Ever constructed.

Used for carbon mining in East Germany. But I have no more infor than that unfortunately.

Its called a bucket wheel reclaimer. Used to move positively shiteloads of coal \ dirt \ iron ore etc.

The front wheel rotates clockwise, filling the buckets with coal (in this case), then dumping them onto a conveyor belt, which moves the coal off wherever they want it.

I saw something on foxtel about this baby - apparently its the heaviest mobile piece of machinery in the world, and it was built about 25 miles from where it is used, and they drove it the whole way - took about 3 or 4 days from memory. Had to go over highways (as shown) and through all these poor farmers farms.

Just awesome.

Is it VW?:thumb Reminds me of something from The Core or some other apocalyptic movie.

Squiz....

Is that for real??
I've seen some big re-claimers, but that's ginormous!

It's very real.Have got a video of it working somewhere.....

How cool is that.

we've got soem nearly that big here in aus as well, in the open cut mines

Bit of trivia on this one:
The Large Bucket Wheel Excavator
+ 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 on site
+ 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
+ It can remove over 76,455 cubic metres of overburden each day

I just thought.....does it transform into a Citroen?

Squiz....

something better and longer lasting - I wonder what

would be great to take shopping ................people cant dint your car in that heheheheheh,colleen

I had to knock up a powerpoint for work... the slide for 'Road Blocks' had that image.... impact :P

[Edited on 14-12-2004 by green57]

thats just plain silly

imagine trying to reverse park that????

Keep Bin Laden AWAY from it...!!!!!!

is it a 2276 or a 2332cc?

stock 1300..

OMG a big row of them n they could eat the world up...reminds me of Stephen King Longoliers.....munch munch munch :o:o:o:o

I heard it was a stock 1300 too, running on 3 cylinders. The guy spent all his dosh on 135's, accesories and having it slammed that he couldn't put in decent running gear :cry

...lol...sorry...had to laugh

be a bitch to wash!

would look better lowered!, mabey mags and fluffy dice

Is it air cooled? and if so can I lower it?

too bad if it breaks down on the job and has to be towed back to the workshop.. up comes the highway again.

HAHAHAHAHA,
Just looking at the bulldozer running away from it in front.