Largest Abandoned Machine in the World! - Dangerous Exploration
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In this episode we explore the largest abandoned machine in the world, the Bagger 258. This machine was built in 1964 and left abandoned since 2002.
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Strange to think that one day in the past the engine was turned off for the very last time, and that's right where it's stayed. Forever.
Farmers do this allot with tractors I used to think they were parked cause they were broken but they normally all work they just had a little problem and they get new ones
@@hamish2202 These behemoths aren't your average tractor though. The primary reason for this thing being abandoned and not replaced were the high operation and maintenance costs. Since they were (and some still are) electrically powered, you basically needed a small power plant to run one of these things. Besides that, when the place where it used to dig up coal was largely depleted, it was deemed too expensive to move it (they are even slower than a person on foot by quite some margin, making in the ballpark of 0.5 kilometers per hour at top speed (a walking person easily makes five times that speed). And disassembling and reassembling was deemed too expensive as well, so they let it sit there.
@The Proper People, you guys were lucky that this thing sits so far out in hte countryside and has been abandoned for almost 20 years. Police therefore was unlikely to show up. Security from those solar-parks nearby might have though.
Actually a much better reminder is a Call of Duty Ghosts DLC map called
Behemoth based on this machine. It would be droll if someone was trapped
in one of the buckets on the wheel as it rotated around to scoop up the
earth and of course the earth crushed the person trapped inside. Or
someone was trapped on the wheel when it began to rotate. Or if someone was run over by the treads. It would be droll to dig a hole to sit in that's narrower than the treads and have the treads pass over you. It's always the top part of the tread that moves, but the ground touching portion always stands still, whether you are talking a tank or a tractor. So many people probably never realized that. People need to
buy up my "Dance of Death" a James Grider novel on Etsy under the
jamesgriderbooks shop so I can accumulate money to afford to move out of
the desert into a forested area like in the video.
@@hamish2202 Your partly right. The farmer only parked the old perfectly running tractor as a backup for the newer tractor when it breaks. Plus everything we do as a child has a lifelong emotional impression. That we often enjoy reliving.
@. Scout Says the drama queen.
Imagine pressing a button and the whole thing rumbles to life.
🤔👉🔴🔊😳
Would be the scariest shit, if you don't know how to operate it.
But I can assure you, vehicles with such big engines need quite some work to start. Pressurizers to create the inital pressure needed for combustion, pump to move grease and oil around to ensure complete lubrication, initial fuel pumps, a electric motor to get the engine into motion (one piston alone can weigh more than a normal car) and finally the ignition switch. There might be more actions needed to start such a beast, depending on the type etc.
hell of a cold start, lol
@@3DRiley_ These machines are all electric, no gas , no deisel , just one heck of a huge extension cord and 13000 volts of electricity!
@@3DRiley_ actually the whole thing is electric so one button would fire one part of the machine up
This is not the bagger 258 its the Bagger 1473
The excavator was used at the Tagebau Meuro mine from 1965 to 2002.
After it was withdrawn from service, the municipalities Senftenberg, Großräschen, and Schipkau decided on a joint action to preserve the opencast mining machine. Between 29 August to 15 September 2003, Bagger 1473 was moved approximately 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) from the Meuro mine to near the EuroSpeedway Lausitz, where it would serve as a monument to the area's former lignite mining. The machine was moved across industrial roads and railways owned by the LMBV but public traffic was not affected.[2]
When Bagger 1473 became popular with the urban explorers, it was misidentified as Bagger 258 because of markings found on its information plate.
This was DEFINITELY off Wikipedia 🗣️🔥‼️🔊
Imagine the skeleton of the last operator sitting in the control room chair...
Your comment reminded me of the scene in "Alien" when Dallas, Kane, and Lambert first come across the fossilized remains of the space jockey (Engineer) 😁
Have you seen ghost rider 2 were ghost rider aka a skeleton is in the driver Seat of one of these machines
@@mikeoxlong9522 and the whole thing catches on fire like his motorcycle.
Must... buy... Halloween... skeleton... now! ⛑️💀
The fact that you guys can make a full 15 minute exploration video on just ONE abandoned machine is a good testament as to how absolutely massive that thing is
Agreed. In case you wondered, this thing weighed in at around 3850 tons - which is several parking lots' worth of cars - in one vehicle. And it wasn't exactly fast either.
And thats a small one. The biggest we have are over 13000 tons. 90m high. :)
@@Tahydrahel actually over 14.00 tons, but yes, you are correct.
And it seems they cut a fair bit out too.
The fact that you can take the time to type this out for just ONE comment is a good testament as to how absolutely massively idiotic you are.
2:10. Pack it up boys exploration is over.
4nth0ny6 hahahaha
**proceeds to step over it**
it was a good run
I was born in this City Lauchhammer! I see this big excavator so many times! My grandpa worked there! Haha
Gibt es in Lauchhammer nicht noch einen viel größeren Schaufelradbagger der nicht mehr in Betrieb ist, oder irre ich mich da? Wir waren mal auf einen, aber das war nicht der gleiche wie in diesem Video.
@@BRuX6969 warum haben deutsche Frauen immer Socken an beim Sex? Besonders schwarze Socken sollen beim Sex sehr beliebt sein
10:00 so no one gonna question the noose?
Someone was going to commit suicide by hanging, but just fell over the edge while setting the noose in place, and died of massive trauma instead.
fantasitretas actually?
I was going to ask..
Its just wire
*insert laughing face*
Interesting contrast of the rusted old coal mining machine and the new solar and wind farms surrounding it.
RavTokomi Just a reminder of times past
haha yea. I though the same
Even more interesting when you consider coal is NEWER technology than wind or solar.
Everything non-nuclear is a step into the past.
Germany still uses a lot of coal fired power plants
@@RobertMorgan Photovoltaic is newer than coal.
Do you guys not use the drone anymore? an orbital shot of that thing would have been amazing!
The drone broke in the first few days of our trip :(
@@TheProperPeople That's not good :(
@@TheProperPeople fuck
@Nathan Kosky they had one broken before i believe
@Nathan Kosky buy them one then, lol
@7:25 Bryan starts ripping through the gears as a joke, but then the whole contraption lurches into action. Next scene they're at the laundromat washing their shorts.
I was thinking imagine if something started to move...
I know this may look big and impressive, but many of these Baggers are used in Germany and this is actually one of the smallest and oldest ones, which is another reason why it's abandoned. Bagger 287 is almost 4 times heavier and much larger and so are many others.
Started watching you guys in high school, was always so impressed and blown away at how professional and educational your videos are.
Hands down the best urbex exploration channel there is.
Leave only footsteps ♥️
...and take only pictures
@Hello I kinda feel the same they aren't too careful :/
@Hello My thoughts exactly. Not a strong sense of self preservation in these kids. And it's evident just by the running dialogue in every vid that they frequently have no idea what they're looking at, which is so dangerous.
Idk, RNK All Day is pretty badass.
Very professional, especially when they were playing with that "shifter"... like seriously....
"Oh no there's a chain" instantly bypasses it with no hesitation
jochaim peiper that’s the joke 🤦♀️
Nate Parks r/wooosh
Thou shall not pass, or pass I'm a chain not a cop.
ZoieTorres my dude, he was pointing out the joke he clearly got it.
2:11 damn guys, no high fiving in the area
I went there with my mom while on vacation, shortly after it was decommisioned. Very impressive, thankfull to my mom for taking me there. Sign was there on the stairs, didn't go up there myself. Guess it worked back then..
Awesome footage as always.
can you please tell me the location in Germany?
Did you see that noose at 10:00 ?
I was going to say something, that's creepy as hell
Oh damn... well i do not see a body though so the one who made it either thought trough what he were doing or someone saw the body and removed it.
I did, but I didn't pay attention to it. To me it looked like just a loop of wire. I was more scared of heights while they were climbing...
could just be a loop to carry wires through
I noticed that too. I hope nobody committed suicide
The inside of that thiang reminds me of Rivet City from Fallout 3.
A. G. The whole thing looks like that thing in the ash heap from Fallout 76
hahaha its probably the same kind of machine tbh
AlcoholAndLAG This thing has been abandoned for as long as I’ve been living
Go play the series of S.T.A.L.K.E.R if you want a real (Post) apocalyptic game instead of shitty ass Fallout which is better named as Sellout.
Actually a much better reminder is a Call of Duty Ghosts DLC map called Behemoth based on this machine. It would be droll if someone was trapped in one of the buckets on the wheel as it rotated around to scoop up the earth and of course the earth crushed the person trapped inside. Or someone was trapped on the wheel when it began to rotate. People need to buy up my "Dance of Death" a James Grider novel on Etsy under the jamesgriderbooks shop so I can accumulate money to afford to move out of the desert into a forested area like in the video.
It's so serene to see these places that were once bustling with people and activity empty and only hearing the wind in the trees in the background.
Rust new update looks amazing, graphics looking fire!
There better be nodes all over the place by that thing.
Rtx ray tracing has been turned on
It’s being taken by a Zerg rn tryna mine some sulf
This is not rust, this is rust v2
what if I told you this is the latest update to The Last Of Us?
You guys should bring a couple safety harnesses , small price for a little safety wouldn't be a bad idea.. Cheers , great video !
Decent steel toes shoes and gloves would be a good idea. I hope they have a recent tetanus shot, given all of that rust.
Especially for using while climbing ladders, gotta be careful on rusty ladders..
They're one accident away from becoming the "Deformed People", or worse yet, "The Dead People".
but they're super careful actually.. idk if you've seen how most urban explorers go around but lemme tell you: theyre not as careful with their movement. these guys are doing things very slowly and securely if anything. atleast compared to me that is..
I’m getting some NieR Automata vibes!
Glory to my ever growing "Boner" for my beloved 2b.
Especially that grinder...it looks like Engel's arms
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of Engels when I saw it
Funny to see this after being there myself. I can totally rememer the smell inside those rooms and how sketchy the floor panels were. Even the solid steel floors were so rusty you'd have to watch your step not to break through. Not to mention wind and rain when I was there. It wasn't just crumbly but also slippery in between the crumbly bits :D
1:57 anyone notice the little fan still running? lol
Edit: Prob because of the wind.
I'm really surprised how nicely kept a lot of these German relics have been.
Germany in general is awesome at maintaining intrinsically valuable sites.
This machine was working until 2002
bigboy bromo you go to America it becomes a bum city
We took 3 huge floating cranes from germany after the war, 2 of them are still being used today. 1 is in Panama and the other in showed up in Russia a few years ago(we thought it was lost)
I guess u could say us German people are really ocd at times
This in an absolutely amazing piece of human engineering!! Never seen a piece of machinary this big
Quite frankly, this is one of the smaller ones. its bigger counterparts range up to beyond 14.000 tons, which makes this thing puny with its mere 3850 tons.
Then watch their video from the steel factory - that's even 100 times more massive.
I've been up close to TheSilver Spade and Big Muskie. This machine is small by comparison.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265What are the names of those machines
@@puest-uo4lr They are called "Schaufelradbagger" - which translates into English as "bucket-wheel excavator" i believe. To say they are enormous would be an understatement. Funnily enough, most of the time you only see part of them if you drive past, because they tend to sit at the bottom of pit mines, with only the upper masts sticking out. But on a very few occasions some of these metal leviathans have been moved from one pit mine to another, which let spectators see them in all their immense bulk. It boggles the mind to think these things are actually mobile - albeit at an incredibly slow pace, below even walking speed. But then, we are talking literally a ship's worth of metal moving across land, so moving that sort of mass has to take some serious power - and it does. Electrical power to be exact. From what i remember these things have a sort-of umbillical-cord to plug into a power supply. Simply because that is more economical than putting a combustion engine plus massive fuel tanks into one of these things on top of all the bulk they already have.
I knew my country was capable of doing cool stuff but THIS is SERIOUSLY amazing
Eigentlich wurde es ja in der DDR gebaut, sogesehen nicht in "deinem Land", der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
@@kaubate9436 die DDR war trotzdem noch deutschland, also doch. "Seinem Land"
Very cool. So interesting to me that such huge machines are just abandoned and left to rot. Love seeing you guys explore all of the abandoned machines and infrastructure. So much history.
The thought "Are you out of your freaking minds?" Went through my mind many, many times......Those heights........
Some people simply don’t give a fuck. I respect that in a way, but it doesn’t cease to frighten me sometimes
this is actually one of the lowest structures i've seen people climb on here. rather peaceful, actually.
Please what ever you guys do, don't change the intro music, it's at the top of my playlist. Also good work on that old crane
it's actually a massive excavator - which happens to lug around a crane as an add-on ;-)
Yo whats the music called, I love it so much but I can't find what the song is
@@TheEliteMinecrafter This? czcams.com/video/vjFg_-4M088/video.html Intro starts at 2:33
@@TheEliteMinecrafter john hassel or brian eno. ambient music
The way it sits there on 0:45 just massive/jaw dropping
A lot of respect for you climbing all the way to the top.
This thing is so cool. I love big machines. It's amazing to think something this enormous can actually move on land.
Whew, those camera shots downward really trigger my fear of heights, while I'm just sitting at my PC, lol. Awesome exploration, that machine just kept going and going, enormous!
that makes my gut turn as im watching it on a 24" screen lol
Damn so sick!
Big Steve on the scene! Playa playa.
Go to the doctors
It's a Transformer. Obviously it needs more energon dude.
Devastator!
It’s metropolex from transformers cybertron
Very cool,great video & still shots !
Its a good day when the proper people upload a video.
I am always fascinated by the different views my favourite urbexers have of the same subject. I first saw this machine through the lens of Broken Window Theory, and am delighted to see your take on it. You always frame dramatic shots well, and your pans are smooth and slow enough to allow the eye to take in and appreciate where you are and what you are looking at. I love that none of you can resist that really high spot...it gives a pretty amazing view. Well done, as always...and please stay safe out there.🖤🇨🇦
True! But Broken Window Theory is much better at capturing the story of the places
thelongboarddude95 agreed, fortunately there is room for numerous creative approaches, and we benefit from that.🖤🇨🇦
Thanks for putting up the video of one in action, was great to be able to compare
You guys are just amazingly awesome!
I just wanted to let you know that.
"Howl's Moving Castle" comes to mind.
If homes were strapped/ welded on it's sides, a green house mounted onto the top, and a couple of turrets where placed by the entrance it would be the perfect Post-apocalypse location.
Jordan Stewart a film called mortal engines is coming out soon! It kinda has that feel to it.
For that you'd have to use one of the bigger still operational excavators. after having been abandoned for almost 20 years the structure of this thing might have taken some damage. Sure, it isn't falling apart anytime soon, but smaller bits and pieces are already dropping down from it - you have seen the condition of several pieces of walkway on this thing.
If you get a couple dozen super sized elctrical motors and the nuclear powerplant of an old sub it might actually even drive
@@solisemporium Is it based on that book?
La Vie Est Drôle
It is!
Philip Reeve wrote the books. It’s under the same name as the film
Germans love their machines.
That's why grass is mowed and it's still not broken apart for steel.
Amazing! My favorite channel to watch while relaxing at night.
10:00 at the end of each ride a free tetanus shot
Did you see the nooes?
@@sheamusbelvin9240 Yse!
Re-posting the comment I left on Patreon: Awesome video! And what a nice surprise. How it started out almost made it feel like a Forbidden Explorers episode. I do personally wish there were a few more lingering shots of what Michael saw at the top of the Bagger.
Super awesome! I truly wish I was one of you guys! Thanks for living my dream life and showing it to me. 😍😀
That was amazing. Well done
Love this, you guys did an amazing job as always! I couldn't imagine climbing that high or going into some of them places, but I'm always intrigued watching from home!
I dont think I still ever not love you guy's intro. Its awesome! Love that your videos are always so informative. And you guys get some amazing shots! Keep it up I love it! 🙌
HeyIts Bre -Agreed! 👊👊👊
loving these videos. great seeing whats out there left in the open.
Bryan and Michael i love watching your explores you could go in to a field and explore it and i would still be engrossed .. you guys are so amazing and always research where you explore .. wow
Wondering will ye ever explore an airplane graveyard? :)
Those are pretty rare and hard to come by. They're also usually guarded and monitored because they're still used for parts and sometimes airworthy planes are just stored there because they're not being used. The best one, in Arizona(?), is guarded by the military and can only be accessed by the public on special guided tours.
That was some climb. I’m glad I can live vicariously through your videos. I could have never made that climb!
I'm in awe of the size of this lad, absolute unit
I want to go there and work on it... fix it up and drive it around as my daily!
Does some doughnuts
Fantastic gas mileage I'd imagine.
Do the LS swap
@@filipvanek6272 Whats that?
I'm dying over here thinking about how I wished you had some fall protection up there.
it's always impressive how you guys capture the most amazing pictures from nothing, this giant pice of trash, but you still get amazing pics. Well done guys, once again, you did it!
8 hours ago. Video out 1 minute ago. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Same here, it was out 1 min ago
@@0u7break13 Probably released to Patrons early.
Patrons get early access.
I actually find those abandoned pieces of trash beautiful on their own. It has something on it that makes me feel amazing
I love this channel , these guys always go to the scariest places
you are two amazing people. awesome spirits. oh and i love the ambient music choice to contrast nature vs. machine
You should have played "wellcome to the machine" by pink floyd in the moment you two walk inside the machine for the first time.
#demonetized
@@RobertMorganStill Worth it!
Not possible bc. of copyright, but yeah, it would have been cool.
Marcos Coluci I love that song and it would have fit perfectly.
The music video used to scare the Hell out of me when I was a kid. 😂
video would've been deleted for copyright infringement faster than my mom runs to the ice-cream truck
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Love the two of you always great videos never miss them.
You guys have what it takes. Call me a ferry but I would have never climbed any of those stairs.Love you guys. Great work!
Country roads, take me home...
Hassel ash heap
To the place, I belong...
West Virginia, mountain mama...
Nice lyrics:
Country roads, take me home.
Hassel, ash heap.
To a place, where I belong
West virginia, mountain mama.
Noah S, take me home, country roads.
That machine reminds me of Nier:Automata. I'm sure I defeated a couple of them.
8:04 nature always finds away i think the synthesizer in the background accommodates this feeling
You guys are super good at picking just the right music for your videos. For example this music matches the stunning views and magnitude of the machine. I wish you guys would put the information about the music, you choose for any particular video, in the description box.
Hope you guys had some nice time around Leipzig. It's a bit strange to see you climbing "toys" of my childhood after watching you for years :D
Bloß gut, dass das Sicherheitspersonal der Solarparks vermutlich die einzigen gewesen sind, die ihre Anwesenheit überhaupt hätten mitbekommen können. Steht ja mitten im Nirgendwo, das Ding.
I just want a 10 hour version of the intro music
It is amazing to watch. Thanks a lot for the video.
This remembers me in a company where I built out and wired the main inverters of a more modern version of this machine.
But seriously, as I'm working in industrial environments, setting up machines, production lines and so on, I'd NEVER go onto most of these machines or into buildings without safety gear.
Because: mostly nothing serious happens. But if something goes wrong, you can't put your safety gear on afterwards.
Going up that ladder make me pucker up in my seat , you have big freggin heart my friend. Scary stuff I hate heights .
We have an even bigger one in Canada. They stopped using them because several smaller ones could do the job more effectively then a big one could.
How do you call these things?
Wrong... the biggest one is in germany. The german company RWE use it.
you guys are nuts!! this massive monster tore threw the Earth and removed mountains just for coal! now in it's own graveyard never to move again a painful soar reminder of what we are doing to the Earth and the things we create to replace man!
Linda Mesa
r/I’m14andthisisreallydeep
This giving me major vertigo, love the vid guys :)
Nice!!! That windmill moment though.... :-) Amazing... :-) @13:30
DUDE. I think there is a picture of that in my old Science book I used in the 9th grade (1995-96). The scene from your thumbnail to the video. I remember because I still have the book, and I saw where I drew a dude on top of it saying it was God's motorcycle as the picture, much like your thumbnail, resembles the back half of a giant motorcycle with some wicked, havoc-wreaking wheels!
On something this rusty you should wear pants, longs sleeves, & gloves to avoid cuts/scrapes. Maybe clip off some of the glove finger tips to keep using your devices.
I remember these from when I was a kid! I have no fear of heights but you two climbing that rusty ladder creeped me out a little.
Great Video! I would not have climbed that ladder even with a harness !! Well done.
10:00 whats with the noose up there?
I know when the intro music starts its going to be a good one, yeah yah! 👍😎
A machine with an exquisite view. Damn what a view!
Man made beast.Great video.
2:18 "It's pretty shaky." *whole thing falls apart*
You didn't investigate the unique and immense crawler tracks for us, but we got two scenes of nasty grease? Priorities!
Now that's my first time being actually familiar with a place you explore! This is actually pretty weird because I never really regarded this to be an abandoned site -- being from Dresden, GER this sits right by the side of the highway to Berlin so I've passed this place quite regularly all my life and given it's in such a prominent spot I guess I just assumed it's still being maintained somewhat -- obviously out of use but still a tourist attraction, industrial monument and one hell of a landmark! So seeing its state up close for the first time thanks to this video was strange but kind of eye opening. I'll definitely try to actually visit it myself now!
The part where Bryan is “shifting gears” had me cracking up. Great video guys!!
Imagine if the army modified one of theese and took it to war...
Oh no, oh jesus
Google „Schwerer Gustav“
Would be highly impractical, impossible to get to the destination where it's needed, eat up fuel and resources of an army of battle tanks and then face the fact that it could be easily disabled from miles away with an arsenal of weapons designed to flatten towns and cities.
Also the weigh of the vehicle alone would cause it to sink into the ground if the plotted route takes it to a soft ground or anywhere else than flat ground where it has been designed to manouver.
There is a reason why the Germans never built the outrageously large battle tank with the twin naval canon turret, the larger the vehicle, the larger is he logistical nightmare of upkeep and use.
It would be good target practice for bombers and artillery
There's a noose at 9:58
Amazing thing to see!
Wow what an amazing piece of equipment
Having worked on a mine site for 5 years, theres no way in hell id walk on anything or climb anything to do with something like this
I understand it's the largest ABANDONED machine in the world. But just for fun and because I'm a machine lover;
The 258 is only one of the Baggers, the 293 is even bigger, but still not the biggest machine in the world. It was made by the same German company. It is the largest in the mining industry. It's rival would be Big Bertha. The largest machine to date is the Large Hadron Collider. It's in Switzerland and there are future plans for an even bigger one.
Bertha is not a mining machine. It was used to dig an underground road tunnel in Seattle and has since been disassembled. Whilst Bertha is very large, even this abandoned Bagger 258 dwarfs it.
@@calumkylee Didnt necessarily mean it was for mining. Big muskie or the 288 is the largest though. I was only really talking in contrast to the 258.
After the Large Hadron Collider I'd say the next largest machine would be Knock Nevis oil tanker. That and many other ships dwarf the Baggers.
@@Alan_Hans__ Knock Nevis was pretty huge but Shell's Prelude FLNG platform just edges it out by 30 metres or so.
One could argue the the American power gid is the biggest machine.
6:53 After ascending the last stairs up to the control room, the boys enter to find centred between control shifts, a large black, padded office chair slowly turning around and find Blowfeld sitting there. "Ahh, the Proper People. I've been waiting for you two to arrive." LOL
Took some stones to climb to the top of that beast, great work guys!
My hands are sweaty just from watching that shit. And to think those machines were actually mobile.
How you boys don't wear more appropriate clothing always gets me. I mean, throw on a simple pair of boots, ffs!!!
M MMM ikr? They could simply hurt themselves with no appropriate gear of whatsoever i mean they just need to wear some protection
And a dust mask or gas mask
They've answered to that in another video. Boots do not allow for the agility sneakers do, therefore being more dangerous in many situations.
@@fantasitretas
You do realize that the people that worked in those places wore boots..... right?
@@mephInc who cares
I must say that your adventures reminded me of my own times looking and discovering things that made us grate no matter what part of the world the lost secrets revealed themselves .
Bravo! You have no fear of heights. I was getting queezy while you were going up there.