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The Silver Blade
Specifications:
Height: 67 m (220 ft) Boom Length: 61 m (200 ft)
Bucket capacity: 79 cubic m (105 cubic yards)
Bucket load: 145 tonne (160 tons)
Machine weight: 6,400 tonnes (14,000,000 lbs)
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Big Muskie
Pecifications:
Hoist and Drag Rope Size: Five Inch Diameter
Rope Break Strength: 1,050 tons
Rope Weight: 46.2 lbs/ft.
Revolving Frame Width: 83ft
Revolving Frame Length: 150ft
Swing Motor Size: 1,250 hp.
Number of Swing Motors: 10
Drag Motor Size: 2,000 hp.
Number of Drag Motors: 8 per drum
Number of Drums: 2
Hoist Motor Size: 2,000 Hp.
Number of Motors: 10
Total Machine Hp. At peak demand: 62,600 hp
Bucket Size: 220 Cu. Yd.
Load Rating: 320ton
Bucket Weight (empty): 230 ton
Digging Depth: 185ft
Height to top of Boom: 222ft (22 stories)
Hydraulic Oil Capacity: 26,000 gal
Machine Weight: 14,000 tons.
It took 340 rail carloads and 260 truck loads to get the machine from Milwaukee to Ohio
Manufacturing of the machine started in 1966 and the machine was ready to dig in 1969.
The boom was filled with inert gas at 100 psi. If a crack in the boom developed, pressure would drop setting off an alarm.
The Band shown in the 2 pictures above is the McConnelsville Maching Band. If I counted right, there are 80 members present
When the machine was shut down in January of 1991, it had removed 608,000,000 cu-yd of overburden.
Cost of the machine in 1969 dollars was $25 million.
In 1976, The machine was removing 8,000 yards of overburden per operating hour!
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
HOLY COW! Those are huge
LOL
More. :)
More of the Big Muskie
Engineroom:
This picture shows the machinery floor of Big Muskie. I believe that the hoist drums are shown in the left of the pictures with the remaining machinery for swing and other functions. The drag winches would be in front of the hoist winches. The gentleman standing in the middle of the floor gives you an idea of the size of this machinery. I spoke to an engineer that was with B&E and he said that this floor became warped and rippled from the strain placed on it during digging. With 32,000 hp for the drag alone, I can see how this could happen.
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Well, that out does my biggest GameBoy ever idea... (Get a headache and neck cramp like never before!)
Heres a little helicopter
Mi-26 "Halo"
Country of Origin Russia
Builder MIL
Date of Introduction 1983
Role Heavy cargo-transport
Similar Aircraft Mi-6 Hook, HH-3E Jolly Green Giant
Blades Main rotor - 8
Tail rotor - 5
Rotor diameter 105 ft (32 m)
Length 111 ft (33.8 m)
Length (rotors turning) 40 meters
Length (fuselage) 33.5 meters
Width 8.2 meters
Height 26 ft., 5 in. / 8.1 meters
Tail Rotor Diameter 7.6 meters
Cargo Compartment Dimensions 12 meters - Floor Length
3.3 meters - Width
Height variable from 2.9 to 3.2 meters
Weight 49500 kg - Normal takeoff weight
56000 kg - Maximum takeoff weight
28200 kg - empty weight
20000 kg - Load-lifting capacity
(100+ equipped troops, armored vehicles)
Engine 2 x 11,400 shp Lotarev D-136 turbines
Maximum speed 295 km/h
Cruising speed 183 mph / 255 km/h
Range 1200 km with Aux Fuel
800 km with maximum fuel reserve
475-800 km with maximum loading
Service Ceiling 4600 m
1,800 m Hover (out of ground effect)
4,500 m Hover (in ground effect)
Fuel 11,900 liters Internal
Standard Payload 20,000 kg Internal or external load
over 80 troops, 60 litters, or
2x BRDM-2 scout cars, or 2x BMDs, or
1x BMP or,
1x BTR-60/70/80 or,
1x MT-LB
Armament Usually none
Survivability/Countermeasures Main and tail rotor blades electrically deiced.
Infrared signature suppressors on engines.
Infrared jammers and decoys; flares.
Self-sealing fuel tanks.
AVIONICS The avionics and navigational package, a Doppler weather radar, and a fully functioning autopilot allow for day/night all-weather operation.
Crew 5 (2x pilots, 1x navigator, 1x flight engineer, 1x loadmaster)
Cost
User Countries At least 5 countries - India, CIS
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
And a little jet plane :)
Antonov AN-225 "Mriya"
Specifications
Type: Heavy Transport
Powerplants: Six ZMKB Progress Lotarev D-18T turbofans with 229.50kN of thrust each
Max take-Off Weight: 600,000kg
Max Payload (internal or external): 250,000kg - 275, 000kg?
Wingspan: 88.4m
Length: 84m
Speed: 800km/h
Height: 18.1m
Cargo Hold: Length: 35.97m; Width: 6.4m; Height: 4.39m
Range with Max Payload: 4,500km
Range with Max Fuel: 15,400km
Crew: 7
More info:
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Look at the set of wheels on that plane!
Also: how's Big Musky moving? Does it have caterpillars?
Lol
Last edited: Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 1:46:16 PM
Good question Hugobrain if you find out please post it here! :)
Heres a nice thing... Not really a machine but still pretty nice! ;)
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/ttd/index.cfm
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Last edited: Monday, December 13, 2004 at 6:38:37 AM
I decised to post more! This time Nasa Pics.
Here they build them.
Some other nice pictures can be found in following sites:
http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/html/misc/sca/page1.asp
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?engine_version=5&nr_of_rows=13&sort_order=photo_id+asc&first_this_page=0&page_limit=15&&placesearch=Kennedy%20Space%20Center
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Wow, I've never seen two jets humping before ;)
BIG BRUTUS
West Mineral, Kansas
STATS:
Bucyrus Erie model 1850B
Second largest electric shovel in the world
16 stories tall (160 feet)
Weight 11 million pounds
Boom 150 feet long
Dipper capacity 90 cu. Yds (by heaping, 150 tons -- enough to fill three railroad cars.)
Maximum speed.22 MPH
Cost $6.5 million (in 1962)
Damn it would be cool to control big machine like that. You would feel superb powerful with that kind of beast :)
They have pretty good reason to call it "Big" Brutus.
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
World's largest gun
More information about its history
http://www.5ad.org/gun.htm
http://user.mc.net/~hawk/biggun.htm
Compare the guy to bullet. Man that guy are so small.
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
WOAH!
In answer to Hugobrain's question, Big Muskie like most large draglines was a "walking" dragline. The machine normally sits on the ground on its tub or belly. This gives the huge mass some stability and prevents it from sinking into the ground. To move there are 2 large walking pads that rotate on huge eccentric shafts. These walkers lift the whole machine and put it down 10 to 15 feet away. They can operate independently for turning. Not the fastest thing in the world but these machines are set up so moving is as minimal as possible, they move hundreds of thousands of BCM's (bank cubic meters) before a move is required. There is a book called Giant Earthmovers - An Illustrated History, by Keith Haddock which was published in the U.S.A. If you want more info on these kind of machines. Sorry about being longwinded - I love big machinery because I work in the mining industry.
Dan McNeil
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You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.