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Excavators are heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket, and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house" [1]. The modern excavator's house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels , being an evolution of the steam shovel (which itself evolved into the power shovel when steam was replaced ...
A bucket-wheel excavator (BWE) is a large heavy equipment machine used in surface mining. Their primary function is that of a continuous digging machine in large-scale open-pit mining operations, removing thousands of tons of overburden a day.
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]
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 largest engineering vehicles and mobile land machines are bucket-wheel excavators, built since the 1920s. Until almost the twentieth century, one simple tool constituted the primary earthmoving machine: the hand shovel—moved with animal and human powered, sleds, barges, and wagons.
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 When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons.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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