Wheres My Dozer?

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owensge

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Where is my Dozer ?


This is what happens when things get lost and they turn up in the most unexpected places.

First of all …..

You have a big Tonka Toy called
The Ultimate Earth Mover

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
(an open-pit coal mine).
It is cheaper to move the thing like this,
than to construct or reassemble onsite.


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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' 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)


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Now where is that Dozer ?


Ahhh … There it is

At the top of that big wheel !!
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140mower

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Holy crap! Might take 5 guy's to run it, but I bet the crew is short at least one after that little oops. Poor guy in the Cat must've gone for a heck of a ride, hope he was OK. I'll bet when he hired on as a Cat operator he never once thought something like that would happen, maybe run over a pick-up or two, but getting scooped up... no.
Don
 

Eric

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Holy crap! Might take 5 guy's to run it, but I bet the crew is short at least one after that little oops. Poor guy in the Cat must've gone for a heck of a ride, hope he was OK. I'll bet when he hired on as a Cat operator he never once thought something like that would happen, maybe run over a pick-up or two, but getting scooped up... no.
Don
How did this happen?!? Is there a link to the actual story?
 

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