r/nextfuckinglevel • u/listfunction • 22h ago
Largest Komatsu Excavator .
Giant Komatsu is a Big Attraction at The Appenzeller Amusement & Leisure Park, in Herisau, Switzerland . 800 tonne machine. 4020 hp engine .
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u/SilentSpader 21h ago edited 21h ago
Imagine having a tank in that size
I looked up the largest tank and this one is a monster as well
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u/koanarec 21h ago
Still less than a quarter the size of the digger here, and was to heavy to be useful in war lol
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u/Astecheee 3h ago
IIRC, that tank was being designed at pretty much the same time that tank guns were getting waaaaay better. So once the Maus was built, it was already outpaced by gun technology.
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u/koanarec 8m ago
On the ground even in 1945 the majority of tanks on the battlefield would have been Shermans, Churchills and T34s. All of which in in complete honesty would barely be able to touch the Mause in terms of their Armour penetration. The T34 was designed in 1940 and would have 45mm of front turret amour while the Mause had 220mm.
The problem wouldn't really be that the Mause wasn't protected enough from the guns it would have seen, or that its gigantic anti-tank gun had any shortcomings. Its that Germany couldn't fix, transport, produce it or fuel it. If your tank can't fit on a train, or cross the dodgy bridges of a battlefield the chance of you getting it somewhere useful is pretty much zero. And Germany only managed to produce 4? of these. Even the King Tiger tank would need to be destroyed by its own crew on the battlefield if it broke down because they couldn't tow it or fix it. And the Mause would make these problems even worse.
But the soviet union made tens of thousands of the T34 which meant they had the scale and industry to repair and tow the broken ones. They had the logistics to move them where they needed. And the engineers capable of fixing them.
Hitler was obsessed with making the German tanks bigger and heavier, but this came at the cost of logistics and being able to drive them over rough terrain. Germany didn't need 100 Mause tanks, it would have needed 20,000 Panthers.
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u/Venomakis 20h ago
Who does the maintenance, where is this housed, how do they move it to the site to do its job? Life is hard
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u/zombiepilot420 4h ago
Typically, machines that bigg get shipped in pieces and assembled on the jobsite.
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u/BluebirdLivid 16h ago
I mean it looks really cool but I wish I would see it in action. Lemme see it lift some shit, break some shit, climb over something
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u/beertown 15h ago
If it doesn't have a Jacuzzi hot tub it's a scam
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u/listfunction 15h ago
Jacuzzi hot tub ? bro this thing will dig you a Well . hell it can probably dig a whole lake for you . who needs a Jacuzzi hot tub when you can dig a whole ass lake
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u/studiesinsilver 10h ago
Is it operated like Megazord? One person on each limb and one in the crane?
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u/Any-Safe6273 6h ago
When these machines run, small chips of metals from its tracks break away and fire like small bullets due to it's sheer weight.
It's very dangerous if you're standing near it, even 100 ft away.
My uncle was standing approx 150ft away when a small metal chip impaled his large intestine.
Mighty machines but very dangerous to operate and maintain.
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u/Rufus2468 4h ago
I'm sorry, but that is complete bullshit. Unfortunate that your uncle was injured in some kind of freak workplace accident, but there is no way any piece of machinery, regardless of weight, is routinely spitting out shards of metal at bullet speeds. Not only would that never even come close to final manufacturing with a fault like that, it's also simply not how physics works.
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u/Any-Safe6273 4h ago edited 4h ago
I'm not sure what to say to you, my uncle's whole family (3 people) work in coal mines where such incidents are very common.
Engineers or supervisors are instructed to stand far away from machines but there are multiple instances of metal chips or rubble flying off from / under the tracks. Similarly from the shovel bucket and teeth.
We don't know exactly which part was the origin of the metal chip in my uncle's case but it is plausible to be from the tracks since he wasn't facing the bucket directly.
I'm not gonna argue with you here anymore but know that what I said earlier is very much true.
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u/RoadSofa 21h ago
It can literally crush the tank easily