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Post by josef on Jan 30, 2024 22:04:24 GMT
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Post by Adam on Jan 30, 2024 22:39:01 GMT
Wow! That is one impressive piece of machinery.
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Post by david1 on Jan 31, 2024 16:37:26 GMT
I can't say I ever saw a piece of machinery that big moving. Very impressive watching that thing cross the right of way.
Dave
Ps, they should have gotten Godzilla to give it a boost!!!!!!
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Post by curtis on Jan 31, 2024 17:31:04 GMT
What I found impressive was the tracks and what they did to help it get over them. Did you notice the track hoe's? The one on the left track can be seen leaving before the machine finishes crossing the track. The on on the right is removing fill material after the machine crosses on the right track.
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Jan 31, 2024 20:02:33 GMT
What I found impressive was the tracks and what they did to help it get over them. Did you notice the track hoe's? The one on the left track can be seen leaving before the machine finishes crossing the track. The on on the right is removing fill material after the machine crosses on the right track. Yeah, I hope they had MOW crews standing by to inspect and, if needed, repair the crossing site. Even with all the fill material, the stresses created by all that mobile bulk *had* to have distorted the rails, ties, ballast and/or the land under the ROW to some extent.
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Post by curtis on Jan 31, 2024 23:33:56 GMT
What I found impressive was the tracks and what they did to help it get over them. Did you notice the track hoe's? The one on the left track can be seen leaving before the machine finishes crossing the track. The on on the right is removing fill material after the machine crosses on the right track. Yeah, I hope they had MOW crews standing by to inspect and, if needed, repair the crossing site. Even with all the fill material, the stresses created by all that mobile bulk *had* to have distorted the rails, ties, ballast and/or the land under the ROW to some extent. Actually being on tracks (the machine) the ground pressure per square inch would be extremely light even with that big of a machine due to length and width of tracks (not the railroads but the machines tracks).
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Feb 1, 2024 3:01:24 GMT
Yeah, I hope they had MOW crews standing by to inspect and, if needed, repair the crossing site. Even with all the fill material, the stresses created by all that mobile bulk *had* to have distorted the rails, ties, ballast and/or the land under the ROW to some extent. Actually being on tracks (the machine) the ground pressure per square inch would be extremely light even with that big of a machine due to length and width of tracks (not the railroads but the machines tracks). One would hope so, but all the same, I'd want a survey crew to check off that the track at the crossing was still up to spec after the transit and cleanup! 
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Post by ron045 on Feb 2, 2024 0:49:08 GMT
How did they even get that there? It must have been assembled on site. Amazing.
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Feb 2, 2024 2:23:36 GMT
How did they even get that there? How did it get there? Answer: ANY WAY IT WANTS TO!
[What, you're going to get in its way??!  ]
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Post by firewood on Feb 5, 2024 16:24:30 GMT
Quite the beast - all 14,000 tons of it. It's a German strip-mining excavator built by Krupp. The coal-mining plans include moving whole farms, villages and towns so an excavator move isn't a lightly planned operation. The practice is controversial, and the coal is low-grade lignite, so volume is the key. Dave en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288#/media/File:Bagger-garzweiler.jpg You could always build a Lego version  |
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Post by Adam on Feb 5, 2024 16:30:17 GMT
When I first saw the post, I thought it would be something like this. BTW, I asked Ai to make this for me. Crazy.  Attachments:
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