Talk:Bagger 288

Awesome!

Math?

Article states "It weighs 45,500 tons, which makes it heavier than RMS Titanic (46,328 tons)." That would make it less heavy and not heavier, coming up short by about 828 tons.

Ownership

Bagger 288 was built by a company now owned by TAKRAF. Bagger 293 relates to this company. Krupp has nothing to do with it?--Kimse84 (talk) 15:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New location

It seems to be at 51.050352,6.517945 now. I'd adjust the coordinates, but can someone confirm that the machine there is the Bagger? --Tardis (talk) 03:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm that it is the Bagger 288. Google Maps say so.--Kimse84 (talk) 15:54, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Twin Sister

From looking at google maps there appears to be 8 of the monsters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.38.69.51 (talk) 20:13, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Google maps often copies Objects over multiple Pictures. at Frankfurt Airport there are 3 Planes starting in 200m distances. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.13.186.1 (talk) 17:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That´s correct. And concerning the BWE´s asked for, i can´t tell them apart. The only valuable information i have is that there are currently 9 machines in all, 4 big ones (200000+ ton class) and 5 smaller ones (110000 ton class). HTH --212.23.103.86 (talk) 22:51, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Laymans units

I thought the laymans unit for volume was olympic swimming pools not football fields dug to some arbitary depth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.75.111.12 (talk) 14:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, even if it were a valid "layman's unit", it's ambiguous. Is it football or American football? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.80.213.146 (talk) 05:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Power supply

So it is electrical, externally powered... how is it supplied on operation ? How was it supplied for it's move ?--Musaran (talk) 00:20, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to the German page linked at the bottom of the article: "Der Bagger hat für seine Stromversorgung eine Kabeltrommel mit einem Kilometer Stromleitung an Bord, die unterwegs immer wieder an andere Einspeisepunkte angeschlossen wird." My translation: "For its power supply, the excavator carries a 1-kilometre cable reel, which has to be repeatedly plugged into different power feeds when on the move." Quite a disappointment, considering the heroic picture a certain tribute music video painted of it. ;) --81.154.240.24 (talk) 19:47, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if they gave it too much power when they let it out of the pit it would eat Germany. They might tell the public the pit is a mine, but really we know it's to trap them until they need to be unleashed on Godzillas or doom robots from the future. Herr Gruber (talk) 15:34, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History

I noticed there isn't much of a history/motivation section on why the Bagger 288 was created. May I propose the following section?

The leaders of the world sat down around a secret table.

There was a threat to human kind they must defend against.

To fight against Godzillas, they just simply were not able.

Doom robots from the future could be met with no defense.

The leader of the Germans stood with a triumphant roar,

"I've got it! We will build a machine that's totally great!"

"A massive steel leviathan with blades covered in gore"

Beelzebub himself will fear the Bagger 288!

In addition to being factually correct, it adds some much needed lyricism to Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.106.215.236 (talk) 00:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Random Reply: Godzilla's don't exist though and neither do Doom Robots from the future so it's kind of pointless to paraphrase from the song. So may I ask why post it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.4.180.132 (talk) 06:33, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry I didn't know you'd been to the future to confirm there weren't Doom Robots. As for Godzilla's, I believe the Japanese wiped them out in the eighties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.98.95.79 (talk) 08:06, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It states that doom robots from the future come back in time. How? Time travel doesn't exist and humans can't advance because of the sheer lack of knowledge so Doom robots are a definate no. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.4.181.115 (talk) 01:15, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was reverted for trolling, so let me ask again, more neutrally

Could someone please explain, if this is real and not just a fabrication, why their is no "Deutsch" on the left as an interwiki link to this supposedly German machine? I'm not passing judgment one way or another, I would just like to know. 82.234.207.120 (talk) 14:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

German wikipedia has an single article on the entire bagger series. --Leivick (talk) 15:28, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, arbitrary skepticism is so grand. Here's Tagebau Hambach with a whole bunch of excavators visible. Here's Tagebau Garzweiler. Still think they're fake? Herr Gruber (talk) 17:30, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I saw one as a child. It's indeed incredibly big; it also leaves incredibly large scars on the landscape. SeverityOne (talk) 10:08, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

German wikipedia admins fear that wikipedia will soon run out of space so thats why they regularly delete articles --81.63.122.120 (talk) 21:15, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Biggest?

"Bagger 288 superseded NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle, as the largest land vehicle in the world at 13,500 tons." however, at Bagger 293 article it is stated that "It is 225 metres (738.2 feet) long (same as Bagger 287), weighs 14,200 tons (31.3 million lb), and requires five people to operate.", so isn't that the largest based on weight? Slsh (talk) 11:11, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

288 was completed in 1978, 293 in 1995. You missed "when it was completed" at the start of the sentence; it was then, it isn't anymore. Herr Gruber (talk) 06:10, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And even back then the crawler was way smaller than the former bagger-types then. Bagger 260 e.g. weight was/is 7800 tons. --212.23.103.86 (talk) 22:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can this thing beat bealzebub?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

thiz video claims that the bagger 288 can beat belzeboob

is this true? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.84.248.216 (talk) 18:37, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]