South Africa: Moving a giant dragline

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Big Nick
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South Africa: Moving a giant dragline

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When you need to move a giant excavator the size of a school gym, how do you get it across the road?
Simple. You build a new road around it.

https://youtu.be/iXDAXXRLupQ

Komdraai Colliery is 20 miles from Khwezela Colliery. The map on the video is inverted. The route crossed the N4 national highway so they built a short oxbow diversion to keep the traffic flowing while the machine walked across the road.
https://goo.gl/maps/YbMc8XCDNNHX7wtq5
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Phenomenal. Several years ago, my brother worked at one of the nearby collieries and I remember seeing these collossal machines when I visited him.
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The UK had a similar event in 1974 when Sundew went for a wander near Corby.
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