World’s largest Ditch Witch
As Monty Python would put it: And now for something completely different.
This is the world’s largest earth mover.
(It takes 5 people to operate: One in Front, One in the Rear, One on the Right, One on the Left and one to read the plans to make sure this is where the gardener said they wanted the sprinkler system.)
Built in Germany by Krupp:
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.
It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day.–100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds each.
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