This is the largest earth mover in the world..... built by the German company, Krupp, and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine). It is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble on site.
Specifications:
- The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
- It weighs over 45,500 tons
- Cost $100 million to build
- Took 5 years to design and manufacture
- 5 years to assemble.
- Requires 5 people to operate it.
- The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material.
- A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
- It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long). There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back. It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour). ~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40 [cubic] yards each)
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Never mind about my previous post saying I have boring dreams. I'm sure I'll have nightmares about this thing tonight. Jeez, it's the size of an offshore oil platform.
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