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 Cam
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 posted on December 14th, 2004 at 09:39 AM |
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The baddest piece of machinery!
Ever constructed.
Used for carbon mining in East Germany. But I have no more infor than that unfortunately.
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Doug Sweetman
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 09:54 AM |
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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.
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 10:09 AM |
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Is it VW?:thumb Reminds me of something from The Core or some other apocalyptic movie.
Squiz....
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Andy
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 10:40 AM |
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Is that for real??
I've seen some big re-claimers, but that's ginormous!
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 11:04 AM |
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It's very real.Have got a video of it working somewhere.....
tssnq.com.au
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VWFREAK
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 11:34 AM |
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How cool is that.
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 12:21 PM |
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we've got soem nearly that big here in aus as well, in the open cut mines
Reimagined/Recycled/Upcycled Cool
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 posted on December 14th, 2004 at 12:25 PM |
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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 |
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 12:56 PM |
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I just thought.....does it transform into a Citroen?
Squiz....
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 posted on December 14th, 2004 at 01:55 PM |
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something better and longer lasting - I wonder what |
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 02:03 PM |
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would be great to take shopping ................people cant dint your car in that heheheheheh,colleen
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gimme some butter im on a roll.....
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 02:06 PM |
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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]
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 10:23 PM |
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thats just plain silly
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| posted on December 14th, 2004 at 10:28 PM |
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imagine trying to reverse park that????
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
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| posted on December 15th, 2004 at 03:18 AM |
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Keep Bin Laden AWAY from it...!!!!!! |
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| posted on December 15th, 2004 at 08:46 AM |
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is it a 2276 or a 2332cc?
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| posted on December 15th, 2004 at 10:25 AM |
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stock 1300..
"Tell him 'We've already got one'"
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| posted on December 15th, 2004 at 10:36 AM |
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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
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| posted on December 15th, 2004 at 01:18 PM |
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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
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| posted on December 15th, 2004 at 09:14 PM |
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...lol...sorry...had to laugh 
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| posted on December 16th, 2004 at 09:54 AM |
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be a bitch to wash! |
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| posted on December 18th, 2004 at 12:01 AM |
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would look better lowered!, mabey mags and fluffy dice
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| posted on December 18th, 2004 at 02:58 PM |
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Is it air cooled? and if so can I lower it?
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| posted on December 18th, 2004 at 05:16 PM |
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too bad if it breaks down on the job and has to be towed back to the workshop.. up comes the highway again.
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| posted on December 18th, 2004 at 11:51 PM |
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HAHAHAHAHA,
Just looking at the bulldozer running away from it in front.
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