Ultimate Earth Mover

[Jimbo]

got a link to this thread from a bandmate (and recently graduated mechanical engineer)

http://talk.buybelowcost.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/994105582/m/491104728/r/5931013421

[Bryan]

holy mother of god.  That's unbelievable

[raptor]

The only thing bigger than that is Bryan's Ego.
LOL

[Jerry]

I think someone is really good with Photo Shop and has way too much time on their hands.

[William Grim]

Jerry wrote:

I think someone is really good with Photo Shop and has way too much time on their hands.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.  Assuming they were real, how the hell would they get them over hills and rivers?

I read a post saying they had to divert entire rivers for these too move.... yeah, like that would take less than the supposed 5 years it takes to build one of these.

Plus, when I looked at the "photos", there was definitely an odd lighting difference that hit me.  It's gotta be fake.

[Ross Mead]

It's gotta be fake.

What do you mean fake?  I've got one of those babies sittin' in my garage right now...

 :-P

[Bryan]

raptor wrote:
The only thing bigger than that is Bryan's Ego.
LOL

Watch it Scotty boy

[Bryan]

I took some (very brief) time to see if I could find anything about the company/product on the net.  Didn't find anything very solid other than this news bulletin.  You people are all smart, do some research one way or the other before saying "it's fake"  I'm still looking so right now it's inconclusive.

http://www.mhca.mb.ca/HeavyNews/february24-05-bulletin.pdf

edit 1:
I'm bored here's some more images after doing a bit more research, the pages are in German..
http://images.google.de/images?hl=de&lr=&q=tagebau&btnG=Suche

edit 2:
Here's some more on them under their real name, Bucket Wheel Excavators.  I've yet to find the "bam" evidence but I'll get ot it eventually
http://cms2web.fam.de/english/Products/Opencast%2520mining%2520systems/Bucket%2520wheel%2520excavators/

edit 3:
I finally found the page of the manufacturer for that product, it's not simply "Krupp" but ThyssenKrupp you can go here for more information. I've yet to find a page that shows that exact one we were looking at, but I think it's safe to say that there are items just like it out there.
http://www.krupprobins.com/mining/mining.htm#Bucket%20Wheel%20Excavator

edit 4:
I finally found it.  If you look at this pdf on the companies website on page 4 you will see a picture of the machine in question
http://www.thyssenkrupp-foerdertechnik.com/F/HOME/Images/05_1_1001_e7.pdf



Is it just me or has the nature of the internet evolved from "believe everything you read/see because only those that really know what they are doing put information on it" to "be careful what you believe" and further on to "don't believe anything until you verify it" and finally we're at "don't believe anything..ever...in fact don't bother verifying it it has to be fake..but dont' bother checking"

kind of disgusting

[Jerry]

Well, the company pdf doesn't prove that it isn't some kind of company concept drawing.

What might be more telling is the person that the photo is attributed to, Peters Jochen, is some kind of animator:

http://www.peters.jochen.de/

No smoking gun, but there is plenty of photo shop art pieces on his website.

BTW, I was just making a conjecture for conversation. I really didn't care that much about the subject to put any effort in to "researching" it.

[Brad Nunnally]

My mom works at a foundry, she said she has seen things like this at mines that used to be around here when our coal mines were a big business. She said she has never seen anything as large as that, but stationary pieces of equipment that resembles it. Never underestimate the power of a bored person, if someone got bored enough I could see them making something like this. Still a movie or official specs would dispell all the "fake" talk.

[Bryan]

It doesn't take interest in a topic to research it...sheer boredom was more than enough for me!

[Brad Nunnally]

ModernDayDarwin wrote:
It doesn't take interest in a topic to research it...sheer boredom was more than enough for me!

Beware the Bored White Kid !!! (see my AIM Profile.)

[William Grim]

ModernDayDarwin wrote:

Is it just me or has the nature of the internet evolved from "believe everything you read/see because only those that really know what they are doing put information on it" to "be careful what you believe" and further on to "don't believe anything until you verify it" and finally we're at "don't believe anything..ever...in fact don't bother verifying it it has to be fake..but dont' bother checking"

kind of disgusting

I did enough research to not find "Krupp" right away.  All I found were forum posts about the thing and someone mentioning that rivers had to be moved.  It doesn't make sense that rivers would have to be moved and that would somehow take less time than building these on-the-spot.  That was plenty of "research" for me.

[Jerry]

ModernDayDarwin wrote:
...sheer boredom was more than enough for me!

Hey, anyone who is bored and would like to program one of our new robots or play with the Department's new poster printer come and see me.  

 

[bill corcoran]

The thing is an earth mover!  That's what it does!  Looks like it could "move some earth" into the river, which would essentially act as a dam, leaving a nice big channel around it for the river to flow.

I hope version 2.0 will be able to fly, and have laser beams.