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Title: Holy crap! Look at the size of this thing!
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URL Source: http://myclipta.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... gest-digging-machine-ever.html
Published: Mar 20, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-03-20 19:32:44 by Esso
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Comments: 24
World's Largest Digging Machine (or wouldn't you like one of these babies in your garden shed?) This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional hauling equipment. Some factoids: •The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length) •Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long) •It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million •Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute •Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day Poster Comment: More at link.
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#1. To: Esso (#0)
I think I got stuck behind it's clone on I-95 just South of Baltimore a few months back. I'm glad this one lives in Germany. Perhaps there is hope yet.
Holy shit on the bulldozer. Maybe we can rent it the next time His Highness calls for a joint session of congress?
I'd love to take one of these babies down the Mall and to the Crapitol w/ a full house. When you guys are done, I'm takin' that baby to Izzystan.
I know a engineer what set up a special deally that turns points into on-the-ground lobbyists. Really! :)
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#4. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
That thing in the yellow circle is a bulldozer on its back. Pic 2 is a close up. Somebody got their ass chewed over that little misadventure, I'll bet.
#6. To: Esso, Eric Stratton, Cyni, 4um (#4)
#8. To: Jethro Tull, Eric Stratton (#6)
Maybe we can rent it the next time His Highness calls for a joint session of congress?
#9. To: Esso (#8)
When you guys are done, I'm takin' that baby to Izzystan.
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