remember the Jawa's Sandcrawler from Star Wars?

[Cush]

This must be it's cousin (and what is this thing?)

[Ready4Change]

1. Used in strip mining, I believe.

Big wheel on the left digs into the hillside, throwing what it scoops onto a conveyor belt back to the center. What happens then I'm not sure.

[tridim]

2. The url is Russian

I guessed that before I looked.

Looks like a giant earth mover. You could cut chunks off a mountain with that thing.

Edit: http://www.krupp-foerdertechnik.com/F/mining/subs/GiantBWEB.htm

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

3. Battlebots has gone too far.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. "whaddaya mean it's cancelled?!?!?!?

I worked all summer on Minotron!

[gollygee]

4. My husband says it's a "dredge" (m)

his dad used to work on one in Australia. They're for mining coal.

That's all I know.

Love the battlebots comment someone posted though :) ROFL

[BiggJawn]

6. Looks like one of Peabody Coal's "small" machines...

Out in west Indiana. They had to close I-70 for a while many years ago when they moved one across the highway to continue its stripping.

[No2W2004]

7. Poppy says

that's what will be up my ass when I lose in November

[Robb]

8. Is that all?

Feh. I thought it'd be bigger.




:D

[no_arbusto]

9. Rocky Mountain Oyster Shucker?

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