Big-*** Saw Thing!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

https://i.redd.it/jvzbn9qqq8x91.jpg

 

[dirtywick]

looks like it's for trenching

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

looks like it's for trenching

Not so much. The wheel swings back and forth in an open pit mine, so it's expanding the pit, not digging into it mostly. Thing of it as "strip minging with a HUGE buzz saw." It can cut up to half the diameter of the big saw blade and suck up the product to be carted away on trucks. They have to be on the bounce to keep up with it.

 

[PitPat]

Would make for a great Mad Max camp.

 

[EHocking]

I use it when making sandcastles at the beach.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

And I use it to pick crumbs from the floor of my kitchen.

 

[EHocking]

You do?

I have a man for that.

 

[Steve]

Not so much. The wheel swings back and forth in an open pit mine, so it's expanding the pit, not digging into it mostly. Thing of it as "strip minging with a HUGE buzz saw." It can cut up to half the diameter of the big saw blade and suck up the product to be carted away on trucks. They have to be on the bounce to keep up with it.

Actually that is not a saw. It is a series of buckets on a wheel that excavate and dump the material onto a conveyor that runs the length of the arm it is attached to.

 

[PitPat]

Actually that is not a saw. It is a series of buckets on a wheel that excavate and dump the material onto a conveyor that runs the length of the arm it is attached to.

Weird that something that huge is still so essentially Flinstones.

 

[Steve]

Weird that something that huge is still so essentially Flinstones.

Flintstones were ahead of their time.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Actually that is not a saw. It is a series of buckets on a wheel that excavate and dump the material onto a conveyor that runs the length of the arm it is attached to.

Nobody claimed it was actually a saw. The 'Net went crazy when it was pictured crossing a road, things went down hill from there.

 

[Steve]

Nobody claimed it was actually a saw. The 'Net went crazy when it was pictured crossing a road, things went down hill from there.

"Thing of it as "strip minging with a HUGE buzz saw." It can cut up to half the diameter of the big saw blade"

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Bucket scoops.

 

[EHocking]

Nobody claimed it was actually a saw. The 'Net went crazy when it was pictured crossing a road, things went down hill from there.

Did it run over the chicken on the other side?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Did it run over the chicken on the other side?

Free pate.

Seriously, however, the "teeth" of that saw are buckets like you find on a single bucket scooper. Think of it as a round conveyor belt.

 

[theprestige]

Nobody claimed it was actually a saw. The 'Net went crazy when it was pictured crossing a road, things went down hill from there.

That pic is over 20 years old.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

That pic is over 20 years old.

And?

 

[theprestige]

And?

The 'Net went crazy for keyboard cat and the first ever iPhone in 2007, not the Bagger 288. Some of us actually lived through this time period, and remember these things.