Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60

36 points by fahrradflucht 1 year ago | 11 comments
  • defrost 1 year ago
    Is this the right thread to mention Bagger 288?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

    Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pb00bMg1iE

    Pop Culture Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

    • unwind 1 year ago
      The 293 [1] was already linked in the article so ... no? :)

      [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293

      • defrost 1 year ago
        Heh. The late model is (hopefully) more impressive .. but the key question is did it get it's own song and cult following on the intertubes? :-)
      • tigerlily 1 year ago
        That's a 16.56 MW bucket excavator! But the conveyor draws 27 MW. Definitely needs its own substation infra. Quite amazing at that size that electric is the way to go.
        • defrost 1 year ago
          I've spent some time in mining, electricity for heavy excavators has been a thing since the 1970s, even the 100 tonne trucks have had electric motor drives since then (albeit powered by onboard diesal engines that generate the power to banks that run the individual per wheel drive engines and regen charge from braking.

          The next great leap forward is projects such as the "Infinity Train" that aim to recover electricity from the annual lowering of almost a billion tonne of iron ore per annum to sea level from an inland height of some 600m above MSL.

      • flohofwoe 1 year ago
        It was impressive driving by those behemoth digging machines when I travelled by train to Berlin in the 90's. Now two and a half decades later most of the East German lignite mines have been turned into lakes surrounded by nature. Definitely a change for the better :)
        • thih9 1 year ago
          Google street view from the excavation site, showing other machines and F60 further in the distance: https://www.google.de/maps/@51.5812302,14.2375135,3a,68.8y,1...
          • butterknife 1 year ago
            Virtual guide to PRODECO KK1300. Audio in Czech only.

            https://www.sdas.cz/prohlidkaprovozu/kk1300/

            • dimman 1 year ago
              Imagine Parker Schnabel borrowing one of these for a season, that’d be something.
              • jaystraw 1 year ago
                considering there's only one of them, i'd imagine getting replacement parts is just as hard as getting common parts out bush here heh. minus the reality tv stuff of course