Excavator
18
MENTIONS
6
EPISODES
6
PODCASTS
Search complete. 18 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Excavator".
Oct 21, 2026
Eric NewcomerHOST
Basically,
Max ChildHOST
why don't we dig this dam as slowly as possible and get as many jobs involved as possible, right? And so I think we're in this era of math where we're going from shovels to excavators, let's say, and And anyone who's sort of anti-Excavator, to your point, it's very strange because it makes it seem like it wasn't about the work or the outcome.
Max ChildHOST
It was just about digging.
Max ChildHOST
Exactly, 100%.
Banks HoveyGUEST
Well, I pro- all I know is I'm not-
Matt ZeilerHOST
Excavator's my favorite, though
Banks HoveyGUEST
...
Banks HoveyGUEST
I'm not patient enough for a skid steer.
Azif AzudinGUEST
Yeah
Shridhar KuttenHOST
... was, uh, accidentally destroyed by, I mean, it was a private developer-
Azif AzudinGUEST
Excavator, yeah, yeah
Shridhar KuttenHOST
... with an excavator or whatever, and he, you know.
speaker_1PANELIST
Even though the task seems larger than the machines themselves, let's get to it right now.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Wasting no time, we begin our countdown with the world's biggest land machine, the Bagger 293.
speaker_2PANELIST
The Bagger 293 is a bucket-wheel excavator.
speaker_2PANELIST
It's the size of an ocean liner on land.
speaker_1PANELIST
It's kind of an abstract type of machine.
speaker_1PANELIST
It actually kind of looks like a small mobile city with a giant buzzsaw attached to the front end.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bagger 293 is in the Guinness Book of World Records because it's the biggest land-bound machine ever.
speaker_0NARRATOR
This German giant weighs in at a whopping 13 million kilos.
Mark KennedyHOST
And sometimes you don't really want it to go back into the UK market, do you? You're glad that it goes out to one of the Ritchie auctions or the Euro auctions.
Mark KennedyHOST
So just sold me Digger.
Mark KennedyHOST
Where's it gone? Let me know.
Mark KennedyHOST
What do you think, Mark?
21 MINS LATER
Mark KennedyHOST
What do you want from me, Liam? You
Mark ScuttHOST
know,
Mark KennedyHOST
Manby called Digger, but he drives a dumper.
Mark KennedyHOST
And then Manby called Woody, but he's a steel erector.
Sunil PaiHOST
So there aren't like software examples in it.
Sunil PaiHOST
It talks about how, what is that machine that digs up dirt, bro? Hydraulic, what have you.
Sunil PaiHOST
There are a number of examples.
Sunil PaiHOST
Point being that it is the only business book you should read.
Sunil PaiHOST
Cloudflare is considered a disruption theory company, which is because Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlin, founders of Cloudflare, were Clay Christensen's students in Harvard Law School.
Sunil PaiHOST
which is just absurd to me.
Sunil PaiHOST
And if you look into how Cloudflare makes money, you're like, oh, this is what they're trying to do because the technology is weaker, you know, worker isolates 128 MB RAM and everyone pooh-poohs it because you're like, oh, it's not like a really big machine, but it is eating the market from the bottom up.
Sunil PaiHOST
So Jev seems the type safe company, which by the way, They are terrible at naming