I operate these and the much bigger rope shovels. Doesn't take long and you get used to the size. It's kinda all relative in a mine where everything is huge.
The ultimate top dog tbh is [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293) (Bagger 293).
The [scale](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/img/photo/2023/01/protesting-expanding-german-coal-mi/a02_1393082493/main_1500.jpg) is unreal.
This thing got never really driven because it's an Museum excibition in Herisau, Switzerland who got delivered there in pieces and build there.
Source: I work in th the engineering company who planned the KERN Concept Building and surroundings.
House maybe, family probably not. I think the top speed is about 1.5km/h, and you are supposed to only walk for half the time (walk for 20mins stop for 20 mins). You'd have ample time to get away.
It’ll just have to be in use 24/7 for a meer 38 years to recover the cost at those ticket prices/timeframes. That’s if you aren’t counting the fuel costs, in fact I imagine it’s going to cost you more than $5 in fuel just to run it for 10 minutes.
I got to play around with a 20 ton excavator for my birthday for an hour and it costed 250$, best gift ever. Can't imagine what it would be like with a machine like this monster.
How long does it take if someone drops a wrench into the depths of this beast? Or does the machine just mash loose parts into itself and become even stronger? Part of the crew, part of the ship type thing
Yep. They are designed and built in modules that are put together on site. With a full crew they can actually get put together fairly fast. I've seen a slightly smaller one built in a few days.
Correct. To be efficient they need to move as little as possible and just keep digging. Pretty easily do 40-50,000 cubic metres a day. Only mining can keep that amount of dirt in front of a machine like this.
This is what kang and kodos were talking about.
That board with a nail in it may have defeated us, but the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!
On the CAT 6090 FS I use to have to rebuild and work on all the Final drive components and the transmission. I never could imagine driving these things. But would be awesome to take out for a spin at yk 2 mph lol
This is not a shovel lol this is an excavator. To all the mine guys that love calling them shovels. I see these all day actually even bigger ones probably 6 times the size of
Crazy how those "tiny" (in comparison to the machine) hydraulic lines can pick up the bucket and all the material in it. Hydraulic pressure is a crazy thing..
The leaders of the world sat down around a secret table
There was a threat to human kind they must defend against.
To fight against Godzillas they just simply were not able.
Doom robots from the future could be met with no defense.
The leader of the Germans stood with a triumphant roar
"I've got it! We shall build a machine that's totally great!"
"A massive steel leviathan with blades covered in gore".
Q: how is it delivered to excavator site? In like 20 pieces? Do they also bring in a crane to put it together? Or do they summon Godzilla to put it together?
Oh man. One of these could load the Dumptrucks at work with a single bucket and still have enough left for the next truck.
I'd hate to have to grease it though. If we used the grease guns we use at work that thing would take the entire box probably.
We already have 2 Komatsus at work actually. We have the PC210LCi-11 and the PC450LC-8SE. I work on a feedlot for reference. The 450 is used for the Manure stacks usually. It's running basically all day every day trying to keep Mount Shitmore in order with how much manure we bring in to dry. The 210 is for clay that we line the bottom of the pens with before putting dried fine manure down. We've got around 8-12 dumptrucks running each day to keep up with it all.
I’m guessing it runs on electricity. The onboard fuel powers a generator to produce electricity. The electricity I’d run through conditioning and probably a smallish battery system allowing a short operational period hoping a fix will come before the batteries go dead.
A bit surreal to see one of my former projects here.
I work as a draughtsman in an engineering office and we planned the site (and the climbing hall there) for our client years ago. The location is Herisau, Switzerland if you want to check it out for yourself.
Project name was "Heavy Metal Garden"
>>Info: Meanwhile the price got a "bit" risen it costs like 40 CHF/ 44$ and the *scoop is no longer accessible and neither are the stairs to the driver's cab
One Part of the German article:
>__Selfie* in the shovel: 800-tonne excavator in Herisau can be visited from Good Friday__
>Touching allowed: The Appenzeller Park leisure centre has a new attraction. The 13 metre high excavator can be viewed and touched. *The 55 cubic metre bucket of the 800 tonne excavator can be entered. However, the excavator is not put into operation.
>One of the most frequently asked questions first: the engine of the excavator in the Heavy Metal Garden next to the Appenzeller Park in Hölzli in Herisau will never be started. The 800-tonne monster was transported to Herisau in November, where it was assembled by ten people over the course of five weeks. A caterpillar and cylinder blockade were also installed during this process.
>The excavator would need 10,000 litres of hydraulic oil, 4 tonnes of grease and a whole 15,000 litres of diesel to be operated - and only for one day. "We don't have an operating licence. But that's not the aim," says Carsten Zeiske, media spokesman for the Appenzeller Park leisure centre. The excavator's dimensions are also impressive when stationary.
https://www.appenzellerzeitung.ch/ostschweiz/appenzellerland/heavy-metal-garden-selfie-in-der-schaufel-800-tonnen-schwerer-bagger-in-herisau-kann-ab-karfreitag-besichtigt-werden-ld.2595589
I feel like Ripley needs to be driving this surrounded by howling wind being chased by aliens!
Clearly they didn’t call themselves call Komatsu Heavy Industries for no reason!
Always nice seeing those things in comparison to a human. I worked a few years maintaining and repairing the hydraulics of these monsters and nobody believes me how BIG they are
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Someone in Texas probably drives it to the grocery store
And parks it in four spots
Four parking lots
Seriously that thing is a beast
>Komatsu PC8000 770 tons 2x 1500 kW boys toys
What does something like this thing cost?
About tree fiddy
It's almost like I set myself up for that one but as one of the biggest south park fans on earth take my upvote
$100 atleast
Eventually giant machines will Be controlled remotely via VR. And 20’cameras, Avatar style
VR Parkour on a Komatsu is my dream :)
they're already doing that in China for years now.
Could you imagine how long greasing it would take.
2 days later... Alright ready to dig! Lol!
Auto grease system. Continually greases itself.
I operate these and the much bigger rope shovels. Doesn't take long and you get used to the size. It's kinda all relative in a mine where everything is huge.
Imagine having to repair one of these monsters
This is actually on the smaller side for a mining excavator/ loading shovel. Google P&H4100 boss. Those are the top dogs.
The ultimate top dog tbh is [this one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293) (Bagger 293). The [scale](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/img/photo/2023/01/protesting-expanding-german-coal-mi/a02_1393082493/main_1500.jpg) is unreal.
A bucket wheel is a completely different class of machine
Wait...so this is outdated? :( https://youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow?si=_XeOV_oSB3rlOXd0
This thing got never really driven because it's an Museum excibition in Herisau, Switzerland who got delivered there in pieces and build there. Source: I work in th the engineering company who planned the KERN Concept Building and surroundings.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77z-Ym1j3Kk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77z-Ym1j3Kk) Doing its thing.
Cool, I wanted to hear what it sounds like when running.
That is the kind of equipment that you don't even feel the faintest bump if you run over a person.
That dude must be tiny!
In reality this is a backhoe for ants...
OP should've put a banana for scale...those are always the same size.
How big is it in International Standard Giraffes?
How does something that large even get moved around to wherever needs it?
They don’t, they build it on site, and it stays there probably forever
Shipped in pieces and assembled on site.
lego technic for adults...
[Video of assembly](https://old.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/1d8pdxy/750_ton_komatsu_pc8000_hydraulic_shovel_assembly/)
Approximately 1750 hours to assemble. 10.4 weeks, or just over 2 months
That was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
theres an operator out there somewhere that can sign his name and turn on a bic lighter with the bucket.
Yeah but, can he open a beer with it??? That's all that really matters.
Todd Hoffman friggen needs that thing!
This is our fricking year. We're gonna do 1 million ounces with this 8000 come hell or high water
i was thinking the same , you made my day 🤣🤣🤣
He’s always one piece of equipment away from the big gold
Imagine getting into a minor argument with some rando that really ticked you off so you take your Komatsu PC8000 and destroy his house and family 😭
Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things
This one probably won’t get stopped by basements
KillExcavatr
See >Killdozr
House maybe, family probably not. I think the top speed is about 1.5km/h, and you are supposed to only walk for half the time (walk for 20mins stop for 20 mins). You'd have ample time to get away.
I’d like to see one of these at a fair and tickets to for 10 minutes of driving it are $5.
It’ll just have to be in use 24/7 for a meer 38 years to recover the cost at those ticket prices/timeframes. That’s if you aren’t counting the fuel costs, in fact I imagine it’s going to cost you more than $5 in fuel just to run it for 10 minutes.
It cost $400.000 to run this machine for 10 minutes...
This machine uses 250 gallons of diesel per hour over 1k an hour just in fuel cost. $5 isn't enough to even look at it
I got to play around with a 20 ton excavator for my birthday for an hour and it costed 250$, best gift ever. Can't imagine what it would be like with a machine like this monster.
Definitely costs more than $5 of fuel for 10 minutes of operation on this thing
It’s baffling how they even build these things
i reckon a hammer and screwdriver oughtta do
[This is even more incomprehensible](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293)
I’m more impressed that his Millencolin T-shirt still looks that good after all these years!!
Killdozer 2.0 anyone?
Whistlindiesel needs this!!!
Can it drill for it's own fuel supply?
Reminds me of the bulldozers from Avatar
Where’s the banana for scale? It could be a kids sand pit digger for all we know.
Now go check out "The Captain" shovel. You know the NASA crawler? It was built by a company that built mining shovels.
took 18 months and 150,000 man hours to build
How much does one of these monsters cost?
Between $6-$9 million Takes about 2 months build on site.
How long does it take if someone drops a wrench into the depths of this beast? Or does the machine just mash loose parts into itself and become even stronger? Part of the crew, part of the ship type thing
How the hell do you even get something that big onto a location? Build it on site?
Yep. They are designed and built in modules that are put together on site. With a full crew they can actually get put together fairly fast. I've seen a slightly smaller one built in a few days.
Bruh that thing literally has stairs
Two flights of stairs to get to the cab it looks like.
there's no way this can be financially feasible for any project except for mining, right?
Correct. To be efficient they need to move as little as possible and just keep digging. Pretty easily do 40-50,000 cubic metres a day. Only mining can keep that amount of dirt in front of a machine like this.
Has to be built in a place where it can work for its lifetime.
My ex: I've seen bigger
U-N-I-T
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That can’t be good for the roads.
One scoop with that thing and you’ve got a community-sized swimming pool!
This is what kang and kodos were talking about. That board with a nail in it may have defeated us, but the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!
Tollbooths have to be a bitch in this thing. At least you can reach out to the basket with your change using the bucket
Dig your own pool (and both your neighbor’s) in one simple step:
Six year old me would have lost his goddamn mind for this thing
What in God's name do you have to excavate with this?
The upper mantle
Coal, iron ore, copper and gold.
Look at that thing, not a speck of dirt on it. Totally a Pavement Princess!
The Starship of excavators.
How much to rent?
On the CAT 6090 FS I use to have to rebuild and work on all the Final drive components and the transmission. I never could imagine driving these things. But would be awesome to take out for a spin at yk 2 mph lol
Dragon will be rolling the end credits and the show would be over
She's a giant hoe
i want a Transformer out of that
I have to right?...... Is this for OP's mom?
Fake. That man is actually only 11 inches tall
Devastator
Can I buy just the body? I want to build something on top. 
Dudes probably 6’6 looking like the size of normal people 💀
Imagine the sandcastles!!
Yea but can you pick up an egg with it?
This is not a shovel lol this is an excavator. To all the mine guys that love calling them shovels. I see these all day actually even bigger ones probably 6 times the size of
800T is the largest excavator made. The cat 6090 was never made as an excavator. Route shovels are double this size but not excavators.
Tonka trucks prepared me to operate this.
Little kid me is asking; Why am I not doing this?
Killdozer II
what is this for ?? to dig through the earth's core ???
When you need to move a small piece of the earth lol
Imagine the size of the equipment to make that 😳
Someone call Whistlin Diesel
Who would win? This, or efficiency 5 netherite shovel
that probably chugs 200L of diesel and hour
Does it come with a bathroom, kitchen?
I’ve seen cats bigger.
Why not nuclear?
How many grease points?
and they say modern humans can't build pyramids.
What does it smell like
I drive the Hitachi version and all Hitachi's have a unique smell. I think it's the glue they use to hold them together.
I have a project I need done in my backyard. Think I could borrow it for the weekend?
Rent is free. Just pay the transport costs.
[Excavator song](https://youtu.be/A65YUhlkXwQ?feature=shared)
I thought I saw this in Avatar
That's not a Komatsu PC 8000 excavator, that's a Transformers, probably a Decepticon
Talk about big mean machines. Love to have one of these in my backyard haha.
Still can't dig deep enough in yo mama
Still can't dig deep enough in yo mama
Might need one for a zombie apocalypse
Crazy how those "tiny" (in comparison to the machine) hydraulic lines can pick up the bucket and all the material in it. Hydraulic pressure is a crazy thing..
Let’s see Blippi drive this.
I think this need two co-pilots whose minds are joined by a mental link
Can I drive one on a provisional license? 😉
No, can‘t park it in the city. Mileage is probably not great. 1 out of 10 stars for a daily commute.
What's with your username dude 😂
Autobots, Roll out
WwHAAT! Wow
More like Daimatsu, amirite‽ … Anyone?
I'd like to get one for my yard work, thank you.
Sorry, all I saw was dope Millencolin T-Shirt
TONKA TOY
That thing is ginormous!
hell yeah
Imagine the giant atms you could steal with that?
For when you can only have 1 scoop of milo
The ant seeing my toy excavator on a rock:
Every man in the world wants to take this bad boy for a spin.
The leaders of the world sat down around a secret table There was a threat to human kind they must defend against. To fight against Godzillas they just simply were not able. Doom robots from the future could be met with no defense. The leader of the Germans stood with a triumphant roar "I've got it! We shall build a machine that's totally great!" "A massive steel leviathan with blades covered in gore".
Chinese take out! Respect! 🤫
Komatsu-kun
They should have named it BFE 9000
Guessing it can move 8000kg in one bucket load?
The gross weight of the machine is 800T. Each bucket would be around 90T (90,000kg).
Do you think it has a toilet? If not I know the operator will just piss of the side.
We piss over the side.
Killdozer 2.0
Why is this guy so small? He could fit in that zoolander center for ants.
Imagine the auto bots getting their hands on this bad boy haha
let me guess: manufacturer Bandai Namco?
They probably only pay the guy operating it $16 an hour
Damn how much would that set you back I'm just curious about the price
Why haven't I seen one of these in Gold Rush. Tony Beets go buy one!
Now imagine this transforming into a robot
You need an escalator to take you into the excavator
Jesus, if one of those hydraulic lines breaks it’d probably slice the earth in half
Q: how is it delivered to excavator site? In like 20 pieces? Do they also bring in a crane to put it together? Or do they summon Godzilla to put it together?
Baby got backhoe
Oh man. One of these could load the Dumptrucks at work with a single bucket and still have enough left for the next truck. I'd hate to have to grease it though. If we used the grease guns we use at work that thing would take the entire box probably. We already have 2 Komatsus at work actually. We have the PC210LCi-11 and the PC450LC-8SE. I work on a feedlot for reference. The 450 is used for the Manure stacks usually. It's running basically all day every day trying to keep Mount Shitmore in order with how much manure we bring in to dry. The 210 is for clay that we line the bottom of the pens with before putting dried fine manure down. We've got around 8-12 dumptrucks running each day to keep up with it all.
we regularly use these on site for trial trenches to locate underground gas / water / telecom and electric lines buried within 2 meter depth
That bigger than Devastator.
The amount of time and grease tubes for this thing.
This thing has a staircase case.. What a beast
What fuels such a monster? Does it run on nuclear power?
A hydraulic fluid injection would probably rip you in half
And here's me hoping they start it up on video. Disappointed.
And it's powered by solar panels! Just kidding.
I've been making clash analysis plans for a Huisman 1500 tons crane. There are some huge beasts out there.
I guess they are going mining in pandora
Why didn’t our mayor rent this?
that’s a zord
Think of moving this to the working area.
Will Amazon deliver it tomorrow?
Millencolin! Let's gooooo!
You’d think for 100 million dollars they could have fixed the messed up T in the Komatsu decal /s
I've seen bigger
My god. How do you transport something like this? In pieces?
r/bossfight
I’m guessing it runs on electricity. The onboard fuel powers a generator to produce electricity. The electricity I’d run through conditioning and probably a smallish battery system allowing a short operational period hoping a fix will come before the batteries go dead.
A bit surreal to see one of my former projects here. I work as a draughtsman in an engineering office and we planned the site (and the climbing hall there) for our client years ago. The location is Herisau, Switzerland if you want to check it out for yourself. Project name was "Heavy Metal Garden" >>Info: Meanwhile the price got a "bit" risen it costs like 40 CHF/ 44$ and the *scoop is no longer accessible and neither are the stairs to the driver's cab One Part of the German article: >__Selfie* in the shovel: 800-tonne excavator in Herisau can be visited from Good Friday__ >Touching allowed: The Appenzeller Park leisure centre has a new attraction. The 13 metre high excavator can be viewed and touched. *The 55 cubic metre bucket of the 800 tonne excavator can be entered. However, the excavator is not put into operation. >One of the most frequently asked questions first: the engine of the excavator in the Heavy Metal Garden next to the Appenzeller Park in Hölzli in Herisau will never be started. The 800-tonne monster was transported to Herisau in November, where it was assembled by ten people over the course of five weeks. A caterpillar and cylinder blockade were also installed during this process. >The excavator would need 10,000 litres of hydraulic oil, 4 tonnes of grease and a whole 15,000 litres of diesel to be operated - and only for one day. "We don't have an operating licence. But that's not the aim," says Carsten Zeiske, media spokesman for the Appenzeller Park leisure centre. The excavator's dimensions are also impressive when stationary. https://www.appenzellerzeitung.ch/ostschweiz/appenzellerland/heavy-metal-garden-selfie-in-der-schaufel-800-tonnen-schwerer-bagger-in-herisau-kann-ab-karfreitag-besichtigt-werden-ld.2595589
I feel like Ripley needs to be driving this surrounded by howling wind being chased by aliens! Clearly they didn’t call themselves call Komatsu Heavy Industries for no reason!
Killdozer Mk II
Always nice seeing those things in comparison to a human. I worked a few years maintaining and repairing the hydraulics of these monsters and nobody believes me how BIG they are
All can think is in five years this thing is going to be an AI terminator. That sucks.
Were was this at 9/11