Dora... 800mm... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u...h?
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It took 25 trainloads of equipment and a support crew of 1200 men to put together. Assembly time was 3-6 weeks.
Cool...what is it?
More pics here
It took 25 trainloads of equipment and a support crew of 1200 men to put together. Assembly time was 3-6 weeks.
And only one bomber to take out the tracks... Coulda been one killer weapon if not for that one weakness.
So do watch Big Machines on the Discovery Channel too?
Kiwi,
Its a bucket wheel excavator. That wheel continually spins... each bucket digs in and fills up with dirt... then as the wheel spins it around it dumps the dirt onto a huge conveyor belt that moves the dirt down the huge arm out eventually sprays it out the back of the machine.
It would be cooler if that was a circular saw blade instead.
What city or town is it near, Nate? I have it zoomed in, but it's going to take forever to find blind.
screw it..I'll google the info
screw it..I'll google the info
That's where I saw on working first, SB
On = one
sawblade??? yeah but what would you cut with it? The Golden Gate Bridge?
sawblade??? yeah but what would you cut with it
Install a GPS nav system and program it to cut along the CA and OR borders so those two failed hippie communes could just fall into the ocean.
Rotate the blade 90° and use it for clear-cutting Sequoia National Park.
Rotate the blade 90° and use it for clear-cutting Manhattan.
yeah but what would you cut with it?
Practicality? Really?
Ooooh! Spacebunny wins!
In Kansas there is the Big Brutus museum. It's the world's second largest electric bucket shovel. It's quite a sight. You used to be able to climb to the top of the boom, but insurance requirements shut that down (boo hoo). Website here:
http://www.bigbrutus.org/about.html
Flush.
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I saw that episode of big machines. If I remember right, those machines take ten years to build and move hundreds of thousands of tons of soil per day.
"yeah but what would you cut with it?"
Whatever the hell you wanted.
What city or town is it near, Nate? I have it zoomed in, but it's going to take forever to find blind.
Just judging by the "machts nichts" poles (what us Amis called them) on the roadside, this particular one is probably in Europe somewhere, Germany perhaps. It's built by Krupp after all.
Damn you Nate. I looked for that bastard all the way from Tearkana to Dallas on Google earth then I find this.
http://images.google.com/imgres?...ficial%26sa%
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I mean this, Ooopzs
http://images.google.com/imgres?...ficial%26sa%
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Click on the riking link, where it says link at the bottom. Go figure?
This one is in Germany. This link has lots of info.
http://forums.howwhatwhy.com/sho...=207140&
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Stands over 95 metres tall, Is over 215 metres long (2.5 football fields) Weighs over 45,500 tons (yes that's 45 thousand tons!), Cost $100 million USD, took 5 years to design & manufacture and 5 years to assemble.
Only Requires 5 people to operate. The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets each of which can hold over 15 cubic metres of material. A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 3.6 metres wide, 2.4 metres high and 14 metres long) 8 in front and 4 in back. Has a maximum Travel speed of 10m/min. It can remove over 76,455 cubic metres of overburden each day.
Bet parallel parking's a real bitch though...
Instead of a wall to keep out illegal aliens you could dig a pretty damn deep trench pretty quick...
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