Soviet Walking Excavator - Ash 6/45

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[u/pyrexslide]

Is it just me or does anyone else love how this thing has curtains?

[u/solareclipse999 → u/pyrexslide]

After all that steel - of course they want to have a homely touch.

[u/waltjrimmer → u/solareclipse999]

homely touch

Huh. I always thought homey and homely were basically antonyms. I had only ever heard of homely used in reference to people, meaning plain, unpleasant in appearance, or even ugly.

But, no, you're right. Homely also means homey, cozy, comfortable, reminiscent of home, things like that.

I guess... I only ever heard it being used in the mean way before.

[u/CiderDrinker → u/waltjrimmer]

Homely as a reference to people looking plain and unattractive is, I think, a feature of North American English.

In British English, I've only ever used homely to mean 'cozy, comfortable etc'.

I think this can cause a certain amount of transatlantic confusion.

But there *was* a connection. If a woman wasn't very attractive, but you wanted to say something nice about her to a prospective marriage partner, you could emphasise her 'homeliness' - her ability to cook, keep house, make your life cosy and comfortable. From there, it got the sense of 'nice girl, but not a looker'.

[u/LonelyGnomes → u/CiderDrinker]

Thank god you pointed this out because it’s confused the living daylights out of me for years

[u/ToastyFlake → u/waltjrimmer]

Thanks for the lesson, homie.

[u/Lissy_Wolfe → u/ToastyFlake]

*homely

[u/Jon_Ok_111 → u/waltjrimmer]

If you google it, the british and american definitions are basically antonomous, so you're not wrong in the first part

[u/schizoidparanoid → u/Jon_Ok_111]

I’ve never heard the word “antonomous” used before (although my phone seems to thinks it’s spelled incorrectly and keeps attempting to autocorrect it to “antonymous”…?) and it’s a really interesting word. The adjective of an “antonym.” Huh. Thanks for the fun new vocabulary word! Now to find a way to use it in conversation…

[u/Jon_Ok_111 → u/schizoidparanoid]

Well, don't take my word for good fish, I'm Norwegian

[u/graveybrains → u/pyrexslide]

Jawas with tasteful home decor.

Now I’ve heard of everything.

[u/vabello → u/graveybrains]

Utini!

[u/mumooshka → u/graveybrains]

came here for the Star Wars reference...

[u/sb77steve → u/pyrexslide]

Iron curtains

[u/Humdngr → u/sb77steve]

Babushka made them for Ivan

[u/bstix → u/Humdngr]

I remember watching a short documentary in the 90s, just after the fall of the USSR, about an old woman, who was the last remaining worker in a coal mine. She ran all the machines by herself. Everyone else had left, but she had nowhere to go, so she just kept working, because it was all she'd ever known.

[u/goldenfoxengraving → u/bstix]

God damn. That's weirdly admirable and sad at the same time.

[u/delicious_turtles → u/bstix]

I would be really interested in the name of that documentary, if you or anyone else knows

[u/bstix → u/delicious_turtles]

Yeah well me too, but unfortunately I can't find anything online. It was broadcast in the early 90s on Danish national tv, and it's likely one of their own productions or part of a news show. I'll try to search their archives when I get around to it.

[u/sblahful → u/bstix]

You could try emailing one of their archivists if you can find their address - I've worked in a similar role and there was a lot of scope for assisting historians and researchers.

[u/birdsarntreal1 → u/Humdngr]

I thought it was katyusha.

[u/multiarmform → u/sb77steve]

how dare you talk about my wife like that

[u/the9th_invincible → u/multiarmform]

You mean our wife?

[u/No-Trip3635 → u/the9th_invincible]

It is Russia .

[u/m_ttl_ng → u/pyrexslide]

The whole thing looks like a cross between Star Wars and Howl's Moving Castle.

It looks super inefficient and I can't imagine why they wouldn't use tracks, but it's so unique and cool looking.

Edit: I have some ideas after looking at this for a few minutes:

• a walking crane is actually simpler in construction and operation versus a large tread design that would require gearing and a transmission system for an engine; the drag line would already have a hydraulic system for the crane, so they could use a hydraulic system to also power the legs
• the drag lines are largely stationary during operation, which can be for a long period of time while they are mining. By using the walking design they can “plant” the equipment in a single location for a long time, resting it on a stable base and not having to worry about apply brakes while stopped
• drag lines often operate near larger piles of extract or near edges of pits, so it is desirable for them to have as small of a surface area on the ground as possible to get as close to the working environment as they can
• less slippage during movement with the walking treads since there’s less lateral force being applied

For the bagger linked above, that is basically a moving assembly line that requires more regular movement, and also more precise alignment to the working area. So the trade offs of using treads makes more sense for that equipment.

Edit 2: fixed formatting

[u/TwoShedsJackson1 → u/m_ttl_ng]

Simplicity? Very few moving parts here and not much to go wrong. Tracks are a whole world of complexity and possible breakages. However this vast machine is heavy so needs permafrost or hard soil to move around.

[u/FeedbackPlus8698 → u/m_ttl_ng]

Tracks bury downwards and are not veŕy good after a certain size. This is one of the better ways to move massive massive equipment over less desirable ground

[u/FriesWithThat → u/pyrexslide]

That's the guest suite available on Airbnb.

[u/apolotary → u/FriesWithThat]

$400 per night, $8000 cleaning fees

[u/Hereiam_AKL → u/pyrexslide]

Actually I would expect that guy to operate mainly in areas that have a lot of frost, that'll melt and turn the ground soggy for a few month in summer.

And in those areas, you get a low standing sun for hours a day, hence the curtains might be more of a requirement than an ornamental feature. Basically huge sun visors.

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/Hereiam_AKL]

Exactly. It is also a very post-war-Russia solution, why use a complex solution when a simple one suffices.

(We once had Russian cars in the west form the LADA brand. They came with a tire iron, manual air pump and tire repair set. As a kid -in the eighties-I thought that was very smart. And well it is when in the Russian outback I guess. In the Netherlands people call a breakdown service though.)

[u/Phage0070 → u/Johannes_Keppler]

I was thinking another aspect which makes me think post-Soviet Union is the equipment that is being used yet also openly rusting away without evident effort to maintain it.

[u/alymaysay → u/Phage0070]

That old machine wouldn't be working if it wasn't maintained, that rusty metal is just a shell, it doesn't need to look pretty to do what it's intended to do.

[u/CarbonGod → u/Phage0070]

There was/is a website....englishrussia.com i think, I looked at all the time years ago....just posts with pictures and some descriptions.

Paging through that stuff , was scary. So much currently used places and machinery, just....falling apart. Factories, mines, buildings, etc. looked abandoned, but where fully functioning!

[u/solonit → u/Phage0070]

What are you talking about comrade !? Our equipments are made from Stalinium which doesn't rust unlike inferior capitalism counterpart !

[u/ministrul_sudorii → u/Johannes_Keppler]

I... Don't get it. Thus is what my modern Western car comes with....

[u/PoignantOpinionsOnly → u/Johannes_Keppler]

came with a tire iron, manual air pump and tire repair set

Man, this really shows the difference in approaches.

In America cars came with a tire iron, a car jack and a whole other tire that should be enough to get you somewhere safe.

[u/PriusProblems → u/PoignantOpinionsOnly]

Same in the UK, unless it's some upmarket modern car. Then you get a can of goo and a breakdown service. But most cars on the road will have a full size or space saver spare.

[u/Czar_Cophagus → u/pyrexslide]

My eye was just drawn to them

[u/buddyrubble → u/Czar_Cophagus]

u/Czar_Cophagus just drew the curtains

[u/Loquacious94808 → u/pyrexslide]

My first thought was if I lived there I’d be home by now

[u/Funkmasta_Steve-O → u/Loquacious94808]

That’s one of my dad’s favorite jokes

[u/Obak420 → u/pyrexslide]

I bet there's a carpet on wall inside

[u/GISS22 → u/pyrexslide]

If it takes you 12 hours to get anywhere. Ya, I can see the need for curtains.

[u/multiarmform → u/pyrexslide]

even in the apocalypse, you gotta have comforts

[u/NotInsane_Yet → u/pyrexslide]

They help with the napping as it takes a very long time to get anywhere.

[u/hikerboy20 → u/pyrexslide]

That’s violently Russian

[u/Left_Squash74 → u/hikerboy20]

Violently Soviet.*

It's made by НКМЗ (Новокраматорський машинобудівний завод), a Ukrainian company.

[u/Sudden-Fecal-Outage → u/pyrexslide]

They don’t match the carpet

[u/Particular-Summer424 → u/pyrexslide]

I know, right! Adds that extra level of creature comfort to this creaking rust bucket on skids. Throw in auto pilot, come back a month, and voila, it's traveled the length of a football field. Now, "that's progress." /s

Did you notice the chain down below. Wouldn't want that taking off on it's own.

[u/Falconpunch3]

For those of you that want to learn more about these machines:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragline_excavator

"In all but the smallest of draglines, movement is accomplished by "walking" using feet or pontoons, as caterpillar tracks place too much pressure on the ground, and have great difficulty under the immense weight of the dragline. Maximum speed is only at most a few metres per minute,[11] since the feet must be repositioned for each step.[12] If travelling medium distances (about 30–100 km), a special dragline carrier can be brought in to transport the dragline. Above that distance, disassembly is generally required. But mining draglines due to their reach can work a large area from one position and do not need to constantly move along the face like smaller machines."

[u/Reidy91 → u/Falconpunch3]

I've worked on many draglines, the smallest had a wooden floor in the revolving frame (the part where that mechanism for walking attaches) they are cool machines, incredible size

[u/tjmora → u/Reidy91]

How they work

[u/0rphu → u/Falconpunch3]

They say that it's too heavy for treads, meanwhile these exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293

[u/mynameisblanked → u/0rphu]

No, they said the treads place to much pressure on the ground.

I assume it's more about the horizontal than the vertical.

[u/Nozinger → u/mynameisblanked]

nah the reason is much simpler:
The walking design is smaller and cheaper.
To support such a massive weight you multiple sets of huge tracks. That is ot only insanely expensive, it also requires a huge base area. This means you have to disassemble the whole excavator if you want to travel logn distances since those tracks aren't moving fast either.

For the walking design you just take off the legs and the boom and some wheeled mode of transport can move that thing around.

[u/MrDiggleBoots → u/Nozinger]

Nah nbobody just dismantles a drag line to move it around, they move themselves around. If you're running an operation large enough to be operating a drag line, then you probably aren't too concerned about how long it takes to move it either. The places I've worked that run these only use them to move spoil piles and the like so that the rest of the mine can get in and do their thing.

[u/Nozinger → u/MrDiggleBoots]

That is kinda the point isn't it?
If you have that big and heavy machine that you do not want to move around a lot anyways why even bother with expensive and high maintenance tracks when some limping on steel legs does the job? It is jsut a cheap and efficient solution to the given problem.

And while nobody really wants these to move long distances it needs to be done occasionally and in that case it is easier to move than a tracked vehicle.

[u/MrDiggleBoots → u/mynameisblanked]

You'd be pretty well on the money. Where these things usually operate is on the edge of pits or spoil piles so the operation area for these things is stupid wretched with possibility of cracked walls from blasting that they're actually parking these big cunts on or the piles of dirt where dump trucks have just tipped dirt off and bailed. If you were to put the full weight of the dragline on something like a set of Cat tracks then the whole machine would want to just spear itself into the shitty ground that's supporting it. If the weight of the dragline puts so many pounds of pressure per square inch on that dirt, then to lessen the burden on that shitty surface it's performing its balancing act on while working you simply increase the surface area, spreading them pounds over a wider area and reducing the pressure on the supporting ground. Walking on feet means it can lower itself onto its own belly to work, rather than balancing on tracks like a digger or the like

[u/labrys → u/0rphu]

How can you mention the mighty Bagger, without linking to this masterpiece? Bagger 288: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

[u/Pbj-paterick → u/labrys]

That was so fucking weird, I love it. People are so creative. I don't always understand, but I do appreciate. And I appreciate you for sharing this.

[u/SagaciousTien → u/labrys]

This will be perhaps the 7th time I've heard this song this week and I've never heard it before now.

I'm going to keep listening to it though, so we can all remember the greatness of Bagger 288, that which remains keeping us protected from being de-meated by doom robots

[u/schmitzel88 → u/0rphu]

I was wondering this too and haven't seen a clear answer yet. It might be that the bucket wheel excavator is so much larger that the tracks can be made big enough to disperse the weight well.

[u/sometimes_bored2345]

It looks so apocalyptic

[u/FlyingPurplePerp → u/sometimes_bored2345]

This is the most mortal engines thing I've ever seen, the aesthetic is just so good.

[u/ElefantPharts → u/FlyingPurplePerp]

I don’t care what anyone says, I love that movie and I’m tired of pretending I don’t!

[u/Enlight1Oment → u/ElefantPharts]

Needed less attempt at plot and more city on city fighting

[u/timelyparadox → u/Enlight1Oment]

Damn forgot they made a movie. I loved the book, so I was trying to stay away from the movie. But also it is something I wanted to have a movie as a kid so might aswell try to find where to watch it so that past me would be happy.

[u/bundabrg → u/timelyparadox]

If you've read the book prepare to be horrified at some of the movie choices. However I liked the movie for its effects and can forgive the rest enough to enjoy that.

[u/timelyparadox → u/bundabrg]

Ive read it a decade ago so i bet i wont notice

[u/ubergrits → u/timelyparadox]

JustWatch is a great resource for this: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/mortal-engines

[u/Budget-Falcon767 → u/Enlight1Oment]

I couldn't believe they left out the Panzerstadt chase!

[u/MoffKalast → u/Budget-Falcon767]

And Tunbridge Wheels smh

[u/Midnight2012 → u/ElefantPharts]

Municipal Darwinism! I love it!

[u/Frosty_Claw → u/ElefantPharts]

Obligatory book better

[u/dicemonger → u/ElefantPharts]

I love the ideas, and I love the visuals, but story and pacing-wise it felt to me like three movies, where they cut out the two thirds that would ground it and provide context and just left in the major plot points and spectacle. Even some of the plot points that don't really do a whole lot for the movie without those missing two thirds.

It's like taking the Lord of the Rings trilogy and reducing it to two hours, but refusing to leave out any major character. Or at least that is what it felt like to me.

[u/verticalMeta → u/dicemonger]

Go read the books there’s 7 of them and the last 6 of them FUCK

[u/skirtpost → u/ElefantPharts]

That movie was awful and should have been much better. It deserved better. 🥲

[u/forgedsignatures → u/skirtpost]

That was my view too. I was a major fan, althrough I have not reread in years which is likely a good thing as I likelu would have found more things wrong with the film. Did I enjoy it? Err, yeah. Did I enjoy it as a work of Mortal Engines? No, not really.

[u/Throbbing_Furry_Knot → u/skirtpost]

Peter Jackson seems to have gotten involved with progressively weaker films over time, whereas in the past his name meant it was probably gonna be good.

[u/Throwaway2Experiment → u/ElefantPharts]

For real. I watched it, having no idea about the books, and came away super excited for the sequel since I only watched it fairly recently.

A Google search crushed me. Lol

[u/2roK → u/Throwaway2Experiment]

Alita, Mortal Engines, Alien and many other great movies that deserved more sequels but came out during the Marvel craze where apparently every movie that didn't make at least a billion dollars in revenue was labeled a failure.

[u/Bammer1386 → u/2roK]

I know I'm not alone in saying the new Hollywood model is shit. Years ago I'd go to 5 or more movies each summer. Now I can barely find more than a movie or two each year I have to try to care about. Everything is a worthless sequel to a prequel that gets shoehorned into a specific timeline in the canon, slap Marvel or Star Wars on it, and call it a profit. Nobody cares about originality anymore and it's frustrating.

[u/ModishShrink → u/Throwaway2Experiment]

Fair enough, but the book sequel to Mortal Engines slaps so hard that Dana White is trying to get it into his new league. Predator's Gold is fucking phenomenal.

Hell, I think I'm going to pick up this series again tonight. Love Mortal Engines, such a highly underrated series that never really gained traction in the States.

[u/Ninja-Sneaky → u/sometimes_bored2345]

With all the rust, chains and some curtains

[u/Abracadaniel95 → u/sometimes_bored2345]

With the way it moves, it looks like it's from a Ghibli movie to me.

[u/Anon4711 → u/sometimes_bored2345]

Me, describing russia in general

[u/FriesWithThat → u/Anon4711]

This walking excavator is on its way to help invade Ukraine and should be there by 2035.

[u/armchair_amateur → u/FriesWithThat]

As it walks over the last of it's own troops.

[u/effa94 → u/armchair_amateur]

It's to excavate the dead

[u/Arumin → u/armchair_amateur]

Just like Terminator 2 when that big tank drove over all those skulls.

[u/Dbfr_197 → u/FriesWithThat]

Wagner's not getting the job done so they recruited Jawas

[u/funguyshroom → u/FriesWithThat]

It moves way faster than Wagner's advance on Bakhmut

[u/Kermit_the_hog → u/FriesWithThat]

”The war, it is progressing.. slowly.”

[u/Levangeline]

Reminds me of a spice harvester on Arrakis

[u/SphericalBitch2020 → u/Levangeline]

I was watching out for a Sandworm...

[u/ACiD_BOi → u/SphericalBitch2020]

Just look out for a sand cloud

[u/Varion117 → u/Levangeline]

"If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm."

[u/PrivilegeCheckmate → u/Varion117]

Weapon of Choice starts blasting from the external speakers.

[u/Man-Toast]

what in the quintuple fuck this is insane

[u/SphericalBitch2020 → u/Man-Toast]

I can't take my eyes away from it.... has it moved 3 metres yet?

[u/Apprehensive_Fix_151]

Howl's moving castle

[u/Photogrammaton → u/Apprehensive_Fix_151]

Ivan’s moving castle

[u/[deleted] → u/Photogrammaton]

Comrade Ivaninsky’s marching mineral machine

[u/Kreugs → u/[deleted]]

... Marching mineral munching machine

[u/kahran → u/Kreugs]

for the Motherland

[u/OperaGhostAD → u/Photogrammaton]

Khruschev’s Moving Comrade

[u/trymid → u/Photogrammaton]

Baba-yaga's castle.

[u/NJdeathproof → u/Photogrammaton]

OUR moving castle

[u/EmperorThan → u/Photogrammaton]

In this version Howl gouges out Calcifer's eyes so he can never make a more beautiful walking castle for anyone else.

[u/carmel33 → u/Apprehensive_Fix_151]

Immortal Engines - Red Dawn

[u/r00x → u/carmel33]

Mortal Engines, maybe. Except this thing would be doomed, it may as well be motionless as far as a traction city is concerned...

[u/ThelmaDeLuise]

So many Jawas in there.

[u/Boatmasterflash → u/ThelmaDeLuise]

Thats the first thing i saw! A sandcrawler

[u/lesser_panjandrum → u/Boatmasterflash]

A sandcrawler crewed by jawas who saw an AT-AT and got ideas.

[u/best_blind_ref → u/ThelmaDeLuise]

Untini!

[u/WhenIDecide → u/best_blind_ref]

What is that n doin there?

[u/Neonwookie1701 → u/best_blind_ref]

How much for that droid?

[u/IconWorld → u/Neonwookie1701]

Can you speak Bocce?

[u/N1CET1M → u/IconWorld]

This R2 unit has a bad motivator!

[u/LetterSwapper → u/IconWorld]

Why of course I can, sir! It's like a second language to me.

[u/Mute2120 → u/ThelmaDeLuise]

*slaps top of excavator*

[u/Routine-Ratio3551 → u/ThelmaDeLuise]

We’re doomed!

[u/Paranotical]

The fact this thing has curtains in the cabin and walks immediately gives me steampunk and sci fi vibes, imagine this autonomously walking through the desert as the owner of it is casually lounging around in the cabin listening to music, and is armed to the teeth daring any bandits to attempt to rob it. This is freaking AWESOME.

[u/Benjamintoday → u/Paranotical]

The more I look into Russia, the more I see thats basically SciFi gone horribly right. Personsl nuke heaters, this thing straight out of my rusty banged-together dreams, beutiful eerie music.

I need more Soviet engineering in my inspirations

[u/Left_Squash74 → u/Benjamintoday]

Yes. The former soviet union is a lot like that. I walk by a decaying mural about humanity's conquest of space as I buy bread cooked in a medieval wood burning oven.

It's no surprise westerners love soviet-aesthetics. Where else can you see the ruins of the future that never came?

[u/A_Milk_Carton → u/Left_Squash74]

-initiates space race -wins -leaves -refuses to elaborate further

[u/Left_Squash74 → u/A_Milk_Carton]

returns to pre-modern feudal autocracy

russia at least

[u/Nikotinko → u/Left_Squash74]

Well yeah but bread baked in wood burning oven is awesomely tasty.

[u/Raynes98 → u/Left_Squash74]

That’s a pretty sad way to phrase it, not that you’re wrong.

[u/Bammer1386 → u/Benjamintoday]

Soviet Russia is just a real life steampunk spaghetti western, haha

[u/RunAwayWithCRJ → u/Paranotical]

It needs a nuclear reactor for energy and a vapor condenser for water. You could probably run a hydroponic farm large enough to feed one man inside that thing.

[u/zimmer1569 → u/Paranotical]

Thought about same thing, I imagined someone living in this thing, having a soviet style room inside and being careful for other apocalypse survivors.

[u/HighFiveKoala]

Looks very Mad Max

[u/d1wcevbwt164 → u/HighFiveKoala]

Sad max :(

[u/showquotedtext → u/d1wcevbwt164]

Mad Vlad

[u/lesser_panjandrum → u/showquotedtext]

Sad Vlad

[u/Mr_Mario_1984 → u/d1wcevbwt164]

Glad max :)

[u/SwatDogBoi → u/Mr_Mario_1984]

Rad Max B)

[u/HappyArtichoke7729]

This is some Star Wars looking shit right here

[u/hype_irion → u/HappyArtichoke7729]

Star Wars Special Military Operations

[u/Inside-Ostrich2888]

They do move in herds!!

[u/HistoricalMention210 → u/Inside-Ostrich2888]

JURRASIC PARK MAIN THEME INTENSIFIES

[u/corvettedreamride]

My dad ran a walking dragline for most of his working career mining coal. They are still used all around the world. They are much too heavy for wheels or tracks.

[u/nomnivore1 → u/corvettedreamride]

Used for phosphate mining in Florida. Really cool pieces of equipment. Iirc they are electrical and actually plug directly into the grid. "But what if it accidentally unplugs itself" don't worry it moves at like two feet per minute. Someone will see it coming.

[u/teamkillcaboose → u/nomnivore1]

see, you say that…

[u/maybe_a_human → u/teamkillcaboose]

In my experience with industrial machinery, it's more like "someone will see it coming and assumes someone else knows about it and will deal with it"

[u/Gprime5 → u/nomnivore1]

*Calls IT support*

"Hello, my walking excavator doesn’t work."

[u/Arumin → u/Gprime5]

" Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

[u/MFDoomEsq → u/corvettedreamride]

Was wondering why walking was better than tracks!

[u/Embarrassed_Alarm450 → u/MFDoomEsq]

Imagine digging out something that massive if the tires were to get stuck in the mud... 😬

[u/gr1mm5d0tt1 → u/corvettedreamride]

I did so many shutdowns on draglines I was hoping to never see one again. That black Jack is returning to haunt my dreams tonight

[u/harmless_gecko → u/corvettedreamride]

Finally a vehicle for OP's mum!

[u/pedunt → u/corvettedreamride]

I can't work out how these feet put less pressure than a caterpillar track? Especially as the track could run the whole length of the vehicle? Surely better than lifting the whole thing every movement

[u/PepperShaken]

Expecting to see a bunch of Tusken Raiders any time now.

[u/MidnightPhoenix5055 → u/PepperShaken]

That is exactly the first thing that came to mind

[u/xlDirteDeedslx → u/MidnightPhoenix5055]

Reminds me of the ore crawler on Star Wars Rebels. Definitely a less popular show but well worth the watch, it gets WAY better after the first season.

[u/Astronius-Maximus → u/xlDirteDeedslx]

Isnt that crawler the same kind that the Jawas used? The Jawas repurposed a mining crawler as their mobile base of sorts, so I wouldnt be surprised.

[u/LaG165 → u/MidnightPhoenix5055]

Same

[u/GStewartcwhite → u/PepperShaken]

Jawas.

Nerd card revoked.

[u/LlamasAreMySpitAnima → u/GStewartcwhite]

Utinni!!!

[u/Galileo228 → u/GStewartcwhite]

Dink Dinks.

[u/HistoricalMention210 → u/GStewartcwhite]

Pfft! This is clearly a AT-AT or AT-TE. Who's nerd card is revoked now?

[u/GStewartcwhite → u/HistoricalMention210]

If you think that's anything other then a Sandcrawler, a visit to your optometrist is in order.

[u/mash81 → u/GStewartcwhite]

Sandcrawlers had tracks

[u/Boz0r → u/GStewartcwhite]

It's like a mix of Jawa and Empire tech

[u/Uddiya]

It looks tired. It even moves tired.

[u/Max_CSD → u/Uddiya]

I'm pretty sure there isn't a single tire.

[u/Izzysel92]

If that thing actually makes the "uwomp" sound the AT-ATs made, I'm gonna lose it

[u/collinuser]

Sir! We designed the…. Thing with 350000 horsepowers, it only needed 35000. What do we do?!?!

Make it walk.

[u/thatgoddamnedcyclist → u/collinuser]

I'm just imagining the first day of testing: well, Igor. Let's see if your numbers work.

[u/Ok-Chart1485]

Shagohod!

Snaaaaake!

[u/Dresthegiant → u/Ok-Chart1485]

❗️

[u/caliberM1A]

"Can you speak bocce? What I really need is a Droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators."

[u/couchguitar]

Ootiddii!!!

[u/Izzysel92 → u/couchguitar]

Bappet! Bappet!

[u/Helenium_autumnale]

Looks like something out of a Ghibli movie. Love the little fancy curtains in the human-pod.

[u/BILLTHETHRILL17]

Buying some droids?

[u/L3tsg0brandon]

I love how many different colors and states of rust this is in. I guess maintenance is not on top of the priority list.

[u/[deleted]]

The sand people walk in single file lines to hide their numbers

[u/TGUNZ666]

Sweet curtains!

[u/MadridGoPRO]

Looks like an old drag line. Some of them are directly connected to the grid because they draw so much power. Actually moves quite fast compared to some of the other ones. Can move up to 150MT per one bucket scoop.

[u/jkohlc → u/MadridGoPRO]

Crazy to think it's the cleanest and greenest excavator

[u/Danclim]

This is some serious Star Wars shit....

[u/Chaos-Pand4]

Calcifer, is it you moving the castle? You are a top notch fire demon! I like your spark!

[u/Inthemiddle_]

Everything Soviet looks so wild/badass. Especially the old Soviet aircraxg

[u/IcyProcess212]

Al Bheds newest Machina.

[u/meninafranjinha]

they really would lead us to the future aesthetic we want

[u/FlamesoftheEnd]

Lmao @ the curtains! 😂

[u/InvalidPain]

Those curtains. I love what you've done here..

[u/Legio-V-Alaudae]

How does this thing look so post apocalyptic without the apocalypse happening first?

Did I see this thing in Metro Exodus?

[u/Top_Target5298]

Steampunk AF

[u/yurt-dweller]

Mad Marx.

[u/Creative-Berry5044]

Is there any engineering logic on this thing? Didn’t they figure out continuous track or multiple wheels

[u/Bitter_Mongoose → u/Creative-Berry5044]

The engineering concept is that it operates at high latitude in areas that are prone to marshy ground conditions for most of the year.

If you've never operated a piece of equipment that is very heavy and sits on wheels or tracks in soft earth you'll find out real quick all they do is get you stuck worse faster.

[u/robo-dragon → u/Creative-Berry5044]

In addition to what another commenter said, the machines that use a “walking” mechanism are often way too heavy for wheels or tracks. These are a simple and efficient method for moving a big and heavy machine across hazardous terrain.

[u/GetRightNYC → u/robo-dragon]

Looking at it, it looks like it's entire weight is being held but a few inches of steel. The rim around both of the circular shafts. Am I wrong?

[u/xTELOx → u/GetRightNYC]

While that's true, the weight of the machine is being transferred to the ground via many square yards of surface area. This allows it to spread its weight out and not sink into the ground.

[u/FlyingPurplePerp → u/Creative-Berry5044]

Maybe this is cheaper and more space efficient, the stability and tration may also be benefits? Idk know for sure but I would likw to learn more about this thing.