You drive them, you idiot . But if that’s not an option—say, if you’re shipping your Belaz mining truck from Belarus to South Africa—you’ve got to break them into pieces. Hulking, multi-ton pieces. English Russia’s got a series of photos detailing how some of the largest vehicles on the planet, the 35-foot-long, 26-foot-high Tonka-styled mining trucks from Belarusian manufacturer Belaz, known in mining truck circles as “the Komatsu of the Balkans” (I made this up), get shipped from one place to another. The first stage is to break these things down into slightly smaller, though still obscenely huge, parts

With consumer technology companies locked in an endless race to to make the smallest, sleekest gadgets they can, it’s easy to forget the primal joy of seeing mindblowingly huge hardware. Here are ten machines that are so enormous that they’ll screw with your sense of what’s large, what’s small, and what is truly gigantic—each handily put into scale.

With consumer technology companies locked in an endless race to to make the smallest, sleekest gadgets they can, it’s easy to forget the primal joy of seeing mindblowingly huge hardware. Here are ten machines that are so enormous that they’ll screw with your sense of what’s large, what’s small, and what is truly gigantic—each handily put into scale.

I feel like there’s an adage in here somewhere. How about this: If you have to say “oh, but it’s just water!” before doing something, then you probably have no business doing it. On a related note, it’s exciting to find out there’s another company besides Komatsu that makes trucks this big. Hey, Liebherr, do you have review units? [ Break ]

I feel like there’s an adage in here somewhere. How about this: If you have to say “oh, but it’s just water!” before doing something, then you probably have no business doing it. On a related note, it’s exciting to find out there’s another company besides Komatsu that makes trucks this big. Hey, Liebherr, do you have review units? UPDATE : More on the excavator. —Thanks, GitEmSteveDave! [ Break ]

It’s usually considered irresponsible to leave a toddler (or as I like to call them, walking babies) alone at the helm of a massive backhoe. But that’s no problem with this new breed of Superbabies. We don’t know much about this Superbaby, and in fact I’m not totally sure he’s even Russian (or human. Get it?). The video doesn’t provide much beyond some Tetris-style music and impressive feats of baby acumen, but that’s enough for us. It’s very clearly a baby operating a giant backhoe, and those are all the facts we need