This is my daughter standing inside one of the buckets
off of one of the draglines working in the area
the bucket is laying upside down.
The side of this bucket had big cracks in the steel
this steel by the way on the side is over 6" thick!
Up by the teeth you can see the connection point
for the dragline, which is about a 4" thick steel cable.
The arch which is in front of my daughter, is over a foot thick steel.
Made to dig this guy!

Here is my brother Don, taking it for a spin around the pits!
Just kidding!  We were supervised the whole tour,
so nothing bad would happen.
I would love to take it for a turn though, next time!
This is the control room of the 9020
couple joy sticks, one is visible here on the right,
and a couple foot pedals, and you can put this
machine anywhere it wants to go.
Just keep your toes away from the under-carriage
when it decides to walk.
I seen how flat the dirt was behind this thing and
trust me, that isn't a place for steel, never mind toes!