largest digging machine in the world

Bagger 288



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/Pictu...er/bagger.html

[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

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.

HOLY!!!!

Get your kneee down on THAT then!

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.