From mining the oil sands of Alberta to boring under the English Channel, some of the most extreme machines made by man are devoted to digging. We take a look at six of the biggest monsters of earth moving.
BY JEREMY REPANICH
Le Tourneau Technologies, Inc.
Le Tourneau 2350
The world's largest rubber-tired front-end loader in the world scoops and moves earth with a staggering 53-cubic-yard shovel that, as John Pearley Huffman previously wrote for Popular Mechanics, could easily hold two Cadillac Fleetwoods piled on top of each o
