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Monster Machine!
HoseQueen McLean
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02-07-2005 12:27
I received this in an email this morning, and thought it was really cool. So I'm sharing :D

Ultimate Earth Mover

This is the largest earth mover in the world..... built by the German company, Krupp, and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine). It is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite.

Specifications:

~ The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
~ It weighs over 45,500 tons
~ Cost $100 million to build
~ Took 5 years to design and manufacture
~ 5 years to assemble.
~ Requires 5 people to operate it.
~ The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material.
~ A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
~ It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long). There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back. It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour).
~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)
Maeve Morgan
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02-07-2005 12:29
wow...just wow
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Nolan Nash
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02-07-2005 12:30
Holy Crow! I guess that thing wouldn't be able to go anywhere near swampy terrain LOL. I am surprised it doesnt sink right into the ground under it's own weight.

Let's build one in SL. :)
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02-07-2005 12:32
That's amazing. That must be the kind of design job that engineers live for!
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Cross Lament
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02-07-2005 12:35
Why am I getting these weird 'Ogre' flashbacks? :D
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02-07-2005 12:39
It's a lie I tell ya... It's a lie!!!

Aliens have landed and brought a huge saw to cut the world in half. Run for the hills!!! :eek:
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02-07-2005 12:41
From: Cross Lament
Why am I getting these weird 'Ogre' flashbacks? :D

You really should get out more cross. :p
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David Valentino
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02-07-2005 12:46
It's obviously one of the signs of the coming apocolypse. Just wait till the get sick of paying the 5 operators and hook it up to a computer AI. Then we will see how long it takes for it to turn on us.
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02-07-2005 12:58
From: David Valentino
It's obviously one of the signs of the coming apocolypse. Just wait till the get sick of paying the 5 operators and hook it up to a computer AI. Then we will see how long it takes for it to turn on us.


It will look like the skinny puppy video that wasn't, as this and others of its ilk saw through buildings and trample cars...
Aimee Weber
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02-07-2005 13:05
They need to build a second one, then make them FIGHT!!
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Lo Jacobs
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02-07-2005 13:17
From: Aimee Weber
They need to build a second one, then make them FIGHT!!


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David Valentino
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02-07-2005 13:27
From: Aimee Weber
They need to build a second one, then make them FIGHT!!



Oh they will breed on thier own soon enough. After all the meatbags (humans) leave for the day, and the sun sets, I have no doubt that this dangerous monstrosity is even now secretly constructing a mate from scraps and spare parts left around the worksite.
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Moopf Murray
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02-07-2005 13:35
It's like War of the Worlds but with wheels and big spinny things. Hmmm...so actually not much like it at all.

It's just an awesome example of engineering.
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02-07-2005 13:36
I hear it has a diet of only 37 small children per hour.
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Lo Jacobs
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02-07-2005 13:39
From: Billy Grace
I hear it has a diet of only 37 small children per hour.


However, you can also make it more economically feasible by feeding it only 16 large children, or at least Americans fattened on a McDonalds-only diet.
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Aimee Weber
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02-07-2005 13:40
From: Billy Grace
I hear it has a diet of only 37 small children per hour.


:eek: That's CRIMINAL!

At 22 small children per hour, MY giant death machine is efficient, economical, and and easier on the environment.
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02-07-2005 13:41
From: Lo Jacobs
However, you can also make it more economically feasible by feeding it only 16 large children, or at least Americans fattened on a McDonalds-only diet.

But you would have to suppliment it's diet with a kittens and puppies... of course
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Teeny Leviathan
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02-07-2005 16:15
I want one. Don't know why, but I want one. :D
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Cosmo Drago
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02-07-2005 16:42
From: HoseQueen McLean
...
~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)
Although this is currently the largest dump truck built today, it looks like a Tonka toy by comparison.
100,000 you say? :eek:
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HoseQueen McLean
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02-07-2005 17:03
From: Cosmo Drago
Although this is currently the largest dump truck built today, it looks like a Tonka toy by comparison.
100,000 you say? :eek:


I had one of those metal toy tonka dump trucks when I was little! It was my very favorite toy - I remember I could fit both knees in there and roll down the driveway. Hrm... in hindsight, that probably wasn't the best idea, rolling into oncoming traffic in a toy dump truck.
Nolan Nash
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02-07-2005 17:14
From: HoseQueen McLean
I had one of those metal toy tonka dump trucks when I was little! It was my very favorite toy - I remember I could fit both knees in there and roll down the driveway. Hrm... in hindsight, that probably wasn't the best idea, rolling into oncoming traffic in a toy dump truck.

Me too :)

I also had a miniature one that I received as a kid on a field trip to the Tonka factory. It used to be near where I live in a city called Minnetonka, hence the name of the company. I would imagine they are made overseas nowadays.

Wanna Race?

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HoseQueen McLean
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02-07-2005 17:16
I seriously doubt I could fit both knees in it now. Maybe one-legged tonka truck racing?
Zuzi Martinez
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02-08-2005 12:33
let's all pray that Leatherface never gets ahold of one of these.