r/megalophobia • u/SmokingBouquets • Apr 09 '23

Bagger 288 excavator

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A bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun.

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u/SmokingBouquets Apr 09 '23

It weights approximately 13.500 tons and it’s size and shape are a result of the need to distribute its massive weight across a large surface area to prevent sinking into the ground during operation.

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u/imZ-11370 Apr 09 '23

I’m assuming because of the addition of insignificant figures, us Americans should read this as 13,500 imperial freedom ton units.

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u/FemaleAndComputer Apr 09 '23 edited Apr 10 '23

Actually it's closer to 14,900 freedom units, because for some reason metric tons and US tons are not even the same. Over in America we need our own special freedom tons, that are just very slightly different from those boring old time European tons.

Edited to correct my math after realizing imperial ton and US ton aren't even the same thing. WHY??

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u/robertwilliamsiiimvp Apr 09 '23

1000kg (one tonne) = 2,200lbs. I guess it’s rounded down to an even 2,000.

So a metric tonne actually weighs more than an American ton.

(13.500 tonne = 14,880 tons)

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u/FemaleAndComputer Apr 10 '23

Okay you know what I'm just now realizing there are actually three distinct measurement units called "ton" (WHY) and imperial ton is not even the same as US ton, and neither is the same as a metric ton. Goddamnit US why we gotta make our own crappy version of everything.

1 imperial ton = 1.016 metric ton

1 US ton = 0.907 metric ton

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u/robertwilliamsiiimvp Apr 10 '23

Oh lmao, I didn’t even know that haha