davebarrack

Grrl Power #1037 - Rough(ly equivalent) trade

Added 2022-04-04 10:01:02 +0000 UTC

Thanks so much for your support! For serious!

I imagine two billion dollars is an easier sell if it's mostly in backhoes, cement mixers, and those asphalt Zamboni trains that resurfaces roads all in one go. Even though a bank transfer (or however massive inter-country transactions take place) would be a lot easier than loading up a shitload of cranes and dumphoes and trenchers and bigger diggers and whatever this is, or this, and put them all on a boat and ship them halfway around the world. But hey, at least Deus has ocean access now.

A BelAZ 75710 will set you back about $6 million, which honestly is a lot less than I would have guessed. Of course, a CAT 797 can carry ~85% as much weight but only costs $3.4M. Probably better off with two of those.

I assume the BelAZ transformer would turn into something where the dump bay or whatever it's called would fold up into a massive shield. The wheels are frikkin huge though, so unless the toy makers could come up with a way to unroll the wheels and turn then into part of the arms or legs, I think it'd have to turn into something with a shield and the world's largest pair of inline skates.

Yes, there was a BelAZ 75710 in the Transformers movie with Devastator, (maybe it was a generic "large dump truck") but I'm not aware that it did anything besides become the left leg, so it doesn't count.