Top 10 Biggest Vehicles Of All Time

as the world progresses the need for bigger machines arises from giant pieces of mining equipment and flying cargo fortresses - incredibly huge moving platforms transporting tons of equipment we went out to find some of these legendary Giants and put together the 10 biggest vehicles of all time bagger 293 if you've never seen this massive earthmover before then you would be amazed by its sheer size the bagger 293 is the largest land vehicle in the world and holds the Guinness world record it is the latest in a series of large earth moving excavators with this one being the largest of them all it was built by the German industrial company Tok Graf in 1995 it is a bucket-wheel excavator that stands a towering 310 feet tall and 722 feet long and weighs 14,000 200 tons the bagger 293 digs for low-grade coal used in steam electric power plants it has a huge 70 foot diameter wheel that spins its 18 1452 gallon bucket scooping up earth that it dumps onto a conveyor belt built into its boom arm it can move 218 thousand eight hundred eighty tons of material per day NASA crawler-transporter this is the biggest crawler transporter in the world it's amazing that something that was designed over 50 years ago is still the largest track vehicles ever made the crawlers unique features include the giant tracks or treads that propel the vehicle along there are a treads - per corner with each tread containing 57 shoes each shoe is 7.5 feet long and 1.5 feet wide and weighs 2,100 pounds the height of the crawler is 6 meters or 20 feet to 8 meters or 26 feet adjustable the top deck is flat and square about the size of a baseball infield 27 meters or 90 feet on a side to operator control cabs one at each end of the chassis are used to control all crawler systems SpMT almost like the NASA transporter but utilizing rubber tires and wheels the SpMT or self-propelled modular transporters consists of different modules with four five six and eight axle lines load capacity differs per version with a maximum up to 44 tons per axle line each module can be fitted with its own engine control steering system the modules can be connected side-by-side and/or head to tail to form large flat forms on wheels SPMTs have the possibility of 360-degree steering of the wheels this allows carousel inside way movements the vert deck height can hydraulically be adjusted by approximately 60 centimeters enable vertical lifting or lowering of the load due to their variety of combinations SPMTs can lift and move virtually every heavy load caterpillar 797b these large dump trucks have been in production since 1998 and our caterpillars largest and highest capacity dump trucks or often called a haul truck the engine in this beast has 3,400 horsepower and gets that from a 24 cylinder electronic unit injection quad single stage turbocharged liquid after cooled four-stroke diesel engine the cat 3 5 - 4 b HD the cat 3 5 - 4 b HD engine is a tandem unit consisting of 2 12 cylinder engine blocks coupled to operate as a single engine with a combined displacement of 6000 468 cubic inches the 797 series haul trucks are equipped with a rear axle mounted computer-controlled 7-speed planetary transmission with a separate lock-up torque converter it has a massive 380 ton rated payload rating cost this 5 million dollars each with the tires alone costing 42 thousand dollars each Bela's 75710 if you want to know what the largest haul truck in the world is take a look at the bell as 75710 this giant earthmoving machine that was built in 2013 has a conventional 2 axle setup but the wheels are double to 4 wheels per axle it needs 859 by a TR 63 inch tires it is so big that it utilizes a four-wheel drive four-wheel hydraulic steering system just so it can turn it has not one but two 16 cylinder four-stroke diesel engines each with 2300 horsepower these are coupled to to AC alternators and for AC traction motors - in each axle the 757 t10 can carry a 450 metric ton payload with the empty weight of this massive hauler at 360 tons Prelude FLNG the prelude is the world's second floating liquefied natural gas platform as well as the world's biggest offshore facility ever constructed this massive floating rig is sixteen hundred and one feet long and 243 feet wide it was made with more than 260 thousand tons of steel and fully loaded will displace more than six hundred thousand tons that is more than five times the displacement of the nimitz-class aircraft carrier it was built by Samsung Heavy Industries at the go J shipyard in South Korea the cost of the vessel was between ten point eight to twelve point six billion u.s. dollars the important innovation will allow natural gas to be extracted from wells offshore which will be liquefied and chilled by the floating gas platform it will be able to produce at least 5.3 million tons of liquefied natural gas per annum Antonov an-225 mriya it's hard to get an idea of just how big this airplane is without seeing it in person but just one of its wings is the same width as an entire Airbus a320 and it's also double the length of the passenger jet it was designed in building Ukraine part of the Soviet Union in the 1980s by the Antonov corporation to carry Soviet space shuttles even after 27 years of first entering service it's still the longest body long this winged and heaviest operational plane in the world following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the space program the loan operational an-225 was placed in storage in 1994 each progress the 18t turbofan engine puts out 50 1,600 pound-feet of thrust it utilizes an increased capacity landing gear system with 32 tires and wheels some of which are steerable enabling the aircraft to turn around inside a 200-foot runway it has a maximum takeoff weight of 1 million four hundred and ten thousand nine hundred fifty eight pounds and can hold forty six thousand cubic feet of cargo recently China has said it wants to develop a modern version of the plane it will be interesting to see what they design Latour no TC for 97 Overland Train is the world's longest off-road vehicle it is able to move 100 tons of cargo over sand snow and other rough terrain the TC 497 at 572 feet long had for 1,100 seventy horsepower solar gas turbine engines with a total of four thousand 680 horsepower these engines spun generators providing electricity to 54 electric motors one for each set of wheels that's a 50 four-wheel-drive vehicle the Overland train was made up of DC Drive motors planetary systems and switch gearboxes RG Letourneau the inventor of five Overland trains of different sizes and for use in different terrains was engaged by the US Army for 3.7 million dollars in the 1950s to build the TC 497 Overland Train mark 2 the TC 497 was designed to travel overland in a variety of conditions Arctic desert sand as well as rough terrain schwerer gustav 800 millimeter rail cannon in 1939 Adolf Hitler was trying to figure out how to penetrate the 930 mile defensive wall built by the French the heavily fortified Maggie new line curb AG a leading German steel works and armaments manufacturer was approached with a request to provide ballistic data of a 70 centimeter 80 centimeter and a 100 centimeter calibre weapon named after the head of the croupe family the Gustav gun weighed in at a massive 1344 tons so heavy that even though it was attached to a rail car it still had to be disassembled before moving so as not to destroy the twin set of tracks as it passed over Gustav eventually went to war at the siege of sevastopol in July 1942 when fully assembled it would be 141 feet long 23 feet wide and the axis of the barrel some 25 feet above the track a special four track section had to be laid to put the gun into action it used 4.7 ton high-explosive shells effective to a maximum range of 29 miles and also 7 ton concrete piercing shells at a range of 23 miles and even though it was used at the siege of sevastopol in July team 42 Hitler simply went around the Magno line through Belgium the Terrax Bucyrus Rh 400 the Bucyrus Rh 400 owned by caterpillar is the world's biggest hydraulic excavator it was originally launched by Tareq's in Germany in 1997 but Bucyrus acquired the mining equipment division of Terrax in 2010 and Bucyrus was acquired by caterpillar in 2011 the Bucyrus Rh 400 weighs approximately 890 tons and the shovel can pick up 45 cubic meters of soil or rock in a single scoop with the bucket itself having a dig depth of seven and a half feet at ground level the hydraulic excavator is powered by two 16 cylinder 4210 cubic inch diesel engines that have a maximum power output of 4,400 horsepower each the hydraulic system alone uses 2642 gallons of hydraulic fluid you

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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 21 2017