Seen crossing highway in Germany. Specifications: Height: 95M/311FT Length:215M/705FT Building: 5 years 5 operators. Cost 100.000 $ Max speed: 0,5 KMH 0,31 MPH
next
last ones
Incredible!!! That is an amazing machine. , with five operators the first thing they must teach in the "how to operate this beast" class is COMMUNICATION! Has anyone found any shots of it actually working? (not just chewing on CAT's) Does it screen and separate the diggings too?
Nice pictures. That D8 is small. But i bet you got the price wrong...100 000 dollars is not enough for that little thing. And don't stop now, u know we boys love toys!
Nice pics! I've seen the ones of it traveling and the D8 stuck in the wheel but had not seen the pics of the dozer being removed, Thanks for posting them. Thats pretty wild.:thumbsup
Big
Cost is 100 millions $ i'm not good with maths! Built by the German company Krupp Wheel diameter: 21 M / 69 FT with 20 buckets 15 cubic meter each,76500 cubic meter/day.
There is another girl that moves more dirt faster and farther then this girl.
Welcome to HEF kaylanafbb! :drinkup Great pics Musclegirl!
I saw that on tv awhile ago it was amazing to see it in action.
Outstanding pictures. More cat pics to save, thank you Musclegirl :usa
I have seen the wheel on TV but not the dozer. Is that what happens if you doze a little to close to the wheel? DP
IIRC that D8 was park close to the high wall during a shift change or something.
The output of this thing is actually 240 000 cubic meters a day, if it would work 24h non stop at maximum speed. This afcourse never happens. I have some pics of machine number 282 working taken last year on a trip with the dutch Bouwmachineforum.
big monster.Thanks for the nice pictures!
Additional photos of scooped-up D8R Hi,, MuscleGirl. Thanks for those photos. I had seen the TV news item of the rig crossing the highway and some of the photos of the scooped-up D8R but none of the removal of the D8R from the machine. Great stuff. Thanks again.
I just bought one to dig basements and footers with!
that things huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that straight electric power, or diesel electric, or hydraulic, or what?
so if the d8 wasnt operator error, you'd think that with 5 operators running the bucket wheel would have seen the dozer sitting there . or maybe thats just me thinking again:beatsme
As it was told to me, the dozer operator had stepped off the machine to relieve himself when the wheel swung towards it. So that would make it operator error on the part of the dozer operator. The wheel was being run from the cab on the blind side of the wheel at the time. These machines have two cabs, one on either side. So when swinging one way, they have to rely on cameras to see what is over there. If the dozer was parked and the operator never saw it in the camera, he would nevr have known he had caught it. One thing to remember as well. The 5 operators are not all looking at the bucket wheel, they work on different parts of the whole system. Our bucketwheels ran with a 3 person crew. The operator in the cab, the operator who ran the discharge onto the conveyor belt, and the third was the cat operator to do cleanup around the machine. Brian
thanks for clearing that up, see i was thinking again:beatsme
Yea that thing was considered the biggest TRACKED machine built by humans. The giant bucket wheel excavator "Bagger 288" was built by Krupp in Germany in 1978. Anyone spot any videos of this great machine in action?
Got any pics of the ones built by nonhumans? How much bigger are they?
great pics
uhh, you got something in your teeth
:drinkup who are you guys kidding. just think the last time you had a rental wood chipper for the weekend and 4 of your freinds came buy to help throw brush in. the story starts and we wer drinkin, ran out of brush found some lawn chairs, old plastic snowman for the yard, fiberglass ladder. sometimes you just need to know what whould happen if you did it,:drinkup
Not always! Sometimes the story starts with we were board so we...and ends with opps!!
dont forget hey guys watch this
That one always gets me in trouble:drinkup
great pics anyone get hurt?
Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums headwrench! :drinkup
thanks country boy,i've found some usefull info already on the site:drinkup
Wow! Where is this thing located?
Hey musclegirl. Where did you find these pictures of de D8R towed back to the ground? I'm documenting this case for school and would like to collect as much pictures as possible about this incident. If anybody else has more pictures about this, please feel free to send them to me or mention the URL's.
Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums TomVDJ! :drinkup
Thanks a lot
I seen that a while ago, but forgot all about it. That's nuts how big that thing is. Any videos of it floating around?
i would hate to be the guy in the dozer when it got picked up
Is that Mt ST helens? or is it a volcano i cant think of (or didn't hear about) in alaska?
So do you think that D-8 was fixed or used as parts and scraped out?
Looks like mostly cab damage, but with a ride like that thers no telling.
Yeah it had to mess some other stuff up with regards to structural integrity I would think? I wonder if they would do stress/crack test to visually view areas of concern with dye on sound? I'm sure that machine would have been written off, but a lot of money wasted on such an expensive machine.
awesome photos !
thats one of my favorites,only surpassed by "hey guys somebody hold my beer and watch this" :drinkup That is some machine to make a D8 look like a matchbox toy,I didnt think that was possible.
hahaha, stumbled upon this in google http://static.flickr.com/102/301323685_b8770caa20_o.jpg
Wottizzitt??????????????? Hi, Bluemeate. Welcome to the forum. Is that the Krupp Transformer? LOL.
awesome lol
That thing... needs to be in a James Bond movie. Eating Cats for breakfast.:notworthy
Awesome pics.
G'day Countryboy . I'm having a hard time registering for the forum . I have not been sent an email to complete my registration . I sent a couple of emails requesting the email be re sent but it has not arrived . I clicked on your help link signature but get informed i do not have permision to do so .:beatsme