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The Largest Bucket Wheel Excavator in the world..... Built by Krupp, 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 re-assemble on-site. Stands over 95 meters tall Is over 215 meters long (2.5 football fields) Weighs over 45,500 tons (yes that's 45 thousand tons!) Cost $100 million USD, took 5 years to design & manufacture and 5 years to assemble Only requires 5 people to operate The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets each of which can hold over 15 cubic meters of material. A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets. It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 3.6 meters wide, 2.4 meters high and 14 meters long) - 8 in front and 4 in back Has a maximum speed of 10m/min It can remove over 76,455 cubic metres of overburden each day don't see the picture below? click here for help
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