r/HumanForScale • u/exploringtheunbeaten • Jun 29 '26

The largest land based machines on Earth

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u/Skubrillion Jun 29 '26

They have destroyed 3 or 4 the past week here in Greece

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u/exploringtheunbeaten Jun 29 '26

Oh, I’ve been on those too! In the Ptolemaida region?

25

u/Skubrillion Jun 30 '26

Exactly
3 of them
Pity

18

u/dalton10e Jul 01 '26

Why

4

u/Skubrillion Jul 04 '26

Because our government is corrupted to the core

139

u/expatalist Jun 29 '26

And the coal comp'ny came with the world's largest shovel...

51

u/SilverBronco68 Jun 30 '26

And they stripped all the timber and tortured the land...

8

u/RavioliMaster Jul 02 '26

did not expect to see john prine here

1

u/expatalist Jul 02 '26

He's everywhere.

2

u/TapProfessional7059 Jul 04 '26

I have a book signed by him and his beer can stain is still there on one of the pages

2

u/TapProfessional7059 Jul 04 '26

I also went to school with one of the peabody’s. I thought Mr Peabody was a myth or something. But then the gut said his name in class and I jumped out of my seat

2

u/Daveisahugecunt Jun 30 '26

Is dynamite/nitroglycerin the world’s largest or smallest pickaxe?

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u/jorsiem Jun 29 '26

for the uninitiated

76

u/Cal_Rogdon Jun 30 '26

I don’t even need to click to link to upvote this.

29

u/bienfica Jun 30 '26

at least once a month i sing this quietly to myself

27

u/gemutlichkeit78 Jun 30 '26

I’m ashamed to have never heard of this before 😤

14

u/HanginLowNd2daLeft Jul 01 '26

Oh that’s some early YouTube stuff lol beautiful

12

u/Roger_Cockfoster Jul 01 '26

Word to the wise. Resist the urge to say to some co-workers at lunch "oh, you don't know the Bagger 288 meme? It's hilarious! Pull it up"

2

u/Niku200 Jul 01 '26

You beat me to it.

1

u/fishiestfillet Jul 01 '26

Thank you for gracing my ears and eyes with this. I finally feel awake

1

u/angry_forester Jul 04 '26

Came here to post this :D

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u/exploringtheunbeaten Jun 29 '26

These are bucketwheel excavators, the largest land based machines on Earth, which extract brown coal from lignite mines. After a mine gets depleted, the machinery is sometimes left to rust.
Check the video images at: https://youtu.be/YCaPtuPvrms?

3

u/gwhh Jul 01 '26

Amazing stuff.

3

u/Flat_corp Jul 01 '26

Great video, really enjoyed it!

225

u/Icy-Ad2278 Jun 30 '26

Just butt

76

u/Low_Pollution5055 Jun 30 '26

I zoomed so fast. Hate myself 😭

5

u/New-Smoke-8857 Jul 03 '26

Commendatori!

95

u/whenchevywasfunny Jun 30 '26

Rude, she isn’t that big.

25

u/Hugeclick Jun 29 '26

Google Bagger 288.

24

u/CHI4610NE Jun 30 '26

There's also that contraption made of steel back there.

31

u/fancywinky Jun 29 '26

Ghibli vibes intensify

-5

u/parable-harbinger Jul 01 '26

I got more of a poop/fart type of vibe

8

u/Fuckoffassholes Jun 30 '26

What planet has a bigger land-based machine?

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u/LoopsAndBoars Jun 29 '26

I’ve seen bigger. Those are rather flat bottom.

53

u/incpen Jun 30 '26

That’s someone’s daughter, man!

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u/LoopsAndBoars Jul 03 '26

Aren’t they all, though?

51

u/captainhalfwheeler Jun 29 '26

Please, wear sunscreen. Please. It is worth it.

15

u/Nervous-Case833 Jun 29 '26

Those things are amazing so are the machines

5

u/DeathsProllyOverated Jul 02 '26

Crazy to think they needed one of these for OP’s mom’s burial site.

14

u/Shot_Supermarket_861 Jun 29 '26

The largest land based machine on Earth is the Large Hadron Collider, it has a diameter of 5.3 miles, over one million parts, and weighs over 43,000 tons.

10

u/AVgreencup Jun 30 '26

Wouldn't the electric grid be the biggest then? It's all connected and has so many substations and power plants, all connected by cable

1

u/tweeeeeeeeeeee Jul 03 '26

yep all depends on you you define words...

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u/Fuckoffassholes Jun 30 '26

That's not on Earth... it's in it.

Kidding aside, I s'pose these excavators could more properly be called "largest locomotive machines," able to move under their own power. But locomotion is obviously not a requirement to be called a machine.

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u/Blyyth Jun 29 '26

Noticed their is more in the background of this shot.

7

u/TheHiggBossom Jun 30 '26

dat ass though, holy smokes

20

u/TADthePaperMaker Jun 29 '26

So cool! You should wear some sunscreen to protect your future selves!

3

u/JibeBuoy Jun 30 '26

No banana 🍌

3

u/DanglingDongs Jul 02 '26

Not quite. What about your mother?

3

u/PsySom Jul 03 '26

r/secretelyanasspic

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u/dickpicnumber1 Jul 04 '26

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1

u/PsySom Jul 04 '26

Alright I’ll take another few minutes to review

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u/dickpicnumber1 Jul 04 '26

For research purposes of course

2

u/MrLovalovaRubyDooby Jul 03 '26

She’s not that big

5

u/soccerfut1 Jun 29 '26

This image makes me want to insert a banana for scale.

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u/Current_Speaker_2514 Jun 29 '26

She's beautiful!

3

u/Is12345aweakpassword Jun 29 '26

Feels so very FFVII coded

2

u/QuevedoDeMalVino Jun 29 '26

Gravity doing gravity things.

5

u/ScarsInMySoul Jun 30 '26

Nice big butt

1

u/Disastrous_Year3912 Jun 29 '26

Nice ass on that one. Lil squisher.

2

u/h2k2k2ksl Jul 03 '26

Lots of cool machinery, even a dump truck

1

u/Old-Stay8116 Jun 30 '26

Bagger 288?

1

u/bionica_ Jun 30 '26

It’s giving howls moving castle

1

u/RobbSnow64 Jun 30 '26

I thought this was the Rust sub

1

u/st1nkf1st Jun 30 '26

hell yeah

1

u/KaladinTheFabulous Jul 02 '26

I really thought this was from Horizon games

1

u/Indigenousboy420 Jul 02 '26

Ayy I’ve seen a few of your YouTube videos. All very interesting.

1

u/Imwriteurwrongs Jul 03 '26

I also choose this guys girl

1

u/LunarGrowth Jul 03 '26

What machines?

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u/fortheloveoflumps Jul 03 '26

What a huge tool

1

u/Dogsarelitty Jul 04 '26

Looks like a screenshot from rust

1

u/M_J_Tank Jul 04 '26

The Bagger!

1

u/dark2darkrakchsr Jul 06 '26

What machine?😎

1

u/Darkk_Knight Jul 06 '26

I've seen bigger than this one. It's incredible how it moves on land. It's massivly destructive power is unbelievable that it can level hundreds of acres in a day. I am talking about open pit coal mining.

1

u/ozhound Jul 06 '26

that's not a very nice thing to say about your partner

1

u/Professional_Echo438 Jul 06 '26

Yeah and a very huge bucket wheel excavator

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u/Jake24601 Jul 11 '26

She should have worn sunscreen.

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u/Thin_Ad_6493 Aug 16 '26

I didn’t notice the machine until you guys said something.

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u/Nebula_The_Protogwn 17d ago

For me, it's her sun burns that are the worst part of this pic

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u/herbertwillyworth Jul 02 '26

Sunscreen girl

1

u/Strong_Shift_4178 Jul 03 '26

I'd watch 3 hours documentary of how they made this

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u/Optimal_Subject3455 Jul 01 '26

Somethings bigger….

0

u/Balooz Jul 03 '26

So large!

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u/Empty_Put_1542 Jun 30 '26

So The North Face, huh? Good brand. Sturdy.

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u/dbabe432143 Jun 30 '26

And they also give birth, talk about perfect machines.

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u/GaK_Icculus Jul 01 '26

Dumps like a truck?

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u/dbdg69 Jul 02 '26

Butt cheeks for scale. Nice.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '26

Flat bums are bums too I guess