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The World's Biggest Machine "Chews Up" a Bulldozer (pictures)

thrillingwonder.blogspot.com — The giant mining excavator eats up a stray bulldozer for lunch, after making a spectacular "hike" across the countryside.

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  • DrakeTheRedEye, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52"it was chewing up not only the scenery, but an occasional stray bulldozer"
    OMG that thing is freakin enormous.
  • DrakeGTA, on 10/12/2007, -15/+85An xbox ate a bulldozer?!
    • Andrico4, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44@ DrakeGTA

      It wasn't the Xbox it was the power brick.
    • modsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32Doesn't PS3 now officially get to be the butt of all the gigantism jokes now? This isn't 2001 anymore.
  • herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+88yes, it blends!
  • Daedalus17, on 10/12/2007, -14/+11Looks like a job for....................Voltron!!!!!
  • Miyazaki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Saw a special on Discovery channel about giant excavators like these.

    This one was located in Germany, in the Rhineland and had to be moved maybe...60 miles?

    It was truly a site to see to, something that enormous moving across the land. I believe the arm is longer than a football field.
  • zugzub, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I've seen that thing on TV. They moved it across the country side.
    Your right about on thing its friggin huge
  • bigmahlman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2i gota get me one of those!
    • SavageOwnage, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28i would try and steal one but i dont have a garage big enough to hide it in.
    • H3g3m0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Grand Theft Auto or Carmageddon Mods anyone?
  • Miyazaki, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26From its Wiki...

    "It can excavate 240,000 tons daily – the equivalent of a football field dug to 30 meters (98 ft) deep. The excavator is approximately 240 m long and 96 m high. To run, the Bagger requires a jaw-dropping 16.56 megawatts of externally-supplied electricity, it can travel 2-10 m per minute (0.6 km/h). The chassis of the main section is 46 metres wide and sits on 3 rows of 4 caterpillar track assemblies, each 3.8 m wide. It has a minimum turning radius of approximately 100 metres."

    WOW
  • growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Hmm first a bulldozer, then a house, then a village then a well you get the picture, this monster must be stopped, everyone knows the machines will take us over one day and with that monstrosity on their side were screwed.
    • stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30yeah because it'd be so hard to get out of the way of a monster moving .6km/h
    • ComputerSherpa, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I don't think that thing is smart enough to be controllable by the Machines.
    • Wyzard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8First a bulldozer, then a house, then a village? The first thing that came to my mind was "katamari". :-)
    • spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Let's pray that Skynet doesn't get ahold of these puppies...
    • dougm68, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I'm going to join the rebels and fly my x-wing in to blow this menace to pieces!!!
    • mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What if you cross-breed it with this?

      http://web.mae.cornell.edu/zykov/files/QpedDemo.mpg
  • daprice, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21How many gallons per mile does it get?
    • stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -6/+63better than a H2
    • thinkdifferent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This suckers electrical. It just takes a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity it needs ;)
  • homerj14, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12we sure can get an owned pic outta the bulldozer!
  • Charlesbian, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3I bet those guys have awesome rock paper scissor games
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Don't you mean boulder, house, bulldozer?
    • seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@Charlesbain: What the ***** does that even mean?
  • ryanschmidt, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Wow, seriously impressive.
  • TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1stilll waiting on someone to post that shop of this thing as a mech
  • pengu, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2i saw this thing 2 years ago in an email. why is this on digg now? it was built in 1978..
    • ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeh I agree with you...got an email with pictures like that a while ago...still interesting though...
    • dbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Maybe because there was no digg.com back in 1978?
  • aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I saw this when I was living in Germany 10 years ago(a tour of the operation). Even more impressive in person.
  • Zer01, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19I for one welcome our new giant bulldozer overlords
  • yujie, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1I wonder how does it taste like? bacon or dirt?
  • Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Someone is obviously trying to over compensate for something...
  • airencracken, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Holy *****
  • eezzzz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Well, they (Krupp) did make those huge (and largely useless) railway guns in World War II.
  • contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Man, that thing would make for a good boss fight.
  • koonkii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10holy crap that thing is REAL!
    i saw a few pics before on the net but thought it was a fake
  • rationalist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Katamari Damonstrosity.
  • truegodofwar, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1http://a_bulldozer.justgotowned.com/

    that is all
  • dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3http://static.flickr.com/103/298574512_ecb3f7b06f_o.jpg
    well hey, the toyota tundra survived.
  • uptown, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Will it blend?
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Oh, come on. That was so last hour.
  • chaimpot0k, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5This was on the front page what, a week ago?
    • imjustabill, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1It's rediculous, this thing shows up every freaking week any more.
    • dustko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Grammar police, arrest this man -- he buzzes like a fridge; he's like a detuned radio.
  • rouslan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Wasn't it made in East Germany?
  • KC0MLP, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3It doesn't look that big until.....OMG those are cars!
  • gutterboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Wow, Marlon Brando really let himself go.
  • jcrewyayo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2git r done
  • Absalon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The Machine Wars Begin!
  • Falldog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I was watching Discovery Wednesday, and I swear they called the Large Hadron Collider the world biggest machine multiple times?
    • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RTFA. The very first thing it mentions is the Collider, AND shows a picture of it. This is the world's largest MOVING machine.
  • rouslan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Info on it+More Pix:
    http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There should be video clips of this in action. :)
  • techmaster7b, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Old news.
    • ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes...but who cares?! It's still interesting to read about and see...

      Let people who havn't seen it...enjoy it!
  • artman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Here's one short video.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6172024097843358382&q=excavator&hl=en

    And a couple of stoners shooting an Alcoa excavator...

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1135537265932928141&q=excavator&hl=en

    /all i got
    • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thanks, but they didn't show much. :(
  • maehem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'd like to see two of these machines go at it against each other. The ultimate BattleBots match.
  • digitallysick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Damn that thing is almost strong enough to pick up your momma!
  • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Ooops! I'd love to see the insurance claim for that bulldozer.
  • nexah3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Must be a bitch to fill up.
  • Jofo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Very impressive. Even more so, this thing manages to appear on the internet every 6 months and people still "Ohh" and "Aah."
  • Jofo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Ah, dugg anyway.
  • payndz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Any fan of the comic 2000AD will surely have only one thing to say after seeing those pictures: "BIG JOBS!"
  • ronk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1
    Better pay the driver an excellent salary or he might go on a destruction rampage...
  • JMellissa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Dang! I HATE IT when that happens! Good thing I was on my lunch break!
  • dougm68, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I bet David Hasslehoff is in on this. That bastard must be stopped!
  • slampaladino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This was the subject of a PS contest on Fark or some such about 6 months ago.
  • aragami, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2i thought the worlds biggest machine was the LHC at cern? or haven't they finished building that yet?
    • aragami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1digg that down i didnt read the article properly,

      but technically the title of this is incorrect it should read the worlds biggest "moving" machine...

      still pretty ***** cool :D
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