{"id":1476,"date":"2005-06-22T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/22\/to-out-weigh-the-cost-of-making-it-it-has-to-run-247\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T21:20:00","slug":"to-out-weigh-the-cost-of-making-it-it-has-to-run-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/22\/to-out-weigh-the-cost-of-making-it-it-has-to-run-247\/","title":{"rendered":"To out-weigh the cost of making it, it has to run 24\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metaphorge\/20857986\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos16.flickr.com\/20857986_842ceca484_o.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Built by Krupp, 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 re-assemble on-site.The mover stands at over 311 feet tall and is over 705 feet long. It weighs over 45,500 tons (yes that&#8217;s 45 thousand tons!) Cost $100 million USD, took 5 years to design &#038; manufacture and 5 years to assemble. It only 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, 7&#8242;-10&#8243; 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 (100,000 large dump trucks at 40Yds. each of overburden per day).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><i>others of this family found http:\/\/mining-technology.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Built by Krupp, 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 re-assemble on-site.The mover stands at over 311 feet tall and is over 705 feet long. It weighs over 45,500 tons (yes that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/06\/22\/to-out-weigh-the-cost-of-making-it-it-has-to-run-247\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To out-weigh the cost of making it, it has to run 24\/7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,223,222],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-machine","tag-wishlist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}