La excavadora más grande del mundo

Construida por la alemana Krupp, este artefacto mide 95 metros de alto por 215 de largo. Pesa 45.500 toneladas y tardaron 5 años en construirla. Con un coste de 100 Millones de dólares, puede extraer 76,455 metros cúbicos de tierra en un día.

Espeficiaciones
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 (1/3 mile/hour).
~ It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day.(100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each) more infomation here