Do Construction Companies Have Stronger Vehicles?
When it comes to sheer raw power of a vehicle and capabilities to absolutely destroy something with it’s power alone, do construction (destruction) companies have more powerful vehicles than the military?
Tanks are powerful, no doubt, but how do they compare with massive bulldozers, or gigantic earth moving vehicles? How about massive vehicles designed to level a 5 story building? I know there was a machine that took over 5 years to build called the Bagger 288, which weighs about 60,000 tons and dug up about 5 feet of earth per minute. (Not sure on the actual numbers, but it was close to that)
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January 15th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Yes, I believe most of the world’s largest/strongest vehicles are used in the construction/mining industries.
The Bagger 288 which you mention is the heaviest land vehicle in the world, though it is not self-powered. It has to be supplied with electricity from external sources.
The Crawler-transporter is one of the largest self-powered vehicles in the world. It is used by NASA to transport the Mobile Launch Platform, plus a space vehicle on top. Only two have been built, in 1965, and were designed for use with the Saturn V rocket (which carried the Apollo spacecraft to the moon). The same two crawler-transporters are now in use to transport the space shuttle, and NASA plan to keep them to use with the new space vehicle that will eventually replace the shuttle.
Interestingly, the Bagger 288 is built by Krupp, a company that produced tanks for Germany during WWII. The largest tank ever concieved was designed by Krupp, but was never built: The Landkreuzer P1500 Monster. This tank was so huge that it wasn’t even called a tank, the special designation ‘Landkreuzer’ means land cruiser. (As in the ship type, cruiser)
The specifications called for a mass of 1500 metric tons. Later analysis has shown that this was too optimistic. If built, it would have had a weight of around 2500 metric tons.
The P1500 was designed to carry the largest artillery cannon ever built, an 800 mm gun also designed by Krupp. This gun was in actual use during WWII but was instead mounted on a railway car.
A smaller land cruiser, the P1000 Ratte (Rat) was designed to carry a cruiser turret with two naval artillery cannons. It was also never built.
January 15th, 2010 at 1:37 am
If you are talking about the massive 1 and 2 of a kind mining and excavation machines – then yes. These machines are far more powerful than anything the military has.
These machines are very expensive (in the millions), very specialized (can only do what they were built for), and very rare (many of them were built specifically for the company that paid for them).
But none of these machines can withstand a round from a tank
January 15th, 2010 at 6:17 am
Yes, the T 282 B Mining truck could flatten a a building, and its about 3 stories high!!!!!!
talk about big!
January 15th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Nope!
January 15th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Does a bear Sh-t in the woods?