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BajaMike
02-08-2006, 10:22 PM
I don't know if this was on here before, but it's kinda cool...
:rollside:
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/1098biggest.jpg
:idea:
It's huge....
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/1098biggest2.jpg
Here it is in action.....
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/1098In_action.jpg
Can you see the dozer (Cat D-9) it picked up??
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/1098lostdozer1.jpg
Wow....
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/1098lostdozer.jpg
Hardly Satisfied
02-09-2006, 02:20 AM
O shit , that's Big
Ultrafied
02-09-2006, 02:33 AM
O shit , that's Big
Kind of an understatement .... that's fricking H U G E !!!!
Jordy
02-09-2006, 02:48 AM
Yeah, that's the Big Wheel. The dozer that got caught up in it is a Cat D8R. According to my Cat bible, granted it's an older one, you're looking at around 84,000 lbs of machine that got carried away.... still no small feat... big iron is still unreal to watch work,,, ;)
HOSS
02-09-2006, 05:57 AM
Thats a big sum bitch.
MikeF
02-09-2006, 06:04 AM
Can imagine the amount of crap they had to remove from the Cat pilot's pants. :220v:
BajaMike
02-09-2006, 12:27 PM
Some info on thing.... :idea:
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
:rollside:
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)
:boxed:
Blacksheep
02-09-2006, 12:30 PM
That thing is pretty cool...I've seen that on the Discovery channels a few times. Amazing!!!
Mrs. 4-B
02-09-2006, 01:58 PM
Size does matter!!! :p
Rexone
02-09-2006, 02:06 PM
Ouch ! That left a mark on someone's paycheck I'll bet.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/1098lostdozer.jpg
Biglue
02-09-2006, 03:28 PM
Can imagine the amount of crap they had to remove from the Cat pilot's pants. :220v:
If not the whole crew. Could you imagine the screaching and grinding noises that made?