I need to dig a pond in my backyard.... yes, this oughta do it.....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

[texas1928]

1. Alright ROBOT WARS!!!

WOOOO HOOOO!!!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Imagine what some aliens would think in their cheap little

flying saucers..... they would hoof it to the next galaxy.

[NoSheep]

22. spewwwwwplltt!!!!

:spray: :rofl:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

28. Tell me, are there no sheep because there are cliffs, or because sheep

do dumb things?

[The empressof all]

2. Can I borrow it when you're done?

I have about an acre of wild blackberries to get rid of.

[hobbit709]

7. An acre of wild blackberries?

Where are they. Blackberry cobbler by the ton. Yum!!!

[The empressof all]

18. They are an invasive pest here in PNW

Blackberries are everywhere in Western WA. They grow like weeds and take over everything.

They are delicious though. But most go to waste as you can't get to the inside of the bramble without a machete.---Even then it can be painful to really pick them.

I pick around the edges and let the birds and critters that live underneath them feast.

I am clearing quite a bit though this summer as they are growing up and over my drive way.

It's like driving up through the thorns on the road to Snow White's castle just to get to my house.


I do Blackberry Pie, Blackberry Muffins, Blackberry Bars, Blackberry Milk Shakes, BlackBerry Ice Cream.......Stopped doing Jam a few years ago.

[Wcross]

23. Blackberries are a weed here in Tennessee too!

My whole fenceline is blackberries, if I didn't hay the pasture every year I would be overrun!

[BikeWriter]

3. WHOA!

[Lilli]

4. That sucker is prolly 10 times bigger than our house lot

When you're through with it send it to East Tennessee? That could turn our place into lakefront property in about 10 minutes.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Well..... they had to move it, it is in Germany... they had to move it

about 27 miles... notice the dirt spread on the highway so that it wouldn't make it's own road through it. Kinda amazing what them German engineers are capable of.

[Options Remain]

10. hows it handle 0-60

I would love to take it for a test drive downtown...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. One Third of a mile/hour is all you can squeeze out of it.... I guess

you could attach a fueltanker full of nitrous to get a wee bit more.

[ladjf]

8. Better check with your neighbors first.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. If I can find them after I'm done.... lol......

[lildreamer316]

12. But what is it FOR???n/t

[democracyindanger]

15. Strip mining, I'd bet

[ooglymoogly]

16. its the awwnolds new hummer

[HysteryDiagnosis]

17. Here you go.... I found a perty good link.... you can see it at work

in one of the shots here.....

http://www.gadgetopia.com/2005/06/18/BigMachineIdentified.html

[democracyindanger]

19. Naturally, a chickenhawk would have to chime in

From the comments:

I say we arm one, put troops on it, and drive it through Baghdad.

dz

Responded to nicely:

dz; Lovely idea, then crafty Iraqi’s can just snipe the silly Americans off of it.

droptone

[lildreamer316]

20. Ohhh. Thanks. n/t

[BattyDem]

13. WTF is that????

That does NOT look like a "nice" piece of machinery! :scared:

[ooglymoogly]

14. homeland security...nt

[BrklynLiberal]

21. The facts about it are brain numbing....

The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
It weighs over 45,500 tons
Cost $100 million to build
Took 5 years to design and manufacture 5 years to assemble
Requires 5 people to operate it
The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material.
A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.

[uppityperson]

24. That is so cool.

wow,it looks alien. That is just amazing. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

25. I've got a powerpoint project showing this thing with a D-8 Cat

Dozer caught up in the wheel... yes, way up in the air and it doesn't look photoshopped... if I knew how to get the individual pics out I would post a couple... let me see if I can manage it.... I'll keep you posted......

[HysteryDiagnosis]

26. Got it.... here you go, don't know if this is photoshopped, but if it

isn't, well.... damn.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

27. Another shot......