Drive a Boeing 727 to work...
 

No serious, DRIVE it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...555387643&rd=1

It'd be nice for when the Mig is in the shop.

Just when I thought my faith in humanity had hit rock bottom.

It started digging?

I'll pass.... no bike rack

With one of these. :D

I just realized.. I want one of these more than the Boeing 727 bus!! :D

That's the most psychotic thing I think I've ever seen on the road.

All that, and Aldo Nova on the big screen. Sweeeeet.

980 grand? That's a little bit far fetched. You could build one for way less than that. What a POS.

It's OK, but I'd prefer to have my car made out of a space shuttle. The docking bay provides a location for me to install a disco, and the canistor rockets provide lots of extra jet fuel for poking around town.

Did anyone notice the DC-9 version parked next to it in one of the pictures...

Bizzare

One guy had a business of converting Boeing 727s into houses a couple of years ago. I am always interested in the good old Boeing 727. It was the first airplane I made Captain on, and I also earned my D.B. Cooper by jumping out of one at 175 mph at the World Freefall Convention in 1996.

What on earth is that thing? :eek:

An earth mover. It's used for mining. They were probably moving it from one site to another.


Now as for that 727 limo. Damn, I should have rented that for my prom. I would have been so COOL.

You should have rented that earth mover! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Way bigger and cooler, and you could bury (quite literally) anyone who laughed.

Hmmm, seller's previous item... not much of a connection there. All good feedback, though. :rolleyes:

Yep. Bucket wheel excavator, used for strip mining, particularly in softer soil. Doesn't deal so well with rocky terrain.

That particular one, Bagger 288, was built by Krupp and is owned by RWE Germany (it’s part of a fleet of 21). They use it for open cask lignite mining. The German word ‘Bagger’ means excavator or digger, btw. It weighs 13,500 tons, is about 100 meters tall, almost 250 meters long, and moves on crawlers. Top speed is 10 meters per minute, and it's operated by just 5 people and runs on electricty (with a similar draw to a small city). It took 5 years to assemble.

RWE needed to swap it with one from another site (about 20km apart, I think), and calculated that the cost of moving it intact would be less than the cost of lost productivity of disassembling and reassembling at the new site.

It took 3 weeks to complete the trip.

Man, I know some boring stuff.... :D

That would be a b*tch to parallel park.

That thing gives me a chubby.

That 727 bus is for soccermoms. The real midlife crisis car is this... :D

http://www.landspeed.com/images/050507zv.jpg

WTF?! It's like a Dr. Seuss Death Star. Every day that thing is allowed to exist is a big FU slap in the face to the creator of your choice. It must be destroyed. What?! There's 21 of them?!!!... I'm going to need more bikes.

Hmmm... so they could use that thing for when they do a live-action version of Howl's Moving Castle. :D

http://media.outnow.ch/Movies/Images...movie.2/04.jpg

Are you referring to BraveSpear's post? That doesn't look wheeled to me. It's got tracks.

Depends on the terrain you're trying to excavate. You want to take the top off a flat area, use they type you linked to (which is more of a bucket-belt). You want to open up the pit/strip by cutting out the side, you need the wheel type.

Every bucket wheel excavator in the world is custom built for the terrain it's going to operate in and the yield it's required to produce.

Oh... I see you're talking about the excavator scoops. I'm going to go sit in that corner now. :D --->

and don't you dare come out of there until you've learned your lesson, young man!!!! ;)

I'd hate to get stuck behind it on my commute :p