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This is a picture of a stacker at Port Hedland in Western Australia at the ship loading facility. I lived about 3 minutes drive from this beast of an operation. I will be putting images of those up soon which are in stark contrast to the one above.

So what does the above stacker do? Well it moves left to right on rails pouring out 1000’s of tonnes of iron ore for storage and later “reclaiming”. This reclaiming happens when it is needed and a ship needs loading.

It is difficult to get the size of one of these mutha’s, but that pile of iron ore that the beast is adding to, is maybe a 3 storey house. I may be wrong on that. In fact looking at the building , far left, that was a build multi storey building with many layers of crushing equipment.

So, yes it falls into this category of Big Crazy S###

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