Why the cutting wheels on the face of a tunnel boring machine are irregularly placed rather than set in symmetrical spirals?

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Why the cutting wheels on the face of a tunnel boring machine are irregularly placed rather than set in symmetrical spirals?

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The explanation that others provided make sense, but when I Google image search “tunnel boring machine,” all the results look like the mechanisms are _symmetrically_ laid out on the face of the borer.

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