Ultimate earthmoving battle

Last updated on August 8th, 2017 at 01:57 pm

In which a mighty Caterpillar is consumed by its slightly larger opponent.

UPDATE. Paco: “Well, I, for one, am totally bummed by this story of a red-blooded, All-American bulldozer being gobbled up by a German, Krupp-manufactured Gaia-slasher. We need to build an earth mover even bigger than the Krupp Blitzkrieg IV. And Paco Heavy Industries is up to the challenge. The Promethean Atomic Clay Obliterator is on the drawing board, and will be coming to an open-pit mine in your neighborhood soon.”

1. Rachel Corrie must wish she had one of those…

   Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 01 at 01:23 AM • permalink

1. How many people are needed to drive that thing? If it’s only one, can I have it?

   Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 01 at 01:46 AM • permalink

1. Takes five people to operate.

   And if you lose it in the parking lot, just check Google Maps.

   Posted by Pixy Misa on 2007 01 01 at 02:03 AM • permalink

1. EPA ratings:  1 HWY.  0 CITY.

   Posted by blogagog on 2007 01 01 at 02:28 AM • permalink

1. That’s not earth-moving equipment.
   I remember it when Luke Skywalker flew round and round it in Empire Strikes Back and tied it’s legs in knots and down it came….

   Well, it looks like something George Lucas designed….

   Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 01 at 02:30 AM • permalink

1. Can somebody assure me that this is satire, please? If it were from anywhere else in the world I would think it is, but being French…

   Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 01 01 at 02:36 AM • permalink

1. #6 Ian Deans,

   I really, really, really wish I could, but I think if I did try to reassure you of that, I’d be lying.

   Is it possible we need to boost France’s economy and get these people jobs to distract them?

   Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 01 at 02:41 AM • permalink

1. That’s been sitting in your in-tray for quite some time Tim!

   I think the Israelis should get a dozen of these machines and next time some rockets come over the fence, it’s strip-mining time!  Just dig up the Palestinian Territory and dump it into the Mediterranean.  Problem solved.

   Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 01 01 at 02:45 AM • permalink

1. I lvoe it. Years ago I went on a junket around Gippsland with fellow workers – we were temporarily working there rather than in the City, and we scored ourselves a guided tour of the Loy Yang power station.

   Part of that involved a drive down into the open cut mine alongside one of those beasties.

   I used to have posters of combine harvesters and tractors (and U2 and Pseudo Echo) on my wall, but I really wanted one of those.

   Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 01 at 02:59 AM • permalink

1. I also love perview.

   Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 01 at 02:59 AM • permalink

1. Sorry Tim, I do not accept many MS office, or other applications (in your link).  Superhighway for viruses.  Bull shit applications.  Amen.  Gerry!

   Posted by Gerry on 2007 01 01 at 03:34 AM • permalink

1. #6. Well, what else could you do when you find your Oil of Ulan doesn’t work. It seems to be the ideal way to defy aging. Deny time, sadly the will end up doing what the French do best and surrendering to that cause too!

   Posted by curious george on 2007 01 01 at 04:28 AM • permalink

1. Big boy’s toys… hoot!

   It doesn’t look all kinds of environmentally friendly, though.

   You know, I’ll bet that thing is actually one of the high-performance sports cars Tim has been photographed zipping around in lately.

   Heh. Trust Tim to pull the “transformer” lever.

   Posted by splice on 2007 01 01 at 04:33 AM • permalink

1. #13,

   Don’t remind me that he gets to play in all those beautiful cars. I’m already insanely jealous, and I get told that I have a very nice car.

   Though I think I could happily upgrade to one of these earthmovers. I’ll need a bigger garage though.

   Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 01 at 04:53 AM • permalink

1. Looks like a good present to give Bob Brown for next Xmas.

   Posted by neoZionoid on 2007 01 01 at 06:24 AM • permalink

1. Wow!  Gaia raping, fuel guzzling, greenhouse gas spewing WOW!  I want one.  Right after I’ve bought that F-16 I’ve been saving up for.

   Posted by bondo on 2007 01 01 at 06:58 AM • permalink

1. wonder if i can exchange some of my crappier xmas presents for one of them deluxe gaia shredders- do they come with sports suspension and alloy wheels?

   Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 01 at 08:01 AM • permalink

1. Back in my Gaia-ravishing phosphate mining days, I thought our Page dragline was big. But this…damn. Just damn. I’ll bet that the down time for that incident cost them more than the value of that tractor.

   Posted by ErnieG on 2007 01 01 at 09:45 AM • permalink

1. Damn.  Who left the dozer in the no-parking zone?

   Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 01 at 10:45 AM • permalink

1. I think it was the monster of the week on some episode of Voltron once.

   Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 01 01 at 10:49 AM • permalink

1. Well, I might want one. Do they have a 4 door model?

   Posted by GPE on 2007 01 01 at 10:50 AM • permalink

1. Having one of those would be cool, and would really catch the ladies attention as you drove around town, but can you feature trying to parallel park one of those?

   Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 01 at 10:53 AM • permalink

1. Revell used to make a model of one, in 1:220 scale (Z gauge)

   I’m still assembling it. I got it in 1986, half price as it was missing the instruction sheet…

   OK, 20 years is enough, it gets constructed THIS YEAR come what may.

   Posted by Zoe Brain on 2007 01 01 at 11:58 AM • permalink

1. Hey Zoe:

   Would you happen to know what company makes good quality model ships, the old sailing type, with the rigging and whatnot?

   I got a model of the USS Constitution way back when I was too young to be patient enough to actually not make a mess of the thing but had a hella good time building it and would like to give it another try.

   Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 01 at 12:35 PM • permalink

1. So, did they use dental floss to get that bulldozer out out of its teeth?

   Posted by paco on 2007 01 01 at 12:44 PM • permalink

1. No, paco. A very large toothpick.

   Posted by rinardman on 2007 01 01 at 01:19 PM • permalink

1. My dad used to run Cats for a living, and   when I was a kid, I would occasionally get to ride on one with him.

   Never got to ride one over a Ferris Wheel, tho.

   Posted by rinardman on 2007 01 01 at 01:27 PM • permalink

1. #27 Rinardman,

   You didn’t get to run over a Ferris Wheel? That must have been pretty disappointing. Running over a Ferris Wheel sounds like a lot of fun to me.

   Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 01 at 01:31 PM • permalink

1. Well, I, for one, am totally bummed by this story of a red-blooded, All-American bulldozer being gobbled up by a German, Krupp-manufactured Gaia-slasher. We need to build an earth mover even bigger than the Krupp Blitzkrieg IV. And Paco Heavy Industries is up to the challenge. The Promethean Atomic Clay Obliterator is on the drawing board, and will be coming to an open-pit mine in your neighborhood soon.

   Posted by paco on 2007 01 01 at 01:37 PM • permalink

1. Keith Laumer’s estate will sue their asses off.

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 01 at 03:27 PM • permalink

1. Paco
   You might chat with These peolple before you go too far.

   Think Alberta Oil Sands …

   Cheers

   Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 01 01 at 04:33 PM • permalink

1. #5

   Star Wars – makes the thing the Jawa’s used to tool around in look like a VW golf…..

   Posted by rickw on 2007 01 01 at 06:08 PM • permalink

1. So, baby, did the Earth move for you?

   Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 01 at 11:38 PM • permalink

1. Careful, Paco. The Krauts might unleash the Mannjäger IV on you…

   Posted by mojo on 2007 01 02 at 12:09 PM • permalink

1. #11 Gerry;

   Sorry Tim, I do not accept many MS office, or other applications (in your link).

   Not a problem, it opens just fine in OpenOffice.

   Posted by steveH on 2007 01 02 at 05:59 PM • permalink

1. There’s an absolutely enormous blue and green woman outside who wants to know if that thing can run on D batteries.  Her name’s Gayle or something.

   Posted by kiwinews on 2007 01 03 at 02:14 AM • permalink

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