What's The Biggest Thing You Ever Saw?

[Doc Tinker]

Man made thing that is. .



Doc

 

[illflem]

Lake Mead, Nevada. If that doesn't count then Grand Coulee Dam, Washington. The largest manmade thing in the world is the Great Wall of China.

 

[Whitmore]

we just sent a Lampson crane home to Washington that could lift 1 million pounds 300 feet high, it took 2 drivers on the tracks and a guy in the hoist cab and a guy on the ground coordinating it . dont know what we were paying per day but it was at our plant for 10 months prolly a million pounds of money

 

[EricBu12]

this is by Salt Lake City. It is the largest dump truck in the world



http://www.kennecott.com/coolpictures.html



Click on the pictures in the link to see better.



This is the Kennecott Copper Open Pit mine in Salt Lake City. it is so big, it can be seen from space with the eye.



the shovel is impressive too

 

[Peter Campbell]

I have seen on a website (I think for haulpak) that the optimum size is 3-5 scoops of the excavators. More scoops wastes truck time loading. Less scoops waste excavator time waiting for the next truck. So this is right in line 98 ton scoops and a 360 ton dumptruck= 4 scoops and he's off.

 

[work2muchplay2little]

The Hoover Dam and Lake Mead

http://www.hooverdam.usbr.gov/workings/main.htm



Lake Mead, with a storage capacity of 28,537,000 acre-feet, is the largest man-made lake in the United States.



The Hoover Dam Power Plant has 17 large generators and has a rated capacity of more then 2,000 megawatts.



Hoover Dam contains three and one-quarter million cubic yards of concrete. There are 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete in the dam, powerplant, and appurtenant works. This much concrete would build a monument 100 feet square and 2-1/2 miles high; would rise higher than the Empire State Building (which is 1,250 feet) if placed on an ordinary city block; or would pave a standard highway, 16 feet wide, from San Francisco to New York City.



There are 17 main turbines in Hoover Powerplant. The original turbines were all replaced through an uprating program between 1986 and 1993. With a rated capacity of 2,991,000 horsepower, and two station-service units rated at 3,500 horsepower each, for a plant total of 2,998,000 horsepower, the plant has a nameplate capacity of 2,074,000 kilowatts. This includes the two station-service units, which are rated at 2,400 kilowatts each.



Dam Dimensions



Height - 726. 4. feet (221. 3 meters)

Length at Crest - 1,244 feet (379. 2 meters)

Width at Top - 45 feet (13. 7 meters)

Width at Base - 660 feet (201. 2 meters)

Weight - 6. 6 million tons



Reservoir Statistics



Capacity - 28,537,000 acre-feet (35,200,000,000 cubic meters)

Length - 110 miles (177 kilometers)

Shoreline - 550 miles (885 kilometers)

Max Depth - 500 feet (152 meters)

Surface Area - 157,000 acres (63,900 hectares)



Quantities of Materials Used in Project



Concrete - 4. 440,000 cubic yards

Explosives - 6,500,000 pounds

Plate Steel and Outlet Pipes - 88,000,000 pounds

Pipe and Fittings - 6,700,00 pounds (840 miles)

Reinforcement Steel - 45,000,000 pounds



Concrete Mix Proportions



Cement - 1. 00 part

Sand - 2. 45 parts

Fine Gravel - 1. 75 parts

Intermediate Gravel - 1. 46 parts

Coarse Gravel - 1. 66 parts

Cobbles (3 to 9 inch) - 2. 18 parts

Water - 0. 54 parts

 

[Doc Tinker]

Last spring, one of the school bus drivers, who also drives a limo, brought in a pair of panties that were left in the limo, the night before. Now those were some BIG panties! He held them up and they stretched as wide as his arms would spead.



Doc

 

[illflem]

Many of us have seen the largest "machine" in the world and didn't even know it. It's the International Space Station, now the brightest "star" in the sky in the east just after dark.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

The Silver Spade is Big

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[LSMITH]

A supertanker is big. You know it is large when an aircraft carrier passing it looks like a toy! That is the biggest machine I have ever seen.

 

['956Wheel]

Yeah they are big but do they wear those panties Doc told us about?



Mike

 

[JR2]

Well it not big, but it is long and I have only seen one end of it..... The Trans Alaska Pipeline has to have my vote as the biggest thing I have seen (I have seen hoover dam too. . ). Here are some facts of the TAPS website:



Pipeline Quick Facts



The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was designed and constructed to move oil from the North Slope of Alaska to the northern most ice- free port- Valdez, Alaska.

Length: 800 miles.

Diameter: 48 inches.

Crosses three mountain ranges and over 800 rivers and streams.

Cost to build: $8 billion in 1977, largest privately funded construction project at that time.

Construction began on March 27, 1975 and was completed on May 31, 1977.

First oil moved through the pipeline on June 20, 1977.

Over 13 billion barrels have moved through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System.

First tanker to carry crude oil from Valdez: ARCO Juneau, August 1, 1977.

Tankers loaded at Valdez: 16,781 through March 2001.

Storage tanks in Valdez- 18 with total storage capacity of 9. 1 million barrels total.

 

[Jeff H]

Mostly iron range stuff. I can say I saw the strongest steam engine. Was not the biggest. But it had more tractive effort then the big boys.

Been in the largest mall in the U. S.

Oh I know theres a bigger dump truck than Cat.

 

[lschultz]

That thing between my legs. You had to ask Doc.

 

[KWentling]

B. E. 2570 Dragline. 125 yard drag bucket. I believe that is the worlds largest. I don't have a link for a picture, but the one I have seen and been on is at Thunder Basin Coal Company (Arch Minerals). Also, this basin is full of haul trucks. The Cat 797 trucks here are 240 ton trucks, not 360 (although they may load that much on them) The local paper had a picture of a truck box being hauled from Casper that was supposedly for a 400 ton Cat truck, but have never heard or seen of it yet. That was a couple of years ago. This is a great place to see prototypes. Liebherr and Terex are the only ones to my knowledge that are making 360 ton trucks and there are a few of them in the basin. Other BIG equipment here are LeTourneau 1400 front end loaders with 50+ yard buckets, Cat 24H graders with 24' moldboards, Cat 998 loaders, D11N dozers (the blades we repair and upgrade go out the door at about 50,000 lbs. !)



Kim

 

[bighammer]

Ishcultz must be riding a Harley (Screamin' Eagle)



Also, is a 400 ton a SWR or dewly (how 'bout THAT one spell checker)

 

[lizzyhermit]

Re: The Silver Spade is Big

what is "The Silver Spade" ?

 

[dezeldog]

Aircraft carrier, I had the privlige of riding it from Pearl Harbor to San Deigo. 5500 crew and 85 aircraft. It has 280,000hp out of four shafts. This was the Kitty Hawk a conventional boat. The newer "Nukes" are bigger yet.

 

[Shovelhead]

Re: Re: The Silver Spade is Big

Originally posted by lizzyhermit

what is "The Silver Spade" ?

Look here for The Silver Spade

 

[lizzyhermit]

thanks Shovelhead ! Impressive.