Apr 7, 2008

What is the "World's Largest Digging Machine"?.......

A big man, Powerful giant, an Extreme Machine, One of the wonderful engineering Creations which led to make construction field more and more simpler, I am talking about the largest digging machine on the planet.




This giant has been built by a German manufacturer named "Krupp" and It took almost 5 years to design the machine and manufacture with a cost of more than $100 million.



The World's Largest Digging Machine is almost 95 meters high and 215 meters long which is just like almost 2.5 football fields in length with 45,500 tons in Weight. Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute and it can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day.




The man power, and the cost in the construction field have been able to really reduce with a high efficiency, due to these kind of top-class, massive machines. This digging machine is currently using, mainly in field work at coal mines and rocky arias.



25 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can clearly picture Adolf Hitler driving this into Poland.

Arkonbey said...

man, I am so conflicted. That thing was obviously designed to tear apart the Earth with no regard for the ecosystems in which it was deployed.

But... DAMN it's really, really cool at the same time!

( I'm also conflicted in that I hate fuel-wasting vehicles, but still get a woody from a jacked-up 1977 Chevy Stepside)

Joel said...

why didn't the video show this awesome machine in motion? it's just the same pictures that are posted in the article on this site and they pretty much copied the entire thing on cracked. i checked youtube and because you didn't say the actual name of this fantastic piece of technology i couldn't find any videos of it actually digging. i wanted to see this thing tear the earth a new asshole.

Mr Axl said...

Haha It does look like the Jawas vehicle from Super Star Wars... go Luke! (Second to last picture).

Anonymous said...

This is a video of the machine in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWmS7OnnnRY

It seems to be "Bagger 288".

Brandon B said...

That is def a large large machine!~
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タシロ said...

類の科学は、技術は、こんな巨大なものを作る事ができると言うのか!

Anonymous said...

This is all that Michael Bay and George Lucas would need instead of a script if they wanted to make a film together. An alien-cloned Hitler would be sitting on top of it, cackling and shooting lightning from his fingers...

Anonymous said...

This is known as a bucket-wheel excavator, which may help to find other examples, photos, etc.

Anonymous said...

I saw a documentary about this machine in the German TV as they moved one of these thingies to another mining area (that's why it's crossing the highway in the pictures).

Some more info on it: The company building these is actually called ThyssenKrupp, in Germany there currently are about 25 of these excavators in brown coal mining areas.
They are powered electrically and take up to 20.000 kW.

Anonymous said...

I grew up next to this opencast mines, there a some in germany of this kind as mentioned before thyssen krupp in western germany, the east germany mines had machines from takraf - these are just tiny one compared to the biggest one:
http://www.f60.de/index_e.htm http://flickr.com/photos/helenwogan/2533143157/
they build several of these from this type at least 2, one still working today and there were a lot of former types

slize said...

Actually the F60 which is working in the area where I live is even bigger ;)

TAKRAF produced 5 of them. 3 are still working, one is being restaurated and the other one is open for tourists ;)

In our area it's called "The lying Eifel Tower" ;)

Anonymous said...

I'd hate to see that Transformer...

Anonymous said...

This thing is in the Guinness World Records book, as the worlds largest land vehicle. It says it is called the RB293 bucket wheel excavator, and it was manufactured by TAKRAF GmbH.

Anonymous said...

After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Krupp works became the center for German rearmament.
After Germany's defeat, when Gustav Krupp proved incapable of going on trial, the Nuremberg Military Tribunal convicted Alfried as a war criminal in the Krupp Trial for his company's use of slave labor.

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