Wheeled excavators

[kiwiwill]

Gidday, What are the disadvantages of a wheeled excavator?

What are they like on steep Terrain?

Obviously no good in the wet.

Any info on wheeled machines would be geatly appreciated.

[CAT powered]

The only thing wheeled excavators are good for is pavement.

[bobcat_ron]

I ran a Volvo EW180B for 3 months straight in 2007, they are pretty good off road when you are going over drier, bumpy terrain, the oscillating front axle keeps you more stable.
They take up just as much room working on a road as a tracked unit with near zero tail swing because you can get the wheels closer to the shoulder and the tail stays in the lane, I spent a lot of time ditch cleaning and it was less of an obstruction than the 320CLU I use.
The only down side is, you need an operator who is good with knowing the stabilizers and axle lock controls, when to use them and where, and if the machine has a VA (variable angle) boom, how to use that to their advantage. If I kept my VA boom at 50% curl, I didn't have to use the stabilizers and blade to keep me from rocking while I loaded trucks.
The 2 best wheeled excavators are Volvo and Cat's M series, Cat still has the upper hand with the steering on the joysticks at low speeds, but Volvo has a higher roading speed, I had mine at 45 km/h, but it needs more torque.

Ahh, the memories..............
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Volvo03.jpg