Drive a Boeing 727 to work...
06-21-05 | 09:58 PM
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Drive a Boeing 727 to work...
06-21-05 | 11:32 PM
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Just when I thought my faith in humanity had hit rock bottom.
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06-22-05 | 07:17 AM
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It started digging?
06-22-05 | 09:32 AM
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Get the stick.
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980 grand? That's a little bit far fetched. You could build one for way less than that. What a POS.
06-22-05 | 09:46 AM
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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.
06-22-05 | 10:01 AM
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Did anyone notice the DC-9 version parked next to it in one of the pictures...
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06-22-05 | 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by slvoid
06-22-05 | 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by aoeuaoeu
What on earth is that thing? 
Now as for that 727 limo. Damn, I should have rented that for my prom. I would have been so COOL.
06-22-05 | 10:57 AM
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You should have rented that earth mover!
Way bigger and cooler, and you could bury (quite literally) anyone who laughed.
Way bigger and cooler, and you could bury (quite literally) anyone who laughed.
06-22-05 | 11:00 AM
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Hmmm, seller's previous item... not much of a connection there. All good feedback, though. 
06-22-05 | 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by jeff-o
An earth mover. It's used for mining. They were probably moving it from one site to another.
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....
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06-22-05 | 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MERTON
them germans is crazy! https://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/st...dern/id=56674/
06-22-05 | 12:15 PM
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That 727 bus is for soccermoms. The real midlife crisis car is this...
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1999 K2 OzM
2001 Aegis Aro Svelte"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." -- Jon Postel, RFC1122
06-22-05 | 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Stubacca
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....
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....
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.
06-22-05 | 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Stubacca
Yep. Bucket wheel excavator, used for strip mining, particularly in softer soil. Doesn't deal so well with rocky terrain.
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1999 K2 OzM
2001 Aegis Aro Svelte"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." -- Jon Postel, RFC1122
06-22-05 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by MERTON
why do they use the wheel version so often? wouldn't this type be more efficient?
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1999 K2 OzM 2001 Aegis Aro Svelte
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1999 K2 OzM
2001 Aegis Aro Svelte"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." -- Jon Postel, RFC1122
06-22-05 | 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by MERTON
why do they use the wheel version so often? wouldn't this type be more efficient?
https://www.wcsscience.com/extreme/excavator03.html
https://www.wcsscience.com/extreme/excavator03.html
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.
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