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Original – Bucket-wheel excavators in Garzweiler surface mine Reason
High EV and good quality. Commons FP.
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Bucket-wheel excavator , Garzweiler surface mine
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Machinery
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Raimond Spekking
You mean the front-end loader at left foreground? Sca (talk ) 22:10, 4 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Yeah, that thing. I'm a literary critic, not a construction engineer. — Crisco 1492 (talk ) 00:02, 5 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
I'm a recovering journalist, not an engineer of any sort. Sca (talk ) 02:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Well, bottom-left is a front-end loader, but there is also a bulldozer at upper-left, near the other digger Chris857 (talk ) 02:14, 5 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Wow. It looks like those Hot Wheels I used to play with next to this excavator. — Crisco 1492 (talk ) 02:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ] Support - packs a lot of wow, good EV for excavator article and the mine, decent focus at all depths (tough given how big they are). Chris857 (talk ) 16:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Support — For immensity, magnitude. Sca (talk ) 22:10, 4 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Support great shot of a great subject --Ebertakis (talk ) 22:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Support . High EV and a good illustration of their size. —Bruce1ee talk 05:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Support several times I was advised to visit this, it's really enormous and wow :-) Godhulii 1985 (talk ) 19:32, 5 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Support High quality and much EV. Take look at little bulldozer at left blow! Alborzagros (talk ) 08:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Support - Cool! ///Euro Car GT 03:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
Support great EV; these things are crazy big, look at the tractor down there for prospective! I wonder if the author could make an ogg video of this thing in action. That would be amazing. --Cy be r XR ef ☎ 20:14, 8 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
An older, low bandwidth video: File:Tagebau Garzweiler bei Otzerath Schaufelradbagger Januar2008.ogv taken by a friend
Video of a stacker: File:Tagebau Garzweiler - Absetzer Nr. 755 in Betrieb.webm , taken by me. Next time I visit the open pit mine I will try to take more videos. Raymond (talk ) 20:52, 8 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ] Promoted File:Garzweiler Tagebau-1230.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:26, 14 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]