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Reason

High EV and good quality. Commons FP.

Articles in which this image appears

Bucket-wheel excavator, Garzweiler surface mine

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Machinery

Creator

Raimond Spekking

• Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 16:14, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - I feel my testosterone levels rising... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:20, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• BTW: Note the bulldozer there, giving it scale. Yes, that's a real bulldozer, and yes, these things are huge! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:21, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You mean the front-end loader at left foreground? Sca (talk) 22:10, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that thing. I'm a literary critic, not a construction engineer. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:02, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a recovering journalist, not an engineer of any sort. Sca (talk) 02:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, bottom-left is a front-end loader, but there is also a bulldozer at upper-left, near the other digger Chris857 (talk) 02:14, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. It looks like those Hot Wheels I used to play with next to this excavator. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - packs a lot of wow, good EV for excavator article and the mine, decent focus at all depths (tough given how big they are). Chris857 (talk) 16:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — For immensity, magnitude. Sca (talk) 22:10, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support great shot of a great subject --Ebertakis (talk) 22:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. High EV and a good illustration of their size. —Bruce1ee^talk 05:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support several times I was advised to visit this, it's really enormous and wow :-) Godhulii 1985 (talk) 19:32, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support High quality and much EV. Take look at little bulldozer at left blow! Alborzagros (talk) 08:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Front loader, apparently. Yes, we're revisiting this. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Cool! ///EuroCarGT 03:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support great EV; these things are crazy big, look at the tractor down there for prospective! I wonder if the author could make an ogg video of this thing in action. That would be amazing. --CyberXRef^☎ 20:14, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  An older, low bandwidth video: File:Tagebau Garzweiler bei Otzerath Schaufelradbagger Januar2008.ogv taken by a friend

  Video of a stacker: File:Tagebau Garzweiler - Absetzer Nr. 755 in Betrieb.webm, taken by me. Next time I visit the open pit mine I will try to take more videos. Raymond (talk) 20:52, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Garzweiler Tagebau-1230.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:26, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]