i think i saw that thing on discovery channel one night after american chopper? anyways, that thing is really interesting and can move a lot of dirt... its really cool!
Travis
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its to small for me , i got no use for it
i need a bigger model
LOL
I would be scared driving on the road in this picture:
That thing looks like a machine of death with that big cutting wheel.
Rob
Sold 2/2/05
that thing is scary, looks like something out of a scifi movie.
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i bet if you turbo'd that bitch itd do like 10 minutes in the quarter mile.
Emor8t wrote:i bet if you turbo'd that bitch itd do like 10 minutes in the quarter mile.
hahahaha! And whats so sad is...as long as it is...it's already halfway down the track
can you imagine transporting that thing. now that really goes far past the term oversized load.
"Theres a time in every mans life where he hits a cross roads and...wait...are you wearing panties?"
AZ-JBO
45,500 tons...
1 mile an hour...how would they transport that thing anywhere
Do we know the power to weight ratio?!?!?!?
PSHH... my sisters caddy was bigger than that!
Ehh, I beat it last night by 3 car lenghts.
Wow, that's even bigger than "Big Muskie" my previous favourite huge thing.
Big Muskie
PAX
they dont transport it
it moves itself
hence the crawlers. they moved it cross country from one coal pit I believe to another coal pit and now it lives there. They had to close roads and crap for it to get there, and be very careful of soft ground... or else ::topple::
i wanna see that race the space shuttle transporter. now THER'S a race worth watching...
Andy
it's not how fast you go, it's how you get there that counts.
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'97 GTP 14.06@100.6mph pre cam w/ 3.5" pulley, I/E
Wow, that reminds me of something you'd see in Final Fantasy.
What? So I'm a nerd.
i wonder how many gears it has?
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Dude, looks like some alien death machine!
I want to see the shuttles crawler race it too!
How many steps to heaven, Doc?
...Ah, metaphysics.
My Dad used to work around some of that big stuff with McNally's back in the 80s. Dump trucks that you could drive a car under and would take you a minute just to climb your way up to the controls.
The Other Matt wrote:45,500 tons...
1 mile an hour...how would they transport that thing anywhere
It moves 1 mile in 3 hours, lmao
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.
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)
