Driving the biggest machines on Earth—like massive dump trucks, cranes, and bulldozers—feels a bit like being in a spaceship on wheels. These monster machines are built to handle tough jobs, like digging up giant pits or hauling tons of rock, and they can be as tall as a building! The driver’s seat is way up high, giving you an impressive view over everything, but it also takes some serious skill to control all that power. The controls inside can look like a mix between a car and a cockpit, with lots of buttons, levers, and screens to monitor. Maneuvering these machines is slow and steady, and it can take a lot of concentration to make sure everything goes smoothly and safely. For people who drive them, it’s a thrilling, one-of-a-kind experience! Credit: On Demand News / YouTube CERN / YouTube Science Channel / YouTube 60 Minutes / YouTube Union Pacific / YouTube Jan De Nul Group / YouTube Top Gear / YouTube Shell / YouTube WELT Documentary / YouTube Aviation Photography Digest / YouTube 235FireFly / YouTube BFBS Forces News / YouTube Business Insider / YouTube tonythomas53 / YouTube CBS Evening News / YouTube HISTORY / YouTube YantaiRaffles / YouTube Made People / YouTube New Age Media - video production / YouTube National Geographic UK / YouTube Mega Machines Channel / YouTube Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
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00:00Are you ready to find out what it feels like to operate the largest machines in the world?
00:05Ooh, that's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so don't miss out!
00:10The first monster you're going to control is the Giant Bucket Wheel Excavator.
00:14It can tear the ground to shreds in no time!
00:17The excavator you're about to climb into is the Bagger 293, one of the largest machines
00:22in the world.
00:24This real titan among giants was built in Germany in 1995.
00:28If you want to check it out before starting work, you'll have to be physically prepared
00:32since it's going to be a long walk.
00:34The excavator is almost 740 feet long.
00:38When in the cabin, you'll observe the surrounding landscape from a height of 314 feet.
00:44And don't even try to lift this ginormous machine!
00:47Just kidding.
00:48It weighs a staggering 14,000 tons – that's about as heavy as the Brooklyn Bridge!
00:54If you want to try something new, I can suggest driving the Bagger 293's not-so-little brother,
01:00the Bagger 288.
01:02You might like it even more!
01:03Currently, an energy and mining company is using this enormous machine.
01:08Hopefully, they'll let you test this Bucket Wheel Excavator.
01:11It was created as a mobile strip-mining machine.
01:14It took them around 10 years to design and construct this behemoth, and it costs reach
01:19about $100 million.
01:21The excavator is just a bit slimmer than its mighty brother, weighing 13,500 tons.
01:27It's half as heavy as the Statue of Liberty.
01:30Walking around the excavator, or climbing inside the cabin, is going to be as hard as
01:34dealing with the previous machine, because their sizes are kinda similar.
01:38Ugh, too much exercise for one day!
01:41And look at those 12 enormous caterpillar tracks propelling the machine!
01:46They make this giant quite fast, allowing it to travel at a speed of almost 33 feet
01:51per minute.
01:52Woo, let's race!
01:53Oh, I see, you're tired of excavators and eager to try something new.
01:58Okay, let me show you the Tyshon Crane.
02:01This gargantuan construction makes sense when you think that to build big machines, you
02:06need something equally big, or even bigger, to move around bits and pieces of them.
02:11The Tyshon Crane might be a perfect fit for this purpose.
02:14To test it, you'll need to travel all the way to a shipyard in China.
02:18Wow, isn't it the biggest crane you've ever seen?
02:21It's also considered to be the most powerful crane in the world, boasting a payload of
02:26more than 20,000 tons.
02:28It means it could lift more than 150 blue whales at a time.
02:32And those are the biggest animals on Earth.
02:34Not that you could train them to, you know, stack up like that.
02:38How about doing something boring?
02:40Well, Big Bertha can assist you, making this activity a child's play.
02:45It's the world's largest tunnel-boring machine, dwarfing all competitors with a total
02:50length of 300 feet.
02:52So take Big Ben in London, place it on its side, that's how long Bertha is.
02:57This machine is also 5 stories high, and there's no elevator to get to the top.
03:02This 7,000-ton monster has to be shipped between worksites, and it's not an easy feat.
03:08So perhaps it's time to try something different, like a super-dozer.
03:12Meet Komatsu D575A, the world's biggest and most powerful production bulldozer.
03:18They produce it in Japan, but the machine is mostly active in Australia and North America,
03:23so you can pick any of these regions to test this super-machine.
03:27But you'll have to do your best to get inside its cabin, considering how high it's located.
03:32But if you'll succeed, you'll feel what 1,150 horsepower feels like.
03:37If you want something more exotic, we could go and test NASA's crawler-transporter.
03:42It was built to move entire rockets.
03:45Even though it's about 50 years old, this giant machine is still impressive.
03:49The crawler is the size of a baseball infield, and its top speed is 1 mph when the machine
03:55is loaded and 2 mph when unloaded.
03:58Since it began working, the crawler has already traveled more than 2,300 miles – that's
04:04almost the length of the Mississippi River.
04:07Well I hope you enjoyed this extraordinary experience, but now it's time to fly!
04:11And here, the McDonnell Douglas AC-10 Extender rules the skies.
04:16This giant machine has two functions – refueling and cargo transportation.
04:21Look at this plane!
04:22Its wingspan is similar to the height of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
04:26It'll definitely take your breath away.
04:28The length of this aircraft is even greater – over 180 ft.
04:32Once you take off, you'll feel the might of the machine.
04:35It's carrying 356,000 pounds of fuel.
04:38Ooh, let's do some math.
04:40A plane, like a Boeing 747, uses 1 gallon of fuel every second.
04:45During a 15-hour flight, it might burn 54,000 gallons, or about 383,000 pounds of fuel.
04:52So our McDonnell Douglas AC-10 Extender could supply this passenger plane with fuel for
04:57almost the entire duration of the flight.
05:01Now I'll show you something you've never seen before.
05:04This is the overburdened conveyor bridge F-60.
05:08This colossal beast is the world's largest conveyor bridge.
05:11I bet you can't wait to operate this monster.
05:13It's almost 1,650 ft. long, 660 ft. wide, and towering at 260 ft. high.
05:21Getting to the top is like climbing an 18-story building.
05:24The entire construction weighs a whopping 11,000 tons – almost as much as the world-famous
05:29Eiffel Tower.
05:31The conveyor bridge was built back in 1991 in East Germany.
05:35How about catching some sunlight and watching waves crash against the shore?
05:39Right, we're going to visit one of the largest ships in the world – the Prelude.
05:44This giant floating machine is a floating natural gas facility.
05:48At almost 1,600 ft. long, it's so huge that if you placed it vertically next to the Empire
05:53State Building, it'd still be around 147 ft. taller.
05:57And it would really block the traffic in Manhattan.
06:00You can assume that it might be tricky to control this monster.
06:03When fully loaded, it weighs an insane 600,000 tons.
06:07It's 5 times as heavy as the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada.
06:12Speaking of legendary ships, we can't but mention the famous SeaWise Giant.
06:17It also has other names, for example, the Happy Giant or Noc Nevis.
06:21It was built in Japan and once held the record as the world's longest ship with a deadweight
06:26tonnage of 657,000 tons when fully loaded.
06:30The ship was so big, it couldn't even fit through major canals like the Suez and Panama
06:35Canals.
06:36Unfortunately, the ship was once heavily damaged in a conflict.
06:39But later, it was saved and became a floating storage unit.
06:43Sadly, you can't visit it anymore.
06:45In 2009, the ship was finally scrapped after its final journey.
06:50Next up is a floating vacuum cleaner.
06:52I'm talking about the Queen of the Netherlands.
06:54A hopper-dredging ship built in 1998.
06:58This machine has a deadweight of 60,000 tons and is twice as long as a football field.
07:03Its job is to suck up silt and debris from the seabed.
07:06Oh, and by the way, you can even track where this massive ship is in the world right now.
07:13So you might've noticed that we haven't traveled by train yet.
07:16Well, let's fix that.
07:17Meet the Big Boy.
07:19This steam locomotive is the largest one ever built, 132 feet long, and weighing a
07:24mass of 1.2 million pounds.
07:27These machines were so powerful, they could haul entire freight trains across mountain
07:32ranges without breaking a sweat.
07:36And finally, you can visit the largest machine in the world, the Large Hadron Collider, sitting
07:41on the border between Switzerland and France.
07:44It's a 17-mile-long particle accelerator.
07:47Scientists use it to smash subatomic particles together and unlock the mysteries of the universe.
07:53So you'd better stay away from that thing.
07:55Rumor has it, it can open a black hole on Earth.
07:59Just kidding.
08:00And still, the LHC is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, pushing the limits
08:05of what we know about physics.
08:08And here's a small bonus for you.
08:10I hope you like speed, because you're gonna climb the world's biggest motorbike.
08:15This gigantic bike stands an incredible 16 feet tall and weighs 5.5 tons, as much as
08:20a small elephant.
08:22But the best thing?
08:23This bike has actually traveled a distance of around 300 feet.
08:27So which of the monster machines would you drive?
08:30Give me your comments below!
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