Lorax Construction

You can actually hear the earth cry when this thing starts up.

Pardon my ignorance

[SilverHatHacker]

What in Gore's name is that thing?

Re:Pardon my ignorance

[KumquatOfSolace]

It's a bucket-wheel excavator, used for strip-mining coal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator [wikipedia.org]

I think they're moving it from one mine to another, as described in the above article.

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[rduke15]

as described in the above article.

What article? I see only the text "You can actually hear the earth cry when this thing starts up." and 2 pictures. Actually the same picture in 2 sizes. One links to this /. page, the other to the picture itself.

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[KumquatOfSolace]

I meant the Wikipedia article that I linked to :)

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[jDeepbeep]

What in Gore's name is that thing?

Bagger 288 [michaelgriswold.com]

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[Canazza]

Bagger 288 [rathergood.com]

Close but not quite right

[gumbright]

I think you mean "Onceler Construction".

1995 called

[Anonymous Coward]

They want their meme back.

Tell me about it.

[FireFlie]

I've been tracking this thing's movements for years, moving from one shitty hotel to another just to maintain a safe distance from it. All those long years spent away from everything that I love. My wife... My kids... A semblance of a job or social life... I've spent the past decade in a stupor of booze-induced half sedation just to function--all the time knowing that it's every twitch, every hiccup could mean the end for half the population of a major city in mere hours. We think that we're so safe an

Fern Gully

[sherriw]

Anyone remember the animated movie Fern Gully from over 10 years ago? I picture the villain Hexus riding on top of that thing.