Monster Krupp bucket excavator eats stray bulldozers

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Monster Krupp bucket excavator eats stray bulldozers
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Stumbling upon these photos was a strange moment for me. I’ve been playing Borderlands recently, and it had never occurred to me that the monster excavator from the video game might’ve been based on a real-world machine—a real-world machine which, just by eyeballing it, looks like it might actually be bigger than the video game version. Dark Roasted Blend has a good article with lots of deets on the monster.

6 thoughts on “Monster Krupp bucket excavator eats stray bulldozers

  1. Spades says:

    And even better, there’s this lovely song about one of our beasts:

    Around these parts we even make cloud from the brown coal we dig up from below our feet:
    http://www.ralfstahlberg.de/Fotos/Garzweiler/garzweiler1.jpg

  2. drsprite says:

    This big beast is also in Call of Duty: Black Ops, in the background of one of online multiplayer maps.

  3. Bucket excavator says:

    That’s one massive piece of heavy equipment.

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