[geeks] Why?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:59:00PM -0400, Tim H. wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:31:05 -0700
> "Fogg, James" <JFogg at vicinity.com> wrote:
> 
> > Of course, wait until you see a walking dragline. 500K-tons of walking
> > earth moving beastie. I watched one for a few days in Pennsylvania at
> > a coal strip-mine.
> > _
> 
> Watched it walking, or working?  Those things move what, 5 or 6 steps an
> hour?  I read about one that they had to walk across a road, they
> actually put a 12 foot thick temporary dirt crosswalk across the road,
> and it still cracked the pavement.  They really stretch the definition
> of mobile.

Woah, what's this?  A machine that weighs 500 tons and it walks?
Gah.  And how long did it take to cross that road?

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Joshua D. Boyd