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Finally, what seems to be THE Biggest Movable Machine


The name of that epic structure is Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 in Lichterfeld (Source here). This technological steel giant is 502 metres long, 202 metres wide, 80 metres high and 11,000 ton heavy. It was build in East Germany in 1991 by VEB TAKRAF Lauchhammer(although the GDR was manufacturing slightly lesser types since 1958) After only 13 months of operation the F60 bridge was taken out of operation for energy-political reasons. The opencast mine Klettwitz-Nord where the conveyor bridge was operating is closed. The bridge is owned now by the community and presented as the "Lying Eiffel Tower"


and it moves on its own set of rails!



"Big Muskie", the Ohio's Walking Giant


Big Machines make Bigger Holes



That little speck under the arrow in the last picture is actually a huge mining truck. It takes the truck 2 hours to climb from the bottom of this hole.