Workmen's Monorail in Japan

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00:00Hey guys, not sure if we should put this on our wheels in Japan playlist or our cool gadgets

00:05in Japan playlist, it's a bit of both.

00:08So this little mountain here is next to the river that we've shown you guys before, one

00:12of our favourite places in Japan.

00:14There's a walking track that goes right to the top of this little mountain, it's about

00:18500 feet high, pretty steep walking track.

00:21We've walked it a couple of times, actually ran it once, that was a bit of craziness one

00:26day, but really hard climb to the top.

00:29So there's a little bit of a gazebo up there, and the boys are doing some work up there

00:33at the moment, so pretty hard work to haul all their gear up that walking track.

00:39So they constructed this little monorail up through the forest, pretty well straight up,

00:46it sort of curves a little bit around trees, but pretty well straight up the hill, really

00:49steep, really really steep.

00:53And they run this gadget, this machine, seems to have a little, some sort of little, probably

01:03a small motorcycle engine or something like that, and they can use it to transport themselves

01:10and their gear up and down the mountain, which is just brilliant, because if they walked

01:14it like they did in the old days, by the time they got to the top they'd have no energy

01:17left to do the work.

01:20As we watched, these guys actually hopped off, and then started it back up the hill

01:26again, it went back up the hill on its own, and then about 20 minutes later, their co-workers

01:31came down the hill on it.

01:34Pretty cool machine, better than walking, more videos coming soon!