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The World's Biggest Digging Machine (a.k.a. The Jardinator©)

(Photographer unknown. Source.)

Some facts from here:

1. The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)
2. Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long)
3. It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million
4. Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute
5. Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day

Here's another photo.

The World's Biggest Digging Machine

(Photographer unknown. Source.)

Imagine one of these babies grumbling down new suburbia or ex-urbia, prowling through neighborhoods and cul-de-sacs like an ice cream truck or a horse-driven gypsy caravan selling whatnots and thingabobs, their infectious jingle filling the air, calling out over their loudspeaker: “Get your garden here! Frontyard, backyard, sideyard! Fresh and organic!” The Jardinator©.

You pay. They flick some switches, pull some levers and the Jardinator© plops down a garden complete with beds of roses and water features. Or not. Everything's customizable to suit the site's plant hardiness zone or your own peculiar taste in low-maintenance, recycled crushed glass or the prevailing tastes of both Landscape Architecture and Garden Design magazines. At low, low prices.

How about a small park? In seconds! A tree-lined Main Street? In nanoseconds!

Free samples before you commit.

5 COMMENTS —

Geoff Manaugh
October 14, 2005 at 10:42:00 AM CDT
You need at least two of them – fighting. Or with differently angled and shaped digging scoops – bowls, stars, ovals – so that immaculate, unique, and Michael Heizer-embarrassing negative earthworks can be excavated in the blink of an eye. Like crop circles, but Jardinated.
A Jardination event.
Or Hercules against the digging machines... Imagine Homer on an archipelago of islands run by mining corporations, and his small ship of lost men makes their way to the island of the Jardinators, the island of the Terex Titans, the island of the Japanese mantle-drilling ship... *The Transformers* meets *Doom* meets *2001* meets *The Odyssey*...
Meets the Jardinator.
The Halliburtonized Nintendoization of Greek myths.

Alexander Trevi
October 14, 2005 at 11:50:00 PM CDT
...meets Martha Stewart Omnipedia. Monster trucks planting delicate mums and day lilies.

Or the Model T Jardin. From the conveyor belt to showroom floors to homestead. An eccentric Dubai prince, Michael Jackson's best pal perhaps, orders from a catalog, and a Model T Jardin gets DHLed overnight to Kansas. Instant oasis. Paradise by mail.

Or knitting?

Geoff Manaugh
October 15, 2005 at 2:23:00 PM CDT
Nice – the world's largest knitting machine. Hook it up and all but interdimensional textiles are looped and threaded in the blink of the eye. Or turn of the rotor.
It knits anything: steel, entire buildings, whole forest canopies. Wedding dresses, made of hundred-mile-long cables.
It even knits bedrock. Terra Nova. Terra Sculptura.
Terrus Jardinatorius.
Or bury twenty-five of these things underwater, off the coast of Dubai, and let 'em rip: you could have whitewater high tides for world-class surfing, rafting, fountains galore.
The Earth-Fountain: it spits gravel and freshly tilled soil up into the air in dizzying patterns. Synchronized machine-gardening.
Surgical tools for giants.

Alexander Trevi
October 19, 2005 at 1:14:00 AM CDT

Alexander Trevi
October 21, 2005 at 7:52:00 PM CDT
For more images of The Jardinator©, visit the manufacturer's website - ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik - where you can also see some of their other Olympian mega-machines.

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	The World's Biggest Digging Machine (a.k.a. The Jardinator©) Thursday, October 13, 2005 #machines (Photographer unknown. Source.) Some facts from here: 1. The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length) 2. Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long) 3. It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million 4. Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute 5. Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day Here's another photo. (Photographer unknown. Source.) Imagine one of these babies grumbling down new suburbia or ex-urbia, prowling through neighborhoods and cul-de-sacs like an ice cream truck or a horse-driven gypsy caravan selling whatnots and thingabobs, their infectious jingle filling the air, calling out over their loudspeaker: “Get your garden here! Frontyard, backyard, sideyard! Fresh and organic!” The Jardinator©. You pay. They flick some switches, pull some levers and the Jardinator© plops down a garden complete with beds of roses and water features. Or not. Everything's customizable to suit the site's plant hardiness zone or your own peculiar taste in low-maintenance, recycled crushed glass or the prevailing tastes of both Landscape Architecture and Garden Design magazines. At low, low prices. How about a small park? In seconds! A tree-lined Main Street? In nanoseconds! Free samples before you commit. 5 COMMENTS — Geoff Manaugh October 14, 2005 at 10:42:00 AM CDT You need at least two of them – fighting. Or with differently angled and shaped digging scoops – bowls, stars, ovals – so that immaculate, unique, and Michael Heizer-embarrassing negative earthworks can be excavated in the blink of an eye. Like crop circles, but Jardinated. A Jardination event. Or Hercules against the digging machines... Imagine Homer on an archipelago of islands run by mining corporations, and his small ship of lost men makes their way to the island of the Jardinators, the island of the Terex Titans, the island of the Japanese mantle-drilling ship... The Transformers meets Doom meets 2001 meets The Odyssey... Meets the Jardinator. The Halliburtonized Nintendoization of Greek myths. Alexander Trevi October 14, 2005 at 11:50:00 PM CDT ...meets Martha Stewart Omnipedia. Monster trucks planting delicate mums and day lilies. Or the Model T Jardin. From the conveyor belt to showroom floors to homestead. An eccentric Dubai prince, Michael Jackson's best pal perhaps, orders from a catalog, and a Model T Jardin gets DHLed overnight to Kansas. Instant oasis. Paradise by mail. Or knitting? Geoff Manaugh October 15, 2005 at 2:23:00 PM CDT Nice – the world's largest knitting machine. Hook it up and all but interdimensional textiles are looped and threaded in the blink of the eye. Or turn of the rotor. It knits anything: steel, entire buildings, whole forest canopies. Wedding dresses, made of hundred-mile-long cables. It even knits bedrock. Terra Nova. Terra Sculptura. Terrus Jardinatorius. Or bury twenty-five of these things underwater, off the coast of Dubai, and let 'em rip: you could have whitewater high tides for world-class surfing, rafting, fountains galore. The Earth-Fountain: it spits gravel and freshly tilled soil up into the air in dizzying patterns. Synchronized machine-gardening. Surgical tools for giants. Alexander Trevi October 19, 2005 at 1:14:00 AM CDT Earth-Fountain© Alexander Trevi October 21, 2005 at 7:52:00 PM CDT For more images of The Jardinator©, visit the manufacturer's website - ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik - where you can also see some of their other Olympian mega-machines. Post a Comment — Comments on posts older than a week are moderated — —— Newer Post Older Post —— Home	1