The 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 .

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 feet 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)