Wow! I could have had a D8!

[Rich Engelhardt]

Hello,

Or they "eat their young"..

That's a full sized D8 Cat this behemoth devoured.
All 36 tons of it (the D8)! :eek:

[Rich Engelhardt]

Here's a picture of the beastie from a distance.

[Keith Starosta]

Good LORD!!! :eek:

Where is that thing being used?

[Mitchell Andrus]

That's NOT where I parked it!!!

[Leo Pashea]

More info in this behemoth machine:

The largest bucket wheel excavator in the world (probably)

Built by Krupp, seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine) it is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or re-assemble on-site.

Stands over 95 metres tall, Is over 215 metres long (2.5 football fields) Weighs over 45,500 tons (yes that's 45 thousand tons!), Cost $100 million USD, took 5 years to design & manufacture and 5 years to assemble

Only Requires 5 people to operate. The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets each of which 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. Has a maximum Travel speed of 10m/min. It can remove over 76,455 cubic metres of overburden each day.

[David G Baker]

Rich,
I think I saw a video of the excavator in action on Monster Machines. It is awesome.

[John Schreiber]

There's big and there's really big. That is really #@$%^&** big.

A Cat D8 is already really big.

[Al Willits]

That would make dealing with rush hour traffic easier to deal with....whoa!

Al

[Mike Langford]

:eek: **HOLY MACKEREL, KINGFISH!!!!**:eek: