Does anyone have technical information on this monster? Or can tell me where I can go to find the info?
Thanks.

 

Here is another view.

 

You have got to be kidding! That thing is huge! Why don't they just use dynamite to dig a hole?

 

It's a strip mining machine in Germany, the pics are from when it was being moved from a played out seam to a new mine. I saw it on the History Channel I think, I'm sorry but I don't remember the name of the maker or the mining co.

 

I assume that would be an open pit mine?

 

Bucket-Wheel Excavator

http://www.forkliftaction.com/galleries/spectacular/

Some specifications:

It stands over 95 metres tall
It is over 215 metres long (2.5 football fields)
It weighs over 45,500 tons (yes that's 45 thousand tons!)
It costs $100 million USD
It took 5 years to design & manufacture and 5 years to assemble
It only Requires 5 people to operate
The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets
Each of the buckets can hold over 15 cubic metres of material. A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 3.6 metres wide, 2.4 metres high and 14 metres long) 8 in front and 4 in back
It has a maximum speed of 10m/min
It can remove over 76,455 cubic metres of overburden each day

 

Another picture from that site.

 

Thanks for the info. Wot? No Cummins engine? I saw all those pictures recently but had no info on them. Man, that is a true monster! Wonder how many gallons of fuel that thing uses per hour at full power.

 

I've seen machines with huge buckets that were very much like this one. They were in East Texas and they were used to surface mine coal. It was something to watch one of those suckers move.

 

It was like the white one here:
http://www.miningmatters.org/surface.htm

 

Here's picture of the Silver Spade:

 

Gee Stan, thought you were getting info on the weight so you could move it with your CTD

 

Not any more! Just taking a look at that last picture by Shovelhead convinced me that I may have a full load just with two of those hinge pins by the bucket.
Wonder how long it takes to do a LOF on one of these. And the price of a LOF?

 

Here in OHIO we have the LITTLE MUSKIE it was huge they have the bucket all done up at a park and you get to walk inside it pretty cool. a local bar has a 1 ft section of the wiring the little muskie used the chunk of insulated wire has like a kazillion little wires in it and it weighs about 75#.

DM

 

Who wants to turn it into a BattleBot?