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Title: Holy crap! Look at the size of this thing!
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URL Source: http://myclipta.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... gest-digging-machine-ever.html
Published: Mar 20, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-03-20 19:32:44 by Esso
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World's Largest Digging Machine (or wouldn't you like one of these babies in your garden shed?) This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional hauling equipment. Some factoids: •The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length) •Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long) •It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million •Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute •Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day Poster Comment: More at link.
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#1. To: Esso (#0)
I think I got stuck behind it's clone on I-95 just South of Baltimore a few months back. I'm glad this one lives in Germany. Perhaps there is hope yet.
The Grrrrrls built it to overthrow the Patriarchy...lol
If I was on this highway, turned the corner and saw this thing looming ahead of me, I might lose control (of the car, at least).
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's bitch
Holy shit on the bulldozer. Maybe we can rent it the next time His Highness calls for a joint session of congress?
I was so afraid that this was a post from Turtle. I'd love to take one of these babies down the Mall and to the Crapitol w/ a full house. When you guys are done, I'm takin' that baby to Izzystan. I know a engineer what set up a special deally that turns points into on-the-ground lobbyists. Really! :) "I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
I was so afraid that this was a post from Turtle. I thought it might be one of Armadillo's. Both cause for concern.
LOL "I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
LOL I guess size does matter after all.,
changing the puppet does not change the play.
We aren't told, but I believe that this machine is so enormous that it cannot move as it appears on the highways. Its weight would cause asphalt to crumble and it would be in danger of tipping over at any sort of momentum. Most likely it is assembled at the workplace, can move - or is moved by tractors - just a few feet in the space of an hour, and when the job is done it's dismantled and the parts taken to the next job for reassembly.
Derb nub it! I thought I was going to see pics of a big Thing....or a green Thing. It's okay. Thread has been saved. : ) " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
Here's a big thing: That thing scares me! : )
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
One strange dude. It is my understanding that he enjoyed a lot of popularity with the ladies - particularly the Tsarina. ;-) One strange dude. That he was. Kind of the ultimate "insider". Holy crap! Look at the size of this thing! I was so afraid that this was a post from Turtle. You do not want to annoy the Dread Pirate Turtle! "You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle
Don't mean to blow smoke in ur face, but that is a sea cucumber, not part of Rasputin, it has been debunked here: www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1162/ The look on that chick is funny, not sure what is going on there!?
Oh, I know there has been a purported debunking, but it still makes a great conversation "piece". ;-)
You certainly have me on that front :) Speaking of fronts and conversation pieces, look at the size of these, oh my !! Sheyla Hershey.....
#2. To: Esso (#0)
#3. To: Esso (#0)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
That thing in the yellow circle is a bulldozer on its back. Pic 2 is a close up. Somebody got their ass chewed over that little misadventure, I'll bet.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#5. To: Esso (#0)
#6. To: Esso, Eric Stratton, Cyni, 4um (#4)
#7. To: Esso (#0)
Holy crap! Look at the size of this thing!
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
#8. To: Jethro Tull, Eric Stratton (#6)
Maybe we can rent it the next time His Highness calls for a joint session of congress?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#9. To: Esso (#8)
When you guys are done, I'm takin' that baby to Izzystan.
#10. To: tom007 (#7)
Holy crap! Look at the size of this thing!
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
#11. To: wudidiz (#10)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
#12. To: Lysander_Spooner (#2)
The Grrrrrls built it to overthrow the Patriarchy...
#13. To: Esso (#0)
#14. To: Esso (#0)
#15. To: Esso (#0)
#16. To: abraxas (#15)
Derb nub it! I thought I was going to see pics of a big Thing....
Believed to be the only surviving remnant
of Grigori Rasputin.
#17. To: Original_Intent (#16)
#18. To: Original_Intent (#16)
of Grigori Rasputin.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
#19. To: abraxas (#17)
That thing scares me! : )
#20. To: tom007 (#18)
of Grigori Rasputin.
#21. To: tom007 (#7)
#22. To: Original_Intent (#16)
#23. To: Lysander_Spooner (#22)
#24. To: Original_Intent (#23)
(Edited)
a great conversation "piece". ;-)
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