Question for mechanics out there.

[squatting dog]

What's the largest piece of equipment you ever worked on?
When I first worked on a D-9 cat dozer, I thought... "this is big". But then, I got to work on a Bucyrus Erie dragline. Wish I had photographed it. That thing was huge. Finally found a picture of one... down in the lower left, there's a man (red shirt) standing by the bucket. Ours was used to build and dredge canals out west. They also had some smaller one used for cleaning the smaller canals.

 

[RambleTamble]

I used to work on backhoes, front end loaders, and bulldozers... standard construction site machinery. Nothing that big, though!

 

[C50]

That drag link is huge for sure. When I worked part time at a saw mill i ran a Bucyrus Erie straight blade dozer ocassionally, it was a big machine. I ran an articulating loader as well for moving logs, that was a good sized machine as well.

Worked on them also, as well as plenty of typical size loaders and hoes.

 

[old medic]

Timely post.... I just passed along my BIG 3/4 drive socket set to the SIL who is a mechanic. I thought he was going to faint. Have worked on tons of trucks and machines over the years...

 

[PeppermintPatty]

What's the largest piece of equipment you ever worked on?
When I first worked on a D-9 cat dozer, I thought... "this is big". But then, I got to work on a Bucyrus Erie dragline. Wish I had photographed it. That thing was huge. Finally found a picture of one... down in the lower left, there's a man (red shirt) standing by the bucket. Ours was used to build and dredge canals out west. They also had some smaller one used for cleaning the smaller canals.


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It took me a while to find the man. That’s a HUGE piece of machinery.

 

[Magna-Carta]

What's the largest piece of equipment you ever worked on?
When I first worked on a D-9 cat dozer, I thought... "this is big". But then, I got to work on a Bucyrus Erie dragline. Wish I had photographed it. That thing was huge. Finally found a picture of one... down in the lower left, there's a man (red shirt) standing by the bucket. Ours was used to build and dredge canals out west. They also had some smaller one used for cleaning the smaller canals.


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I've never had the pleasure, as I deliberately kept with light vehicles, not with 'heavies' as we call the in the UK.

This type of thing has always intrigued me though:

 

[Feelslikefar]

Back in younger days, I attached some 'add-ons' to one of these.
Never got to take one out for a test drive.

 

[oldman]

I worked on a Boeing 747. Yeah, I helped clean the inside by picking up the newspapers and trash left behind. We had landed back in Chicago from Honolulu and the plane had to go into parking shutdown overnight. Before that can happen, all of the inside has to be cleaned of trash and vacuumed before going into shutdown mode. O’Hare was short help, so the flight crew did the cleanup and we could make the plane go into shutdown and we could leave. Does that count? Probably not.

 

[bowmore]

The biggest thing I personally worked on was a 1941 23 tom switch engine. It was donated to our railroad society and was not operational.
I spent many hours and many $$ getting it to a point where it would run.
It was a great learning experience for me.