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Bagger 293, previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB293, is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF, formerly an East German Kombinat. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It owns and shares some records for terrestrial vehicle size in the Guinness Book of Records .
The Type SRs 8000 or less commonly known as the SRs 8000-class, [6] is a family of bucket-wheel excavators known for being one of the largest terrestrial vehicles ever made by man, with Bagger 293 its - "lead vessel" - being the largest ground vehicle in history. [7]
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 ...
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]
Model Type Length Height Width Weight Year introduced Year discontinued Bagger 293: Bucket-wheel excavator: 225 m (738 ft 2 in) [1] [2] 96 m (315 ft 0 in) 46 m (150 ft 11 in) 14,200 t (31,300,000 lb) 1995 Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60: Conveyor bridge: 502 m (1,647 ft 0 in) [3] 79 m (259 ft 2 in) 241 m (790 ft 8 in)
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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 When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons.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]
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