The Bagger 288 shall forever stand as a testament to mankind's unwillingness to bow to the greatest threats against humanity such as asteroids from space nuclear power.
Link hopping and came across a picture of this with it's name. Curious so decided to Google. This was not what I was expecting, but I'm also not disappointed
I'm here from the year 2022. The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. I remembered the triumph of the Bagger 288, and have returned seeking the Bagger's protection for all of Earth's residents. The fate of humanity depe-
@@chrissennfelder7249 actually send the bagger 288 to the frontline to dig trenches or some shit. sure he could probably be taken out by a single rocket but watching the thing roll up would be kinda dope nontheless
I sleep soundly at night, content in the knowledge that Bagger 288 stands ready to do extreme and brutal violence in the name of the defence of mankind. Bagger 288, I salute you!
I think it's time for the true internet OGs responsible for this classic to return to the stage given the fact that the Bagger 293 now exists and is even bigger and more hateful than the 288
@@nopenothappening2242 It is a bit complicated, as Bagger 293 has started to take anger management courses so that their hatred won't affect them in day to day life and can be laser-focused on what ever threat there is to humanity. So the median level of hatred is a good bit lower, but in combat the hatred is much much stronger.
I come back to this video every now and then, just to pray to Bagger 288 and offer it praise, so as to keep it satisfied, and to delay it’s inevitable turning on us and it’s destruction of our world as we know it.
It will not though it's mind is filled with hatred its there to safeguard all of mankind and if it ever met one who went against mankind it would demeat them
Years ago, when I first saw an image of the Bagger 288, I honestly thought it was concept art for the Sci-Fi Channel's Dune Miniseries. When a friend told me it was a real photo, I didn't believe them and though he was having a go at me. What's really amazing is how long each one takes to make, and then to assemble. It's amazing what us humans can do.
Here I am 13 years later and still LOVING this video! It's funny how just like when we were kids we walk into our old house years later and realize we had a distorted view of how big it was, back when this video came out, it SEEMED like it was in high definition! :-)
spooky luffy It contains an artificial mind, filled with hatred, violence is its sole vocation. Its seething wrath and urge for blood are fueled by searing hate. Any pearson who gets in its way is soon-to-be de-meated.
@@mrmaniac3 Song was mentioned in " In popular culture" section of eng Wikipedia : "Joel Veitch's project Rathergood has a song entitled "Bagger 288" on their 2009 album ''Spongs in the Key of Life''. It was deleted in march 2019 but You can still find it in edit history of the article.
"Don't get too proud of the technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force." - Darth Vader
How has this level of awesomeness existed for 11 years without coming to my attention? This I do not understand. Ah well, better late than never! I humbly welcome this supreme being of beings, the mightiest of the mighty, the one, the only, Bagger 288 as humanities very own, and completely non-alien overlord!
This song is a masterpiece! Even tho i will forever be brain-dead and mentally unstable i can truly say this is beautiful. And dont even get me started on that melody.
Sadly the bagger 288 has been beat in size even though only slightly, by the bagger 293. still the thought of 6 things about this size raoming around is really really fucking terryfying
I've just got back from a bike tour up the Rhine. I added 30 miles to the trip just to see the wild Baggers roaming and it was so worth it. I definitely saw the 288, but sadly couldn't be sure exactly which one it was.
This video is still some of my favorite internet absurdity ever. I remember it at times randomly ever since it came out. 12 years later I still come back to watch it.
+Shining Armor It's the divine protector of all mankind, and the ultimate weapon against any and all threats to humanity. It's our lord, our savior, the perfect creation.
@@swunt10 Doom robots and Godzillas lay around it, all defeated When suddenly from deep in space arose the final champion The slaying of leviathans just could not be repeated The future mankind now rests with bagger 2-9-3.
I remember like it was last year, when the Bagger 288 went on a rampage and the leaders of the world sat at a table to discuss how to stop this steel leviathan and then the leader of the Germans stood up and proposed to build the Bagger 293
I merely saw the thumbnail for it and immediately rewatched this, then rewatched the Guy Collins animation, and THEN watched the Half As Interesting video.
Tim The Traveller? Has it also previously used this song? :) Latest video had clip when talking about Bagger 293 and of course had to come to listen this.
Dude you almost killed me with this video clip. I did not expect hard-core techno, and when I saw the fox jumping and constantly punching her head in to the ground, I fell off my chair and start to scream, and laugh... When monkey appeared and screamed I almost died. Nice job!
Und wenn wir eine Maschine zum Flechten von Blumenkränzen erfinden würden... der Rest der Welt würde es als innovativen Stahlhelm sehen. So ist das halt :-)
TheMaddinHD wie es ein anderer Nutzer so schön beschrieb: Raubbau-Equipment. 100 davon und wir könnten damit ganze Staaten umgraben und um ihre Bodenschätze bringen ;-)
OMG.. I just saw the new Hunger Games movie (Catching Fire) and guess what I noticed in 2-3 quick scenes extant in District 12 (Mining!!) ... Yup!!! Thumbs up if you catch a glimpse of... the BAGGER 288!!!
You can't find any music videos dedicated to an excavation machine these days.
What has the world come to
Hard Hat Harry - Construction. You're welcome.
The Bagger 288. Yup, now that was an excavator.
* sip *
Every day we turn further from the light ☹️
Titanen des Erdreichs you fuck
What worries me is that the Germans have at least 287 more somewhere
Don't worry, they aren't all that big... Most are just 5000tons...
@Sockosophie Who is we? You also German?
@Sockosophie oh das ist gut. Ich hab zwar keine Ahnung wie weit mein Stammbaum reicht aber Ostpreußen und Niedersachsen sind für 100 Jahre drin
@Sockosophie EINIGKEIT UND RECHT UND... achne, wir sind hier für ein anderes Lied
@Sockosophie glaubt Ihr das?
I love how this is still the first result for Bagger 288, after nearly 15 years
Let's keep it this way.
The Bagger 288 shall forever stand as a testament to mankind's unwillingness to bow to the greatest threats against humanity such as asteroids from space nuclear power.
Link hopping and came across a picture of this with it's name.
Curious so decided to Google.
This was not what I was expecting, but I'm also not disappointed
Can confirm, mission still accomplished
It's now been 15 years.
sometimes I just return for this song with no particular reason. it has some kind of magic to it.
It serves as a symbol of hope in humanity's darkest hours.
same xDD
Nostalgia for the year 2009, you want the feelings of comfort back that you had back then.
I live near one of the mining holes so I see it everyday when I drive to work. Never fails to amaze me although I see it everyday
It is a kind of magic!
i have no reason to doubt the accuracy of this songs lyrics.
best comment
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True
this is a piece of internet history
It breaks my heart to know that I have lived nearly a decade without knowing that this song exists!
I lived a full decade without seeing this
@@YoumuGamingFR same
Yet here we are now...
What the hell - this was not the place I expected to find the new hope for Canada!
Woah, it's Frei
The most amazing fact about this thing is that it only takes 5 people to operate it.
...What.
Sats german efficiency.
Literally the whole thing I'm up searching for. T/y
Legend has it, those 5 people are only there to beg it to serve us good, for the Bagger 288 contains an artificial mind.
And two of those are holograms.
I'm here from the year 2022. The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. I remembered the triumph of the Bagger 288, and have returned seeking the Bagger's protection for all of Earth's residents. The fate of humanity depe-
Help us, Bagger 288. You're our only hope.
And now we've got a war in Europe. We truly are in need of a hero like the Bagger 288.
Based
@@chrissennfelder7249 actually send the bagger 288 to the frontline to dig trenches or some shit. sure he could probably be taken out by a single rocket but watching the thing roll up would be kinda dope nontheless
May Bagger bless you. 🙌
I drive past the Bagger quite regularly. And to this day, every time I think of this song.
I pray you are not de-meated
Massive respect.
It is just biding its time. Make sure your will is in order.
after seven years, i still come back here....
same
best face for your comment xD
...on monthly basis...
me too!
Me too. Every once in a while I just need to give it a listen.
I drive by these behemoths nearly every week. Feels very 40k when you see it luring on the horizon.
I sleep soundly at night, content in the knowledge that Bagger 288 stands ready to do extreme and brutal violence in the name of the defence of mankind.
Bagger 288, I salute you!
Fun fact: the screaming, hysterical animals seen in this video were filmed the moment they were told that humanity built the Bagger 288.
lol
I think it's time for the true internet OGs responsible for this classic to return to the stage given the fact that the Bagger 293 now exists and is even bigger and more hateful than the 288
bigger, sure, but is it *really* more hateful? i'm not so sure.
@@nopenothappening2242 I wish I could react or post photocomments this is a good one.
But 288 will always serve....
@@nopenothappening2242 It is a bit complicated, as Bagger 293 has started to take anger management courses so that their hatred won't affect them in day to day life and can be laser-focused on what ever threat there is to humanity. So the median level of hatred is a good bit lower, but in combat the hatred is much much stronger.
the picture shown at 1:32 is actually Bagger 293
I like to think that there are at least 287 more of these around the world, to ensure the security of our planet against the doom robots.
Nah, there's only 7 (258, 281, 285, 287, 288, 291, 293) made. 288 refers to length.
@@teslashark So I'd be Bagger 8.5?
@@mzmadmike probably closer to 0.085, as it's in meters.
@@teslashark so, it's got two big brothers?
@@ShuRugal Hard to say whether they're bigger or smaller, because 293 is lighter?
OKAY SO IM TRYING TO FIND AN EDUCATIONAL VIDEO ON THE BAGGER 288 AND THIS IS WHAT I GET?
XD
+Sans Clawson EDUCATION !! YOU HAVE WHAT YOU SEARCHED ! XDDD
+BOI What else do you need to know? He protects us against godzillas, robots and beelzebub himself. Praise the Bagger 288!
+SubSurge Lmfao ! ! ! I never laughed so hard in my life till I saw this video! ! !
You got schooled!
No kidding. The audio track screams “Nutcase Whack-job edited and uploaded”. I think that’s the worst audio ever recorded
soon to be "de meated" still gets me after 5 years
I fucking cackle at that line every time, so glorious
11 years later
Why Is Your PFP A Highly-Eccentric Sub-Orbital Trajectory In Kerbal Space Program?
Still gets me bro
People who live in villages in areas where coal deposits are found will get to feel the wrath of the fossil fuel industry.. so yea, it’s accurate
I thought they said germany was not allowed to make weapons of mass destruction?
We aren't allowed. It is a Bagger, you know? Totaly harmless. *cough*
Technically it's strip mining equipment.
Juan Herrero the Pit dug by this monstrosity is visible from Space so yeah - if we made more of those we could easily strip-mine the entire Planet
@@Exodon2020 I wonder what will happen to the place when the coal runs out. Artificial lake?
Juan Herrero Either that or reforestation. We don’t just leave them empty
I come back to this video every now and then, just to pray to Bagger 288 and offer it praise, so as to keep it satisfied, and to delay it’s inevitable turning on us and it’s destruction of our world as we know it.
Praise the Omnissiah
It will not though it's mind is filled with hatred its there to safeguard all of mankind and if it ever met one who went against mankind it would demeat them
But we have to find out how fast it goes around Nurburgring and Top Gear test track.
8.58 hours and 4.7 hours.
Faegan White 8.58 DAYS and 4.7 DAYS
FTFY
CJ Chatham thanks but nope, (2.83km) / (0.6km/h) = 4.7
artman40 it's BIGGER THAN THE TRACK
Top speed btw is 10km/h that is 6,2mp/h
sacré machine !
Son père la machine! ^^
+ZeratoR SON PEEEEEEERE !
Bagger 288 !! Bagger 288 !!
J'te déteste, j'vais la mater en boucle now !
+ZeratoR #ZeratoRArmy
+ZeratoR Oui !
This has to be the most Quintessential UA-cam video ever to exist.
Germany doesn't build Jaegers to fight Kaiju. It builds the Bagger 288!
totaly true
To be fair, drinking jäger is still an essential part of it
And they of course blast this song from massive loudspeakers as they face off against the Kaijus!
If the Bagger 288 existed in Pacific Rim then it wouldn't be a movie about defending humanity but conquering the Kaijus' world :Ü™
Nyerguds I’ll bet with that big shovel on the end it could deliver a hell of a slap
Went to Google and searched largest vehicle and wanted to watch a informative video about it. But I found something far greater
Saw this monstrosity on Google so decided to see how it looks in action. Came looking for silver and found gold.
friend: So what kind of music do you listen to?
me: It's complicated
No, no...
me: It's rathergood.
Or you could say gabber.
@@nemkoo damn still people in this comment section
@@stachjansen2619 man you were watching a 10 year old MASTERPIECE
It is now 2018, and this is still some of the finest meming on the internet
2020
@@Schwiegermutter 2021
2021 professional meme reviewer here, this meme has still yet to be surpassed and I personally believe it acts to safeguard all mankind.
@@beardedchimp 2021 and now it’s bagger 293
I'd actually watch this anime
You Mean.. Neon Genesis Evangelion? It Got Intense After Anno Added EVA-288.
It exists it's called Getter Robo
The manga was better.
It's not _quite_ an anime, but they do show up in Nier Automata.
This is without a doubt the greatest documentary ever created.
Years ago, when I first saw an image of the Bagger 288, I honestly thought it was concept art for the Sci-Fi Channel's Dune Miniseries. When a friend told me it was a real photo, I didn't believe them and though he was having a go at me. What's really amazing is how long each one takes to make, and then to assemble. It's amazing what us humans can do.
We on the left need to defeat and dismantle Bager 288 and all his kin. It amazing what humans cand do if we don't do it.
The contrast between the adorable voice that sings most of it, and the lyrics is perfect.
After 10 years, I'm still here watching our biggest defender and savior
12 now XD
We on the left need to defeat and dismantle Bager 288 and all his kin.
Here I am 13 years later and still LOVING this video!
It's funny how just like when we were kids we walk into our old house years later and realize we had a distorted view of how big it was, back when this video came out, it SEEMED like it was in high definition! :-)
I came here for info on the worlds biggest vehicle.
Begger 288 ?
spooky luffy It contains an artificial mind, filled with hatred, violence is its sole vocation. Its seething wrath and urge for blood are fueled by searing hate. Any pearson who gets in its way is soon-to-be de-meated.
spooky luffy The biggest is the Bagger 293.
sachadavid So, it's a Chaos Titan? Run away! And call Inquisition!
+Hyper *Beep beep beep beep
Nobody home ;)
This video changed my life
me too
I come back to this every now and again just because it’s permanently stuck in my head. THANKS GUYS.
Hooray! You're welcome!
@@rathergoodstuff Wow, I didn’t really expect a reply
Wikipedia sent me here, no damn kidding.
Krono283 was it listed as a reference?
What the actual fuck?
@@mrmaniac3 Song was mentioned in " In popular culture" section of eng Wikipedia : "Joel Veitch's project Rathergood has a song entitled "Bagger 288" on their 2009 album ''Spongs in the Key of Life''. It was deleted in march 2019 but You can still find it in edit history of the article.
@ma kra lol lol lol
I'm shocked Michael Bay hasn't turned this into a Transformer yet :-p
Huh?
ua-cam.com/video/loWWXq_Bz74/v-deo.html
Ghost Rider beat him to it
@@TrveIrrlicht you know thats a fan made thing right
@@Roberto_Gonzalez6802 No, dandeentremont
is Michael Bay's private UA-cam account
would have been too overpowered....
If the Bagger 288 was a woman, I would buy her a steak dinner and introduce her to my parents.
Ur drunk go back to bed
Who says she isn't? Maybe that sort of attention would save the world from her murderous rage.
this comment is ahead of its time
"Don't get too proud of the technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force." - Darth Vader
Those are some awfully big words, coming from someone who got 1v1'd by his son. No one has ever 1v1'd the Omnissiah and lived to tell the story
Who said the Bagger 288 can only destroy *one* planet?
"After all this time?"
"Always"
That's thing is a vehicle. It fucking moves. It's fucking awesome
A English comment what a surprise
+Gaming Central Exactly my thought
And the big thing on the front. OMG IT SPINS!
I live in west germany, about 10km away from the Tagebau... to see these massive machines sitting on hills and in deep holes is awesome
Bagger 288:
Because for humanity even our excavation machines need to look like a fucking Kaiju
Dont you mean Jäger?
*****
I guess that depends on how you look at it
***** I see what you did there.
bagger 288
kek
Pog
Thank you ma’am
ok
An unlikely place to find you huh
How has this level of awesomeness existed for 11 years without coming to my attention? This I do not understand. Ah well, better late than never! I humbly welcome this supreme being of beings, the mightiest of the mighty, the one, the only, Bagger 288 as humanities very own, and completely non-alien overlord!
watched tim travellers last video had to lissen to Bagger 288 once again.
This song is a masterpiece! Even tho i will forever be brain-dead and mentally unstable i can truly say this is beautiful. And dont even get me started on that melody.
Bagger 288!
At last, I've found it...
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!
Bagger 288 once saved a sinking ship, and threw it into space.
He also once saved a rocket from flying away by drowning it
It actually is, called Metroplex from Transformers: Cybertron
Sadly the bagger 288 has been beat in size even though only slightly, by the bagger 293. still the thought of 6 things about this size raoming around is really really fucking terryfying
Horst Weinert if you fck with us we'll send them to destroy your home (town) =)
+Horst Weinert I believe the Bagger 288 is bigger in volume, but 293 is either longer or taller? I really dunno though.
Well 293 is heavyer as well. But 288 is way more legendary
Why don't we put these things on NASA's Crawler-Transporter and have like 3 Bagger 293s just riding around for some reason.
Omg that sounds awesome
I've just got back from a bike tour up the Rhine. I added 30 miles to the trip just to see the wild Baggers roaming and it was so worth it.
I definitely saw the 288, but sadly couldn't be sure exactly which one it was.
Well, it was the one with blades covered in gore, obviously.
@@minos2282and defending mankind
288 meter one
This video is still some of my favorite internet absurdity ever. I remember it at times randomly ever since it came out. 12 years later I still come back to watch it.
Xbox One is a Ford.
PS4 is a Volkswagen
Wii U is a Toyota.
PC is the Bagger 288
It's really slow, and hard to move around?
A real PC would be a starship
+Shining Armor
It's the divine protector of all mankind, and the ultimate weapon against any and all threats to humanity.
It's our lord, our savior, the perfect creation.
Slow and heavy and big but has like zibillion power
Now that I work at a grocery store, I too am a bagger...288.
Bagger 293 also exists and is even larger than Bagger 288
@@swunt10
Doom robots and Godzillas lay around it, all defeated
When suddenly from deep in space arose the final champion
The slaying of leviathans just could not be repeated
The future mankind now rests with bagger 2-9-3.
the puns
I remember like it was last year, when the Bagger 288 went on a rampage and the leaders of the world sat at a table to discuss how to stop this steel leviathan and then the leader of the Germans stood up and proposed to build the Bagger 293
who else is here because HAI released the Bagger 293 video?
Maybe
Perhaps
I merely saw the thumbnail for it and immediately rewatched this, then rewatched the Guy Collins animation, and THEN watched the Half As Interesting video.
@@verdatum never heard of guy collins. just watched that animation though. so adorable!
7 years on and i still keep coming back
Funny.
I stood on one of those gigantic machines once.
Believe me or not;
When you stand there, you literally feel like *_GOD_* !
11 years after publication, this steel acid trip is still in everyone's recommended... I've got no idea how the algorithm works any more...
So it happened again, after another three years... my confusion remains unchanged despite the passage of time.
Eight months this time, I suspect the Doom Robots from the Future/YT Algorithm is becoming more determined...
This calls for a BAGGER 288!!
Thanks Tim
Tim The Traveller? Has it also previously used this song? :) Latest video had clip when talking about Bagger 293 and of course had to come to listen this.
Yes. Same Tim and his Ferropolis video starts with it. Nice.
Dude you almost killed me with this video clip. I did not expect hard-core techno, and when I saw the fox jumping and constantly punching her head in to the ground, I fell off my chair and start to scream, and laugh... When monkey appeared and screamed I almost died. Nice job!
Og comment
Its beautiful this comment
All these years later, and I still find myself making references to this lol.
This video changed my views on life.
2023 and I'm still watching this video regularly.
Ah, I've reached that odd part of UA-cam again. Long time no see, odd part of UA-cam.
Best part of UA-cam.
This is what the internet refers to as the "Giant Ass Saw Thing".
2019 and this song still is a banger
Banger 288
Yep. It's my go-to song during times of troubled waters.
Still watching on New Year's Eve night 2024
Good for you
this...this was beautiful!
all these years later and its still a banger
Hell yeah!
I imagine this was created by dropping several kilos of extasy and watching a documentary on coal mining
It kinda looks a little more like the results of taking a shit load of PCP!
After 11 years I'm comeback here
BRING BACK 2009 UA-cam!!!!!! Seriously, who makes videos like this anymore? I miss this so much.
I think now more than ever, the world needs Bagger 288.
I still don´t get why my firewall and anti-virus let this video pass...now I just need to re-watch it again...
It's awesomeness defeated your Firewall.
God I miss when youtube was basically mostly this
wtf did i just watch?
Art.
Pure autism in all its glory. Oh bagger!
Why doesn't this have 100s of millions of views? Humans be crazy.
They were all de-meated by the Bagger 288 before they could watch this.
A song about hope, brotherhood and world peace
Yes, absolutely right
The singing and piano is just so emotional and beautiful.
... Then the beat drops.
NEVER FORGET! EVEN IN THE YEAR 2021, I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS VIDEO!
It's 3 am and here I am watching this video after so much time. 10/10 2000-2010 was the best decade for youtube.
why im keep coming back here
Ahhhhhhh those innocent internet days when things were fun and innocent
For eleven years now I listen to this at least 2 times a year.
It's.
Still.
AWESOME!
Bagger 288 is proof that we are capable of warhammer 40k tech.
It is now the year 2020 and we need it more than ever
Wir bauen einen bagger. Nennen ihn schlicht bagger 288. er soll kohle abbauen und das tut er. Und das kommt dabei raus. O.o
einfach grandios oder nicht? :D
Ich komm immernoch nicht drauf klar ...
Ein Monster.
Und wenn wir eine Maschine zum Flechten von Blumenkränzen erfinden würden... der Rest der Welt würde es als innovativen Stahlhelm sehen. So ist das halt :-)
TheMaddinHD wie es ein anderer Nutzer so schön beschrieb: Raubbau-Equipment. 100 davon und wir könnten damit ganze Staaten umgraben und um ihre Bodenschätze bringen ;-)
Had to search for this video that’s stuck in my brain for a decade just to comment that we reached 293 buggers
after watching this i feel emotionally disturbed. if anyone needs me ill be in my safe place.
There are no safe places.
Mr. Loowiz touche
turd ferguson
Bagger 288 will find you wherever you may hide
slowjoethebest then i wont hide. ill face that monstrous beast. and i shall be victorious...
Said no living being, ever.
The God Machine, praise be the Omnissiah!
I shed a tear Everytime this song plays . Magnificent 😁
best song ever
Memed around the world. A Legend.
Not gonna lie, that lullaby of a song is really catchy.
I almost forgot to watch this today
i just came here to see the bagger 288 do a bit of excavating, i did not sign up for this
hahahahh
There can be no more perfect happy hardcore track.
OMG.. I just saw the new Hunger Games movie (Catching Fire) and guess what I noticed in 2-3 quick scenes extant in District 12 (Mining!!) ... Yup!!! Thumbs up if you catch a glimpse of... the BAGGER 288!!!
the capital is screwed.
Never mind that, what about its starring role in the original Borderlands game!
Mack Siddons in about 5 years. when it slowly makes it's way over there...
President Snow is soon to be de-meated...
I ask myself why it wasn't used in the fight
Now we know where ChatGPT will finally reside.