Where’s My Dozer?
Here's the world's largest earth mover, built by Krupp of Germany, crossing a German federal highway en route to its destination, an open-pit coal mine.

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Specifications:
- 311 feet tall
- 705 feet long
- Weighs 45,500 tons
- Removes 100,000 cubic yards per day
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- Its bucket wheel is over 70 feet in diameter
- Each of its 20 buckets holds 530 cubic feet
- Each bucket can hold a 6-foot man standing inside
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- It moves on 8 front tracks and 4 back tracks
- Each track is 12' wide, 8' high, and 46' long, about the size of a school bus
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- Cost: $100 million each
- Took 5 years to design and manufacture plus another 5 years to assemble
- Requires 5 operators
- Maximum speed 1/3 mile per hour
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What would happen if this monster inadvertently tangled with a very large bulldozer?
No contest!
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Look up there.
Near the top of the bucket wheel?
See that?
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| Yep. That's my dozer! |
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| To understand just how high in the air this is, look down at those cars in the distance. |
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Definitely time for a new dozer!
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