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Re: Elwood and Bubbas' Big A** Crane
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Date: 
Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:19:54 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Ronald Vallenduuk writes:
Not bad, but I'm afraid the biggest Crane I've seen is here:
http://www.geocities.com/dennisbosman/bmnr04.html
Check it out!

That one blew us all away when it was first posted. It's one of the most
realistic large mobile crane I've seen, that's for sure. Truly a work of art.

My question would be, how do you define bigness?

Size? Size in scale? Number of motors used? payload capacity at full boom
extension?

Some musings (because I don't know the answer to this thought starter question)

The Liebherr has a very large boom, but I don't recall it having a huge
payload capacity. More motors doesn't necessarily mean bigger, it may just
mean "not as efficient". Dennis's model is to a scale and thus one can
determine the "to scale" size (which is huge, the prototype is one of the
largest mobile cranes extant). Derick's isn't... and has no specific prototype.

I used to post "I was first, this is best, that's the biggest" sorts of
posts, but I now think it's better to post "I did this, I think it's neat"
and let people rave as they will...

Both of these cranes are worthy of serious raves without trying to decide
which is "bigger" or "better"...

++lar



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  Re: Elwood and Bubbas' Big A** Crane
 
Not bad, but I'm afraid the biggest Crane I've seen is here: (URL) it out! Duq "Derick Bulkley" <derick@derick.com> wrote in message news:G5zs6A.3vn@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.build)

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