They've done it folks, they raised the Bismarck!

[KC//CRIMSON]

World's Largest Digging Machine Is Huge.

The world's largest digger is a giant trencher built a couple years ago by German manufacturer Krupp (that's one hellacious coffee grinder). It took more than 5 years and $100 million to design and manufacture.

The machine is almost 95 meters (311 ft) high and 215 meters (705 ft) long which is just like almost 2.5 football fields in length with 45,500 tons in weight. Maximum digging speed is 10 meters (32 ft) per minute and it can move more than 76,000 cubic meters (~2,700,000 cubic ft) of coal, rock, and earth per day.

Wow, pretty impressive. You get two of these things working around the clock for a couple days and I could finally bury my girlfriend. Haha! No, but seriously honey, go to the gym.

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/19/trencher-1.jpg

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/19/trencher-2.jpg

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/19/trencher-3.jpg

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/19/trencher-4.jpg

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/19/trencher-5.jpg

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/19/trencher-6.jpg

[picasso]

whoa. that's gotta be harmful to the environments.

[sooneron]

Yay!1!!! strip mining's back!!!

[KC//CRIMSON]

whoa. that's gotta be harmful to the environments.

Knowing the Germans, that beast probably runs on dirt and grass.

[picasso]

Knowing the Germans, that beast probably runs on dirt and grass.

yes but it tears into precious mother earth.

[soonerboomer93]

there's a few (well atleast 2 of them)

they had to move a couple from one mine to another, and it took a cojple weeks to go like 10 miles.