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18 April 2006 

the ultimate earth mover

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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 .
It is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite.








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 feet 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 40yds. each)

Isn't $100 million called $1 billion?

no, billion has one more zero:)

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