Baggeer 288. The ugliest industrial device ever created?

[Bones]

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built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle, as the largest tracked vehicle in the world at 13,500 tons.

 

[Big Fitz]

That thing looks SOOOO COOOOOLLL!!!!!! Let's hear it for German ingenuity and First world Western Civilization.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

My russian is not up to it.

Ешё раз по англиский, пожаулуста!

 

[william the wie]

Shto eto exhausts my Russian

 

[Big Fitz]

I love big machines, but these pairs are more my types.

and this.

Possibly the most perfect steamer ever built.

 

[strollingbones]

gotta love krupp....just gotta love them...werent they the dudes who were in bed with the nazis?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

gotta love krupp....just gotta love them...werent they the dudes who were in bed with the nazis?

Hate to break it to you BUT every Germany Company that existed in the 30's and early 40's " was in bed" with the Nazis. Hitler did not seize the Companies but he DID order them as to what they would build for Greater Germany.

 

[editec]

gotta love krupp....just gotta love them...werent they the dudes who were in bed with the nazis?

Yes, among many others.

The Krupt scion was found guilty of exploting slave labor at Nueremberg.

Krupt industries is but one example of the overwhelming evidence that Hitler's Germany was not a socialist government.

Krupt industries was never nationalized, and the owers of that corporation continued to wortk with and be paid for their industrial output by the NAZIs.

 

[Big Fitz]

Krupp was also in bed with the Kaiser too. They're an arms manufacturer who makes heavy guns and artillery among other heavy machinery. They've done so for their nation and the highest bidder since their founding.

psst. BMW was in league with the nazis!

See how stupid that sounds? But they had built vehicles, aircraft and autos for the nazis.

 

[Big Fitz]

Krupt industries is but one example of the overwhelming evidence that Hitler's Germany was not a socialist government.

Really? Explain to me what the difference is between these two statements:

"You will tell your company manufacture what the state wants you to, or you will be sent to a 'labor camp'.

"Your company is now state property and NOW you will manufacture what we tell you or you will be sent to the gulag."

Only difference I see is that the title remains in your hands officially, till such time as you fail to obey. The other one, they get rid of the pretense of ownership and just make you a slave of the state like everyone else, they just play fewer semantic games.

 

[Big Fitz]

One silly question about the OP. Why does he consider that machine ugly? Ungainly yes, but ugly???

 

[Douger]

That thing looks SOOOO COOOOOLLL!!!!!! Let's hear it for German ingenuity and First world Western Civilization.

Nothing like a little strip mining to make for a nice afternoon. Fucking lunatics.

 

[Mini 14]

Aren't there several of those things in existence today? Seems like I've seen a picture of a mining operation where they had 2 or 3 of them going at once?

 

[Big Fitz]

That thing looks SOOOO COOOOOLLL!!!!!! Let's hear it for German ingenuity and First world Western Civilization.

Nothing like a little strip mining to make for a nice afternoon. Fucking lunatics.

Have we gotten bored with humping baby seals up in Nunavut again?

How about you go live in what you preach is environmentally correct. Get rid of all plastics, electricity, refined metal alloys.

Go back to be a primitive hunting seals for survival on the great white north you love and chew blubber in your fucking igloo.

Machines like that make your life possible, ethical hypocrite.

 

[daveman]

That thing looks SOOOO COOOOOLLL!!!!!! Let's hear it for German ingenuity and First world Western Civilization.

Nothing like a little strip mining to make for a nice afternoon. Fucking lunatics.

Aren't you in New Zealand? Do you go picket here: Coal, South Otago, Kai Point Coal, Kaitangata, New Zealand?

 

[daveman]

That thing looks SOOOO COOOOOLLL!!!!!! Let's hear it for German ingenuity and First world Western Civilization.

I'm amazed man can build such huge and powerful things.

 

[Intense]

Krupt industries is but one example of the overwhelming evidence that Hitler's Germany was not a socialist government.

Really? Explain to me what the difference is between these two statements:

"You will tell your company manufacture what the state wants you to, or you will be sent to a 'labor camp'.

"Your company is now state property and NOW you will manufacture what we tell you or you will be sent to the gulag."

Only difference I see is that the title remains in your hands officially, till such time as you fail to obey. The other one, they get rid of the pretense of ownership and just make you a slave of the state like everyone else, they just play fewer semantic games.

Sorry, wrong Thread. Cool looking, Godzilla like.

 

[Big Fitz]

I remember the two biggest machines I ever stood next to, one was the USS Yorktown. That thing was marvelous to behold, but terrifying when you were right next to it. It inspired a visceral fear of something so big that could move.

The largest land object I ever was next to was a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotive. The wheels were taller than me and the low pressure cylinders, I could have climbed into if open and I'm a big man. To see something like that in operation is inspiring.

Of course, I'd love to see one of those house sized dumptrucks.

 

[Bones]

One silly question about the OP. Why does he consider that machine ugly? Ungainly yes, but ugly???

Most machines, to me anyways, are gray visual abortions. While some may provide valuable services and others do nothing but annihilate, most are either unbearably ugly or just plain bland. The noxious exhaust and diabolical noise pollution they create doesn't help.

It all started with the garbage truck pulling in at the crack of dawn. That alone fueled my lifelong hatred for the industrial revolution.

 

[Big Fitz]

meh. I grew up walking a branch line along a river among abandoned paper mills and warehouses. It was great. I learned to love neo/post industrial environs. They have great beauty when you look at it.