@AVERAGE INDIAN, also put the name whenever you can. I have added "Kenworth" to one of your posts. What is the second one?
sorry i forgot ill add second one is Le tourneu L2350 earth mover Mega Dozer
The LeTourneau's massive bucket is 24 ft wide-. So, in a schoolboy's fantasy, it could easily swallow two 1970s Cadillac Fleetwoods piled on top of one another and lift the sedans 45 ft in the air before dumping them
Asarco's open-pit Ray Mine in Arizona is so rich in copper that water sprayed on its dirt roads to keep down the dust instantly turns green as the ore oxidizes. If you stand at the bottom of the mine, which covers more than 50,000 acres, and look up at its high, tiered walls, you travel back in time to the top shelf, where the first cuts were made a generation ago by men with picks and shovels. Here at the bottom, though, the world's largest wheel loader--the LeTourneau L-2350--gulps 75 tons in a single bite.
The L-2350 is a 2300-hp monster: After tearing into the desert dirt a few hundred times, the steel teeth welded to the bottom edge of its bucket shine like silver. The machine's gaping maw is designed to dump rock and ore loosened by explosives into a seemingly endless line of huge trucks that haul it away for processing. Like most wheel loaders, the LeTourneau is articulated in the middle with massive hydraulic rams that pivot the huge hinge with 3400 psi. The Detroit diesel V16 is the size of a Ford F-350. At a governed 5 mph, the L-2350 burns through 1050 gal of fuel in 24 hours. This $7.6 million machine is so freakishly enormous that it was assembled on-site, and when its useful life is over, it will be scrapped on-site too. It will never have left the mine--from cradle to grave.
Only veteran operators are allowed to handle the L-2350, and Ruben Rosalez looks the part. Rosalez, who started out working in underground mines and whose burly build, graying ponytail and weathered work clothes would look perfect atop a Harley, jokingly says his greatest qualification for operating the L-2350 is his "depth perception." But seeing him drive the monster using two joysticks--the left one controls the machine's movements, the right controls the bucket--is to see professional expertise become a mechanical ballet.
last one got no info in the parent site as well
