I felt compelled to fact-check you - you know how it is nowadays - and it is indeed longer than the longest ship ever built. I learnt something new today
I was just going to ask for a comparison with the Jahre Viking / Seawise Giant / Emma Maersk - I wish they could have stuck to one name. But I'll take your word for it; thankyou.
The small vehicle @4:33 is not the track*laying* machine, but the track*moving* machine (Gleisrückmaschine) which you can see in action in this video (not mine) th-cam.com/video/7Url9rmwjHI/w-d-xo.html
A ship is also a vehicle. The longest ship in the world is Seawise Giant at 458 m and the longest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford at 337 M. No doubt the F60 is the largest vehicle in the world.
Ehh, it's kind of unclear whether 'vessel' and 'vehicle' overlap and which, if either, should be a subset of the other (and also which, if either, various catagories of aircraft fit into... particularly Airships, and then there's Spacecraft...).
@@laurencefraser Longest aiship was the Hindenburg at a measly 245 m. And the Saturn V ,110m , and the Starship built by SpaceX is 121 m. These comparisons give some idea just how big the F60 is. Actually I am beginning to think that the F is just short for F...kingBig.
@@laurencefraser Space Shuttles are DEFINATELY vehicles - NASA (and ESA I believe) refers to all of it's manned spaceflight hardware as 'vehicles' The place those things were readied for flight (also the world's largest single-storey building
The germans building all of these gargantuan machines for the purpose of mining coal feels like inventing faster than light travel so you can throw a rock faster.
@@eyeyayayay my favourite was how they thought disabilities would just magically disappear in a generation or two, thanks to the inherent health-giving benefits of socialism. While, you know, burning toxic lignite for power.
I understand that it's easy to make fun of them. But it was a necessity at the time. Renewable energies were not an option back then. Neither was nuclear power, because although the former GDR had a huge uranium mine, the first in the world, the uranium had to be handed over to the Soviets. In addition, there were only a few electrified railroad lines in the GDR and too little diesel, so steam locomotives ran until the fall of the Iron Curtain - fueled by domestic coal.
Another feat/example of German engineering, but begs the questions: how long did it take to design the F60 and further, how long does it take to build? With a one-time total of 4, were there modifications or different models? Thanks once again, Tim, for your always curious and very interesting TH-cam videos.
For your last question, I would wage a lot that they are similar but not identical. For machine of such scale, there is no serial production. Ideas, design, parts are reused but the detail engineering is customized to the site requirements like Tim says for efficiency. Signed: A guy busy designing big machines, sadly not as big as these, and they don't move.
@@numazuchi You also had and still have some uranium which is much cleaner when taken into account how much energy you can create from tiny amounts of it when compared to the lignite. 1kg of uranium can produce as much electricity as 2700 tons of lignite. That means 1kg of uranium is equal to 38 full coal waggons. Also lignite creates extreme amounts of CO2 while nuclear plants produce exactly 0. Lignite also naturaly contains trace amounts of uranium which get into the enviroment after it gets burned so you cannot say nuclear is bad because mining of the uranium spreads little bit of radiaton. Most reamins in the ash but some amount gets into the air. The ash left over after burning the coal can contain as much as 0,1% uranium as well as arsenic, lead, mercury, radium, thallium and other nasty stuff
My napkin math says that any sound measured at 1m distance and then at 500m is going to lose about 54 dB. Google says a conversation with 3ft of distance is roughly 60 dB. So, that's 114 dB he needs to play it at, which is concert-level of loudness. If I understand sound physics adequately, however loud you want to hear the song from 500m away, add 54 dB and you get how loud it is from 1m away from the source.
Reminds me of the John Prine-Paradise song "Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man."
Thank you again TTT for your consideration of how to get there and descriptions of access limitations. You are the ultimate guide to interesting (to us at least) destinations out of the oridinary. Ever thought of leading your own group tour? You have a devoted cadre of fans that will follow you to obscure train platforms and museums of transport to visit.
Tim, point of order: The plural of Bagger is Bagger: One Bagger, two Bagger, Many Bagger. Baggers is Frankonian for Kartoffelpuffer. Be sure not to mix those up.
Haha, thank you for the tip about Kartoffelpuffer :D You'll have to forgive me, I allowed myself the liberty of anglicising the plural since I was speaking English. In German I would OF COURSE use the correct grammar.
In the world of Italian vehicle manufacturing, F60 can either refer to a Formula One Ferrari or the Ferrari Enzo. > Loud industrial music conveying the impressive bigness of the object I bet Rammstein are as DMCA-happy as Tim is railroad-happy, but if anyone's music would fit the video *and* the above description, it's them. Also, imagine the AutoCAD drawing of this thing. (I assume one's imagination is needed, as CAD drawings probably didn't exists when this was planned)
Little Addition: if you want to see it and listen to some good music while doing so, there are multiple electronic music festivals staged next to the F60 in summer time. So get up and move your legs to some good old German techno in front of a technological behemoth of a machine.
*LOUD INDUSTRIAL MUSIC CONVEYING THE IMPRESSIVE BIGNESS OF THE OBJECT* As a member of the team of people who watches youtube video with subtitile : I like that ! 🤓
Saw a documentary on the mining colony on Pandora, a moon of a distant planet and it had much bigger scale mining operation that made the F60 look small. However they had problems with the natives who wanted to protect one tree.
At 4:33 you show a vehicle which lays tracks for the F60, but I think that machine pulls the tracks sideways under itself. I wish I could link a video about it, I saw it in the series Vom Königsstuhl zum Fichtelberg in the episode Kohlebahnen.
A nice bit of Jamiroquai in the tunes. Kinda appropriate as it was used in the soundtrack for a monster movie 1998 Godzilla. This thing is a bit of a monster too.
The shot down the superstructure of what looks to be windmills off in the distance at 5:08 is amazing given what the beast did when it was up and running.
Man do I hope Bagger 288 or Bagger 293 gets preserved for the future to see how much effort we put into worsening our air, lives and climate. But knowing well... capitalism they're probably going to get demolished and scrapped.
In lignitemining there are 2 completely different concepts: the eastgerman one, that carries the overburden over the hole via bridge and the westgerman one, that carries the overburden around the hole via conveyorbelts. The masterpiece of the east version is the F60, that of the west version is bagger 293.
Today I've learnt that you can't simultaneously wonder what the title of that Jamiroquai is again and listen to someone explain the workings of an Abraumförderbrücke.
I find it amusing how when people talk about a "Bagger" in English it is always the big massive mining excavators, while in German that word just means any kind of excavator, and the first thing a German will think upon hearing "Bagger" is the kind you see every day at construction sites xD
I was under the impression that the GDR had no shortage of labour, especially when the basic supplies of daily life were demanding it… thus I am still intrigued by the justification of this kind of behemoth? Imagine the copper in those 6km of cables alone, yum! 😊
Great video once again. One thing I still fail to understand, is why it had to stretch all across the digging area to the other side? I mean, couldn't you also just dump the digged up earth on the other side of the digging hole (as in: somewhere on the side where the digging machines stand), where you'd not have to stretch it such a long way?
No because the machine effectively digs towards that direction and the area of overburden removed under the bridge is the work area where the coal seam is exposed and excavated by "normal" excavators. As the machine moves across the countryside the exposed hole moves with it. As the coal is excavated below, the area is filled back in again. If you just tipped the overburden right next to where you excavated it from, you would have no work area above the coal seam where the "small" excavators could remove the actual coal. I had a little difficulty understanding the point of these behemoths too but I actually visited this one and did the tour this October where I finally figured them out.
I saw a documentary on these from the 80s and the protests about the mining of coal. Germany and Poland still have large reserves of coal so no wonder it was used as late as it was. Braun kohle (brown coal) is the most inefficient and dirty of all.😣
ENGINEER HERE: Loved the video as its always great to see what we have to build to make the World function. HOWEVER you are 100% wrong on these machines operating on standard gauge rails. In fact they are NOT even close to standard gauge. I work in the Australian mining industry and have worked on and around both stackers and reclaimers. The actual rails are much heavier and the distance between the rails (the gauge) is much greater. There is no actual standard gauge for these across the mining industry. Its entirely dependent on the actual design of the machine.
*ALSO YOU CAN'T STRETCH THOSE CABLES* They operate of drum coilers. They are like a very big version of the coiler in a vacuum cleaner EXCEPT its driven by an electric motor NOT a spring. This is why engineers don't like non-engineers. Even when you try and do us a favor you screw stuff up. Surely you must know an engineer or 2 and get them to check your work????????
You should go look at the SGC-250 crane also known as Big Carl. Or perhaps take a trip to sweden to check out Kiruna and how they are moving that whole town
Hey, Tim. It might move at 0.78 km/h or 0.5 mph, it is not something to lean on since it will have moved 8½ inches in the time it took you to decide to have a rest.
At least East Germany could claim to have invented the largest Abraumförderbrücke vehicle though not the largest Personenkraftwagen (personal powered vehicle i.e. car) - I’m thinking of the Trabant! Many thanks funny and fascinating as ever!
small mistake, there are 3 F60 left, the Jänschwale Mine is about to close and the F60 there was shut down in August 2024. It's currently scrapped.
Ah thank you for the update - guess my information was a few months out of date!
@@TheTimTraveller Tsk Tsk Tsk ;)
@@TheTimTraveller well done for acknowledging a pendants input.
@@Waikato62 I think you mean pedant's ;)
@kaitlyn__L indeed, mea culpa
I felt compelled to fact-check you - you know how it is nowadays - and it is indeed longer than the longest ship ever built. I learnt something new today
I was just going to ask for a comparison with the Jahre Viking / Seawise Giant / Emma Maersk - I wish they could have stuck to one name. But I'll take your word for it; thankyou.
It's also considerably larger than the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, which would have been my guess.
@@rogerstone3068 Emma Maersk is a completely different ship.
Me: Tim means LAND vehicle.
Tim mentions the dimensions.
Me: ah, indeed vehicle.
The spice must flow.
Irl harkonnen spice miner
so that track laying as it goes along is basically straight out of Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers lol ?
Not as fast though... 😅 All of these mining machines are extremely slow. I've seen them in real life.
@@numazuchi Probably laid as fast in real time as the animators laid their track! :D
Haha. That's what I was thinking :)
No, its from the PJ Masks, the Tracker Whacker!
0:45 nice job with the subtitles! 😄
Nice that you mention it because I understand English so I don't use the subtitles.
@@Dr.K.Wette_BE In many Tim's videos the subtitles are worth reading
I don't know if Carl Orff would call his music "Industriemusik" :D
I loved the little reference to the bagger 288 song ;)
Yep, should have been longer to enjoy it more, but maybe it would have been two obvious and copyrights and such, need to now listen to it :D
german engineers really have a thing for vehicles that require multiple railway tracks run in parallel
Was just thinking the same thing. Even the scale models of that particular 6 lane "train" I've seen are colossal!
Like the Heavy Gustav cannon?
The instrumental "Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground" track while showing the digging explanation was - next level! Literally XD
Aaaaah, was looking for it! I know the song, but too tired to get the lyrics into my head! Thanks!
I really liked the tune of the Bagger 288 song at the beginning there.
all of the music selection is absolutely awesome in this one!
@@Oivaras Underrated comment! Just hearing that made me smile.
The small vehicle @4:33 is not the track*laying* machine, but the track*moving* machine (Gleisrückmaschine) which you can see in action in this video (not mine) th-cam.com/video/7Url9rmwjHI/w-d-xo.html
A ship is also a vehicle. The longest ship in the world is Seawise Giant at 458 m and the longest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford at 337 M.
No doubt the F60 is the largest vehicle in the world.
Ehh, it's kind of unclear whether 'vessel' and 'vehicle' overlap and which, if either, should be a subset of the other (and also which, if either, various catagories of aircraft fit into... particularly Airships, and then there's Spacecraft...).
Nearest fictional comparison, Ambassador class Enterprise -C at 526 meters.
@@laurencefraser Longest aiship was the Hindenburg at a measly 245 m. And the Saturn V ,110m , and the Starship built by SpaceX is 121 m.
These comparisons give some idea just how big the F60 is. Actually I am beginning to think that the F is just short for F...kingBig.
@@laurencefraser Space Shuttles are DEFINATELY vehicles - NASA (and ESA I believe) refers to all of it's manned spaceflight hardware as 'vehicles'
The place those things were readied for flight (also the world's largest single-storey building
@@dizzy2020 So the World's longest vehicle is the telephone network; it being the vehicle by which we communicate.
Yay! A vehicle with a worse turning circle than a long-wheelbase Land Rover!
Harsh, but true. 😊
but only by a little
The germans building all of these gargantuan machines for the purpose of mining coal feels like inventing faster than light travel so you can throw a rock faster.
German engineer: Write that down! Someone write that down!!!
Yeah, the East German government always had a lot of really great ideas
@@eyeyayayay my favourite was how they thought disabilities would just magically disappear in a generation or two, thanks to the inherent health-giving benefits of socialism. While, you know, burning toxic lignite for power.
I understand that it's easy to make fun of them. But it was a necessity at the time. Renewable energies were not an option back then. Neither was nuclear power, because although the former GDR had a huge uranium mine, the first in the world, the uranium had to be handed over to the Soviets. In addition, there were only a few electrified railroad lines in the GDR and too little diesel, so steam locomotives ran until the fall of the Iron Curtain - fueled by domestic coal.
@@hape3862 Interesting to know. Thank you for the context!
Another feat/example of German engineering, but begs the questions: how long did it take to design the F60 and further, how long does it take to build? With a one-time total of 4, were there modifications or different models? Thanks once again, Tim, for your always curious and very interesting TH-cam videos.
For your last question, I would wage a lot that they are similar but not identical. For machine of such scale, there is no serial production. Ideas, design, parts are reused but the detail engineering is customized to the site requirements like Tim says for efficiency. Signed: A guy busy designing big machines, sadly not as big as these, and they don't move.
Two to three years according to de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F60
The first was built 1969 to 1972, the last 1988 to 1991. I assume each is a bit different.
Brown coal is absolutely dreadful stuff.
Anthracite is almost clean burn in comparison.
Thanks Tim.
can't wait to finally ditch that resource.
The problem is that that is pretty much the only stuff we have/had here in the region. So that's what we had to use.
@@numazuchi You also had and still have some uranium which is much cleaner when taken into account how much energy you can create from tiny amounts of it when compared to the lignite. 1kg of uranium can produce as much electricity as 2700 tons of lignite. That means 1kg of uranium is equal to 38 full coal waggons. Also lignite creates extreme amounts of CO2 while nuclear plants produce exactly 0. Lignite also naturaly contains trace amounts of uranium which get into the enviroment after it gets burned so you cannot say nuclear is bad because mining of the uranium spreads little bit of radiaton. Most reamins in the ash but some amount gets into the air. The ash left over after burning the coal can contain as much as 0,1% uranium as well as arsenic, lead, mercury, radium, thallium and other nasty stuff
@@numazuchi Well, if you didn't cave to 'greens' that oppose nuclear energy, you'd need less of it.
@@numazuchi well you had something related to atoms back in the days if I may *cough*
I don't think there's any need of "extreme" fear of heights for this tour to be a bad idea, i think ANY fear of heights is plenty enough!
^_^
As someone with a mild fear of heights, I was going to say!
It might be an extreme fear of small heights e.g. an inability to go anywhere near a kerb/curb. Or mild perturbation caused by extreme heights … 🤷♀️
My fear of hights only applies if I don't fully trust that there's no chance of falling. And what more could you trust than German engineers?
@@JaakkoIsWatchingNeed I remind you this is East German engineering. It isn't soviet engineering, but it is a close relative.
these videos always make me undescribably happy
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
Following the upsurge in car thefts this year, I am relieved they didn't try to find the keys and steal this one.
How many dB do you have to play that industrial O Fortuna from one end of that thing to hear it at the other end of it
My napkin math says that any sound measured at 1m distance and then at 500m is going to lose about 54 dB.
Google says a conversation with 3ft of distance is roughly 60 dB. So, that's 114 dB he needs to play it at, which is concert-level of loudness.
If I understand sound physics adequately, however loud you want to hear the song from 500m away, add 54 dB and you get how loud it is from 1m away from the source.
@@aikumaDKthanks I was just going to say exactly that 😉
Lovely !
And nice metal version of Carl Orff's "O fortuna".
(Carmina burana, en français, "Carmen est bourrée"...)
Merci pour cette traduction marquée au coin de l’efficacité germanique 🤣🤣
Ray Manzarek (keys for The Doors) did a rock Carmina in 1983. Not a lot of people know that. I don't think this is it.
Sounded a bit like the Therion version
Last time I was this early I had to wait for a train
Reminds me of the John Prine-Paradise song
"Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man."
Thank you again TTT for your consideration of how to get there and descriptions of access limitations. You are the ultimate guide to interesting (to us at least) destinations out of the oridinary.
Ever thought of leading your own group tour? You have a devoted cadre of fans that will follow you to obscure train platforms and museums of transport to visit.
Tim, point of order: The plural of Bagger is Bagger: One Bagger, two Bagger, Many Bagger. Baggers is Frankonian for Kartoffelpuffer. Be sure not to mix those up.
Haha, thank you for the tip about Kartoffelpuffer :D You'll have to forgive me, I allowed myself the liberty of anglicising the plural since I was speaking English. In German I would OF COURSE use the correct grammar.
@@TheTimTravellerDon't apologize. In German we use "Handys" as plural for mobile phones!
Wow, those look quite unlike Scottish tattie scones, and yet also oddly familiar! I want to try one now.
It always makes me think of some kind of Terry Thomas Englishman with a posh accent saying 'bugger' 😂
@@JochenLang-j1k How silly of us....
We really should use "Handies" instead
I've seen a similar one in Poland. It's absolutely astonishing.
I love that the heavy metal O Fortuna is the go-to song for industrial machinery!
Well, if it wasn't O Fortuna, it would be March of the Knights instead.... Good job I like both!
5 of them 🤯 absolutely ridiculously incredible. The scale is more than a single mind can comprehend. Get video as always Tim 🥰
Some of the mines where the active ones are still running have vewing points from where you can watch them work.
In the world of Italian vehicle manufacturing, F60 can either refer to a Formula One Ferrari or the Ferrari Enzo.
> Loud industrial music conveying the impressive bigness of the object
I bet Rammstein are as DMCA-happy as Tim is railroad-happy, but if anyone's music would fit the video *and* the above description, it's them.
Also, imagine the AutoCAD drawing of this thing. (I assume one's imagination is needed, as CAD drawings probably didn't exists when this was planned)
1:52 I am so very happy you covered a Jamiroquai song
Best music choice haha
Looks like something you might see on an episode of Thunderbirds
For some reason I spontaneously got the itch to play Open TTD again. Thanks!
Aaaaah! You were near my hometown and didn't tell me?
I've been up and down the F60 a couple of times, one time even during a school trip.
BAGGER 288 BAGGER 288 BAGGER 288 Memory Unlocked. Nice music selection.
Little Addition: if you want to see it and listen to some good music while doing so, there are multiple electronic music festivals staged next to the F60 in summer time.
So get up and move your legs to some good old German techno in front of a technological behemoth of a machine.
That's where a Mad Max nomad king could have his court
Oh straight into a piano cover of the Rathergood song. verny nice... very nice
I am wondering, have you been to Ferropolis / Gräfenhainichen too? .. . yes you have. I found the video.
The Tim Traveller, speaking eloquently about the piece of machinery he is presenting: "It is quite big."
*LOUD INDUSTRIAL MUSIC CONVEYING THE IMPRESSIVE BIGNESS OF THE OBJECT*
As a member of the team of people who watches youtube video with subtitile : I like that ! 🤓
Saw a documentary on the mining colony on Pandora, a moon of a distant planet and it had much bigger scale mining operation that made the F60 look small. However they had problems with the natives who wanted to protect one tree.
It's not a documentary per se. It's the 2009 film, _Avatar._
@@InTeCredo woosh
It's all right now though! As per Disney there is just enough peace to support exploitative tourist operations.
@@InTeCredo oh my god...
The return of the vamp kids .
I hear the Bertha theme
love the "I'm going deeper under ground" midi when introducing mining machine :D
I just love your musical references, they're an additional jokes when I recognize them. Like Jamiroquai's Deeper Underground. 😀
gonna leave a google review: "it's quite big"
At 4:33 you show a vehicle which lays tracks for the F60, but I think that machine pulls the tracks sideways under itself. I wish I could link a video about it, I saw it in the series Vom Königsstuhl zum Fichtelberg in the episode Kohlebahnen.
Oh yes, the real life Simon Stålenhag machine
I think I have one of them in my loft somewhere.
I think I have my loft in one of them somewhere.
Good News a new Tim video!
Is it left or right hand drive?
yes
4:24 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
aka The BBC's Formula One theme tune starting in the late 70s
And if you don't love me now, you will never love me again...
Such a great song!
@@TomLuTon aka my morning alarm (with added Murray Walker quotes)
I think that "vehicle" is larger than the village I grew up in! :-o
A nice bit of Jamiroquai in the tunes. Kinda appropriate as it was used in the soundtrack for a monster movie 1998 Godzilla. This thing is a bit of a monster too.
That Jamiroquai Deeper Underground music transition was impeccable.
Another terrific video. Informative and entertaining. Thank you!
Awesome music as always. I love that you had Deeper Underground when explaining how mining works.
The shot down the superstructure of what looks to be windmills off in the distance at 5:08 is amazing given what the beast did when it was up and running.
Your pronunciation of "Abraumförderbrücke F-sechzig" was absolutely flawless, despite the nasty umlauts and two ch-sounds. Really impressive! 👍
Man do I hope Bagger 288 or Bagger 293 gets preserved for the future to see how much effort we put into worsening our air, lives and climate.
But knowing well... capitalism they're probably going to get demolished and scrapped.
Bruh! I didn't even receive the notification before I clicked 😂
How are you, Tim?
Subject matter always interesting on this channel (Impressed with your casting skills). Editing is getting even better and better, thx for that!
Who else recognized the melody in the beginning?
That's O Fortuna. It use to be the Old Spice aftershave tune.
@@orwellboy1958 I think they meant the "Bagger 288" melody starting at 0:15.
And this F60 is just about visible on Google maps, if you look carefully. 😊
In lignitemining there are 2 completely different concepts: the eastgerman one, that carries the overburden over the hole via bridge and the westgerman one, that carries the overburden around the hole via conveyorbelts. The masterpiece of the east version is the F60, that of the west version is bagger 293.
The Bertha theme-tune was a nice touch!
that background music is rather good... 3:43 multitrack drifting!
Love the theme from Bertha playing in the background... lovely memories
“It’s quite big”. Tim is the master of understatement.
Not sure the people in the retirement home would welcome it !! 🤣
Well, all the climbing will keep them young...
and here i thought the NASA Crawler Transporter was the largest land vehicle.
Today I've learnt that you can't simultaneously wonder what the title of that Jamiroquai is again and listen to someone explain the workings of an Abraumförderbrücke.
in Gronkh Voice:
"Kohle Kohle Kohle"
Kohle Kohle lalala
Kohle Kohle tralala
Damn that is amazing even as german i thought bagger 293 was the biggest Vehicle we build. Well i love all you videos
I was hoping you’d do the Rathergood Bagger288 song. You did not disappoint. It gave me a happy.
Haha, the deeper underground melody made my day 😅
Thanks, looks so interesting to visit!
I find it amusing how when people talk about a "Bagger" in English it is always the big massive mining excavators, while in German that word just means any kind of excavator, and the first thing a German will think upon hearing "Bagger" is the kind you see every day at construction sites xD
Amazing it’s bigger than some of those enormous ships - incredible piece of engineering
Had already wondered why you had not featured it... and when you would get there.
I love to play "find the pun/clever thing" in the music in all these episodes.
I was under the impression that the GDR had no shortage of labour, especially when the basic supplies of daily life were demanding it… thus I am still intrigued by the justification of this kind of behemoth? Imagine the copper in those 6km of cables alone, yum! 😊
I noticed the “Bertha” theme you sneaked in there 😅
Great video once again. One thing I still fail to understand, is why it had to stretch all across the digging area to the other side? I mean, couldn't you also just dump the digged up earth on the other side of the digging hole (as in: somewhere on the side where the digging machines stand), where you'd not have to stretch it such a long way?
No because the machine effectively digs towards that direction and the area of overburden removed under the bridge is the work area where the coal seam is exposed and excavated by "normal" excavators. As the machine moves across the countryside the exposed hole moves with it. As the coal is excavated below, the area is filled back in again. If you just tipped the overburden right next to where you excavated it from, you would have no work area above the coal seam where the "small" excavators could remove the actual coal. I had a little difficulty understanding the point of these behemoths too but I actually visited this one and did the tour this October where I finally figured them out.
Tim steps into frame. My brain: "Vehicle? What vehicle?"
Toilets onsite are rather nice as well, spent quite some time on there 2 summers ago. Oh, and passersby can look in, so close the windows.
That's still 0,78 km/h faster than any other bridge in the world.
I saw a documentary on these from the 80s and the protests about the mining of coal.
Germany and Poland still have large reserves of coal so no wonder it was used as late as it was.
Braun kohle (brown coal) is the most inefficient and dirty of all.😣
ENGINEER HERE: Loved the video as its always great to see what we have to build to make the World function.
HOWEVER you are 100% wrong on these machines operating on standard gauge rails. In fact they are NOT even close to standard gauge. I work in the Australian mining industry and have worked on and around both stackers and reclaimers.
The actual rails are much heavier and the distance between the rails (the gauge) is much greater. There is no actual standard gauge for these across the mining industry. Its entirely dependent on the actual design of the machine.
*ALSO YOU CAN'T STRETCH THOSE CABLES*
They operate of drum coilers.
They are like a very big version of the coiler in a vacuum cleaner EXCEPT its driven by an electric motor NOT a spring.
This is why engineers don't like non-engineers.
Even when you try and do us a favor you screw stuff up.
Surely you must know an engineer or 2 and get them to check your work????????
Hold on, Tim, where is San-Marino?
Thanks for Tim version of "Deeper Underground" by Jamiroquai.
I was waiting for a video about the San Marino football team winning against Liechtenstein. But this is a cool topic as well.
There can't be that many people who have gotten to drive one. Too bad Tim didn't get to have a go.
_If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been an Abraumförderbrücke F60_
Today's 'Hallooooo' is massive. It goes well with diet-rocks.
Wonderful video. Topically related and sadly not used in this video: "Finsterwalde" by Jacques Palminger and Erobique
Love the music choices 😂 do like a bigger bagger.
"Finsterwalde" is also a quite ominous-sounding name, as it means "dark forest" or "gloomy forest" in German...
You should go look at the SGC-250 crane also known as Big Carl.
Or perhaps take a trip to sweden to check out Kiruna and how they are moving that whole town
Hey, Tim. It might move at 0.78 km/h or 0.5 mph, it is not something to lean on since it will have moved 8½ inches in the time it took you to decide to have a rest.
At least East Germany could claim to have invented the largest Abraumförderbrücke vehicle though not the largest Personenkraftwagen (personal powered vehicle i.e. car) - I’m thinking of the Trabant! Many thanks funny and fascinating as ever!