Monster Machines
Now, i've been sitting on this for a while (not literally! god it would hurt...) since i saw it via Neatorama on The Thrilling Wonder Story - a pretty cool blog written by the Abrams family with lots of posts about fantastical machines. The one i saw is by far the most impressive, and scary:
It's the biggest moving machine in the world - the giant bucket wheel excavator 'Bagger 288'. A mining machine, 300m long and weighing 45,000 tons - this monster chews up the ground then moves from one mine to another when its job is done. The photos are from the last move in 2001 when it crawled 22km. This required removing powerlines, planting special grass to smooth the way and took 3 weeks! The blog has a load more photos, including the scary series showing a bulldozer that got chewed up in the massive cutting wheel:
The Bagger was made by Krupps, who specialise in mammoth machines for mining and other operations. Their site has more examples, including this transporter moving a semi-mobile crushing plant, looking very sci-fi:
It's the biggest moving machine in the world - the giant bucket wheel excavator 'Bagger 288'. A mining machine, 300m long and weighing 45,000 tons - this monster chews up the ground then moves from one mine to another when its job is done. The photos are from the last move in 2001 when it crawled 22km. This required removing powerlines, planting special grass to smooth the way and took 3 weeks! The blog has a load more photos, including the scary series showing a bulldozer that got chewed up in the massive cutting wheel:
The Bagger was made by Krupps, who specialise in mammoth machines for mining and other operations. Their site has more examples, including this transporter moving a semi-mobile crushing plant, looking very sci-fi:
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