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World's Largest Machines Ever Built

Liebherr T 282B: Largest Earth-hauling Truck in the World

This monster machine Liebherr T 282B is a large earth-hauling dump truck designed in 2004 by a German manufacturer and became the largest earth-hauling truck in the world. The top level model is driven by a 10.5 ton, 90 liter , producing 3650 horsepower (2700 kW).

Features

Weight: empty - 203 tons; maximum capacity - 365 tons; maximum operating weight - 592 tons

Length: 14.5 m long

Height: 7.4 m tall

Wheelbase: 6.6 m

Top Speed: 40 mph or 65 kph

Bagger 288: World's Largest Digging Machine

This machine is the largest digging machine in the world. The bucket-wheeler excavator named Bagger 288 (Excavator 288) is built by the German company Krupp. More specifically, it is a mobile strip mining machine. It is the largest tracked vehicle in the world at 13,500 tons. However, Bagger is powered from an external source and is more correctly described as a mining machine which can be moved, while the crawler-transporter was built as a self-powered, load-carrying vehicle.

Features

Height: 95 m tall

Length: 215 m long

Weight: 13,500 tons

Crawler-Transporter: 2nd Largest Tracked Vehicle in the World

The Crawler-Transporter is a tracked vehicle used to transport the Saturn V rocket, the Saturn IB rocket during Skylab and Soyuz, and now the Space . It was designed by Bucyrus International and built by the Marion Power Shovel Co. at a cost of US$ 14 million each. When they were built, they were the largest in the world. The German Bagger 288 excavator is now the largest tracked vehicle in the world.

Features

Height: 20 ft or 6.1 m to 26 ft or 7.9 m

Length: 131 ft or 40 m

Width: 114 ft or 35 m

Weight: 2400 tons 2,700 short tons or 2,400,000 kg; 5,400,000 lb

Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60: World's Largest Machine That Can Move

This is the world's largest machine that can move. It was shut down after 13 months of operation due to energy and political reasons. The cutting height is 60 meters, hence the name F60. With a length of 502 meters, it is described as the "lying Eiffel Tower". F60 is the series designation of five overburden conveyor bridges used in brown coal (lignite) opencast mining in Germany. They are the largest movable technical industrial machines in the world.

Features

Length: 502 m long

Width: 240 m wide

Height: 80 m tall

Weight: 13,600 metric tons

BHC SR-N4 Mk-3: World's Largest Non-military Hovercraft

This mammoth machine is the world's largest hover to date. BHC SR-N4, as shown above, is the world's largest non-military hovercraft, carrying 418 passengers and 60 cars. A hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicle (ACV), is a craft, designed to travel over any smooth surface supported by a cushion of slowly moving, high-pressure air, ejected downwards against the surface below, and contained within a "skirt." Hovercrafts are used throughout the world because they are unique among all forms of in their ability to travel equally well over land, ice, and water.

C. World's largest machine underneath the water...

Emma Maersk: World's Longest Container Ship Ever Built

This huge vessel is the longest container ship ever built in the world and as of 2008 - it is the longest ship in use. It is able to carry around 11,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) which is about 1,400 more containers than any other ship is capable of carrying.

Knock Nevi's: World's Largest Ship Ever Constructed

This machine is the largest supertanker. It is also the largest machine that can move long distance. The Knock Nevis is a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) owned by the Fred Olsen Production of Norway. It was previously a supertanker and as such held the record for the world's largest ship. The vessel is longer than the Petronas Twin Towers, one of the world's tallest buildings, at 452 meters or 1,480 ft.

Features

Length: 458.45 m or 1,504 ft long

Width: 69 m wide

Height: 30 m tall

Weight: 564,763 tons

E. And the world's largest machines in the air...

One machine can do the work of hundred ordinary man,

No machine can do the work of one extra ordinary man.

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