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Re: Big shovels (was: CAT 797 Mining Truck Pictures.)
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Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:11:16 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
In lugnet.technic, Ross Crawford writes:
They mention shovels 90-100 tons - the largest strip shovel (in fact the
largest land machine ever to move under it's own power) was "The Captain",
which could move 180 cubic yards (over 250t) of overburden in one "bite".

  The largest land machine ever to move under its own power?  Heavens,
  no; not by a longshot:

Well, I'm not sure about size, but it's definitely the heaviest. "The
Captain" was 15,000 tons, dwarfing the shuttle transporter at 2,721 tonnes.
Even with the orbiter aboard, it doesn't come close.

Also, Paul Baulch did a shuttle transport + orbiter here
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3584. This is a real model -
from memory it comes in around 1m high (maybe more). The transporter isn't
powered (yet).

ROSCO



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  Re: Big shovels (was: CAT 797 Mining Truck Pictures.)
 
(...) Here's some pics (URL) scale, the ones near the bottom of the page show some people & other vehicles - note particularly the loader parked between the tracks. ROSCO (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Big shovels (was: CAT 797 Mining Truck Pictures.)
 
(...) The largest land machine ever to move under its own power? Heavens, no; not by a longshot: (URL) Now *this*, I'd like to see rendered in Technic. ;) best LFB (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)

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