Cool/Crazy/Extreme non-road going vehicles

[Eighteeteewhy]

I'm talking about this sort of thing. An absolute behemoth of a machine. Its German and spends its life in a quarry digging huge amounts of coal I believe.

Let's see some mechanical/engineering porn, be it big or small it doesn't matter. It's ok if it can travel on road just that's not it's main purpose.






Website said...
"At 300 feet tall and 600 feet long, the largest bucket wheel excavators are the biggest land vehicles ever made. Though they only dig at a maximum of 0.37 mph, these machines move 240,000 cubic meters of material daily, about as much as a football field dug to 100 feet deep."



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[Willy Nilly]

There is a picture here of one, might be the same machine having scooped up a dozer

http://www.miningmayhem.com/search/label/bucket-wh...

[the_kato]

Bagger 288 is awesome!

[Don1]

Willy Nilly said:

There is a picture here of one, might be the same machine having scooped up a dozer

http://www.miningmayhem.com/search/label/bucket-wh...

Thanks for the link - really interesting.

[rohrl]

The biggest thing I've seen personally is the Saturn V crawler-transporter in Cape Canaveral which is just ridiculously enormous up close, as is the rocket itself. It's the largest self-propelled vehicle in the world at 2700 tonnes and has two V16 diesels powering elecric motors for motive power

[Roscco]

"belzibub himself fears, the bagger 288"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

Pmsl

[McWigglebum4th]

I've always thought that ULCCs are somewhat silly


Think a destroyer is a big ship?




Not really

[poing]

McWigglebum4th said:

I've always thought that ULCCs are somewhat silly


Think a destroyer is a big ship?




Not really

Would that thing even notice if it ran over something small, like lets say an aircraft carrier!

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I think a possible winner is this ship that PICKS UP AND MOVES OIL RIGS!!

[TheHeretic]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

I think a possible winner is this ship that PICKS UP AND MOVES OIL RIGS!!

Having seen one of these off Norway, I have concluded they are powered entirely by magic. They just look so wrong.

[GravelBen]

Towards the other end of the boat scale...

Turbine powered jetboat:



1300bhp turbo quad rotor sprintboat:

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

GravelBen said:

Towards the other end of the boat scale...

Turbine powered jetboat:



1300bhp turbo quad rotor sprintboat:

Nice

There's also a turbine-powered motorbike, called the Y2K...