largest digging machine in the world

[Lucas]

Bagger 288

http://www.lakata.org/arch/bagger288.jpg

It was built by Krupp and is shown in one of the pictures, 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 104 yards high and 235 yards 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

http://www.michaelgriswold.com/Pictures/ALL/bagger/bagger.html

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[Stingo]

Blimey! That'll have some one's eye out if they're not careful!!

[widepants]

arggggggggg its all pointy

[Stu]

lolz at the vid :D

[454697819]

its the same machine which ate a normal bulldozer.. it did the rounds via email

100 million dollars seems cheap

[Viney]

Wonder how much that is on the M6 Toll road?

[G]

It's an awsome piece of kit. Like someone has said there is a thread somewhere on the tinternet where that thing has picked up an equally MASSIVE dumper truck in one of its buckets and it makes it look like a toy.

[PsychoCannon]

HOLY!!!!

Get your kneee down on THAT then! :)

[Ed]

76,000m3 of material each day - just think of the environmental damage, and how long it will take to repair.

I can't honestly think that this is progress.

[ophic]

I think it'd look better with mini indicators. :rolleyes:

[punyXpress]

As the bloke in the red van said:
Scheissen!

[Drew Carey]

I wonder what End Cans are on it? Do you think we could squeeze a few more BHP out with a full system?

On a serious note, is this really neccesary? Although impressive, I somewhat think there isn't a great deal that some of the smaller - yet still huge machines can't shift. The cost / benefit saving can't be great on something like that!!

[Noble Ox]

Was I the only one that read the title Jeremy Clarkson stylie?

'The largest digging machine..... (Long Pause)...... IN THE WOORLD!'

[punyXpress]

Makes Stretchie's new vehicle for AR look a bit .. er .. puny?

[ophic]

I wonder what End Cans are on it? Do you think we could squeeze a few more BHP out with a full system?
But then it might not pass its MOT, unless you fit some baffles.

[G]

I guess in the states or where ever it is they probably have a quarry somwhere that is the same size as some of our counties.

[5hort5]

Saw one of them on autotrader last week, it was on a tenner ;-)

[simesb]

The cost / benefit saving can't be great on something like that!!

Must have seemed worthwhile to them when they built it?

[Drew Carey]

Must have seemed worthwhile to them when they built it?

Granted, but would be interesting to see the cost benefit analysis of that against the same analysis of smaller machines.......say over a 5 year period.

Sorry.....work has started to inflitrate my ".org" mind, I will take these thoughts away!!!! :D

[Vorkohnen]

Anyone else want to see one of these tear down a decrepit block of flats?

[BanditPat]

I guess in the states or where ever it is they probably have a quarry somwhere that is the same size as some of our counties.


States? Germany according to the internet built for a mining firm called rheinbraun

[Bluefish]

I bet it has already invaded Poland.