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Re: Bucke Wheel Excavator (ISCC entry)
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lugnet.build.contests
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Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:27:35 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Holger Matthes writes:
> Hi @ll,
>
> I build a Bucket Wheel Excavator as my entry for the 1st International System
> Creativity Contest at 1000steine.de
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> http://www.1000steine.de/themen/bauwettbewerb/049/049.htm
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9483
Wow that is one colossal creation. Very impressive.
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> A maschine like this works in the brown caol district "Garzweiler" near
> Cologne and Duesseldorf in West Germany. It is 200 m long and nearly 100 m
> high.
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> The LEGO model is 170 cm long and 110 cm high. The wheel bucket, the cables to
> lower the main boom and the whole upper structure can be rotated by 9V
> powermotors. There are also 3 Powermotors in the lower structure to "drive"
> the whole excavator on its 1500 wide Technic Chain pieces. But unfortunatelly
> the model is to heavy (over 10 kg) so the ABS gears will collapse :-(
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> I showed the model last Sunday at our anual meeting in Hatterheim (you might
> have seen pictures at brickshelf).
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> The open mining concept means that many villages have to move before the
> excavators can start digging their gigantic whole into the earth surface. I
> personally are very impressed by the technical aspect but I parallel have
> concern about the social and ecological aspects. This gave my the idea to
> "organize" a protest march against the destroying power of such maschines.
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> Protest on brickshelf:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9487
Nifty. Those green water trucks are pretty sharp looking.
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> Kind regards,
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> HoMa
-Jason
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