The World’s Largest Dump Truck
Monday, 24th November 2008 by James Turnbull
Scraping the bottom of the "world's largest" barrel1, it's the awe-inspiring (former) World's Largest Dump Truck!
Built as a prototype and dubbed the "Terex Titan", the 20m long truck can carry a payload of up to 350 tons.
The manufacturer came up with loads of possibly untrue facts about the truck, such as being able to hold "2 greyhound buses and 2 pickup trucks", or "1,000,000 golf balls".
However amazing these facts, by 1990 the Terex Titan had outlived its useful life and was purchased by the town of Sparwood in British Columbia to be put on permanent display.
Read more on the Terex Corporation and the Terex Titan on Wikipedia, or watch an overly dramatic video of the truck on YouTube.
For more large trucks see our previous post on the Bingham Canyon Mine.
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Hang on, where is the World's Largest Barrel? We've not featured that yet! ↩︎
World’s largest wine barrel: Heidelberg Castle, Heidelberg, Germany!
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Truck! TRUCK! TRUCK – A- SAURUS!
Guinea-saurus-rex!
Has the regional tourism board lied to me? According to Sparwood, BC, this is the largest truck in the world!
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I think you have the wrong “Columbia” stamp. =D
and here’s a picture of the aforementioned barrel in Germany
What is The Internet, Alex?
@Psychlone: That’s the same truck?
@oMeSSiaHo: Oops, good point! I’ve fixed it, thanks.
@Izzy/Mamushi: Damn, that’s a huge barrel! If only they kept it outside 🙁
Did you know that your maps no longer work on Opera? (Come to think of it, I don’t really know if they ever did…haven’t been using Opera for too long.) I just get a black screen if I try to see that nice dumptruck.
@koen: Many thanks for letting us know, the map page in opera is now fixed.
If you’re interested (which I’m sure you’re not) this was due to a jQuery bug which is still to be fixed.
Izzy: Nope. That’s second place.
Largest wine barrel in the world: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=49.464922,8.169167&z=17
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bild:Riesenfass_20080516.jpg&filetimestamp=20080519123925 And, James: That one is actually kept outside. Contains a restaurant. 😉 It is a real wine barrel built the traditinal barrel-building way though.
Admittedly, the one in Heidelberg is probably the largest one actually ever used for wine.
Hum, that maps.google link parser could be improved…
It would be nice to recognise the marker position (&q=…) as well. And it seems as if it eats the zoom level at least in some cases.
@Flümo: I added a zoom onto your first link.
At the moment if you do a lat/lng string in the comment I’ll use a default zoom. I suppose I could add a lat/ln/zoom variant, but once you get to that level you might as well just add a full maps page link.
The q= parameter is the search box string from google maps, which is usually an address so difficult to accurately parse. Zoom levels are set by either a explicit z= (specifies the zoom level, such as 17) or by the spn= parameter (which is what your URL had).
spn is the width of the viewport in degrees, so can result in slightly different zoom levels on our map page (due to the differing map size) or on different screen sizes. The z= parameter is much more reliable (which is what our map page generates).
What might be easier, and isn’t immediately obvious, is that on our map page you can get a google maps search box by clicking the wee arrow next to the google logo. Search for something here and then use the “Link to the page” to make sure the link you’re posting will definitely look as expected in a comment.
I have absolutely no idea what James just said! 🙁
It works now. Though you’re quite right that talk about jQueries is lost on me. q, z and spn parameters aren’t things I like to talk about over a nice cold beer either….
James: Thanks. I didn’t notice my zoom setting was spn and not z, sorry about that.
I use the q parameter a lot with coordinates (in the same format as lat/lng) to place markers at custom positions on maps. Very useful. The maps link in my second try contained one such q. It’d be very nice if such a q would be recognised and used to place a marker in GSS’ maps view as well. I inteded to have it look like with this link.
Oh, and nice hint about the search box, I’ve never seen that one. 🙂