"Ace of Spades" walking dragline

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By dave_keeling @ 2008-10-02 02:51:53
13,500 tonne walking dragline excavator used for open strip mining. Now dismantled and sold to a US company - currently being stored in New Orleans
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@ 2008-10-02 11:10:13
Welcome to VGT! Great first posts.
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@ 2011-07-21 01:42:24
All the sources I've seen put the weight at 4,500t.
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@ 2011-07-21 05:17:37
Fair enough - I simply quoted from a source (that I didn't check -mea culpa) which must have been incorrect.