Hydraulic excavator (shovelis maximus) digging its own grave on Speen Street on Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Framingham DPW is doing some work. A bad-boy full-sized hydraulic excavator... it can climb steep terrain, it can rapidly excavate large holes, it can rapidly dig trenches up to 20 feet down (certainly deep enough to bury itself), it can fully rotate 12 times per minute, it's bucket can hold 2,500 pounds of soil, it requires a sober, drug free operator, it can snarl commuter traffic for hours, and it does not seem to be able to dig its way out of a hole.

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