residents, along with dignitaries including Finnish Member of Parliament Tuomo Hanninen, president of the Kuusamo district committee Matti Heikkile and president of Sunward, He Quinhua, who made a special journey from the company's headquarters in Changsha, China to congratulate Mr Mutanen. Sunward and its Finnish distributor CE Rental Oy sponsored the record attempt. Commenting on the vehicle for his month-long endurance drive before the start of the event, Mr Mutanen said, "It's a lovely 'guy', reliable and flexible, stable and comfortable." Indeed, the SWE17B completed the journey without any mishaps or mechanical problems.
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Cool but I would grow very impatient going under 3 mph the whole way.
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Basketball Man wrote:Cool but I would grow very impatient going under 3 mph the whole way. I used to get bored taking our mini across the site...can't imagine almost a month solid, especially since I've never seen a mini that could drive straight for more than 100 yards. I'd like to see the condition of the tracks!
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Eric Pioszak wrote:Basketball Man wrote:Cool but I would grow very impatient going under 3 mph the whole way. I used to get bored taking our mini across the site...can't imagine almost a month solid, especially since I've never seen a mini that could drive straight for more than 100 yards.I'd like to see the condition of the tracks! LMFAO!!! omg how true that is.... i have driven some skid steers in the past where you had to push one handle all the way forward and didnt even have to use the other handle to make it drive straight, turns to that side of the machine were quite interesting to say the least
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Sitting in that lil'dinky seat...for that long... cant be good for the roids.... 
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Ha ha Lotsacrane.... damn thats a good one... Another useless waste of time and energy for the record...  Now for real entertainment value could he do it in reverse...... that perhaps would be impressive 
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