Comments on: Bucket-Wheel Excavators

By: micabdo

micabdo — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:42:38 +0000

Here is the link to some photos of this Giant Digging Machine :

http://funzu.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=229&Itemid=26

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:24:58 +0000

This are two other Bagger F60 in a brown coal mine in germany. They are around 500m long.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:31:10 +0000

Yeah, this thing is almost as big as the xbox.

By: Mitch Cormier

Mitch Cormier — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:28:32 +0000

Not to say that this crane is not huge… but us Canadians have one too… so big in fact, that you can see a pick up truck just to the side of the crane for scale.

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This just just south of a place marker called Wabamun Lake. It is an open pit mine. I seen this place in 1977 and it made an impression on me then. Still does to this day…

By: Stephan

Stephan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:12:38 +0000

There is a lignite mine off of I-45 in Texas: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

You can read more about it: http://www.mii.org/txu/TXUAward.html

By: cookie monster

cookie monster — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:46:52 +0000

Hey - no such thing as a coincedence! You dont have watch Discovery channel for too long before you come across a show called ‘Massive Machines” or ‘Enormous Erections” or something.
Anyway this particular mine was on a programme just last night and i was thinking “I’ll have a look for that mine tomorrow on GE cos it cant be too hard to miss!”
Well - youve saved me the job!
I think i said this before but you can have fun by zooming out and counting how many clicks it takes before you cant see this mine any more. This place is HHHHHHUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE!

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:13:23 +0000

Sorry. Bleh.

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Maybe: http://tinyurl.com/yuqeod

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:54:47 +0000

There is a huge open mine in Krivoy Rog (or Kryvyi Rih, transliterated from the Ukraine instead of from the Russian) at Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth I’ve been there and seen it. Amazing. And the air and how your lungs feel testifies to the generations of mining going on.

By: KickerOfAss

KickerOfAss — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:49:10 +0000

Some time ago, I watched an interesting documentary on German television (I’m German, so that kinda makes sense, doesn’t it?). They showed how such a bagger is dismantled: they use explosives!
It’s a kind of cutting explosive that is also used to destroy buildings in narrow spaces, because it cuts the wall (or whatever it is attached to) in half instead of blowing the whole thing to pieces.
So, they “cut” the bagger into a few large pieces and then dismantle the pieces. That’s a lot of work!