Yes, impressive.
The Terex Titan is powered a 16 cylinder locomotive engine, and delivers 3300 horsepower. It was combined with a huge generator to deliver power to 4 traction engines located on the real wheels. The generator alone has enough power to supply 250 homes with electricity.
Specifications:
Height: 6.9 m (22.5 ft) With Box Raised: 17.1 m (56 ft)
Length: 20.1 m (66 ft) Width: 7.6 m (25 ft)
Weight: 260 tons Payload: 350 tons
Max Weight: 610 tons Horse Power: 3300
The tires are 11.5 ft in diameter, and weigh 4 tons each. Two Greyhound buses and two pick-up trucks would fit inside its dumper.
I used to work at a rock quarry that had 85 ton Terex haul trucks.
I got to see up-close a 350 ton Liebherr.
These things are beyond belief, they are so big they defy description.
http://www.liebherr.com/me/en/47597.aspTry this for size.
http://www.bigbrutus.org/
The statistics give the hard cold picture -
Bucyrus Erie model 1850B
second largest electric shovel in the world
16 stories tall (160 feet)
weight 11 million pounds
boom 150 feet long
dipper capacity 90 cu. yds (by heaping, 150 tons -- enough to fill three railroad cars.)
maximum speed .22 MPH
cost $6.5 million (in 1962)
I used to work for a guy that ran this.
Big Brutus could fill the Titan in only 3 dipper loads.
I have been on this shovel, it is HUGE!!!