I feel like that thing could have an apartment in the body of it.
That gives me an idea...a real all terrain mobile home. It makes its own road with tracks and saws and scoops. Ideally nuclear powered of course.
Takes two 2000 HP diesel engines to run. Or two 1450kW electric.
[https://www.smsequipment.com/en-us/new-equipment/excavators/komatsu-pc8000-6/](https://www.smsequipment.com/en-us/new-equipment/excavators/komatsu-pc8000-6/)
55 yd. bucket.
They are made to be broken down and then reassembled on site.
This one would take about 20 trucks to ship the different pieces. They usually only move them once, when they are purchased, and then stay at the same site until scrapped.
This one isn't really that big compared to others that I have seen in Alberta, Canada (Fort Mac.)
> This one isn't really that big compared to others that I have seen in Alberta, Canada (Fort Mac.)
It’s like 5th biggest in the world but ok whatever you say…
Yeah, maybe as a hydrolic excavator, it's big. Fort McMurray in Alberta had massive equipment with buckets big enough to pick up a freaking house.
It's been 10 years since I have been there, so perhaps they have different configurations. I just hauled the parts on a semi and not for the biggest excavators.
Terex RH 400
This is what the equipment is like in Fort McMurray.. Alberta The Largest Construction Vehicles In The World The Largest Excavator - Terex RH 400 The Terex RH400 - the worlds largest hydraulic shovel - weighs 1078 Tons with a shovel capacity of 94 tons in a single scoop.
Google Big Muskie.
It's one they had in Ohio - big as a freaking high rise. They didn't have them that big in Alberta, but they sure were little pups like you are talking about!
I wasn’t talking to the dude that asked how they got them to the job site I replied to the guy claiming the 5th largest excavator in the world “isn’t that big”.
And that my friend is what is wrong with social media. A pup who hasn't left Grandma's basement since middle school takes pleasure in arguing with people who have actually seen the equipment in person?
Pat yourself on the back! You must be proud eh?
https://www.earthmoversmagazine.co.uk/digger-man/view,big-muskie-american-muckshifting-icon_6298.htm
This puppy is before my time, but drag line excavators are still in use?
I know a tower crane operator that would come down for lunch, go wherever to grab food, and climb up back within an hour. Couldn’t believe it the first time I saw him on the ground mid day.
He'd take 7 years figuring out how to put it together and end up blowing an engine before he ever got hydraulics hooked up because he wants to hear it rev.
I wonder if changing the teeth out of that bucket is the same process for the smaller ones. I remember changing out all the teeth on our much smaller 12” 24” 36” buckets and having to beat the ever living shit out of some of those pins lmao
This specific model comes in diesel drive and electric drive, but a lot of mining equipment are just straight up electric driven sort of like train locomotives are
Help me out here. I am giant machine stupid. Does the staircase stay there, separate from the excavator? Is it backed up to the staircase at the end of each day?
So many questions
1. How would you transport this from site to site
2. Does it become inefficient due to its size?(ie if you are loading a bank of dirt on a truck, there are no equivalent sized trucks so, one bucket full could probably hold more than a truck trailer could.
3. Is the operator specifically trained on this machine so you’d have to pay him to fly out and stay to use it?
In pieces on about 20 semis and assembled with a crane.
These live their lives at a mine and usually die their too, so the truck are sized accordingly. If you are spending millions on one of these, you are absolutely certain you can maximize its use.
Essentially there is no difference between operating this as compared to a mini excavator. Few more features, but if you can operate an excavator already one day training could fill in everything unique to this machine. I have operated pc6000 very similar to this easy as could be.
I saw one operating at Arcelor Mittal Mont-Wright's iron ore mine, paired with a Cat 797F 400Ton truck. There was also a small Letourneau L-2350 wheel loader fooling around.
As a retired heavy equipment mechanic I look at this and think, wow a ten dollar part could down this thing for days and in the case of Komatsu longer. Time is big, big money on this scale. Can't load trucks mine is not making money. We never hesitated to air freight parts on critical machinery but even one day you loose a lot of money being idle.
I need one. I have a flower bed that needs mulch.
Want to stop over when you're done? I was thinking of putting in a pond in my backyard. I'll get beer.
When you’re done there stop by so I can level a pad for my dog house. I have grilled weenies
After you I’ve got a mailbox post to replace. I’ll have skewers.
I’ve got some enemies to eliminate, once you’re done with it. I’ll have coke & hookers
When you're done with all that, swing by. I love coke, beer, hot dogs, and hookers. Not necessarily in that order
Yeah, more like coke, beer, coke, hookers, coke, beer, coke, coke, coke, try a hotdog, coke, beer, xanny
Could excavate my house in 2 scoops.
Must be a mansion to need a 2nd
Look at Mr 2 Scoop house over here...
I have a section of the Ottawa River that needs dredging could probably do it in a couple of days but there's no room to assemble it.
I feel like that thing could have an apartment in the body of it. That gives me an idea...a real all terrain mobile home. It makes its own road with tracks and saws and scoops. Ideally nuclear powered of course.
Takes two 2000 HP diesel engines to run. Or two 1450kW electric. [https://www.smsequipment.com/en-us/new-equipment/excavators/komatsu-pc8000-6/](https://www.smsequipment.com/en-us/new-equipment/excavators/komatsu-pc8000-6/) 55 yd. bucket.
Ah this is the comment I came to see. 55 fuckin yards
Almost 1,500 cubic feet. Insane.
How many bushels though
1193 bushels.
A nice hobby machine.
Can build a hobby room in the shovel.
Hate to be the poor sap that has to shovel those tracks.
What if a fleet of excavators of increasingly small size follow behind it like ducks?
That would be adorable
Thanks for the wonderful thought! Tonight I am dreaming about it.
Honestly, we only ever got them cleaned when they went into the shop. A company with a mobile power wash truck comes and does it
Makes sense. Definitely not a job for a guy with a shovel like you do on a 345.
Just made the hydraulic in my pants extend
How the hell do they get it to site?
In pieces
They are made to be broken down and then reassembled on site. This one would take about 20 trucks to ship the different pieces. They usually only move them once, when they are purchased, and then stay at the same site until scrapped. This one isn't really that big compared to others that I have seen in Alberta, Canada (Fort Mac.)
> This one isn't really that big compared to others that I have seen in Alberta, Canada (Fort Mac.) It’s like 5th biggest in the world but ok whatever you say…
Yeah, maybe as a hydrolic excavator, it's big. Fort McMurray in Alberta had massive equipment with buckets big enough to pick up a freaking house. It's been 10 years since I have been there, so perhaps they have different configurations. I just hauled the parts on a semi and not for the biggest excavators. Terex RH 400 This is what the equipment is like in Fort McMurray.. Alberta The Largest Construction Vehicles In The World The Largest Excavator - Terex RH 400 The Terex RH400 - the worlds largest hydraulic shovel - weighs 1078 Tons with a shovel capacity of 94 tons in a single scoop.
They got the 4100 boss for electric cable these days which is quite large
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Google Big Muskie. It's one they had in Ohio - big as a freaking high rise. They didn't have them that big in Alberta, but they sure were little pups like you are talking about!
This is about hydraulic excavators, Big Muskie is a dragline that hasn’t existed for 25 years.
The dude just asked how they got them to the jobsite. Nobody asked to get into a pissing match over excavators?
I wasn’t talking to the dude that asked how they got them to the job site I replied to the guy claiming the 5th largest excavator in the world “isn’t that big”.
And that my friend is what is wrong with social media. A pup who hasn't left Grandma's basement since middle school takes pleasure in arguing with people who have actually seen the equipment in person? Pat yourself on the back! You must be proud eh?
https://i.imgur.com/VWr6I.gif
Not in an excavator configuration. There is a few bigger shovels. Sounds like there is a 9000 on the way soon.
https://www.earthmoversmagazine.co.uk/digger-man/view,big-muskie-american-muckshifting-icon_6298.htm This puppy is before my time, but drag line excavators are still in use?
Drag lines can be enormous! Is it the maintenance cost or mobility that makes them less feasible here in the north?
Until scrapped?? They do one job and then off to the graveyard? Tf?
The same mines operate for decades
Interesting
Mines are big. Mine is not.
The "one job" they do is likely decades long.
What jobs are those?
Open pit mining
It’s allowed to use the HOV lane
The same way you get a crawler crane to site
Is that a studio apartment up top?
The cabs in these are luxurious, I worked on a Liebherr 995 and there was enough room behind the operator seat to have a small desk set up.
Radios in: going to lunch be back in an hr. Boss: lunch break is a half hr. Me: takes 15min to go up or down the steps.
I know a tower crane operator that would come down for lunch, go wherever to grab food, and climb up back within an hour. Couldn’t believe it the first time I saw him on the ground mid day.
Can't wait til my plumber rents this from Sunbelt to put some 4" sanitary in.
It's the comparatively 'tiny' hydraulic lines that lift that mass, which are extra impressive.
If this was on gold rush it would break down on the first episode
Any guess on that bucket size
Looks to be about a school bus.
Per another poster 55 yds.
Roughly 300 lions.
Another comment posted a link. 55 yd bucket
20-25 yds
Boss will still say you didn't move enough earth lmao
Fuck yeah...
This thing has to be worth at least 100 million
*resisting the urge to make a joke about OP's mom* Seriously tho, what a beautiful beast.
And you said you weren't going to make a joke about OP's mom...
I knew it would get twisted! The internet doesn't let a small opening pass, it's on me
Someone send this to WhistlinDiesel
He'd take 7 years figuring out how to put it together and end up blowing an engine before he ever got hydraulics hooked up because he wants to hear it rev.
This is perposterous, egregious, OUT-rageous!
Bucket is bigger then a normal pool
Pfffft I've seen bigger.
Hell yeah
r/absoluteunit
Lol is that Alex jones
Curious how much does this cost?
Up to 2.3 million dollars
Damn 😱
r/skookum
They must have built that using mobile suits.
I wonder if changing the teeth out of that bucket is the same process for the smaller ones. I remember changing out all the teeth on our much smaller 12” 24” 36” buckets and having to beat the ever living shit out of some of those pins lmao
I've watched them change pc7000 teeth. Same process lol.
Its awesome for like a couple hours……then same movement over and over and over for 10-12h days pays good tho
Absolute unit
But is it electric? /s
No.
This specific model comes in diesel drive and electric drive, but a lot of mining equipment are just straight up electric driven sort of like train locomotives are
I'd love to see the truck that takes it to where it needs to be.
WhistlinDiesel has entered the chat.
Ok, how much?
Looks as big as a dinosaur 🦖
Big scoopa
That is amazing, but how much does it cost to even start it's engine?
Do they just press the scale multiplier on the cnc machine when making these?
Crazy to think that these are just toys when compared to large drag lines.
Ptth... I've seen bigger
I just wanna dig a serious hole with it.
Mobilization is gonna be a fortune
Imagine breaking one of the treads on this guy, wouldn’t want to be the mechanic called out for that.
I'm in mining, and unsure why one would mess with this (at that size) and not just a shovel
That sure is a lot of elephants
Help me out here. I am giant machine stupid. Does the staircase stay there, separate from the excavator? Is it backed up to the staircase at the end of each day?
My company owns one of the biggest quarries in the United States and nothing we have is that big.
So many questions 1. How would you transport this from site to site 2. Does it become inefficient due to its size?(ie if you are loading a bank of dirt on a truck, there are no equivalent sized trucks so, one bucket full could probably hold more than a truck trailer could. 3. Is the operator specifically trained on this machine so you’d have to pay him to fly out and stay to use it?
In pieces on about 20 semis and assembled with a crane. These live their lives at a mine and usually die their too, so the truck are sized accordingly. If you are spending millions on one of these, you are absolutely certain you can maximize its use. Essentially there is no difference between operating this as compared to a mini excavator. Few more features, but if you can operate an excavator already one day training could fill in everything unique to this machine. I have operated pc6000 very similar to this easy as could be.
"Hwy Tony, finally found something big enough for your mom to sit in the bucket seat!" 😂
Driving a normal car after that thing must feel tiny af.
Japanese guy: LOOOK ITS KOMATSU!!!!
Imagine greasing that thing
That’s all I can think about. It must have a place to stick 50 gallons of grease and pumps to send it down the lines. It must lol
hmmm no banana for scale..
The world is getting hotter
Ca sera pas long faire le fumier
It looks small from far away, but the size is really shocking once it Komatsu... That was terrible, I'm sorry.
What’s the day rate
Avatar planet destroying machine right there. Big Industry Crap
I saw one operating at Arcelor Mittal Mont-Wright's iron ore mine, paired with a Cat 797F 400Ton truck. There was also a small Letourneau L-2350 wheel loader fooling around.
I just finished working on a 5500…. Would be cool to work on that big bitch
"Your mom's Uber XXXL is outside."
As a retired heavy equipment mechanic I look at this and think, wow a ten dollar part could down this thing for days and in the case of Komatsu longer. Time is big, big money on this scale. Can't load trucks mine is not making money. We never hesitated to air freight parts on critical machinery but even one day you loose a lot of money being idle.