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#12: Biggest Dump Truck
If you’re like me who enjoyed playing with small dump trucks as a kid,
then meet your ultimate match--the BelAZ 75710.
Dubbed as the the largest dump truck in the world, this 750,000-pound
monster is commonly used in open-pit mines and quarries. Because its payload capacity is 25%
larger than the average dump truck’s, it’s able to minimize fuel consumption. Standing at 30
feet tall, and boasting a 4,4600 horsepower, it can haul a maximum of 450 tons of material!
That's like carrying 65 African bush elephants in one go!
This toy for the big boys will set you back a cool $6 million,
but with all the strength and capacity it brings to the table, the investment is well worth it.
If that made your jaw drop,
our number one entry will leave your mouth watering with its brute force!
#11: Largest Crane
This crane is so massive, it takes 250 trucks to move it!
The SGC-250, also nicknamed Big Carl, was designed by a Belgium-based crane rental service.
For his first day on the job, in September 2019, Big Carl was brought from Belgium to Somerset, UK
to help build the country’s first nuclear power plant in 30 years called the Hinkley Point C.
Being the biggest land-based crane, Big Carl towers over the Canary Wharf's largest building,
One Canada Square, at 250 meters! He is currently busy installing steel structures, concrete and
reactor equipment for the power plant. And just to make sure he doesn't topple over,
Big Carl is supported by 52 counterweight containers weighing 100 tons each.
This heavyweight can carry up to 3,000 tons,
which hopefully helps the power station finish on schedule by 2025.
#10: Straddle Carrier
If you’ve ever been to a port terminal or shipyard, chances are you’ve seen one of these
bad boys used for stacking and moving those gigantic containers.
These mean machines can stack up to 4 containers high. Eight wheels mounted on four steering axles,
coupled with the Liebherr (LEE-buhr) drive and control system's superior response,
altogether offer ultimate maneuverability and stability.
#9: Highest Demolition Machine
This David has the power to take down the most Goliath of skyscrapers!
As buildings and structures become taller and sturdier,
there’s been a growing demand for a machine that could make the job of dismantling them
much easier. Enter the KOBELCO large-size SK3500D demolition machine.
This colossal chunk of metal stands at 65 meters,
making it capable of tearing down a 21-story building with greater ease.
To get the job done, it reaches out with its long
arm and a giant mechanical claw. It has a cutting force of 1300 kilonewtons,
meaning it could crush almost every material that skyscrapers are made of!
#8: Conveyor Bridge
Picture France's Eiffel Tower lying down, and you'll get the F60, a German-made overburden
conveyor bridge that is the largest known movable industrial machine globally,
and the longest man-made vehicle ever made!
The steel mammoth, which weighs 13,500 tons, can skim a maximum of 60 meters of overburden
in coal mines. The two excavators are capable of conveying 29,000 cubic meters per hour,
which corresponds to a weight of 50,000 tons of overburden. This much waste from
coal mining could fill up a football field up to a height of eight meters!
The F60 located in Lichterfeld in Germany, which was shut down in 1992, was opened to visitors
in 1998, and is now even decked with sound and light installations to attract tourists!
#7: Bridge Builder
This behemoth truly changed the game when it comes to building bridges.
Created by the Beijing Wowjoint Machinery Company, the SLJ900/32 has made the use of
cranes and complex scaffolding in bridge building totally obsolete.
One look and it may seem like it's just transporting materials from afar,
but the colossal machine is doing much more. It picks up beams, drives to the pillars of
a bridge, and lowers a pneumatic support structure, which essentially anchors the
machine to the first pillar, allowing it to extend itself out to the second pillar.
Talk about bridging the gap between complicated construction and advanced technology!
#6: NASA Crawlers
Have you ever wondered how those gigantic rockets and
spacecrafts are being carried to the launchpad? Well, here’s the answer:
the crawler-transporters which have been movie spacecrafts in
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for over 50 years!
Each machine is the size of a baseball infield,
and is powered by a locomotive and sizeable electrical power generator engines.
Fun fact: The crawlers weigh about 6.6 million pounds –– equivalent to about 15 Statues of
Liberty or 1,000 pickup trucks! With this, it should come as no surprise that it can transport
18 million pounds, which is tantamount to the weight of 22 fully-loaded 777 airplanes!
#5 Fastest Harvester
Modern advancements in agriculture has
definitely helped farmers reap the fruits of their hard labor.
Known as one of the top harvesters of this era, the New Holland CR10.90 smashed the
Guinness Book of World Records for the most wheat harvested by a combine harvester!
Watching the combine harvester from a bird’s eye view, its process does not look too far off
from mowing the lawn. But beyond what meets the eye, two pairs of hydraulic-suspended
rollers work independently to produce a silky-smooth ride during harvest season.
In 2014, it set the record with 797 tons harvested in just eight hours!
#4: Ginormous Loader
Meet the granddaddy of earthmovers –– the LeTorneau L-2350 Wheel Loader,
which holds the Guinness World Record for Biggest Earth Mover,
boasting of a 400-ton payload capacity for surface mining.
The loader’s massive 53-cubic yard shovel can move a staggering amount of earth in one fell swoop!
Designed and manufactured by Komatsu, this extraordinary machine can also haul trucks
24 feet up the air and even lift them away from itself without losing balance. This baby also
boasts of power regeneration capacity which significantly lowers down fuel consumption.
#3: Epic Excavator
The mechanical beast that is the Bagger 288 is notorious for being one of the world's
heaviest land vehicles. This model of bucket wheel excavator can move 240,000 cubic meters,
lignite and overburden, equivalent to more than 10,000 dump truck loads. The material is picked
up by the bucket wheel and transported on conveyors over three meters in width,
while the overburden is dumped by spreaders. Such work could only be achieved manually if
there were around 40,000 workers on site per day! Imagine how cost-effective this machine is!
Other notable characteristics of the Bagger 288 is its weight –– it's as massive as more
than 8,600 cars, with a height as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
#2: Largest Hydraulic Shovel
I wouldn’t blame you for mistaking this beast for a Transformers character because
it sure looks otherworldly. And you wouldn’t be amiss either.
Make way for the Bucyrus RH 400 Excavator!
This gigantic hydraulic shovel was the inspiration behind the
Decepticon Demolishor in the 2009 movie Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
It may only have a cameo on the silver screen, but the RH 400 is a certified superstar when it
comes to excavations. The three-story-high giant can excavate 9,000 tons of earth
in just an hour on one of the harshest terrains on earth –– the Alberta oil
sands in Canada. Its giant bucket can hold up to 94 tons or 57 cubic yards!
When it comes to big machines, this one is an absolute A-lister.
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#1: Big Bertha
Don’t mess with this lady because she
was once considered the world’s largest tunnel boring machine!
This groundbreaking marvel of construction was a 17.5-meter machine
custom-built for the Washington State’s Alaskan Way Viaduct project in 2013.
The $80-billion, 326-feet long, and 6,700-ton drill, which was named after Seattle’s first
woman mayor, did more than just open a tunnel underground. It was capable of cleaning up after
itself and installed a concrete panel as it chewed its way through the rocks underneath the city.
However, after work was finished in the tunnel in 2017, the machine was eventually disassembled.
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