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It depends on what you are digging.

A long expensive digger can be tough to resell. All six diggers[1] used for the Channel Tunnel[2] were buried[3], and their cost was in the order of millions each.

What else could you do? Put a 750-foot, 15,000-tone tunnel digger[4] on eBay?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machine

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

[3] http://www.nysun.com/new-york/after-work-done-drills-likely-...

[4] http://www.therobbinscompany.com/en/case-study/the-channel-t...




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