Largest Earth Mover in the World
This is the largest earth mover in the world.
Built by the German company, Krupp,and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine).
It is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite.
Specifications:
~ The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
~ It weighs over 45,500 tons
~ Cost $100 million to build
~ Took 5 years to design and manufacture
~ 5 years to assemble.
~ Requires 5 people to operate it.
~ The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets,each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material.
~ A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
~ It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long).There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back.
It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour).
~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day.(100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)
posted by Mike @ 3:11 PM
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So we have 5 people operating it... Forward, back, left, right, digshit!
You spell a mower with a W mover means one that moves.
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amazing!
Meh.... it isn't that big hehe
Holy smokes, that thing is huge. What the heck would you need to move using something like this?
What does it get for gas mileage? Seriously- I wonder!
thats amazing, i want one.
"~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day.(100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)"
...and yet; that thing still wouldn't be able to dig us out of the quagmire that has become Iraq.
Very cool, I'd love to see the real thing.
However, I don't suppose you could provide the statistics for it in metric measurements, could you?
It feels like there should be a rammstein song about this
It feels like there should be a rammstein song about this
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Yeah, but what's the mileage?
What's the MPG on a puppy like this?
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That is very very interesting, I think.
It's beautiful. Really. An amazing feat of modern engineering.
It's beautiful. Really. An amazing feat of modern engineering.
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I want to see Godzilla take that thing on.
I love that thing! It's so huge... :)
Holy Crap!!!!!
Wow that is a crazy looking machine.....
Gosh!
WTF that is crazy. wonder if they even have enough dump trucks for it!!!!.
That is ridiculous...
and hey, you're on the digg homepage :)
http://digg.com/hardware/Largest_Earth_Mover_in_the_World
They tried these in the US, but failed due to rocks in the overburden.
My rich neighbour has one of those
>>It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day.(100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)
76,455 (cubic meters) = 100,000 cubic yards
100,000 dump tucks * 40 yds = 4,000,000 yards...
Just curious if I've made an error here. I only question because my father's earth moving company set some sort of record by moving 600,000 yards of dirt in one day in Souther California. 4 million would be incredible!
ooohhhh, can it TRANSFORM? :D
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astonishing. good find.
holy jesus mother of God, that thing is a monster, props to the designer thou on the idea of it, and all the people that made and put it together!!
This thing reminds me of the big spider in the movie Wild Wild West. It also reminds me of Howl's Moving Castle. Either way it is awestriking.
just wait till they take the governer of that bad boy
god any liberal who brings up the war in iraq in a fuckign picture that has nothing to do with the war should b run over by that fucking thing. and that thing is badass by the way
If you do the conversion and the arithmetic, the scoop will fill a mere 2500 40-cubic-yard trucks a day !
A little bit more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
Picture #4 is NOT the same machine as the rest of the pics, you can see the bucket wheel and the upper rigging towers are different totaly.
another note is that these type of rigs run on Electric Power, I work in a surface pit coal mine operation in the states and all of the Cross pit spreaders and Drag lines run on trail cables that carry 40Kv to each unit. The largest Drag Line we have moves about 95 square yards of material a scoop and the pit has 4 of those drag lines in it.
Rich people buy these with the money they used to pay their capital gains tax with.
in a car accident with my mom's minivan, i wonder who would win...
that thing is like really, really big,
what do you do when it breaks down?
in a car accident with my mom's minivan, i wonder who would win...
that thing is like really, really big,
what do you do when it breaks down?
If that's the mother I think it is, it's used for mining lignite from open-cast mines in Garzweiler near Cologne in Germany.
Within a few square miles there are 3 or 4 open-cast mines and 4 existing power stations with a new one called BoA 2/3 being built (it will have 2x1 gigawatt generators and the boiler houses and cooling towers are nearly 200m high).
The whole area is full of lignite and because lignite is 50% water, it's too expensive to transport so they build all the power plants nearby and supply them with a private railway.
When a mine is empty, the drive the excavator a couple of miles down the road (as shown above) and start digging again.
The digger is owned by RWE and there are some more picture here:
http://www.olivepixel.com/misc/beast/beast.htm
Is that thing real?
How much gas does it take?
Men in Milwaukee, Wisconsin used to hold the honors of having built the largest machines in the world.
The 4th photo from the top clearly shows a different Bucket Wheel than other photos as it has been pointed out.
Like a circular saw which may have 10 teeth per inch or 16 teeth per inch to determine the amount of material cut up when the blade turns the same principle must apply to the Bucket Wheel.
Despite what the narrative describes, the 4th photo shows there are different Bucket Wheels that can be used to enable greater or lessor cuts through the soil.
Finally, there's one more clue that can be observed in the 4th photo that proves different Bucket Wheels can be used. I'll leave that last clue to some other detective :-)
There was one of those at a monster truck show I went to once
Buckets are facing opposite direction in picture #4. Why is this?
Hmmmm ... can I use that thing on my ex-wife? :-)
Picture #4 is not the same earth mover -- look at the towers and other clues.
What a huge mover this one! It's very interesting!
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holy s***! What the heck! That thing is huge!
whoa
Somebodies math doesn't add up. "It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day.(100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)"
2000 40 cubic meter dump trucks is more like it
I agree someone’s math is really bad. 76,455 cu meters equals about 100,000 cu yds. If you have 100,000 @ 40 cu yds trucks that would be 4,000,000 cu yds which is 3,058,220 cu meters which does not equal 76,455 cu meters.
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I'm guessing the 100,000m3 is a total for the strip mine in which this monster works. Do a google earth (or whatever map program you use) search for Tagebau Hambach, Germany. Check out the strip mine just to the east of there... a friend and I counted at least 8 of those monsters, maybe more, working in one mine. I'd guess the 100,000 comes as a total of their efforts. But just the same, it looks like they use huge conveyor belts, not dump truck, so who knows exactly. You want a big number, think about the 100 mil. times however many of those things they actually have out there. If you use google earth you can see pictures of the things up close, as well as the huge scab of a strip mine they work in. Simply incredible.
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it's only a model...
i have 50 machines like this but the machines r little bit smaller in size.
It doesn't get mileage per gallon - it plugs in!
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