You won’t appreciate how humongous this thing is until you see it in real life.I saw one for the first in my life last year.It was so so gigantic. It’s like a two-story building on wheels.

I remember when I was a kid my dad who rarely bought me toys got me a remote controlled skyscraper crane, yellow, just like this truck, and boy

I’ll tell ya, it was the happiest day of my childhood life. Something about knowing that I can lift things, spin the arm, and gently bring it down somewhere else was such a fulfilling feeling.

This is incredible engineering and I can’t imagine the mind who thought of even how to build something this huge. Absolutely amazing.

Imagine how thick and reinforced that floor has to be to support that weight!I interned at a lignite mine back in 2013.

I thought the coolest but about the CAT 777’s we were running was the actual ignition startup process, i.e. pre-lube.

Pneumatic starters that sounded like the a jet engine winding up really fast, followed by what sounded like a small explosion. The split second after the explosion noise dissipated, you hear the gurgurgurs of sweet idle.