World's Largest Digging Machine Goes to Work (video)
What does the biggest digging machine in the world have to do with the Singularity? The Bagger 288 represents a masterful symphony of cutting-edge technology, brought together by the best minds of physics, machinery, and logistics and illustrates perfectly the inevitability of Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns. Okay, I'm lying. While the Bagger 288 …
The deepest holes dug by hand
The "Big Hole" as it is now known is often billed as the biggest hand-dug pit, though the records are scarce and it's possible that other hand-dug mines shifted more earth and rock overall ...
The World's Biggest Mining Machines
Built in 2015 by German tunnel machine manufacturer Herrenknecht, the S-880 is the largest tunnel boring machine in the world by shield diameter, and one of the world's biggest mining machines. Also known as a mole, it was used to drill two parallel five-kilometre tunnels in Hong Kong, from Tuen Mun to the Chek Lap Kok International Airport.
Bagger 288: The Biggest, Meanest Machine in the World
The Bagger 288, also known as the Excavator 288, is the largest digging machine in the world. It was built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle, as ...
11 of the world's biggest and baddest mining …
Supposedly the second-biggest hydraulic excavator in the world, the EX8000-6 is the bigger brother of the EX5600-6. Weighing in at 811 tonnes, it comes with shovel and backhoe ...
Sand Grinds World's Largest Tunneling Machine To A Halt
Bertha, which got stuck digging a Seattle highway tunnel, is 60 feet below ground and can't move forward — or backward. Now a rescue plan is underway to fix the five-story-tall machine.
How did we get here? A look back on Seattle's tunnel …
After launching in 2013, the world's largest tunnel-boring machine has less than 220 feet to go before finishing its 1.7-mile trip. Here's a look back on the tumultuous dig that's...
Big Bertha – world's largest tunnel boring machine
Named after one of Seattle's early mayors, the $80 million drill Big Bertha is 326 feet long, weighs 6,700 tons, and does much more than drill. John Blackstone reports on what the high-tech...
The World's Largest Tunnel-Boring Machine
In July, they unleashed Bertha, the world's largest-diameter tunnel-boring machine. Built in Japan and reassembled in the U.S., Bertha is digging the 1.7-mile tunnel by advancing at an average...
Meet the 31 million-pound bucket wheel excavator. The …
Deemed the largest land vehicle in history by the Guinness Book of World Records, the Bagger 293 is the single best digging machine man has ever built. Built in 1995, this bucket wheel...
Largest Dragline in the World | Biggest Dragline Ever Built
Though the largest dragline bucket in the world is no longer in use or existence, it still holds a fond place in record books and the memories of machinery enthusiasts. Big Muskie. Big Muskie was a legend among machines while in operation. Also called Muskie and Ol Musky, the machine was a model 4250-W Bucryus-Erie dragline.
'Big Brutus,' World's Largest Electric Shovel, Turned Into Museum
Big Brutus is the world's largest electric shovel, standing 16 stories in the fields of southeast Kansas. The coal mine it helped dig has long been shut down, and Brutus has been turned into a museum.
World's Largest Digging Machine Goes to Work (video)
NASA's space shuttle crawler, a heavy lifter in its own right, has only 8 tracks (and, by the way, only weighs a fluffy 2,721 tons). Because it's a digging machine, the …
World's Largest Digging Machine.
From the website: This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional …
Meet Big Bertha, The World's Largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)
It measures 57.2 feet (17.5 m) in diameter, which makes it the largest tunnel boring machine in history. To put in perspective, it would take about 10 average sized men standing on each other's shoulders to stretch across its diameter.
Bankrupt Peabody had 'world's largest shovel'
Singer John Prine made 'Mr. Peabody's' 'world's largest shovel' famous. ... "a job that required thousands of men using lesser machines nearly 20 years to complete. And that, mind you, with only ...
World's Largest Digging Machine
World's Largest Digging Machine. Thread starter Saini Sa'aB; Start date Jul 11, 2010; Replies 2 Views 2K Saini Sa'aB K00l$@!n! Jul 11, 2010 #1 This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine.
Bagger 288: The Largest Land Vehicle in the World …
Bagger 288 was the world's biggest land vehicle when it was finished in 1978, surpassing NASA's Crawler-Transporter, which carried the Space Shuttle and the Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle. With a height of 95 …
Extreme Machines Earth Movers Pictures
As other machines dig and move the material around, mobile crushers make the rubble easier to handle and transport away from a site. One of the largest mobile crushers on the market is 's ...
This excavator is one of the largest land vehicles …
Taller than the Statue of Liberty and heavier than the Eiffel Tower, this German mining machine is one of the largest land vehicles on Earth. In HBO's futuristic Westworld, a bucket-wheel...
The World's Largest Tunneling Machine Is (Finally) Getting …
Bertha, the world's largest tunneling machine, has been stuck under downtown Seattle since it broke in December 2013. Engineers have had to concoct a massive and expensive rescue plan ...
The 10 Biggest Excavators in the World
Their digging power makes them useful for a variety of tasks, from digging trenches and excavating mines to lifting and transporting waste. Large excavators have been designed for demanding or specialized tasks. The world's biggest excavators are used in applications like deep mining excavations and digging under difficult climatic conditions ...
Top 10 mega earth-movers equipment in the world
The Super Dozer is no ordinary digging machine. Standing 16 feet tall, 41 feet long and 24 feet wide, the D575A-3 is a majestic beast of size and power. The super dozer is powered by a turbo-loaded, drawer-air-cooled 12-cylinder diesel engine with a performance range of 1,150 horsepower. ... The T 282B is one of the largest ...
24 Digging Machines That Created a World Beneath Our …
Lola, one of two massive Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) creating tunnels for LA's Light Rail Eastside Extension, spins after breaking through from burrowing a 1.7-mile tunnel segment for the ...
Destination Kansas: Big Brutus – the world's …
Big Brutus is the largest electric mining shovel still standing in the United States. The behemoth machine is located in West Mineral, Kansas.
Hard grind: The epic journey of the world's …
On April 4, the world's largest tunnel boring machine broke through to the open air after almost four years underground. Called Bertha, the giant digger was tasked with the challenge of building a ...
Largest Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) in the …
More than five decades have passed when the world's largest boring machine (Big John) wowed the world with a head with a diameter of 11.8 m. Now the distinction of the world's largest TBM measures at a colossal …
World's largest tunneling machine digs in
Bertha, the world's largest tunnel boring machine (TBM), started digging under Seattle on Tuesday as it chewed through the north wall of the 80-ft (24.3 m) deep trench where it was assembled ...
This excavator is one of the largest land vehicles …
Taller than the Statue of Liberty and heavier than the Eiffel Tower, this German mining machine is one of the largest land vehicles on Earth. In HBO's futuristic Westworld, a bucket-wheel ...
Big Muskie's Bucket, McConnelsville, Ohio
"Big Muskie" was once the World's Largest Earth Moving Machine. What remains today is a monstrous metal bucket, vaguely resembling a robot dog head. The bucket sits on a rise, overlooking the beautiful valley that it once mined and destroyed, which has been renamed "Re-Creation Land."