carnkie
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13 years ago
I find I'm gobsmacked looking at this.

Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle, as the largest land vehicle in the world. It is 311 feet tall and 705 feet long. It weighs 45,500 tons, which makes it heavier than RMS Titanic.

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NewStuff
13 years ago
There are loads of videos on Youtube that convey the sheer scale of the thing...

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bagger+288&oq=bagger+288&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=youtube.3..0l10.482.3368.0.4436.12.10.1.1.1.0.202.984.7j2j1.10.0...0.0.jzY6yjooSag

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Roger the Cat
13 years ago
I linked to a You Tube video in an earlier thread showing the Bagger 288 moving 14km across country under its own power from one mine to another, across an autobahn, railway and a river. Will see if I can find it.
inbye
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13 years ago
I don't know how to do links, but if you look on you-tube under "dozer accidents" you will see this machine, or one like it, has accidentally scooped up a cat dozer in one of it's buckets. Looks like a toy at first, but it's the real thing...
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suboffender
13 years ago
I have the overwhelming desire to climb it ๐Ÿ˜ž
NewStuff
13 years ago
"suboffender" wrote:

I have the overwhelming desire to climb it :(



Somewhere on English Russia, someone has done exactly that on a Smaller Russian version.
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