New Festool product ExcoActive

[Rich Engelhardt]

ExoActive Exoskeleton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHHbcjDIt9Y&t=14s

$3500.

I'm actually pretty interested in one.

[Edward Weber]

ExoActive Exoskeleton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHHbcjDIt9Y&t=14s

$3500.

I'm actually pretty interested in one.

I saw that on their site the other day, I wasn't sure at first if it was an April fools joke or what.
It does look interesting, science-fiction is no longer fiction.
You'll be like Matt Damon in Elysium

[Jim Becker]

ExoActive Exoskeleton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHHbcjDIt9Y&t=14s

$3500.

I'm actually pretty interested in one.

Kyle from RR Buildings on the 'Tube just received his and will be putting it to the test doing the ceiling work in HQ V2 in the recent future. This particular "tool" is optimized to help folks who do a lot of overhead work by providing additional support to reduce fatigue. I think that Festool did a good thing by sticking to a focus for this augmentation product rather than doing something that is a general purpose exo.

[Andrew Hughes]

That’s dumb.
Construction workers need strong muscles and the only way to get them is to do the work.
What happens at the bar Friday night when somebody’s making a play at your girl? Go to the truck and put on your Exoskeleton?
Nobody wants to go home alone.

[Richard Coers]

That’s dumb.
Construction workers need strong muscles and the only way to get them is to do the work.
What happens at the bar Friday night when somebody’s making a play at your girl? Go to the truck and put on your Exoskeleton?
Nobody wants to go home alone.

There is a national shortage of skilled tradesmen. Might be that something like this might keep some old guys in the trades for a little while longer. I'll be 72 in a couple weeks. My 8 year old grandson was showing me how he has learned to do push ups. I was shocked to get on the floor and try to do a few. I still have my big arms, but the muscles left in there, have gotten considerable weaker.

[Tom M King]

Nope. I looked at the video. I can’t see where that rig would do anything but slow you up. I can’t see plastering a ceiling with it would be anything but a hinderance. I think if you need one of those you need to look for something else to do.

Now if they had something to hold your head while you are looking up they might have something.

[Roger Feeley]

There is a national shortage of skilled tradesmen. Might be that something like this might keep some old guys in the trades for a little while longer. I'll be 72 in a couple weeks. My 8 year old grandson was showing me how he has learned to do push ups. I was shocked to get on the floor and try to do a few. I still have my big arms, but the muscles left in there, have gotten considerable weaker.

the shortage has been a long time coming and was entirely predictable. I remember the owner of pulte homes interviewed at least twenty years ago and he said, “My job is to figure out how to build houses without skilled labor.”

[Jimmy Harris]

In ten years, you won't even need the man anymore! The suit will do it all on it's own. And we'll all sing songs of the legend of John Henry III. The drop ceiling installer to beat the AI robots, in a race to the death.

[Larry Frank]

I believe this is just the beginning of this type of technology. We will see it in the construction industry, the health area and many others. Festool seems to have come up with a reasonably priced version.

As I have gotten older and becoming more difficult to walk, I could see something to help me walk. I would guess that there are many people that this could help.

[Brian Austin]

I saw one in person at Johnson's Workbench Wood Expo last weekend. The Festool rep was there and wearing it. I talked to him about it for a few minutes and it sounded interesting but yes, it's a niche product for a very specific use. I don't see myself needing one. If I'm that tired doing whatever overhead, I can pause for a rest or hire it out.

What REALLY interests me is that this is what I like to call a Pivotal Moment. Everything we carry and use today that seems second nature to us started out as someone's fantasical idea that the majority of us couldn't afford and didn't see a need for. Computers. Mobile phones. HUGE televisions. Internet everywhere. Self-parking cars. Self-DRIVING cars. All of them started as a first somewhere in a niche market for a niche use...but somehow evolved from a Want into a NEED.

This feels like one of those.

[Christian Hawkshaw]

I am holding out for this one...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJpXYvnQzg ...but the compact version.

[Rich Engelhardt]

I believe this is just the beginning of this type of technology. We will see it in the construction industry, the health area and many others. Festool seems to have come up with a reasonably priced version.

As I have gotten older and becoming more difficult to walk, I could see something to help me walk. I would guess that there are many people that this could help.

Yeah that 2nd last sentence you wrote is what caught my eye. Ever since my old carcass decided it didn't like being asked to do anything physical - I've been trying to find a way to convince it otherwise..

[Warren Lake]

didnt they tell us these are the golden years

[Lloyd McKinlay]

didnt they tell us these are the golden years

They look pretty good compared to the alternative .

[Rod Sheridan]

That’s dumb.
Construction workers need strong muscles and the only way to get them is to do the work.
What happens at the bar Friday night when somebody’s making a play at your girl? Go to the truck and put on your Exoskeleton?
Nobody wants to go home alone.

I’m assuming that was meant to be humourous, if so well done, it had me laughing.

A working exoskeleton would improve wood output, quality of work, and the workers health.

It would also open the trades up to smaller people such as women, greatly expanding the number of quality trades people.

You don’t learn anything useful imitating a lift truck, except the fact that the lift truck has replacement parts available when it wears out, my Mom forgot to supply me with replacement parts.

Regards, Rod