This is a sizeable machine.

[California Tanker]

Holy jesus.

http://www.valtio.org/tex/kuvia/kone.jpg

Looks like some reject from Transformers or maybe a 1960s B movie. "The attack of the Monster Machines from Mars!"

The Krupp Bagger 288

I've seen some of those monster miners before, but this is just unbelieveable. Just getting it from A to B is a major operation involving relocating small villages.

It eats little diggers, too.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SKz0v2u2DfI/AAAAAAAAbB4/PCeSEWFhpiQ/s640/298574512_ecb3f7b06f_o.jpg

http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SKz0wW8XDwI/AAAAAAAAbCA/nmTwcYtnSD4/s640/298573144_bed636db19_o.jpg

I'm sure there is an undefended vulnerable weak spot around the back somewhere, though.

NTM

[ChuckF]

That's what she said.

In before BrotherMan. :bunnythrust:

Now time to read OP.

[godfry n. glad]

Oops...Somebody got fired that day.

It doesn't look like a D-9. Maybe a D-7?

Did someone get Senator Palpatine on the horn? It looks like one of his.

[Legs]

Impressive :nod:

[Kael]

That is pretty damn cool.

[Kyuss Apollo]

I'd like to get that thing up to like 80 then do some wheelies.

[Deadlokd]

You'll be lucky to get it to 80 metres an hour. It took three weeks to travel 22 kilometres (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288). It's the heaviest land vehicle.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Bagger-garzweiler.jpg

[Kyuss Apollo]

Then imagine that thing just hauling ass and do a 180, right? Then do a brake-stand on somebody's lawn--really tear shit up!

[BrotherMan]

Wow, talk about flattenin' the hills!

[California Tanker]

Fair point.

It says it can do a max incline of just over 1%. If it meets a hill with a steeper gradient than this in the way of its travelling, I guess it just removes the hill.

NTM

[godfry n. glad]

So...way cool.

What exactly is it used for? That's a helluva capital output for some reason.

[Dingfod]

It's biggest job is removing overburden.

[ChuckF]

So...way cool.

What exactly is it used for? That's a helluva capital output for some reason.
Internets say coal extraction...but those Germans are crafty.

[beyelzu]

after ww2 the germans realized that they were woefully inefficient at removal of corpses of the mud peoples and in young adolph krupp a dream was born.

[JamesBannon]

It's the world largest open cast coal mining machine. Saw it in a Discovery Channel documentary quite some time ago. Apparently, one single bucket can load one of those monster trucks full.

[Dingfod]

Even though coal is the goal with strip mining (open cast? First time I've heard that one), by far the most material removed is overburden, waste material atop the coal-bearing formation.

[Kyuss Apollo]

It could definitely use two, maybe three Saturn V engines.

[livius drusus]

That is one scary motherfucker.

[liquidrage]

In the second picture there's a small child/giant lego person trapped in the bucket of that giant machine.

http://www.thehumanreligion.com/crap/boyinbucket.jpg

[Dingfod]

Is that the Flying Spaghetti Monster down and to the right of your yellow oval?

[Moxy]

I wouldn't think there are too many machines you could just drop a bulldozer on and not even have it register as enough of a problem that you'd stop work to recover said bulldozer.