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World's largest digging machine (Germany).


* 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)

* Weighs 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long) (I don't get this analogy)

* 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


http://worldamazingplaces.blogspot.c...g-machine.html


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It accidentally ate a full-size bulldozer once..


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Thanks Bernard. A picture is worth a thousand words. A vid is worth a thousand picsicon_lol.gif


PC, that's computer generated. Looks convincing indeedsmile.gif


This, however, is real. And it's much heavier than a little kid.


Plink Floyd: do NOT stand still on top of a mountain for more than 3.019 secondsicon_lol.gif


 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XafAdkZIYKA

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