Go big or go home. That’s our philosophy. If mastodon-sized is wrong, we don’t want to be right. So you can imagine our excitement when we came across this video mash-up of five insane monster machines (Links to: http://www.techinsider.io/monster-machines-changing-build-2016-3) that are revolutionizing how the world gets built. Here’s a quick rundown of their colossal credits:
- Bucket Wheel Excavator. At more than 30 stories tall, this leviathan of German engineering is the tallest land vehicle in the world and can literally move mountains—up to 240K tons of rocks a day.
- Segmental Bridge Launcher. At 580 tons and 300 feet wide, this behemoth launches across an existing bridge, hooks onto a pillar, moves forward to span the next pillar and rolls its next pre-cast segment into place. Watch as it skillfully snakes its way through China’s countryside.
- Tunnel Boring Machine. Aptly nicknamed ‘Big Bertha’, this little lady grinds tunnels for the Washington State Department of Transportation and is the world’s biggest drill of her kind, weighing in at 6,700 tons and rising five stories tall.
- Tree Harvester. This Ponsse Beaver beast effortlessly tears through the forest like a mythical giant, grabbing trees by their base, shaving their limbs and hacking them into toothpicks in 20 seconds flat.
- Road Printer. It runs entirely on electricity and uniformly prints out 500 meters of pristine road a day. Workers insert bricks vertically into a pasta machine-like press that spits out one meticulously crafted path in its wake.
The bigger they come, the harder we fall in love.