About These Giant Tires Cost $27,000 Each | Mega Mechanics
A huge metal bucket wheel is out of action at the largest coal export facility in the world, bulldozers are in pieces and their tracks torn apart in the mining hub of Mackay, and a 130-tonne train is sounding alarms on the jacking road in Brisbane. Mega Mechanics Series 01 Episode 05 Mining draglines and bucket wheels, excavators and airlines, crushers and ship lifts, dredgers and dozers - these are just some of the mega machines that drive multi billion dollar industries. WONDER is packed with binge worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life!
These Giant Tires Cost $27,000 Each | Mega Mechanics is presented by Wonder. Its listed runtime is 48 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
As a society documentary, These Giant Tires Cost $27,000 Each | Mega Mechanics uses these, giant, tires as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.
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- Title
- These Giant Tires Cost $27,000 Each | Mega Mechanics
- Category
- Society
- Runtime
- 48 minutes
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Wonder
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