journey to the big bucket wheel excavator (uncut) - part III: steel at work

this is a rather unusual series of videos about bucket wheel excavators and the open pit ''Garzweiler'', Germany. I went with my bike to the open pit, then I got off the bike and filmed a bucket wheel excavator at work.

There are a lot of other fascinating details of the open pit which I included in the videos. Only a few times I used the tripod because it limits a bit what can be filmed. Most of the time I filmed holding the camcorder in my hand - thus, a bit shaky sometimes. Furthermore I haven't cut out ''low quality'' scenes due to the amount of data which I was not willing to process. But this will give you an idea of how it feels like laying for about 2 hours in clods and having the hot sun shining in the back all the time :D

Finally I found out where the biggest b.w.e. in the world, i.e. no. 288 is located (you'll see it in vid 6). I hope you'll enjoy (and if so, plz rate and comment !). If you don't don't waste your time and enjoy some other shorter b.w.e. clips on youtube - there are plenty of them.

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[DragonFlyback256]

Was that an intruder alert sounding lol? JK! I like your dive into the flowers LOL. Did you have to sneak? Nice vid nice giant. ^^

[newcome880]

I crawled as a precaution since I didn't know how firm the brink would be

[Molybdan42]

Warst aber verdammt nah an der Abbruchkante. Braunkohle ist nicht gerade für ihre große Festigkeit bekannt. Watch your step ; )

[newcome880]

jo, weiter ging net. die Braunkohle is aber ein wenig weiter unten ;-)

[XyliboxFrance]

impressive heavy stuff

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[newcome880]

@XyliboxFrance

I also have some photos of that trip flying around somewhere :-)

[snake172]

we may be small but we sure know how to fuck up earth......in style!

[newcome880]

WTF ?

[MW2KNIFERR]

SNAKE- solid snake here looking at a excavator in germany now we will hijack it and

GUARD- Hey ( !!!! )

(running)

(dives into flowers)

SNAKE-luckily my octocamo makes me blend into the flowers,now time to hijack it and have some fun.

[GHOSTS117]

Who wins? 2 tanks or this?

[peptobismol9]

The zombies will never see it coming.

[CookingEggss]

jeez i hate those hoax's. Crazy piece of machinery there though!

[Lydok]

look at that beast

[elbalistico]

WOW..



[DragonFlyback256]

Jesus that thing needs some oil and grease. xD

I can see a traction motor.

[disturbedbass49]

cracked