News: World's Giant Digging Machine

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posted by 13above 1416 days ago

This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world built by Krupp.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 and can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day.
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  • Avatar | written by denny 1416 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    oh oh oh it can dig a country at a time.....


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