👈 Boop!
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex Looks like you've been booping a very famous machine there
Have you seen the music video 'Bagger 288!' from Rathergood? -
Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex Sadly, others of these monsters are still digging up more carbon every day. I took this video in February of this year.
#keepitintheground #fossilfree
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex love the fact that plants are growing around it.
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex it could have a new life if repurposed as a cat cafe
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex
reminds me of an SF:
"The Grain Kings" by Keith Roberts
1976.
It has a not-as-good cover of a giant combine harvester.
Paperback on the shelf behind me, -
Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex [Sings the Bagger 288 song]
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex
A bucket-snoot book! I love it!! -
Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex
Sure looks like a Star Wars doodad war machine. -
Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex Looks cool and would be fun to photograph, but that much metal should be recycled.
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex If you have questions about that: my father worked on Bagger 288 (besides many others). Maybe he has some details available in mind
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
Nothing says the "efficiency of capitalism" like a 10,000ton steel machine quietly rusting away in the wilderness....
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Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
@ObsidianUrbex
I am absolutely fascinated by these things.
Environmentally horrible in every way, but utterly compelling. -
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