"Scott Vernon" wrote in message

| All I see on that site are a bunch of Long reach excavators, which BTW
| have their rams attached to the boom at 25% the length. Didn't some
| one here claim that this was impossible?
|

I never claimed impossible..... but I may have utilized poetic license to
present an arguable counter-point.....
My point still being that a topping lift can carry a greater load than a
vang in lifting objects with a boom.

CM