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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diz" data-source="post: 533618" data-attributes="member: 13520">World's Largest Digging Machine<img src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_iTGXYFIkfkA/RlLD-P-Rs_I/AAAAAAAACOI/FgEUBnBCoTs/s320/Trencher6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_iTGXYFIkfkA/RlLD9_-Rs-I/AAAAAAAACOA/bF8Nr2Jn7nQ/s320/Trencher5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_iTGXYFIkfkA/RlLD9f-Rs7I/AAAAAAAACNo/n5nMKbdZHqo/s320/Trencher2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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.</blockquote>

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