Biggest Mining Machine... EVER!
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in the past, there was Big Muskie (which is now gone to scrapyard heaven), an open dragline excavator which was so huge, it was almost beyond belief... it walked with 2 hydralic "feet" and could move 39 million pounds of earth and rock an hour..
check out the size of the bucket in the middle pic and compare it to the whole thing and imagine the size of Big Muskie
Big Muskie was built at a staggering cost (then) of US$25 million in 1969 and was dismantled in 1999
now, we have THIS huge machine in Germany...
built by Krupps, this monster costs about US$100 million and weighs in at 45,500 tons! it is about 3 times the size of Big Muskie!
staggering aren't they?
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they wan to demolish the president's palace ah...
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Nicepics.. thanks for sharing
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Huge! I must say it's huge!
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heard of the antonov yet?
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isn't dat the russian coy wif the big planes?Originally posted by dark_snowboy:heard of the antonov yet? -
the giant antonov cargo plane?
it's about 85m long, 90m wide and about 175 tonnes.. -
yea, now thats amazing
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uh.. this digging machine is 95m high and 215m long, and is 45,500 tons
it's taller than the plane is wide -
wahhhhh ... can run over all the resident property ....
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it cant fly ma
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yeah.. but it can move.. at 45,500 tons, that's about the weight of a building
you should have a look at how Big Muskie moved.. there were no tracks so it had to WALK
Originally posted by dark_snowboy:it cant fly ma -
It's a huge machine. I wonder how do they move it around ? Or is it being built at the Mining Site ?
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the first has 2 hydralic "feet" which it "walks" on from site to site..
the 2nd, well, hey.. there are tracks -
the mot sensiable thing to do is get away from it
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Holy Shit..
It just gives me the creeps looking at it -
Krupps were also the people who built the largest artilleries during WW1 and WW2
Check out one of their famous one, the Big Bertha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_%28Howitzer%29
and the infamous Paris Gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun -
i wondered how they built it
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the balancing mechanism must be madOriginally posted by the Bear:yeah.. but it can move.. at 45,500 tons, that's about the weight of a building
you should have a look at how Big Muskie moved.. there were no tracks so it had to WALK -
The blades look evil
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looks COOLOriginally posted by DriftingGuy:
The blades look evil awesome... -
tat was bigggg
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how did they build it?
how did they attach all the parts together?
are there any machinery bigger than that?
and how are they going to move that machine to other places once they are done with the contruction? -
Originally posted by the Bear:uh.. this digging machine is 95m high and 215m long, and is 45,500 tons
it's taller than the plane is wide
mad