Contraption cache

[+EraSeek]

You've heard of Alilam's "Air of your ways" and his "Outlet Mall"... well I've heard a rumor he's working on a new and even cooler "Contraption Cache:

[+The Navigatorz]

Look at all of the cachers trying to be FTF.

[+robd0gg]

what the heck is that? it looks photoshoped.. but maybe not

 

by the way, I was curious about your reference to Alnilam's caches (you misspelled his/her name), so I looked them up.. those look like must do caches..

[+EraSeek]

No, it's real. It digs open pit mines.

And yes, those are must do caches!!

Edited October 27, 2010 by EraSeek

[+TotemLake]

It was also featured on one of the discovery channels.

 

It can barely keep up with the coal demand in Germany.

[+ZeroHecksGiven]

his caches are awesome from what I hear, I need to get up there and get to them asap! Really nice guy too!

[+hydnsek]

his caches are awesome from what I hear, I need to get up there and get to them asap! Really nice guy too!

Alnilam and his caches are both great! When he's not building contraptions, you can find him in the mountains:

 

[+Dgwphotos]

what the heck is that? it looks photoshoped.. but maybe not

 

by the way, I was curious about your reference to Alnilam's caches (you misspelled his/her name), so I looked them up.. those look like must do caches..

 

It's partially photoshopped. The machine is not shown to scale. It's pasted on a background with a different perspective to make it look bigger.

[+EraSeek]

Well, here's the source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101024.html

 

And lots of fun toys here: http://www.tk-mining.com/hme.html

Edited October 27, 2010 by EraSeek

[+TotemLake]

what the heck is that? it looks photoshoped.. but maybe not

 

by the way, I was curious about your reference to Alnilam's caches (you misspelled his/her name), so I looked them up.. those look like must do caches..

 

It's partially photoshopped. The machine is not shown to scale. It's pasted on a background with a different perspective to make it look bigger.

I'm afraid you're incorrect about the scale. It is that large. When it is settled in it has a conveyor system that carries the raw material back to the powerplant for processing. Each bucket on the head can dig out almost 8 cubic yards of material. It was on one of of those Engineering Marvels programs.

 

Here's a larger picture of it in action.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...-garzweiler.jpg

 

By February 2001, the excavator had completely exposed the coal source at the Tagebau Hambach mine and was no longer needed there. In three weeks it made a 22 kilometer (14 mile) trip to the Garzweiler mine, traveling across Autobahn 61, the river Erft, a railroad line, and several roads. The move cost nearly 150 million German marks and required a team of seventy workers. Rivers were crossed by placing large steel pipes for the water to flow through and providing a smooth surface over the pipes with rocks and gravel. Special grass was seeded to smooth its passage over valuable terrain. Moving Bagger 288 in one piece was more economical than disassembling the excavator and moving it piece by piece.

 

The large surface area of the tracks means the ground pressure of the Bagger 288 is very small allowing the excavator to travel over gravel, earth and even grass without leaving a significant track. It has a minimum turning radius of approximately 100 meters, and can climb a maximum gradient of 1:18.

Edited October 27, 2010 by TotemLake

[+Dgwphotos]

what the heck is that? it looks photoshoped.. but maybe not

 

by the way, I was curious about your reference to Alnilam's caches (you misspelled his/her name), so I looked them up.. those look like must do caches..

 

It's partially photoshopped. The machine is not shown to scale. It's pasted on a background with a different perspective to make it look bigger.

I'm afraid you're incorrect about the scale. It is that large. When it is settled in it has a conveyor system that carries the raw material back to the powerplant for processing. Each bucket on the head can dig out almost 8 cubic yards of material. It was on one of of those Engineering Marvels programs.

 

Here's a larger picture of it in action.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...-garzweiler.jpg

 

By February 2001, the excavator had completely exposed the coal source at the Tagebau Hambach mine and was no longer needed there. In three weeks it made a 22 kilometer (14 mile) trip to the Garzweiler mine, traveling across Autobahn 61, the river Erft, a railroad line, and several roads. The move cost nearly 150 million German marks and required a team of seventy workers. Rivers were crossed by placing large steel pipes for the water to flow through and providing a smooth surface over the pipes with rocks and gravel. Special grass was seeded to smooth its passage over valuable terrain. Moving Bagger 288 in one piece was more economical than disassembling the excavator and moving it piece by piece.

 

The large surface area of the tracks means the ground pressure of the Bagger 288 is very small allowing the excavator to travel over gravel, earth and even grass without leaving a significant track. It has a minimum turning radius of approximately 100 meters, and can climb a maximum gradient of 1:18.

Ok, count me proven wrong.

[+EraSeek]

If Alnilam builds it, we will come

[+Dgwphotos]

 

Here's a larger picture of it in action.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...-garzweiler.jpg

 

 

That looks like it was taken with a fisheye.

[eseurat]

What makes these two caches phenomenal? This inquiring mind wants to know

[+TotemLake]

 

Here's a larger picture of it in action.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...-garzweiler.jpg

 

 

That looks like it was taken with a fisheye.

It may have been in order to take the wide angle shot. For perspective, that deisel on the far right in the foreground has six foot tires.

Edited October 27, 2010 by TotemLake

[+robd0gg]

What makes these two caches phenomenal? This inquiring mind wants to know

 

check out their descriptions, you'll get the idea

Edited October 27, 2010 by robdogg

[+Granitegirl2]

That would make for an interesting travel bug

Edited October 28, 2010 by Granitegirl2

[eseurat]

What makes these two caches phenomenal? This inquiring mind wants to know

 

check out their descriptions, you'll get the idea

 

Can't view their descriptions because I'm not a PM yet, hence the Q's

[+robd0gg]

What makes these two caches phenomenal? This inquiring mind wants to know

 

check out their descriptions, you'll get the idea

 

Can't view their descriptions because I'm not a PM yet, hence the Q's

 

ah.. well then that's privileged information then now isn't it ;^)

 

let's just say there is a series of tasks you have to complete involving electro/mechanical devices of some sort

[+hydnsek]

What makes these two caches phenomenal? This inquiring mind wants to know

 

check out their descriptions, you'll get the idea

 

Can't view their descriptions because I'm not a PM yet, hence the Q's

 

ah.. well then that's privileged information then now isn't it ;^)

 

let's just say there is a series of tasks you have to complete involving electro/mechanical devices of some sort

What he said, sortof. The two caches are famous because they are amazing, creative contraptions that are a treat to play with and suss out. Alnilam spent a lot of time thinking up the concepts (both involve basic physics principles) and figuring out how to make them work.

[shrekTBA]

Wow was this different than what I expected, I must be way too tired. I thought it was "contraception cache", not contraption. I thought this would have been a really funny cache, still cool, but not what I thought.