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	Not Sort of a SUV

ricardom

5-13-2006 5:43 AM

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greatest, digging, machine

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No parking problems, just digs its way in...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b694fc7a-03d7-4192-8cc6-4f4d9b01a0c2/1D30F373-9C8E-403E-B538-781997A651E9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm" href="http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.swapmeetdave.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD align='center'><font color="#ed0101"><b><font size="+2">World's Largest Digging Machine</font>
<font size="+1">(or wouldn't you like one of these babies in your garden shed?)</font></b></font></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.swapmeetdave.com/img/3C30B4DD-C8E1-4B06-AEF7-6CB49559B837" alt="Giant digging machine" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD>This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional hauling equipment. 
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)</li>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long)</li>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million</li>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute</li>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day</li></ul></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1D30F373-9C8E-403E-B538-781997A651E9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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