00:00Are you ready to find out what it feels like to operate the largest machines in the world?
00:05Ooh, that's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so don't miss out!
00:10The first monster you're going to control is the Giant Bucket Wheel Excavator.
00:14It can tear the ground to shreds in no time!
00:17The excavator you're about to climb into is the Bagger 293, one of the largest machines
00:22in the world.
00:24This real titan among giants was built in Germany in 1995.
00:28If you want to check it out before starting work, you'll have to be physically prepared
00:32since it's going to be a long walk.
00:34The excavator is almost 740 feet long.
00:38When in the cabin, you'll observe the surrounding landscape from a height of 314 feet.
00:44And don't even try to lift this ginormous machine!
00:47Just kidding.
00:48It weighs a staggering 14,000 tons – that's about as heavy as the Brooklyn Bridge!
00:54If you want to try something new, I can suggest driving the Bagger 293's not-so-little brother,
01:00the Bagger 288.
01:02You might like it even more!
01:03Currently, an energy and mining company is using this enormous machine.
01:08Hopefully, they'll let you test this Bucket Wheel Excavator.
01:11It was created as a mobile strip-mining machine.
01:14It took them around 10 years to design and construct this behemoth, and it costs reach
01:19about $100 million.
01:21The excavator is just a bit slimmer than its mighty brother, weighing 13,500 tons.
01:27It's half as heavy as the Statue of Liberty.
01:30Walking around the excavator, or climbing inside the cabin, is going to be as hard as
01:34dealing with the previous machine, because their sizes are kinda similar.
01:38Ugh, too much exercise for one day!
01:41And look at those 12 enormous caterpillar tracks propelling the machine!
01:46They make this giant quite fast, allowing it to travel at a speed of almost 33 feet
01:51per minute.
01:52Woo, let's race!
01:53Oh, I see, you're tired of excavators and eager to try something new.
01:58Okay, let me show you the Tyshon Crane.
02:01This gargantuan construction makes sense when you think that to build big machines, you
02:06need something equally big, or even bigger, to move around bits and pieces of them.
02:11The Tyshon Crane might be a perfect fit for this purpose.
02:14To test it, you'll need to travel all the way to a shipyard in China.
02:18Wow, isn't it the biggest crane you've ever seen?
02:21It's also considered to be the most powerful crane in the world, boasting a payload of
02:26more than 20,000 tons.
02:28It means it could lift more than 150 blue whales at a time.
02:32And those are the biggest animals on Earth.
02:34Not that you could train them to, you know, stack up like that.
02:38How about doing something boring?
02:40Well, Big Bertha can assist you, making this activity a child's play.
02:45It's the world's largest tunnel-boring machine, dwarfing all competitors with a total
02:50length of 300 feet.
02:52So take Big Ben in London, place it on its side, that's how long Bertha is.
02:57This machine is also 5 stories high, and there's no elevator to get to the top.
03:02This 7,000-ton monster has to be shipped between worksites, and it's not an easy feat.
03:08So perhaps it's time to try something different, like a super-dozer.
03:12Meet Komatsu D575A, the world's biggest and most powerful production bulldozer.
03:18They produce it in Japan, but the machine is mostly active in Australia and North America,
03:23so you can pick any of these regions to test this super-machine.
03:27But you'll have to do your best to get inside its cabin, considering how high it's located.
03:32But if you'll succeed, you'll feel what 1,150 horsepower feels like.
03:37If you want something more exotic, we could go and test NASA's crawler-transporter.
03:42It was built to move entire rockets.
03:45Even though it's about 50 years old, this giant machine is still impressive.
03:49The crawler is the size of a baseball infield, and its top speed is 1 mph when the machine
03:55is loaded and 2 mph when unloaded.
03:58Since it began working, the crawler has already traveled more than 2,300 miles – that's
04:04almost the length of the Mississippi River.
04:07Well I hope you enjoyed this extraordinary experience, but now it's time to fly!
04:11And here, the McDonnell Douglas AC-10 Extender rules the skies.
04:16This giant machine has two functions – refueling and cargo transportation.
04:21Look at this plane!
04:22Its wingspan is similar to the height of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
04:26It'll definitely take your breath away.
04:28The length of this aircraft is even greater – over 180 ft.
04:32Once you take off, you'll feel the might of the machine.
04:35It's carrying 356,000 pounds of fuel.
04:38Ooh, let's do some math.
04:40A plane, like a Boeing 747, uses 1 gallon of fuel every second.
04:45During a 15-hour flight, it might burn 54,000 gallons, or about 383,000 pounds of fuel.
04:52So our McDonnell Douglas AC-10 Extender could supply this passenger plane with fuel for
04:57almost the entire duration of the flight.
05:01Now I'll show you something you've never seen before.
05:04This is the overburdened conveyor bridge F-60.
05:08This colossal beast is the world's largest conveyor bridge.
05:11I bet you can't wait to operate this monster.
05:13It's almost 1,650 ft. long, 660 ft. wide, and towering at 260 ft. high.
05:21Getting to the top is like climbing an 18-story building.
05:24The entire construction weighs a whopping 11,000 tons – almost as much as the world-famous
05:29Eiffel Tower.
05:31The conveyor bridge was built back in 1991 in East Germany.
05:35How about catching some sunlight and watching waves crash against the shore?
05:39Right, we're going to visit one of the largest ships in the world – the Prelude.
05:44This giant floating machine is a floating natural gas facility.
05:48At almost 1,600 ft. long, it's so huge that if you placed it vertically next to the Empire
05:53State Building, it'd still be around 147 ft. taller.
05:57And it would really block the traffic in Manhattan.
06:00You can assume that it might be tricky to control this monster.
06:03When fully loaded, it weighs an insane 600,000 tons.
06:07It's 5 times as heavy as the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada.
06:12Speaking of legendary ships, we can't but mention the famous SeaWise Giant.
06:17It also has other names, for example, the Happy Giant or Noc Nevis.
06:21It was built in Japan and once held the record as the world's longest ship with a deadweight
06:26tonnage of 657,000 tons when fully loaded.
06:30The ship was so big, it couldn't even fit through major canals like the Suez and Panama
06:35Canals.
06:36Unfortunately, the ship was once heavily damaged in a conflict.
06:39But later, it was saved and became a floating storage unit.
06:43Sadly, you can't visit it anymore.
06:45In 2009, the ship was finally scrapped after its final journey.
06:50Next up is a floating vacuum cleaner.
06:52I'm talking about the Queen of the Netherlands.
06:54A hopper-dredging ship built in 1998.
06:58This machine has a deadweight of 60,000 tons and is twice as long as a football field.
07:03Its job is to suck up silt and debris from the seabed.
07:06Oh, and by the way, you can even track where this massive ship is in the world right now.
07:13So you might've noticed that we haven't traveled by train yet.
07:16Well, let's fix that.
07:17Meet the Big Boy.
07:19This steam locomotive is the largest one ever built, 132 feet long, and weighing a
07:24mass of 1.2 million pounds.
07:27These machines were so powerful, they could haul entire freight trains across mountain
07:32ranges without breaking a sweat.
07:36And finally, you can visit the largest machine in the world, the Large Hadron Collider, sitting
07:41on the border between Switzerland and France.
07:44It's a 17-mile-long particle accelerator.
07:47Scientists use it to smash subatomic particles together and unlock the mysteries of the universe.
07:53So you'd better stay away from that thing.
07:55Rumor has it, it can open a black hole on Earth.
07:59Just kidding.
08:00And still, the LHC is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, pushing the limits
08:05of what we know about physics.
08:08And here's a small bonus for you.
08:10I hope you like speed, because you're gonna climb the world's biggest motorbike.
08:15This gigantic bike stands an incredible 16 feet tall and weighs 5.5 tons, as much as
08:20a small elephant.
08:22But the best thing?
08:23This bike has actually traveled a distance of around 300 feet.
08:27So which of the monster machines would you drive?
08:30Give me your comments below!
08:32That's it for today!
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