The Biggest (and Hungriest) Machines
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #32Titanic mechanism "devours" its prey - a bulldozer!
If you discount CERN's Large Hadron Collider (which is officially the Largest Machine in the World; see the Google Earth picture below)
then the biggest MOVING machine build by humans would be the giant bucket wheel excavator "Bagger 288" built by Krupp in Germany in 1978.
This enormous mining machine (300 meters long, weight: 45,500 tons) is capable of moving on its treads to the various open-air mine locations.
The last such epic transition happened in 2001, when it crawled from one mine to the other - across 22 kilometers of fields, roads, railway crossings, villages and countryside... As it could not go around the obstacles, it headed in a straight line, so the workers prepared the way by piling up sand cushions on top of highways and train tracks, removing power-lines and seeding the fields with special grass to make its progress smoother.
(the ultimate driver seat)
(source: here)
Imagine seeing such a sight at breakfast, looking out of your kitchen window in a quiet suburbia... Look out, It's Comin Atch Ya!
Anyway, it took them 3 weeks to move it. Once in place it started to bite into the coal, rock and earth with the vengeance...
But as the following chilling series of photographs testifies, it was chewing up not only the scenery, but an occasional stray bulldozer:
Source: Botinok
By the way, Krupps home page shows a few other relatives of this "monster family": -spreader, -crushing plants, -transport crawlers
Update, November 19, 2006: (Courtesy Miss)
Check out this Bagger 288, Photoshop Version :) - Click Here
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32 Comments:
"it was chewing up not only the scenery, but an occasional stray bulldozer"
OMG that thing is freakin enormous.
"OMG that thing is freakin enormous."
Funny, that's what my girlfriend said!
I don't understand the Google Earth image posted at the top of this blog entry. It looks like just a patch of ground with a red circle around it. I'm pretty sure the machine isn't as big as the area surrounded by the red circle. And I'm pretty sure the other smaller circles don't hilite the machine, because there are several circles and only one machine...
Read the text above the image...
It's an underground particle accelerator, with 27 km circumference. So yes, the circle does represent the size of the machine. But it's hollow in the middle :)
This is not the biggest machine. Compare it to a Nimitz class aircraft carrier:
333 m in length
102,000 tons
powered by 2 A4W nuclear reactors
manned by 5000+ sailors
carries about 80 aircraft
which would you bet on in a knife fight?
Oh my gosh. That entrencher is a beautiful thing. Awesome and humbling in that small-thing-in-the-face-of-very-large-thing philosophical bent and all that.
As for the chilling photos of the chewed up bulldozer, I was prepared for bloody brainmeats and carnage, not that I am disappointed that there was not. I think I just read rotten.com too often.
OMG that thing is freakin enormous."
Funny, that's what my girlfriend said!
Funny, that is what your girlfriend said to me last night as well :O
That is the most awsome thing ive ever seen!! WOW!! It ate a bulldozer... SWEET!
Alright....the guy who mentioned the nimitz...that is a vehicle, which is NOT a single piece of machinery.
In any case, that would be the CERN particle accelerator.
Hahaha it picked up a bulldozer?! That's ridiculous. I want one of those.
Knife fight? The CERN accelerator. They've got anti-protons in that thing. Ponder on eequalsemceesquared in light of total conversion of mass to energy in a matter-antimatter collision, as opposed the the miniscule fraction of one percent conversion in either the reactors or the Hbombs on the Nim. And any Nimitz would be a little tired after sailing to Switzerland...
To the latest anonymous: particle accelerators can only produce as much antimatter as electricity can be pumped into them, and at nowhere near 100% efficiency. To generate even a gram of antimatter takes more energy than the entire world generates.
Take a look at the Photoshop version.
nice
And why can't someone build me an AT-AT?
“Tell me the secret code Mr. Bond or I will feed you to the Crushing Plant.”
They could have won WW1 with this one.
quarry lorries, quail before your lord.
Big, but definetly not the largest moving machine of the world... USS Nimiz? meh.... Google supertanker "Jahre Viking" (over 458 meters long) and then check out http://www.f60.de/index_e.htm That thing is 502 meters long and runs on railroad tracks!!! Part of the carriage of F60 can be seen here: http://www.hfinster.de/StahlArt2/archive-Lausitz-BW-72-5-22.11.2000-en.html Have fun :)
I suppose they used anchor chain for dental floss to get the cat out!!
What a CAT-tastrophy!
God, I’ve always wanted a bulldozer. I always thought, what could stop a bulldozer? Snow? Nope. Ice? Nope. Rain? Nope. Mud? Nope. But apparently the Germans figured a way.
Now all I want is a Bagger 288!
Anyone know what gas mileage it’d get?
Something like 3 gas stations per mile.
Let's just hope it doesn't gain sentience by being struck by lightning or something, else we're all in trouble.
Ok, so, two errors:
- Its 240 m long, not 300.
- Its the largest tracked vehicle in the world, not the largest moving machine.
That is all.
that's right, this is not the biggest machine, but still it can freak me.. I can imagine the noice when the machine is running..
i guess it doesn't make extreme noise since it's powered by electricity.
USS Nimitz is a ship, not a machine.
You can compare USS Nimitz with another ship, like the biggest ship in the world
amazing...
Monster Toys
I has it's own generators to make the electricity it uses, so there is some noise. However, the grinding of the huge excavation wheel should make a lot of noise as well...
"BURP!" ... (Excuse me.)
Krupp? Aren't these the same people who make my coffee maker?
"Yes please. Make mine black."
--- OK, from the US. I'm impressed. I would travel to Germany just to see this thing. Where is it? Can you get close? Tour it? Drive it?
--- Why don't we take to Iraq or Afghanistan? I doubt that Osama's IED's would have much effect on it!
WOWSER! My hat's off to the Germans!
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