[0:00]This thing you saw on the internet is real, and it's really a Soviet-made giant walking excavator with giant iron feet.
[0:07]Let me introduce you to "Экскаватор шагающий" 6.545, which literally means walking excavator.
[0:13]Where 6.5 refers to the cubic meter capacity of the bucket, and 45 is the boom length in meters.
[0:20]It was produced by the Soviets to be used in mining sites in Siberia, where the ground is mostly frozen or too soft for tracked vehicles.
[0:27]Even though this rusty little boy with a small babushka-style control cabin weighs 280 tons, it is actually the smallest Soviet-made model in its family.
[0:36]And its big brothers can weigh up to 11,000 tons, with a giant steel bucket that could fit your home inside.
[0:41]Today, more than half of these Soviet-made walking excavators are still operational and in use all around Russia, and they are still able to break production records.
