PICTURES: Krupps built the world's largest digging machine

world-largest-digging-machine_1.jpg German manufacturer Krupp took more than five years to build this digging machine. It is suppose to be the world's largest digging machine and a $100 million project.

"The World's Largest Digging Machine is almost 95 meters high and 215 meters long which is just like almost 2.5 football fields in length with 45,500 tons in Weight. Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute and it can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day."

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