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One of Mr. Macs friends sent him these pictures and some facts and figures about the Ultimate Earth Mover - the biggest digger in the world! Just click one of the images and a larger version will pop up in a new window.

Some ultimate earthmoving facts:

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 and 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).

The Ultimate Earthmover!

Needs its own road to get to work...
Look at those giant tracks...
Anybody need a garden dug?
The huge buckets that do the digging...

Made this giant hole in one day (ok, not really) ...
Where did I put that dozer?
Oops. There it is.

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