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The Digger D-3 Eats Landmines For Breakfast (Literally)

1:30AM July 28, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Landmines are simple but ridiculously effective and obnoxiously long-lived devices — often killing and maiming civilians long after the end of conflict. The Digger D-3 aims to de-mine the world’s war zones one mine at a time. More »

One Jet-Powered Lawn Tractor To Rule Them All

9:20AM September 15, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Don’t even begin to question the necessity of a jet-powered lawn tractor. Football fields, trimmed in an instant! Lawn tractor pulls, won with ease! A coveted spot – truly – in the Vista, California’s Tractor Museum! All this awaits modder Bruce McDonald. More »

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Caterpillar Building 700-Tonne, Completely Automatic Mega Dump Truck

5:30PM September 10, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Gearheads at Carnegie Mellon University are partnering up with tractor-maker Caterpillar to build the world’s largest robotic dump truck, a 700-tonne ground mover capable of hauling 240 tonnes of earth. In case you can’t wrap your head around that amount, that’s like 33 African bull elephants worth of dirt.

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