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What sort of really big machines would you have if you had one [PICS]

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All Acting Regiment

00:09 / 04.04.06

Okay, really big machines have unfortunately aquired a lot of association with unethical corporations and bad practice, but, were these negatives removed, I wouldn't say no to:

...an LR100 (note the name) Crawler Crane. Or

...a Special Activity Crane. Or

A Can't-Remember-The-Name-But-'Tis-The-Biggest-Truck-In-The-World. Or, failing all those

A cute lil' Reachloader.

What big machines do you like?

Saint Keggers

00:59 / 04.04.06

THE MI-26

The one on top. Obviously.
And nobody ever hears about snakes on a helicopter.

All Acting Regiment

01:09 / 04.04.06

That's the biggest, er, little type helicopter I've ever seen.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

01:26 / 04.04.06

I don't know if this counts as large or even a machine, but I've always wanted an H-bomb. Just to have, you know.

All Acting Regiment

01:34 / 04.04.06

Just to have? You'd need five or so tubs of margarine at least.

ibis the being

01:56 / 04.04.06

Oh, Legba. You've picked a bad day to profess crane love.

All Acting Regiment

02:57 / 04.04.06

I'll make it clear that I didn't know about that when I started this thread. If this thread is now something we don't want to have, then that's fine.

quixote

03:11 / 04.04.06

I'd want a space ship. However, they're always all out when I go to the store, so I haven't had any luck finding one yet.

Baz Auckland

03:14 / 04.04.06

I want one of these tunnel borers...

...just so I can tunnel around...

Mistoffelees

07:41 / 04.04.06

Baz, your picture doesn´t show.

And since Legba didn´t say anything about the big machine being built by puny humans:

I´d cruise around Earth all day, sometimes stopping over the White House (and other bullying places) and blare really loud Blind Guardian from my blueish loudspeakers (see photo above) down on them.

And I´d fly around nice neighbourhoods and beam down alien candy.

Sjaak at the Shoe Shop

08:15 / 04.04.06

I would really love to have one of these (and this is just the head of a baby one, there is 2/3rds more outside the photo)

08:36 / 04.04.06

One I could hear the roar of while between two world—no, that isn't right. Let me think a bit.

grant

14:04 / 04.04.06

Largest plane in the world:

The An-255 cargo plane.

It's an extended version of the An-124, chopped and channeled so it's got a wingspan of 290 feet and a height a couple inches under 60 feet and is 275.58 feet from nose to tail.

For a better idea of scale:

It was designed to carry Buran space shuttles.

Which look like this compared to human beings:

275 feet is a 21-story building. It's the length of the Grand Central Station concourse.

Mistoffelees

14:28 / 04.04.06

It's an extended version of the An-124, chopped and channeled so it's got a wingspan of 290 feet and a height a couple inches under 60 feet and is 275.58 feet from nose to tail.

But grant, let´s not forget Howard Hughes´ H-4 Hercules.

"The Hercules is the largest flying boat, and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft ever built."

To compare:_________H-4 Hercules____AN-225

wingspan____________319 ft 11 in____291 ft 2 in

height______________79 ft 4 in______59.3 ft

length______________218 ft 8 in_____276 ft

Here is another picture do compare the two aircrafts:

ibis the being

15:07 / 04.04.06

I'll make it clear that I didn't know about that when I started this thread. If this thread is now something we don't want to have, then that's fine.

Of course you didn't know, it was just big local news yesterday and happened several blocks from where I was working. Certainly we shouldn't let one bad egg ruin the name of all cranekind. I wish I had something more to contribute but after searching my soul I find I'm deficient in really big machine lust. Is there some sort of pill or cream for that?

All Acting Regiment

18:00 / 04.04.06

Try having a look at like, weaving machines or something.

ibis the being

18:08 / 04.04.06

Well, I don't particularly care for its taste in afghans, but this Knitting Machine is pretty cool.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:19 / 04.04.06

Oh wow.

Ninjas make great pets

18:20 / 04.04.06

cool find ibis!

Mourne Kransky

19:05 / 04.04.06

This is the front wheel of my new bike. Need to find another one and I shall then bestride the world like a spoked colossus, as I speed through the streets of London.

Mistoffelees

19:18 / 04.04.06

Sorry Xoc, but no can do.

I´m already using that wheel to kickstart my UFO!

grant

21:50 / 04.04.06

There's a bigger one in Nanchang now:

I bet you can see the "Made in USA! errrr" Ford factory from the top of it.

Beats the Eye by 25 meters.

Char Aina

21:57 / 04.04.06

...but has only three cars?
is that an attraction or a piece of equipment, grant?
if the fomrer, is it state offical use only?

Mourne Kransky

21:59 / 04.04.06

I shall have a penny farthing then.

Do the people just hang onto the bare spokes, grant, as they spin around high above Nanchang?

grant

12:14 / 05.04.06

That's an under-construction picture!
It's TOO BIG to see the finished one!

William Sack

12:20 / 05.04.06

What sort of really big machine would I have if I only had one?

No contest really

Char Aina

13:22 / 05.04.06

just mind and get a screen door for it.
you dont want tiny, insignificant REBEL INSECTS flying in in the middle of the night.

i hear they can play havok with a death star's KABOOM reflex.

The Falcon

13:27 / 05.04.06

I liked this one, for my enemeess.

Mistoffelees

14:09 / 05.04.06

Watch your feet people, Xoc is on the move!

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:13 / 05.04.06

I like an evil machine that incorporates Jaguars.

I would go for

It turns into this, you know

It combines all the aspects of my personality. Motor cycle rebel and giant robot.

Mourne Kransky

08:41 / 07.04.06

Yay! Instead of a forty minute walk to work, Mistoffelees, it would be a four minute bike ride! And I could crush some ugly sixties architecture beneath by wheels into the bargain!

Saveloy

08:53 / 07.04.06

Ha ha, Xoc's riding a *tricycle*! Awwww! Won't mummy let you on a proper bike like the big boys?

*trundletrundletrundleCRUSH*

But just what *is* that thing, really? Mistoffelees?

Mistoffelees

09:02 / 07.04.06

But just what *is* that thing, really? Mistoffelees?

If I only knew! I can´t even guess. I came across it, while procrastinatingly surfing, and knew it couldn´t be coincidence, it had to be fate that made me come across it, so I could post it here to inspire Xoc to build his bike.

Yay! Instead of a forty minute walk to work, Mistoffelees, it would be a four minute bike ride! And I could crush some ugly sixties architecture beneath by wheels into the bargain!

All the good deeds you could do in only four minutes! Working out, saving petrol, helping London to become more beautiful, and a new tourist attraction, too!

All Acting Regiment

13:48 / 07.04.06

Isn't Mist's Marvelous Machine one of those novelty bikes from the tour de france?

Saveloy

13:55 / 07.04.06

It's part of the undercarriage from The World's Biggest But Also Most Rickety Airplane.

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