Ultimate earth mover biggest machine in the world

[musclegirl]

Seen crossing highway in Germany.

Specifications:

Height: 95M/311FT

Length:215M/705FT

Building: 5 years

5 operators.

Cost 100.000 $

Max speed: 0,5 KMH 0,31 MPH

[musclegirl]

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[musclegirl]

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[WI Winterman]

Incredible!!! :cool:

That is an amazing machine. , with five operators the first thing they must teach in the "how to operate this beast" class is COMMUNICATION!
Has anyone found any shots of it actually working? (not just chewing on CAT's)
Does it screen and separate the diggings too?

[MKTEF]

Nice pictures.
That D8 is small.
But i bet you got the price wrong...100 000 dollars is not enough for that little thing.

And don't stop now, u know we boys love toys!:)

[Lashlander]

Nice pics! I've seen the ones of it traveling and the D8 stuck in the wheel but had not seen the pics of the dozer being removed, Thanks for posting them. Thats pretty wild.:thumbsup

[kaylanafbb]

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[musclegirl]

Cost is 100 millions $ i'm not good with maths!

Built by the German company Krupp

Wheel diameter: 21 M / 69 FT with 20 buckets 15 cubic meter each,76500 cubic meter/day.

[Dwan Hall]

There is another girl that moves more dirt faster and farther then this girl.

[Countryboy]

Welcome to HEF kaylanafbb! :drinkup


Great pics Musclegirl!

[cat320]

I saw that on tv awhile ago it was amazing to see it in action.

[garyhh44]

:) Outstanding pictures. More cat pics to save, thank you Musclegirl :usa

[DPete]

I have seen the wheel on TV but not the dozer. Is that what happens if you doze a little to close to the wheel? DP

[Dozerboy]

IIRC that D8 was park close to the high wall during a shift change or something.

[dieselpower]

The output of this thing is actually 240 000 cubic meters a day, if it would work 24h non stop at maximum speed.
This afcourse never happens.
I have some pics of machine number 282 working taken last year on a trip with the dutch Bouwmachineforum.

[equipment fan]

big monster.Thanks for the nice pictures!

[Deas Plant]

Hi,, MuscleGirl.
Thanks for those photos. I had seen the TV news item of the rig crossing the highway and some of the photos of the scooped-up D8R but none of the removal of the D8R from the machine.

Great stuff. Thanks again.

[Copenhagen]

I just bought one to dig basements and footers with!:D

[oakland]

that things huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[seo]

Is that straight electric power, or diesel electric, or hydraulic, or what?

[jimmyjack]

so if the d8 wasnt operator error, you'd think that with 5 operators running the bucket wheel would have seen the dozer sitting there:confused: :confused: . or maybe thats just me thinking again:beatsme

[alco]

so if the d8 wasnt operator error, you'd think that with 5 operators running the bucket wheel would have seen the dozer sitting there:confused: :confused: . or maybe thats just me thinking again:beatsme

As it was told to me, the dozer operator had stepped off the machine to relieve himself when the wheel swung towards it. So that would make it operator error on the part of the dozer operator.

The wheel was being run from the cab on the blind side of the wheel at the time. These machines have two cabs, one on either side. So when swinging one way, they have to rely on cameras to see what is over there. If the dozer was parked and the operator never saw it in the camera, he would nevr have known he had caught it.

One thing to remember as well. The 5 operators are not all looking at the bucket wheel, they work on different parts of the whole system. Our bucketwheels ran with a 3 person crew. The operator in the cab, the operator who ran the discharge onto the conveyor belt, and the third was the cat operator to do cleanup around the machine.

Brian

[jimmyjack]

thanks for clearing that up, see i was thinking again:beatsme

[MonsterToys]

Yea that thing was considered the biggest TRACKED machine built by humans. The giant bucket wheel excavator "Bagger 288" was built by Krupp in Germany in 1978. Anyone spot any videos of this great machine in action?

[Lashlander]

Yea that thing was considered the biggest TRACKED machine built by humans.

Got any pics of the ones built by nonhumans? How much bigger are they?:eek: :D

[thejdman04]

great pics

[02Dmax]

uhh, you got something in your teeth

[stumper120]

:drinkup who are you guys kidding. just think the last time you had a rental wood chipper for the weekend and 4 of your freinds came buy to help throw brush in. the story starts and we wer drinkin, ran out of brush found some lawn chairs, old plastic snowman for the yard, fiberglass ladder. sometimes you just need to know what whould happen if you did it,:drinkup

[Little Jon]

:drinkup who are you guys kidding. just think the last time you had a rental wood chipper for the weekend and 4 of your freinds came buy to help throw brush in. the story starts and we wer drinkin, ran out of brush found some lawn chairs, old plastic snowman for the yard, fiberglass ladder. sometimes you just need to know what whould happen if you did it,:drinkup

Not always! Sometimes the story starts with we were board so we...and ends with opps!!

[stumper120]

:) dont forget hey guys watch this

[Little Jon]

:) dont forget hey guys watch this

That one always gets me in trouble:drinkup

[headwrench]

great pics anyone get hurt?

[Countryboy]

Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums headwrench! :drinkup

[headwrench]

thanks country boy,i've found some usefull info already on the site:drinkup

[WideLoad Co.]

:eek:Where is this thing located?

[TomVDJ]

Hey musclegirl. Where did you find these pictures of de D8R towed back to the ground? I'm documenting this case for school and would like to collect as much pictures as possible about this incident. If anybody else has more pictures about this, please feel free to send them to me or mention the URL's.

[Countryboy]

Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums TomVDJ! :drinkup

[TomVDJ]

Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums TomVDJ! :drinkup
Thanks a lot ;)

[Young James]

I seen that a while ago, but forgot all about it. That's nuts how big that thing is. Any videos of it floating around?

[bobcatmechanic]

i would hate to be the guy in the dozer when it got picked up

[bear]

There is another girl that moves more dirt faster and farther then this girl.

Is that Mt ST helens? or is it a volcano i cant think of (or didn't hear about) in alaska?

[euclid]

So do you think that D-8 was fixed or used as parts and scraped out?

[armadillo]

So do you think that D-8 was fixed or used as parts and scraped out?

Looks like mostly cab damage, but with a ride like that thers no telling.

[euclid]

Looks like mostly cab damage, but with a ride like that thers no telling.

Yeah it had to mess some other stuff up with regards to structural integrity I would think? I wonder if they would do stress/crack test to visually view areas of concern with dye on sound? I'm sure that machine would have been written off, but a lot of money wasted on such an expensive machine.

[Foggy]

awesome photos !

[John DiMartino]

:) dont forget hey guys watch this

thats one of my favorites,only surpassed by "hey guys somebody hold my beer and watch this" :drinkup

That is some machine to make a D8 look like a matchbox toy,I didnt think that was possible.

[bluemeate]

hahaha, stumbled upon this in google

http://static.flickr.com/102/301323685_b8770caa20_o.jpg

[Deas Plant]

Hi, Bluemeate.
Welcome to the forum. Is that the Krupp Transformer? LOL.

[redline]

awesome lol

[kendall69]

needs to be in a James Bond movie.

Eating Cats for breakfast.:notworthy

[b61mh44]

Awesome pics.

[Iron Horse]

Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums headwrench! :drinkup

G'day Countryboy . I'm having a hard time registering for the forum . I have not been sent an email to complete my registration . I sent a couple of emails requesting the email be re sent but it has not arrived . I clicked on your help link signature but get informed i do not have permision to do so .:beatsme