The WALKING Monster of Russia! 😨😲

#shorts #Dragline #Excavator #walking

This walking monster is straight out of Star Wars movie. But there is something peculiar in this footage. Did you also notice that mysterious kitchen curtain?

This is a dragline excavator and yes its Russian. Built in 1979, it is like a crane that uses a network of ropes and chains connected to a big bucket. It can move massive amounts of earth, but why does it have to waddle like a Penguin?

Well, at 600 thousand pounds, it is so heavy that railroad tracks around worksite were sinking into the ground. So it was equipped with big pads resembling a penguin's underbelly. Using this mechanism, the big arm lifts and shifts the entire excavator a few feet ahead before gently placing it down. But moving so slowly also evokes a sense of nostalgia, which is why the cabin is decorated like a grandma kitchenette.

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[Ramen]

Ah, it's Dimitri's moving Castle .

[einescheibebrot_]

Looks like something out of an ghibli movie

[eliasshedd]

Also we put curtains on it because we don't want to sit in the sun all day.
The curtains I'm sitting next to right now in my tower crane are bed sheets.

[pistol]

My dad is a dragline operator in Montana and I've been on a dragline before. It's giant. Everything at the coalmine is gigantic. One of the neater things is seeing the dragline lit up at night. It looks like a Christmas tree with the lights on the boom.

[saitamaharuhiko]

Dude, almost every work place of that kind is decorated like an old Soviet apartment. It's not about people bringing a piece of their home into work, it's just what they have to make a steel box into a more cozy work environment. This goes for security posts of any kind, crane cabins, any small confined place where people have to spend their days in working, it began to die out towards the middle of the last decade, but in many places this relics of the past remain.

[AndorRadnai]

This is the type of stuff you see in the background of a Star Wars scene for a split second, get no explanation for, and thus decide to read up on.

[importments]

The curtain is SOOO Russian, but did you also see the Vodka bottle?! 😂

[GOYO]

"And yes it's Russian" killed me😭

Edit: Thank you all for the likes🫵🎉

[ДмитрийЖбанов-дт]

I did operate one of them while studiing in tech school) This one is "ЭШ-10/70". ЭШ is acronym of Экскаватор шагающий (Walking excavator); 10/70 means it's crane frame is 70 meters long, and it's bucket capacity is 10 tons. And do you know what?! ЭШ-10/70 is smallest model! The bigger model is ЭШ-20/90, and the largest is ЭШ-100/100 but there are no one of them still operational.

[codebasher]

I've worked inside these things based in Queensland. The size inside these things is absolutely awe inspiring.

[fabricio-agrippa-zarate]

Therapist: the giant mechanical duck isn't real.

The giant mechanical duck:

[Hardys-Mods]

Imagine how much torgue is on those ankles of its "legs".. The force must be immense.

[hughjazz]

"and he waddled away waddle waddle" 😂

[simon-orlandosinghai]

"Sir, we got a job 10 miles up the road"
"Should be good to start in 2030, I'll begin the journey now"

[robertburns]

I'm 73 and I remember as a child seeing these monstrous machines that would walk exactly in the same manner with a bucket that was bigger than a two car garage

[AckzaTV]

Russia always proves that you CAN have big crazy dream machines, like a walking tractor, and it uses riopes and chains instead of some crazy motorized method

[kisiki_kt_na_lage]

In soviet Russia, you don't walk like penguin, penguin walks like you

[Wipou]

There's hope for bipedal mechs after all

[f.m.f]

The curtains are for the sun... my parents work as construction contractors, and we issue curtains to all of the workers that are assigned to the heavy equipments if it didnt already came with one.

[yibithehispanic]

This is straight proof that we don't build gundams because we don't want to