Not a fake

My first thought when I saw this thing on Michael Alderete's web page was not that it was a Photoshopped fake. My first thought was "Holy Shit. What the hell is that!?"

It's a mobile strip mining machine. Those Germans... It wouldn't have occurred to anyone else to put such a thing on wheels. OK, not exactly wheels. More like treads. Like the treads on the thing they used to transport the old Saturn rocket.

But still. A mobile strip mining machine.