Largest Abandoned Machine in the World! - Dangerous Exploration 

Farmers do this allot with tractors I used to think they were parked cause they were broken but they normally all work they just had a little problem and they get new ones

@@hamish2202 These behemoths aren't your average tractor though. The primary reason for this thing being abandoned and not replaced were the high operation and maintenance costs. Since they were (and some still are) electrically powered, you basically needed a small power plant to run one of these things. Besides that, when the place where it used to dig up coal was largely depleted, it was deemed too expensive to move it (they are even slower than a person on foot by quite some margin, making in the ballpark of 0.5 kilometers per hour at top speed (a walking person easily makes five times that speed). And disassembling and reassembling was deemed too expensive as well, so they let it sit there. @The Proper People, you guys were lucky that this thing sits so far out in hte countryside and has been abandoned for almost 20 years. Police therefore was unlikely to show up. Security from those solar-parks nearby might have though.

Actually a much better reminder is a Call of Duty Ghosts DLC map called Behemoth based on this machine. It would be droll if someone was trapped in one of the buckets on the wheel as it rotated around to scoop up the earth and of course the earth crushed the person trapped inside. Or someone was trapped on the wheel when it began to rotate. Or if someone was run over by the treads. It would be droll to dig a hole to sit in that's narrower than the treads and have the treads pass over you. It's always the top part of the tread that moves, but the ground touching portion always stands still, whether you are talking a tank or a tractor. So many people probably never realized that. People need to buy up my "Dance of Death" a James Grider novel on Etsy under the jamesgriderbooks shop so I can accumulate money to afford to move out of the desert into a forested area like in the video.

@@hamish2202 Your partly right. The farmer only parked the old perfectly running tractor as a backup for the newer tractor when it breaks. Plus everything we do as a child has a lifelong emotional impression. That we often enjoy reliving.

@. Scout Says the drama queen.

Agreed. In case you wondered, this thing weighed in at around 3850 tons - which is several parking lots' worth of cars - in one vehicle. And it wasn't exactly fast either.

And thats a small one. The biggest we have are over 13000 tons. 90m high. :)

@@Tahydrahel actually over 14.00 tons, but yes, you are correct.

And it seems they cut a fair bit out too.

The fact that you can take the time to type this out for just ONE comment is a good testament as to how absolutely massively idiotic you are.

This was DEFINITELY off Wikipedia 🗣️🔥‼️🔊

Your comment reminded me of the scene in "Alien" when Dallas, Kane, and Lambert first come across the fossilized remains of the space jockey (Engineer) 😁

Have you seen ghost rider 2 were ghost rider aka a skeleton is in the driver Seat of one of these machines

@@mikeoxlong9522 and the whole thing catches on fire like his motorcycle.

Must... buy... Halloween... skeleton... now! ⛑️💀

🤔👉🔴🔊😳

Would be the scariest shit, if you don't know how to operate it. But I can assure you, vehicles with such big engines need quite some work to start. Pressurizers to create the inital pressure needed for combustion, pump to move grease and oil around to ensure complete lubrication, initial fuel pumps, a electric motor to get the engine into motion (one piston alone can weigh more than a normal car) and finally the ignition switch. There might be more actions needed to start such a beast, depending on the type etc.

hell of a cold start, lol

@@3DRiley_ These machines are all electric, no gas , no deisel , just one heck of a huge extension cord and 13000 volts of electricity!

@@3DRiley_ actually the whole thing is electric so one button would fire one part of the machine up

Gibt es in Lauchhammer nicht noch einen viel größeren Schaufelradbagger der nicht mehr in Betrieb ist, oder irre ich mich da? Wir waren mal auf einen, aber das war nicht der gleiche wie in diesem Video.

@@BRuX6969 warum haben deutsche Frauen immer Socken an beim Sex? Besonders schwarze Socken sollen beim Sex sehr beliebt sein

I was thinking imagine if something started to move...

4nth0ny6 hahahaha

**proceeds to step over it**

it was a good run

RavTokomi Just a reminder of times past

haha yea. I though the same

Even more interesting when you consider coal is NEWER technology than wind or solar. Everything non-nuclear is a step into the past.

Germany still uses a lot of coal fired power plants

@@RobertMorgan Photovoltaic is newer than coal.

can you please tell me the location in Germany?

The drone broke in the first few days of our trip :(

@@TheProperPeople That's not good :(

@@TheProperPeople fuck

@Nathan Kosky they had one broken before i believe

@Nathan Kosky buy them one then, lol

...and take only pictures

@Hello I kinda feel the same they aren't too careful :/

@Hello My thoughts exactly. Not a strong sense of self preservation in these kids. And it's evident just by the running dialogue in every vid that they frequently have no idea what they're looking at, which is so dangerous.

Idk, RNK All Day is pretty badass.

Very professional, especially when they were playing with that "shifter"... like seriously....

Someone was going to commit suicide by hanging, but just fell over the edge while setting the noose in place, and died of massive trauma instead.

fantasitretas actually?

I was going to ask..

Its just wire

*insert laughing face*

A. G. The whole thing looks like that thing in the ash heap from Fallout 76

hahaha its probably the same kind of machine tbh

AlcoholAndLAG This thing has been abandoned for as long as I’ve been living

Go play the series of S.T.A.L.K.E.R if you want a real (Post) apocalyptic game instead of shitty ass Fallout which is better named as Sellout.

Actually a much better reminder is a Call of Duty Ghosts DLC map called Behemoth based on this machine. It would be droll if someone was trapped in one of the buckets on the wheel as it rotated around to scoop up the earth and of course the earth crushed the person trapped inside. Or someone was trapped on the wheel when it began to rotate. People need to buy up my "Dance of Death" a James Grider novel on Etsy under the jamesgriderbooks shop so I can accumulate money to afford to move out of the desert into a forested area like in the video.

Decent steel toes shoes and gloves would be a good idea. I hope they have a recent tetanus shot, given all of that rust.

Especially for using while climbing ladders, gotta be careful on rusty ladders..

They're one accident away from becoming the "Deformed People", or worse yet, "The Dead People".

but they're super careful actually.. idk if you've seen how most urban explorers go around but lemme tell you: theyre not as careful with their movement. these guys are doing things very slowly and securely if anything. atleast compared to me that is..

There better be nodes all over the place by that thing.

Rtx ray tracing has been turned on

It’s being taken by a Zerg rn tryna mine some sulf

This is not rust, this is rust v2

what if I told you this is the latest update to The Last Of Us?

Quite frankly, this is one of the smaller ones. its bigger counterparts range up to beyond 14.000 tons, which makes this thing puny with its mere 3850 tons.

Then watch their video from the steel factory - that's even 100 times more massive.

I've been up close to TheSilver Spade and Big Muskie. This machine is small by comparison.

@@ranekeisenkralle8265What are the names of those machines

@@puest-uo4lr They are called "Schaufelradbagger" - which translates into English as "bucket-wheel excavator" i believe. To say they are enormous would be an understatement. Funnily enough, most of the time you only see part of them if you drive past, because they tend to sit at the bottom of pit mines, with only the upper masts sticking out. But on a very few occasions some of these metal leviathans have been moved from one pit mine to another, which let spectators see them in all their immense bulk. It boggles the mind to think these things are actually mobile - albeit at an incredibly slow pace, below even walking speed. But then, we are talking literally a ship's worth of metal moving across land, so moving that sort of mass has to take some serious power - and it does. Electrical power to be exact. From what i remember these things have a sort-of umbillical-cord to plug into a power supply. Simply because that is more economical than putting a combustion engine plus massive fuel tanks into one of these things on top of all the bulk they already have.

I was going to say something, that's creepy as hell

Oh damn... well i do not see a body though so the one who made it either thought trough what he were doing or someone saw the body and removed it.

I did, but I didn't pay attention to it. To me it looked like just a loop of wire. I was more scared of heights while they were climbing...

could just be a loop to carry wires through

I noticed that too. I hope nobody committed suicide

Eigentlich wurde es ja in der DDR gebaut, sogesehen nicht in "deinem Land", der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

@@kaubate9436 die DDR war trotzdem noch deutschland, also doch. "Seinem Land"

Germany in general is awesome at maintaining intrinsically valuable sites.

This machine was working until 2002

bigboy bromo you go to America it becomes a bum city

We took 3 huge floating cranes from germany after the war, 2 of them are still being used today. 1 is in Panama and the other in showed up in Russia a few years ago(we thought it was lost)

I guess u could say us German people are really ocd at times

Some people simply don’t give a fuck. I respect that in a way, but it doesn’t cease to frighten me sometimes

this is actually one of the lowest structures i've seen people climb on here. rather peaceful, actually.

jochaim peiper that’s the joke 🤦‍♀️

Nate Parks r/wooosh

Thou shall not pass, or pass I'm a chain not a cop.

ZoieTorres my dude, he was pointing out the joke he clearly got it.

Big Steve on the scene! Playa playa.

Go to the doctors

Glory to my ever growing "Boner" for my beloved 2b.

Especially that grinder...it looks like Engel's arms

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of Engels when I saw it

True! But Broken Window Theory is much better at capturing the story of the places

thelongboarddude95 agreed, fortunately there is room for numerous creative approaches, and we benefit from that.🖤🇨🇦

Did you see the nooes?

@@sheamusbelvin9240 Yse!

Devastator!

It’s metropolex from transformers cybertron

Does some doughnuts

Fantastic gas mileage I'd imagine.

Do the LS swap

@@filipvanek6272 Whats that?

that makes my gut turn as im watching it on a 24" screen lol

How do you call these things?

Wrong... the biggest one is in germany. The german company RWE use it.

it's actually a massive excavator - which happens to lug around a crane as an add-on ;-)

Yo whats the music called, I love it so much but I can't find what the song is

@@TheEliteMinecrafter This? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vjFg_-4M088.html Intro starts at 2:33

@@TheEliteMinecrafter john hassel or brian eno. ambient music

Jordan Stewart a film called mortal engines is coming out soon! It kinda has that feel to it.

For that you'd have to use one of the bigger still operational excavators. after having been abandoned for almost 20 years the structure of this thing might have taken some damage. Sure, it isn't falling apart anytime soon, but smaller bits and pieces are already dropping down from it - you have seen the condition of several pieces of walkway on this thing.

If you get a couple dozen super sized elctrical motors and the nuclear powerplant of an old sub it might actually even drive

@@solisemporium Is it based on that book?

La Vie Est Drôle It is! Philip Reeve wrote the books. It’s under the same name as the film

HeyIts Bre -Agreed! 👊👊👊

Those are pretty rare and hard to come by. They're also usually guarded and monitored because they're still used for parts and sometimes airworthy planes are just stored there because they're not being used. The best one, in Arizona(?), is guarded by the military and can only be accessed by the public on special guided tours.

#demonetized

@@RobertMorganStill Worth it!

Not possible bc. of copyright, but yeah, it would have been cool.

Marcos Coluci I love that song and it would have fit perfectly. The music video used to scare the Hell out of me when I was a kid. 😂

video would've been deleted for copyright infringement faster than my mom runs to the ice-cream truck

M MMM ikr? They could simply hurt themselves with no appropriate gear of whatsoever i mean they just need to wear some protection

And a dust mask or gas mask

They've answered to that in another video. Boots do not allow for the agility sneakers do, therefore being more dangerous in many situations.

@@fantasitretas You do realize that the people that worked in those places wore boots..... right?

@@mephInc who cares

Hassel ash heap

To the place, I belong...

West Virginia, mountain mama...

Nice lyrics: Country roads, take me home. Hassel, ash heap. To a place, where I belong West virginia, mountain mama. Noah S, take me home, country roads.

8 hours ago. Video out 1 minute ago. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Same here, it was out 1 min ago

@@0u7break13 Probably released to Patrons early.

Patrons get early access.

I actually find those abandoned pieces of trash beautiful on their own. It has something on it that makes me feel amazing

Oh no, oh jesus

Google „Schwerer Gustav“

Would be highly impractical, impossible to get to the destination where it's needed, eat up fuel and resources of an army of battle tanks and then face the fact that it could be easily disabled from miles away with an arsenal of weapons designed to flatten towns and cities. Also the weigh of the vehicle alone would cause it to sink into the ground if the plotted route takes it to a soft ground or anywhere else than flat ground where it has been designed to manouver. There is a reason why the Germans never built the outrageously large battle tank with the twin naval canon turret, the larger the vehicle, the larger is he logistical nightmare of upkeep and use.

It would be good target practice for bombers and artillery

Bertha is not a mining machine. It was used to dig an underground road tunnel in Seattle and has since been disassembled. Whilst Bertha is very large, even this abandoned Bagger 258 dwarfs it.

@@calumkylee Didnt necessarily mean it was for mining. Big muskie or the 288 is the largest though. I was only really talking in contrast to the 258.

After the Large Hadron Collider I'd say the next largest machine would be Knock Nevis oil tanker. That and many other ships dwarf the Baggers.

@@Alan_Hans__ Knock Nevis was pretty huge but Shell's Prelude FLNG platform just edges it out by 30 metres or so.

One could argue the the American power gid is the biggest machine.

Huh? There are thousands of big cities, many more smaller cities, and every single one of them has abandoned sites, sometimes hundreds in a single city. Then there are old mines, derelict vessels, tunnels, oil wells, etc. There is no worry about running out of abandoned places to explore. And even if you did, there are countless thousands more in the rural areas, old churches, barns, houses, quarries and mines.

Bloß gut, dass das Sicherheitspersonal der Solarparks vermutlich die einzigen gewesen sind, die ihre Anwesenheit überhaupt hätten mitbekommen können. Steht ja mitten im Nirgendwo, das Ding.

It looks like de one from fo76

Yurt

FINALLY

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