It blows my mind how they make operations like this work financially. The outgoings must be astronomical. I take my hat off to the people behind all this that’s for shore
It doesn't pay off financially at all. The energy company RWE has contracts with the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, and they are paying for it. There are big protests against these injustices, because for this mine people are still deprived of their homes and villages and forests are destroyed forever.
@@HighlandLaddie Greasing is automatic for the most part. Used to work on these beasts. In the main tub is a greasing system that pumps it all around the machine. Just wheel a 44 gallon tub in once a fortnight. Plenty of other maintenance though. 👍
It absolutely blows my mind every single time I think about the fact that in the big picture of things, we are so insignificantly small, yet we can theorize and construct such massive feats of engineering and accomplishment. We may be small, but our spirits and ambition are unconquerable.
We are small compared to what? To lifeless rocks and dead planets? The universe can be as large and host as many colossal planets as it wants, none of it is even 1/1,000,000,000,000 as important as humanity. We are the only known organism that can create civilization and technology.
You start at the wheels, then progress up, the you build the top and ropes, star building the actual bucket last and hang it on the ropes. But you'd probably be better off using a crane
Considering all things? I'd say the first part ever made, that's on this machine has to be an electric motor of some kind. A lot of them are off the shelf items, by nature, and unlike switches, which get made in runs, or wire, which is on order, electric motors can sit on a shelf as much as a decade. I have on four separate occasions, found electric motors from 1990's in my orders. :)
Just the sound of it operating...imagine hearing this at night and you can just catch a glimpse of it in the dark and you see some lights but listening to that noise and the rattling, I would be so terrified! O___o But seeing it in the daylight, it looks cool yet intimidating/ scary yet interesting!
I had a dream a few months ago where I was in huge factory and I was surrounded my gigantic machinery and they were all moving all around me and I was just so tiny and everywhere I went I felt like I was gonna get killed by the machinery, also the whole factory was smokey/dust in the air with dim lights making it hard to see..hard to put dreams into words sometimes but it was very scary, al
I'm reminded of the scene in Gladiator where they see the coliseum. "Have you ever seen anything like that before? I didn't know man could build such things"
That's brought about the cop26 save the environment programme. Apparently we have no more than 11 years to end all coal production or it will be a catastrophic situation for future generations
@@Sl4yerkid god didnt will this, this was mankind’s doing. God gave man every tool to progress and instead we cut corners and doomed the next generation
How long did it take for this to become something inside someone’s head to being an actual thing? And how many engineers were needed to even BEGIN to figure out how to put this all together
@Trevor Ingram but here is not inertia for mokeys (generic wheel). The force you need to spin the wheel is far greater than the force to stop it here on earth and there are a lot of factors involved on this nongeneric wheel. Gravity (of a very non-hollow heavy wheel) + a lot of friction (gearbox) + very low rotational speed will slow down the wheel very fast. I think the speed its the biggest reason why it going to stop quick. I think the first comment was taking about the inertia when you start to spin the wheel not when it stops.
Rotational inertia, or moment of inertia, is the rotational equivalent of mass; this is the quantity that we want to measure to see how much energy it takes to accelerate a wheel. Angular Momentum = moment of inertia X angular velocity Kind regards to all.
That's in my city actually in the coal mines of Ptolemaida my father works in the bucket below, I fixed its AC when I used to work in the electricians over there. This exact bucket is called S6 my mum learned how to drive it before being moved to E3 bucket which actually broke down
@@mstrmren nah mate this is in Greece in Ptolemaida thats where it was recorded, this is in the Kardia coal mine and you can see the factory of Kardia in the back, plus the signs on S6 are the same as this one I literally went on this to fix its AC
Looks bigger in real life ! Video makes it looks small. Once I drove under it in a car. This thing is like a huge factory building, takes a few minutes to drive around it , when it is parked.
It's the huge, slow excavator paired with the colorless distant land, spanning further than our eyes can see. The strangeness of stumbling upon this huge beast is magnificent, yet terrifying. It's almost *poetic*
Interesting how the buckets have chain bottoms, I guess this helps clear the bucket as it reaches dump point onto the belt, still, seams like the buckets are almost empty at every pass.
Yes but i bet it digs at full capasity speed depending on how hard the coal is! if it had been say loose sand he could have taken bigger buckets. but if he take to big chunks of hard coal it can be trouble with say hte emptying of buckets ore the transport belt ore somthing. by only scraping the surface the coal get crushed to required size suitable for the end user.
Closed buckets are used for digging the dirt above the layers of coal, for maximum efficiency, while chained ones are used to sift through the coal pieces
I thought the same thing, I work by tractors of all different kinds and you can barely hear your coworkers talking to you specifically when you got 4-5 of them doing stuff at the site
Yes, but I cannot find a lot of data. But I can tell you this, in the pit mine Hambach 40 Million tons of coal are mined every year. This means sice 1979 the mine produced about 1.76 Billion tons of coal.
@@brandonlilly5738 Also people. Here in Germany, a lot of towns and villages had to relocate because of the coal industry. Well, either you have energy or nah, i guess.
@@brandonlilly5738 Most countries have a requirement that mines rehabilitate the land after they have mined the resources they are after. Often times they become wildlife preserves afterwards and they spring back to life VERY quickly.
@@illuminate4622 Coal is better than nuclear. Nuclear waste is terrible. Coal can be clean, when carbon scrubbers are used to clean emissions and waste is stored in deposits under Earth. Don't trust eco terrorists, they are only after profit and self gain, not the purpose of optimizing problems.
Why is this so satisfying to watch? Just this gigantic motor with a big wheel of scoops made of hardened steel slowly chewing into the side of a hill 😌😌😌
funny to see one operating after seeing one in Germany abandoned for like 50 years sitting there, if you see up close all the things and mechanisms and can only imagine how it worked
After watching an abandoned exploring video of one is these industrial machines I had to see one in action. This is an amazing massive piece of equipment. I see the conveyor belt where the coal falls on to. After it’s scooped up Where does it go on the conveyor belt ?
I have this large transformer named Metroplex from the Cybetron series. I never exactly knew what he was supposed to be and just though he had a large ass saw as his weapon. Looks like he was one of these things since his saw looks exactly like that bucket wheel.
Imagine being at the controls of this. What an intimidating feeling of power.
I mean, it’s pretty much a big shovel
@@bdgrey "big" is an understatement. I can't imagine what it would feel like to control something that huge.
Being able to vote for whom I want to be in power makes me feel powerful, too
@@timg2727 that’s what she said🤣....okay I’m done.. I just couldn’t help it.. go back to your meaningful conversation ... peace
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The engineering in this is mind blowing
Agreed
I wouldn't say that its mind blowing but it is blowing my mind.
its like a crane but conveyer belt built inside
I find giant machineries terrifying and fascinating at the same time. Subscribed!
Thanks friend
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@@MegaMachinesChannel ok
Same
@@daliaam1110 he wasn’t talking to you
I find this somewhat post-apocalyptic
The dirt, the lack of color and the gigantic plant in the back makes it so, I agree.
ots more like pre-apocalyptic, that shit has the potential to lead to the downfall of civilisation as we know it...
@@TheDrumminguy Fuck off, fearmonger.
@@Nyx_2142 sounding pretty fragile there, buddy. What are you scared of anyway?
same
It blows my mind how they make operations like this work financially. The outgoings must be astronomical. I take my hat off to the people behind all this that’s for shore
It's all depends on the coal reserve and stripping ratio of the mine
Idk coal is one of the worlds largest industries so
Sure*
@@Giove83 you are welcome
Have a nice day.
It doesn't pay off financially at all. The energy company RWE has contracts with the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, and they are paying for it. There are big protests against these injustices, because for this mine people are still deprived of their homes and villages and forests are destroyed forever.
The rattling chains sound so menacing, it's kinda scary. Like it's coming to get you without a fuss.
My son recently took a liking to heavy machinery of all types. Tbh we're both having a great time watching this one!
I think we know his career path! I'm so proud of our son.
How long took this to assemble...mind blowing
Friend : what is your job dude?
Me : moving the mountain
removing*
My job gamer joke just playing and i know that big truck
No this is not a joke mountain are distroy day to day
@@zonra4089 good
*eating
Maintenance Planner: Time to grease it. How much grease we gonna need?
Maintenance Tech: Yes
How many drums and broken fittings would you find on this beast.
@@HighlandLaddie Greasing is automatic for the most part. Used to work on these beasts. In the main tub is a greasing system that pumps it all around the machine. Just wheel a 44 gallon tub in once a fortnight. Plenty of other maintenance though. 👍
-How many overused jokes you use?
-Yes
@ Yes. That was all I could think of. It is lame af. Its hard to think when your high as 10 people...
Ha ha too right ! I’m guessing a lick of paint would be costly as well.
It absolutely blows my mind every single time I think about the fact that in the big picture of things, we are so insignificantly small, yet we can theorize and construct such massive feats of engineering and accomplishment. We may be small, but our spirits and ambition are unconquerable.
We are small compared to what? To lifeless rocks and dead planets? The universe can be as large and host as many colossal planets as it wants, none of it is even 1/1,000,000,000,000 as important as humanity. We are the only known organism that can create civilization and technology.
At some point,,, someone had to weld, bend, cut the first piece of metal for this thing.
Where in the hell do ya start.
👍😵🤯
Cool vid!!!
You start at the wheels, then progress up, the you build the top and ropes, star building the actual bucket last and hang it on the ropes. But you'd probably be better off using a crane
Considering all things? I'd say the first part ever made, that's on this machine has to be an electric motor of some kind. A lot of them are off the shelf items, by nature, and unlike switches, which get made in runs, or wire, which is on order, electric motors can sit on a shelf as much as a decade. I have on four separate occasions, found electric motors from 1990's in my orders. :)
No different than a big erector set.
And how the hell do you even begin to diagnose a malfunctioning part
@@andrewjensen8189 lmao true it prolly has computers to recognize the prob
Just the sound of it operating...imagine hearing this at night and you can just catch a glimpse of it in the dark and you see some lights but listening to that noise and the rattling, I would be so terrified! O___o But seeing it in the daylight, it looks cool yet intimidating/ scary yet interesting!
Agreed
You should play beware v0.0.8p its a car horror game about a mine just like your comment
Makes me think of War of the Worlds
I had a dream a few months ago where I was in huge factory and I was surrounded my gigantic machinery and they were all moving all around me and I was just so tiny and everywhere I went I felt like I was gonna get killed by the machinery, also the whole factory was smokey/dust in the air with dim lights making it hard to see..hard to put dreams into words sometimes but it was very scary, al
I'm reminded of the scene in Gladiator where they see the coliseum. "Have you ever seen anything like that before? I didn't know man could build such things"
truly an 1000-thr "earthmover"
Literally an earthmover
I love the atmosphere these put off, it's like a steam punk industrial era machine, but in the future.
The second industrial era.
That's brought about the cop26 save the environment programme. Apparently we have no more than 11 years to end all coal production or it will be a catastrophic situation for future generations
@@nyakwarObat As god wills it
No...as human stupidity brings it about. Stop the nonsense
@@Sl4yerkid god didnt will this, this was mankind’s doing. God gave man every tool to progress and instead we cut corners and doomed the next generation
@@jeremuky uh, well god decides every action of man.
How long did it take for this to become something inside someone’s head to being an actual thing? And how many engineers were needed to even BEGIN to figure out how to put this all together
It's a wheel with buckets on it, that dumps shit onto a conveyer belt. It's not anywhere near as complicated as you think.
@@burieddeepbetween ok kid😂
@@burieddeepbetween literally this theyve been made since 1920 the only impressive part is the giant fucking diesel engine that drives it
@@cujoh946 ok toddler
@@burieddeepbetween took 5 years to design and manufacturer and 5 more to build it finally.so from scratch to finish product around 10 years.
ok, this would make one hell of a bad ass decepticon in Transformers
Is it me or i am impressed by how the mechanic design works
Maintenance of such a majestic man-made machine should be a nightmare, but this is truly breathtaking
Absolutely
Humans: we made fire, invented the wheel, we can work metal.
Let's make this:
The inertia of that wheel must be immense
This is not inertia.
@Trevor Ingram but here is not inertia for mokeys (generic wheel).
The force you need to spin the wheel is far greater than the force to stop it here on earth and there are a lot of factors involved on this nongeneric wheel.
Gravity (of a very non-hollow heavy wheel) + a lot of friction (gearbox) + very low rotational speed will slow down the wheel very fast.
I think the speed its the biggest reason why it going to stop quick.
I think the first comment was taking about the inertia when you start to spin the wheel not when it stops.
@@axatronx1721 the first comment is talking about momentum, they just mixed it up.
Rotational inertia, or moment of inertia, is the rotational equivalent of mass; this is the quantity that we want to measure to see how much energy it takes to accelerate a wheel.
Angular Momentum = moment of inertia X angular velocity
Kind regards to all.
@@HeavyMoonshine19 correct.
it looks like a monster
That's in my city actually in the coal mines of Ptolemaida my father works in the bucket below, I fixed its AC when I used to work in the electricians over there. This exact bucket is called S6 my mum learned how to drive it before being moved to E3 bucket which actually broke down
You sure? This is in Germany, not Greece
@@mstrmren nah mate this is in Greece in Ptolemaida thats where it was recorded, this is in the Kardia coal mine and you can see the factory of Kardia in the back, plus the signs on S6 are the same as this one I literally went on this to fix its AC
What’s the go with its tracks are they broken?
Yeap , this is Ptolemaida. The black hole in Greece
It is in Ptolemaida@@mstrmren
Looks bigger in real life !
Video makes it looks small.
Once I drove under it in a car. This thing is like a huge factory building, takes a few minutes to drive around it , when it is parked.
Dont let Tony beets see that
LMAO
good one.
It's the huge, slow excavator paired with the colorless distant land, spanning further than our eyes can see. The strangeness of stumbling upon this huge beast is magnificent, yet terrifying. It's almost *poetic*
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This monster is feeding the Greek 1600 MEGA WATT coal fired plant seen in the background. Those boilers are sure hungry.
This is in germany dude
German engineering at it's finest.👀👍🏽
Best engineering next to Japanese
Coal power plant is connected directly to the digger by a long conveyor belt, that's very convenient!
The excavator is crazy)))
Interesting how the buckets have chain bottoms, I guess this helps clear the bucket as it reaches dump point onto the belt, still, seams like the buckets are almost empty at every pass.
Yes but i bet it digs at full capasity speed depending on how hard the coal is! if it had been say loose sand he could have taken bigger buckets.
but if he take to big chunks of hard coal it can be trouble with say hte emptying of buckets ore the transport belt ore somthing.
by only scraping the surface the coal get crushed to required size suitable for the end user.
@@samkom33 Not to mention it must be a bit difficult to judge the distance
Closed buckets are used for digging the dirt above the layers of coal, for maximum efficiency, while chained ones are used to sift through the coal pieces
look at how mashed and beat up those treads are, wonder what it takes to make and repair that or even how long they last.
These monster machines always astonish me. Imagine trying to reverse park that.
no pb.Just remove cars and buidling around you :)
No parking? No problem. Just dig away a few buildings.
These things and huge draglines would make awesome movies. Monster machines taking over towns. This thing is pretty neat
This thing would chop a dragline straight up
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Bucket wheel, excavation coal mining, geology. Super atmospheric. ⚒️⚒️⚒️⚙️⚙️⚙️⛏️⛏️⛏️
It's surprisingly quiet for the amount of work being done.
I thought the same thing, I work by tractors of all different kinds and you can barely hear your coworkers talking to you specifically when you got 4-5 of them doing stuff at the site
I call dibs for when our society enters the Mad Max phase.
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Eh, it'd be useless. Too big, too slow, one explosive at the tracks and it's gone. Good luck maintaining it.
Lebanon's already there
Fuck
9:24 tiny CAT excavator helping out
suddenly the size of the earthmover in ultrakill sounds a lot more reasonable
Okay lets be honest, we ALL at one point wanted to work in a mine to drive things like this.
imagine coming into work one morning and then discovered you'd left the keys at home
I'm glad my dog is sitting with me right now or I'd be too scared to breathe. ok ok, call it off, I subscribed!
How the hell do you even do a daily inspection of this
Just get a bunch of tech-priests and pray that they dont convert it into another mobile weapons platform.
@AtomicRobot I was thinking the same thing. Also a heap of the chains in the buckets were also broken and hanging
And alle the teeths missing too! :O
@@MikaHusk as you see on the track marks it leaves in the dirt this excavator is still moving
If it ain't broke don't fix it
and the powerplant in the background. nice vibe!
Imagine what a bearing on that wheel would cost
Imagine what a bearing on that "turret" looks like :D One steel ball of the bearing is like a gymball!
Bearings 👈🏻 👉🏻Plural
tony beets in gold rush would love this machine xD
I would just like to say that I do not come from yt kids. This is simply the best thing i've seen all day.
An excavator so big you could live inside it.
I wonder if they've tracked how much material this thing has moved in it's lifetime. even to see a before after of the area would be impressive.
Yes, but I cannot find a lot of data. But I can tell you this, in the pit mine Hambach 40 Million tons of coal are mined every year. This means sice 1979 the mine produced about 1.76 Billion tons of coal.
@@theexchipmunk 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 this much can literally make a small city or village go disappear
@@ashutoshavasekar2260 More like six. litteraly.
Enough to make a second moon.
Looks like an alien tech from sci-fi movies
Imagine this thing chasing you down on the interstate, good times
Its gonna mine you down
Very scary indeed at 10 meters per hour
Dont let off the gas 😂
At an exhilarating 0.6 KMh as thats the top speed of the Bagger 288 BWE
I went to see the mines and this thing today, and it's simply incomprehensible how big that mine is, and how large those machines are.
That's honestly pretty interesting, but it also makes me kind of sad. I don't really know why.
Same. But I know why, all that land was probably home to an incredible ecosystem.
@@brandonlilly5738 Also people. Here in Germany, a lot of towns and villages had to relocate because of the coal industry. Well, either you have energy or nah, i guess.
@@brandonlilly5738 Most countries have a requirement that mines rehabilitate the land after they have mined the resources they are after. Often times they become wildlife preserves afterwards and they spring back to life VERY quickly.
@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 So why do you hate nuclear so much? You're asking for more coal mines with that.
@@illuminate4622 Coal is better than nuclear. Nuclear waste is terrible. Coal can be clean, when carbon scrubbers are used to clean emissions and waste is stored in deposits under Earth. Don't trust eco terrorists, they are only after profit and self gain, not the purpose of optimizing problems.
This would be a kickass decepticon bro
Why is this so satisfying to watch? Just this gigantic motor with a big wheel of scoops made of hardened steel slowly chewing into the side of a hill 😌😌😌
It kept the lights on at 🫵🏻 house…
Imagine standing in that little cabin near the buzz saw buckets, looking at the machine work away, that would be my dream
Extraordinaria máquina , que manera de devorarse una montaña entera
funny to see one operating after seeing one in Germany abandoned for like 50 years sitting there, if you see up close all the things and mechanisms and can only imagine how it worked
Earthmover
It's like a giant ferrous wheel! ima head to bed now..
Needs some maintenance from tracks to the teeth on the buckets.
Imagine how much skill is needed to operate this beast. It is amazing!
Man this is the best way to show the power of humanity
Waw incredible! I have also Bucket Wheel excavator videos!
THAT THING IS beautifully horrifying
I'm here from avatar movie
This thing as a mechanic looks like a piece. Might need to work on some stuff so it keeps running! Just saying! Hope no one gets killed
So awesome. Is this what’s called strip mining?
I want to see this excavator join hands with the Megatron.
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محد فهمك هههههه
PAPÁ EXCAVADORA de Cat y Liebherr. ... 😂😆😅
😉👍 buen video!
Look, they made the Giant Excavator monument from Rust into a real thing!
Man that is very scary mega machine i ever seen!!great job!!👍👍
yo can you put a 24/7 livestream of this beauty mining
What is that squealing noise in the background? Is it the wind blowing through the cables of the machine?
Its like a mountain of steel
When I look up massive excavators, I don’t want something comparable in height to a house, I want stuff like THIS BEAST
Giant beasts....💪💪
The Cat Excavator is like a Toy in front of this Giant😂
1:50 Those tracks have seen better days.
Look at the size absolutely amazing 😮❤
The maintenance crew left the site a while back by the looks of it, can't be bothered to fix shit, run it to it stops lol
Now that’s just a beautiful piece of machinery right there 😎
Okay.. no wonder my Lego version has rotation issues. I better rig the motor right by the wheel axle! DOH!
Hard to believe such a massive structure is actually a vehicle.
OMG, is this thing from Earth?
Of course, do you even live in mars?
The desolate wasteland left behind is immense
Great Video!🎥👍
So cool!!😍
This is great in x0.25 speed
I can hear the bad can and return rollers 😆
That's an absolute UNIT !
This thing mines the coal needed to generate electricity for half of Greece.
Imagine the immense amount of superiority when driving that thing
After watching an abandoned exploring video of one is these industrial machines I had to see one in action. This is an amazing massive piece of equipment. I see the conveyor belt where the coal falls on to. After it’s scooped up Where does it go on the conveyor belt ?
To a coal power plant
Gets loaded onto train carts and shipped throughout Europe
that thing is ridiculous 👍👍👍👍👍👍
That's how my wife is excavating my wallet. :|
Haa haa haaa haaaaaa haa
x)
what a boomer joke
Haha it could be worse... She could simply divorce you and still get the money.
So sad
PEAK SPLATOON GAMEPLAY
I have this large transformer named Metroplex from the Cybetron series. I never exactly knew what he was supposed to be and just though he had a large ass saw as his weapon. Looks like he was one of these things since his saw looks exactly like that bucket wheel.
Good stuff 👍👍👍
Nice view of the bucket wheel there...