[geeks] Why?

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:54:13PM -0700, Fogg, James wrote:
> Both. One day watching it walk, two more watching it work. Insane shit. The
> bucket is so far away from the pivot that it travels at about 60mph and is
> big enough to scoop up several large houses. When it walked it mashed
> boulders into the ground. Whenever it moved it attracted crowds of
> onlookers. It's march was preceeded by surveyors, wheel-loaders and graders
> because it has to stay level.

Discovery Channel had a thing on them a while back, on one of the 
"Extreme Machines" shows.  Amy and I were like "Woah, kick ass."

Bill

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