Aug 19 2008World's Largest Digging Machine Is Huge

its looks awfully alot like an evil robot.

Aw, common!
This is older then the internet itself, it has been passed down from generation to generation for centuries.

it looks like it could kill you but if u get close enough to pet it im sure it won't bite or run you over :p

Yeah I saw a special on this on modern marvels on the history channel a while ago. However, a giant machine is always awesome news. But this is just proof that man likes to F the S out of the earth with our giant super awesome robo-cock or mecha-cock, take your pick

i have seven of these.

Thats almot as big and destructive as my shlong
B=====D

@ 1 I'm with ya. Hail our new Robot Overlords. I am not worthy. I am not worthy. I am not worthy.

I used to own a book about giant machines such of this and it was awesome.

I could give a shit about construction projects but something about seeing a giant machine like this f*** up planet earth is an awe to behold.

That's a little superfluous.

martians are laughing or crying in fear at this damn thing

you should check out the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow, Poland! It is like a dwarven stronghold times like a zillion! it also is a real credit to the vast abilities of man

Ummm, where do you park that thing when it's not in use and how do you move it to where it's needed?

That thing is terrifying.

is it weird that I find myself getting an erection over it?

@12 - You park that thing anywhere you damn well please. What are they going to do tow it away?

The digger is in Garzweiler, near Cologne/Germany... and its really, really huge... From the pictures you don't believe how huge it really is ;) I visited it once :)

Greetings :)

*poke* Thats f*cking huge.

@12 it's on tracks, baby; as scary as it sounds, it moves itself. Can you imagine driving that thing? I'm gettin' a little tingly just thinking about it.

FAKE!! thats totally photoshop. totally. i am right. this is fake.

ok fine, i know that this isnt fake. but i wish it was!!!!!

Someone's been reading Cracked today and running out of ideas to talk about.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16556_15-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped.html

This isn't really news. Its been around for a long time.

Slap a power meter in the upper right hand corner and this thing is totally a video game boss.

This is very large!

So it's a building on tracks...nothing new, but the size is impressive.

I just want to see this thing run over a tank or something to see what would happen. :p

you're like two years late with your news...

Yeahhhhh, when I asked about how you move it, I was commenting on the fact that it's bigger than any road I've ever seen. I do wanna drive it though! "You're gonna get hop-ons."

They use it to rape Mother Earth.

I bet it hurts.

;) My Grandpa worked on it! ;) Really! Visited him often there; he did some welding works there!

This is nice and all, but the whole "news you may remember from your childhood" thing is getting ridiculous. Next thing, I expect there'll be a report on how "All your base are belong to us" is popular on the internet.

Seriously, there needs to be some sort of vetting process. At least have a couple of random people off the street check that an article actually counts as news.

Stop bitching about whether it's news or not.

It's still a big machine. That makes it cool.

I used to have a Tonka truck just like that. It dug sand but never like that piece of hoard! That thing can crush my tonka truck, holy scrabbles!

That's a waste of gas. What if that thing uses diesel? Goodness fellatio!

@1 http://static.flickr.com/102/301323685_b8770caa20_o.jpg

News pieces like this make me believe the Geekologie writer is completely f***ing baked out of his mind when he checks his e-mails for worthy stories to post on here. This shit's so old, but I guess HUEG ROBOT really strikes a cord when you're tweaking.

Related :
http://www.allowe.com/Humor/WhereIsMyDozer.htm

I could use that on my neighbors. I would use it while they sit on the patio all f***ing night yelling in some garbage language drinking beer that their religion says not to drink and dump them off at the f***ing airport so they can return to their garbage nation and GET SOME HOME TRAINING.

ATTENTION ALL READERS WHO MUST POINT OUT THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY SEEN SOMETHING FEATURED HERE: You are very annoying. Die in a painful way very soon, please.

Here is why it was posted:

A) I didn't know about it
B) it is awesome
C) This blog is free to visit, you are getting your moneys worth
D) shut the f*** up.

Imagine what will happen when Skynet takes control of that thing....

i need this thing to scratch my ballsack. i didn't take a shower yesterday. itchy, burny... ..so forth. this looks like what the doctor ordered.

oh yeah, and this shit is as old as the internet it's self. old. OLD! stop drinking and get to work.

just kidding. it's new.

thats not a digger its an earth destroyer aka earth killer

Bucket Wheel Excavator (BWE) . Many many of them all over the world, but apparently this one is the biggest. (?) It takes years to assemble on site.

Video! Video!!

"No, but seriously honey, go to the gym. "
LOL

Anyway, I want to drive it. No, no wait! I want another one to be built, so that I could have drive it IN A RACE!! Who's with me?

"Shadow Moses"...

Now thats the ultimate war machine i always dreamt about!

Put a dozen of rocket lauchers, 50 gattling cannons, 15 flamethrowers, 7 gajilion tons of fuel tanks to make it move, then invade... err... the moon.

@ 42

"...It takes years to assemble on site..."

Yes, and thus if one spot was cleared of brown coal, the don't 'bring' them somewhere else... they 'DRIVE' them...

Was a big deal some years ago when two of these had to cross motorways, power transmissiones, small rivers and such...

Company website:
http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/standorte/braunkohle/baggertransporte/rueckblick-in-bildern/id=56674/

Crossing of Autobahn by night:
http://www.oih.rwth-aachen.de/~hendrik/bagger/432-10-bagger-228-auf-A61-18-02-2001-k.jpg

They even 'move' whole smal cities to make place for mining since the open pit mining is done in populated area. It's cheaper to rebuild the towns than move the excavators...

Searchwords:
"Bagger" and "288" or "259"(The numbers of the two biggest)
or
"Garzweiler" as a very damaged area of the two...

Chuck Norris could fold this thing up and put it in his pocket.

:)

Thats EPIC PWNAGE !

This sucker might be nuclear as well coz it`s big maybe 2 big and i bet those motors from his tracks are electric.