Taking Sides: Cranes vs. Diggers

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By popular demand! Let the war of the big boys' toys begin!

(Feel free to post pictures to support your choice.)

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.metoffice.com/construction/crane.jpg

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jacksons-camping.co.uk/kidstuff/diggers/d513062c.jpg

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

As was pointed out on the source thread, cranes are beautiful and elegant, but diggers have all the raw power. Also, I read Dougie the Digger as a child. :-)

x-post, aw yeah, I want one.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

When I was 3, I got a *huge* toy crane for Christmas. In fact, I probably still have it somewhere.

(maybe I should get all my Meccano out of the back of the wardrobe sometime and build one)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

My Dad used to drive a JCB

But I still hate Nizlopi

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/0395169615.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Diggers, obv.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

I really love the giant, moving cranes they have on docks:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Hamburg.CTA.Altenwerder.BungaRaya.wmt.jpg/800px-Hamburg.CTA.Altenwerder.BungaRaya.wmt.jpg

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

And surely, this the best image ever - a CRANE, on a DOCK, lifting a STEAM TRAIN:

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/images/TGSA05183_m.jpg

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005BTL.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

vs.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d090/d09058713oq.jpg

― marcus (d90), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

In sixteen forty nine, to St George's Hill
a ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the peoples' will
they defied the Landlords, they defied the laws
they were the dispossessed, reclaiming what was theirs

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Write in vote: Krupps

http://ucl.ac.uk/~zccax08/pimp_ride.jpg

http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/property=BlowupData/id=134694.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.steveng.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pictures/glasgow/crane.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I really love the giant, moving cranes they have on docks:
Get san andreas, you get to drive one and pick up cars.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jeeeeesus, what is that monster thing with the giant saw wheel? That is, like, the most amazing mechanical object ever made. Even better than the giant mountaineating tank thing that was in that television programme about SUPER MASSIVE FUCK-OFF MACHINES.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Is the Krupps thing a digger? A World Destroyer? I love it.
xpost!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

It think it's from Germany, Land of Ideas!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Buy one here: http://www.jettamachinery.com/used_machines/krupp_excavator.html

Doesn't say how much, but it comes with $2.5 million worth of spare parts, and they'll will cover your travel expenses for your inspection trip if you decide to purchase.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and it's a slightly smaller model.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Are the Krupps about to fight in the second picture? That would be unbelievably cool.

― robster (robster), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Krupp Bucket Wheel Excavator available for sale. Suitable for Strip Mining, at a fraction of its original cost. Machine has been in storage but can be moved to new location. Mining Equipment of this type rarely comes on the open market."

i have found a new career.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh, it's not glamourous, but when the shit comes down, you'll all want to be my friend.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Only 5,000 hours on the clock. Old lady used to drive it up and down the earth's crust to pick up her milk in the morning.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha
"lady driven"

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost, re your new career rrrobyn, wouldn't you rather have this guy's job?

http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/property=BlowupData/id=134668.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Also, look at it's arteries! These things look like something out of Akira.

http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/property=BlowupData/id=134666.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, they EAT TRUCKS (that's a bulldozer stuck in the teeth at the top):

http://static.flickr.com/13/15610913_dee4eb3ddd_o.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

They're amazing! And those treads... it could crush a whole batallion of tanks without even feeling a speedbump.

What is it for? Digging out superhighways? Quick canal digging? World destruction?

x-post EEEP! truck certainly not even a speedbump!

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think Skynet sent them back in time to destroy John Connor.

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Here he is, cycling for his life:

http://talk.buybelowcost.com/groupee/forums/a/ga/ul/979106498/inlineimg/Y/earth_mover_4.jpg

I'm snagging all these links from a recent Ask Metafilter question if you want to do your own research into the machine that will bring the End of Days. this guy has the stats:

This is the largest earth mover in the world..... built by the German company, Krupp, and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine). It is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite.

Specifications:

~ 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.
~ It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long). There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back. It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour).
~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each)

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that might have been the thing that the presenter nearly creamed himself when he got to drive it at the end of Massive Fuckoff Machines on C5 last year.

I thought it was more mountainous, though. More like the Death Star in massivity. But from a different angle, that might be the beast.

I wish I had one. I wonder if I could give myself a mortgage on one.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. Ask Metafilter question.

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD.

I love this thing so much. I want to write a noise symphony about it. No, FOR it. No, WITH it.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is just sooo Truckasauraus...

http://talk.buybelowcost.com/groupee/forums/a/ga/ul/879106498/inlineimg/Y/earth_mover_5.jpg

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

It's almost anthropomorphised to look like a scary dinosaur reptile god (if you can use the work anthropomorphised to describe animal deities.)

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

This picture looks like the thing that the presenter drove:

http://talk.buybelowcost.com/groupee/forums/a/ga/ul/189106498/inlineimg/Y/earth_mover_2.jpg

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0203/columbiacrawler_ksc_c2.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Pshaw! Space Shuttle mover only 4 giant tank treads. Krupps Destroyer of Worlds has 8.

Where is the love for cranes?

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I love how this photo is clearly two of these machines in a FIGHT TO THE DEATH (note watching throng):

http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/property=BlowupData/id=134694.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

What about GIANT CRANE WITH CLAW?

http://static.redjupiter.com/images/65Comet/theClaw.jpg

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://rupert.krapp.org/blog-uploads/leviathan-1.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Is that one on a ship? Just when I thought cranes couldn't get any cooler...

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

This picture is stupidly big, so I'll link:

http://www.sailinganarchy.com/fringe/2004/images/Skandia%20and%20crane%20ship%203.jpg

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/dave225/pwn3dcrane.gif

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen that one before - didn't they get a bigger crane to pull both the first crane and the van out of the water?

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah - there's a thread on ILX somewhere for it...

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

CRANES WHAT DANCE.

http://www.masscranedance.org/

Bristol gets all the cool stuff.

― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 19 November 2015 11:34 (ten years ago)

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