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The largest BWE ever constructed is TAKRAF's Bagger 293, which is 93 meters tall and 225 meters long, weighs 14,200 tonnes and is capable of moving 240,000 m 3 (8,500,000 cu ft) of overburden every day. [1] Excavations of 380,000 m 3 (13,000,000 cu ft) per day have been recorded. [4]
Bagger 293 is 96 metres (315 feet) tall (the Guinness World Record for tallest terrestrial vehicle, shared with Bagger 288). It is 225 metres (738 feet) long (same as Bagger 287), weighs 14,200 tonnes (31.3 million pounds), and requires five people to operate. It is powered by an external power source providing 16.56 megawatts.
Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB288 [2] built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons. [3]
For example, Caterpillar's smallest mini-excavator weighs 2,060 pounds (930 kg) and has 13 hp; [8] their largest model is the largest excavator available (developed and produced by the Orenstein & Koppel, Germany, until the takeover 2011 by Caterpillar, named »RH400«), the CAT 6090, which weighs in excess of 2,160,510 pounds (979,990 kg), has ...
The JCB HMEE (High Mobility Engineer Excavator) is a military engineering vehicle made by JCB. [1] ... Speed: Up to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) [5] Users.
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The giant bucket-wheel excavators in the German Rhineland coal mines are among the world's biggest land vehicles. Open-pit mining , also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining , [ 1 ] is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth.
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