What comes after the pick and Number 2 shovel?

[Clay Diggins]

Just for fun.

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[kcm]

Yeah, but can they mix cocktails??

 

[Hefty1]

800 IB motrin (2) and a couple of stiff drinks.

 

[jcazgoldchaser]

Not sure, but if you hum a few bars.....

 

[allenknight555]

Three pound sledge and a single jack.

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[Jeff95531]

Thanks Clay! I did not know that you can in fact drill to the center of the earth! Cool!

 

[Jeff95531]

800 IB motrin (2) and a couple of stiff drinks.

Does that really work ooohhh yeah...

 

[Jeff95531]

Does that really work ooohhh yeah...

PSA...Just cuz we're idiots, don't you be too. DON't try this at home!

 

[Ragnor]

5' pry bar

 

[goldenIrishman]

Of course there is also the 1st Cav method of mining.... "There is no problem that the proper application of high explosives will not solve!".

All those toys would be a hard rock miners dream. I did notice that the only surface mining rig was shot down as not being for mining in that thread.

 

[wildminer]

Awesome!!! A view of these bad boys would certainly give a waco enviro nightmares for years to come!

 

[nh.nugget]

I could have some fun with those! I could see a lake in the Wild AM.

 

[Duckwalk]

And to think... when i was younger, my grandfather used to make use drill into the coal seam of his mountain in Kentucky with a breast auger and tap home made explosives in the hole to blow the coal out.... This looks way more efficient

 

[jcazgoldchaser]

Haven't ya been watching gold rush?

 

[Clay Diggins]

All those toys would be a hard rock miners dream. I did notice that the only surface mining rig was shot down as not being for mining in that thread.

Here's a little surface rig.



Largest mining machine in the world. 3 extra points if you can guess which country it's in.

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[Alex Burke]

The Bagger, Germany

 

[HMiller]

Germany.

 

[Clay Diggins]

The Bagger, Germany

Winner winner!

You can pick up your 3 points at the next meeting Alex!

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[Hefty1]

They say this one is bigger

 

[Hefty1]

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Bagger 293 in the Hambach brown coal mine, 2008


Bagger 293, previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB293, is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF, formerly an East German Kombinat. It owns or shares some records for terrestrial vehicle size in the Guinness Book of Records. Bagger 293 was built in 1995, one of a group of similar sized 'sibling' vehicles such as the Bagger 281 (built in 1958), Bagger 285 (1975), Bagger 287 (1976), Bagger 288 (1978), Bagger 291 (1993), etc.
It is used in a brown coal mine near Hambach in Germany. It is called Bagger 293 by its current owner, RWE Power AG (the second-largest energy producer of Germany). It was called RB293 by its former owner, the brown coal company Rheinbraun, which since 1932 was already a daughter company of RWE (but during an internal reshuffle in 2003 merged with another daughter company to form RWE Power AG). Manufacturer TAKRAF generally refers to it as an excavator of the type SRs 8000.
[h=2]Statistics[edit][/h]Bagger 293 is 96 metres (314.9 feet) tall (highest terrestrial vehicle, size shared with Bagger 288). It is 225 metres (738.2 feet) long (same as Bagger 287), weighs 14,200 tonnes (31.3 million pounds), and requires five people to operate. The bucket-wheel itself is over 21.3 metres (over 70 feet) in diameter with 18 buckets, each of which can hold over 15 cubic metres of material.
It can move 240,000 cubic metres (8.510 million cubic feet) of earth per day (the same as Bagger 288).