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Thanks to Sustainer for sending us these excellent photos. This is the largest earth mover in the world, en route to an open-pit coal mine. It's cheaper to move fully assembled. A few specs: $100m price tag, 5 years to design & manufacture, 5 years to build, 311ft tall & 705ft long, requires 5 operators, bucket wheel has 70ft diameter, 20 buckets each able to hold 530ft3 of material, max speed 1/3 mph. But where is the missing dozer?

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Last updated on 05-06-2009

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Where is my dozer?

Thanks to Sustainer for sending us these excellent photos. This is the largest earth mover in the world, en route to an open-pit coal mine. It's cheaper to move fully assembled. A few specs: $100m price tag, 5 years to design & manufacture, 5 years to build, 311ft tall & 705ft long, requires 5 operators, bucket wheel has 70ft diameter, 20 buckets each able to hold 530ft3 of material, max speed 1/3 mph. But where is the missing dozer?
 

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Bagger 288 en route to coal-pit mine
Bagger 288 en route to coal-pit mine - 8 of the 12 crawlers
Bagger 288 en route to coal-pit mine - the full 705ft length
Bagger 288 en route to coal-pit mine - 70ft bucket wheel
Bagger 288 en route to coal-pit mine - slow progress
Bagger 288 - now where did I put my dozer?
Bagger 288 - ah, there's my dozer!
Bagger 288 - there's my dozer. Hmmm...
Return of the missing dozer
 
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