Monster Machine
Friday, January 25, 2008 11:19Posted in category Fun
How’s this for awesome picture of the week? I did a double-take when I first saw this picture but this is a real machine alright. It’s the Bagger 288 excavator and you can see more pictures of it on this blog. Particularly awesome are the photos of the machine chewing up a Caterpillar bulldozer, the poor little thing.
I picked up on this because this machine was apparently an inspiration for the developers of the upcoming Borderlands game by Gearbox Software. As you can see from this promotional picture, there’s definitely a distinctive resemblance there.
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Deimos Tel`Arin says:
January 25th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Oh My Poking Goodness(OMPG)!!!!
Totally Monster!!!!
Just incredible!
Where is this screenie captured aye?
Steve Yu says:
January 25th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Wow, this do make my eyes wide open. Wow, what a monster! I wonder, how long it took to build it?
wankongyew says:
January 25th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
As its wikipedia entry notes, it was built in Germany in 1978. I can just imagine the huge buzzsaw tearing holes into skyscrapers. In my line of work, I see plenty of big bulldozers, loaders and cargo lifters, but this one is totally unique and out of this world. It’s no wonder that Gearbox Software thought that it would look cool in a game.
Navin says:
January 27th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Oh my gosh!! looks like a machine of destruction
Tony says:
February 26th, 2010 at 1:10 am
Thats what I’m talking about!
I couldn’t imagine ever seeing something like that in real life – that thing’ll give me nightmares.
Construction equipment already is crazy.
Bruno says:
April 18th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Got here by coincidence and that picture left me sitting here straight awestruck. I’ve seen quite a few monstruous machines in my life, but this tops it all. Looks like from a little like from some surreal science-fiction movie.
The guy taking the picture sure had to keep some distance to take that shot. Good work, much appreciated!