Monday, January 31 2005 @ 10:54 AM PST
Contributed by: matt
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This invaded my inbox this morning. Thanks to the original author, whoever
that is.
Ultimate Earth Mover
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 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' 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)