Hi Tools = Worlds Largest Machines Ever Built 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place !

Hi Tools = Worlds Largest Machines Ever Built  1st, 2nd & 3rd Place !

See the world's largest/biggest machines ever built on land, on water, under the water, on land-water-ice and on air.

A. World's largest machines on land...

1. 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 diesel engine, 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

Costs: US$3.5 M

2. 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

3. 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 Apollo Soyuz, and now the Space Shuttle. 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

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