When engineering safety factors go horribly wrong...

Take (1) very large bulldozer.
Take (1) much larger weedwacker.
Take (3) seconds of distraction and you get...


Specs:

• 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)