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The Captain, at 28 million pounds (13 kt) – triple that of Big Brutus – was the largest shovel and one of the largest land-based mobile machines ever built, only exceeded by some dragline and bucket-wheel excavators. It was scrapped in 1992, after receiving extreme damage from an hours-long internal fire.
The bucket wheel excavator had a power of 5555 kW during operation and was supplied with a 6 kV power cable. Overall, the bucket wheel excavator is about 50 meters high and about 171.5 meters long. The six-section crawler undercarriage, with a maximum travel speed of 6 meters per minute, carries the total mass of 3850 tons. [4]
Bucket wheel excavators and bucket chain excavators take jobs that were previously accomplished by rope shovels and draglines. They have been replaced in most applications by hydraulic excavators , but still remain in use for very large-scale operations, where they can be used for the transfer of loose materials or the excavation of soft to ...
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The bucket-wheel dimensions are 11.2 m (37 ft) in diameter with 14 buckets. [7] It is able to excavate a total capacity that can range between 4900 and 7000 m 3 /h with a digging force of around 100 kN/m. [7] [8] The bucket wheel excavator reaches 30 m digging height with a cutting depth of -10 meters. [5]