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Now Thats a Truck!
This is a picture of one of the haul trucks at a mine I visted in Canada - it carries 220 tons of material. They will have 26 of these on site for just of their 8 jobs sites . It was delivered with 2 semis one in front and one in the back.
Albian sands (Royal Shell) that owns it has 80 of the 350 ton trucks on the north side of there site and 60 on the south side. Albian is one of about 20 sites that are actively mining oil and is considered one of the smallest. It takes one hour to go around the site in a pick up. This site has 50 years left at the current rate. It takes 3-5 bucket loads from the shovel to fill it. As I have said before, we invaded the wrong country!  
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WOW!! what model is that?
looks like one of ours can fit in the back of one of those!! 
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Check this out...
A Caterpillar 797 Mining Truck costs $3.4 million, weighs 1.38 million lbs., has a 3,370 HP engine and can carry 363 tons. What happens when one tries to carry 600 tons?  
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that's gonna require one big mofo-ing floor jack!
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They use Caterpillar. You think the haul trucks are big, the shovels are rediculus as well...
  all for this... 
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This is Big Muskie, the largest scoop ever built. All that remains now is the bucket. it's about a 30 minute drive for me to the site
Extreme Shovels ................... 
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That's nothing. Check out a "Schaffelradbagger" in Germany. You could easily park two pickups in just one scoop on that rotating wheel. In comparison, that thing in Canada is a toy.
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wow that thing is crazy what would they use it for?
Muskie was big. she was in Mcconellsville Ohio Taken form the website Big Muskie's bucket was large enough to hold 12 automobiles. The entire machine weighed more than 150 Boeing 727 jetliners, and the dragline used more electrical power than a city of 100,000 people. 
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The German excavator is used in coal mining. They have a few working in the same pit. I visited the site on a college field trip (Imperial College, London). We walked right up to one of them. Yes, the are big. Really big. In fact, the biggest in the world. Big Muskie is pretty impressive, too.
There were no dump trucks in the German coal pit. Everything was moved with conveyors, then eventually to trains after processing. Also, get this. Since the coal deposits are very widespread, there are many towns over the coal. As the pit marches across the land and reaches a town, they dismantle the entire town and rebuild it at the back side of the pit, on reclaimed land. And their environmental controls are so strict, they even relocate ant colonies. It's truly amazing what lengths we'll go through for natural resources.
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I just found the coal pit on Google Earth. Pretty big, ain't it?
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wow that's really pretty amazing. you were lucky to get to see this in person
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