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It stood 220ft tall with a 200ft boom and weighed in at 7000 tons. The 105 cubic yard bucket capacity of the Silver Spade had a 160 ton maximum load. The shovel was actually controlled by the 'ground crew' who sat on a lower level from the drivers cab , between the tracks.
me ne ricordavo una ancora + grossa ma non saprei dove ripescarla
the biggest MOVING machine build by humans would be the giant bucket wheel excavator "Bagger 288" built by Krupp in Germany in 1978.
This enormous mining machine (300 meters long, weight: 45,500 tons) is capable of moving on its treads to the various open-air mine locations.
The last such epic transition happened in 2001, when it crawled from one mine to the other - across 22 kilometers of fields, roads, railway crossings, villages and countryside... As it could not go around the obstacles, it headed in a straight line, so the workers prepared the way by piling up sand cushions on top of highways and train tracks, removing power-lines and seeding the fields with special grass to make its progress smoother.
Imagine seeing such a sight at breakfast, looking out of your kitchen window in a quiet suburbia... Look out, It's Comin Atch Ya!
Anyway, it took them 3 weeks to move it. Once in place it started to bite into the coal, rock and earth with the vengeance...
But as the following chilling series of photographs testifies, it was chewing up not only the scenery, but an occasional stray bulldozer:
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