In the ever-evolving world of mining, a new generation of massive machines has emerged, redefining the industry with their ...

The Bagger 288, constructed by German company Krupp for energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile ... 287 (1976), and Bagger 293 (1995).

Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel excavators make shorter work of mines than typical drill and blast mining. The machine eats away at the rock ...

Take for example the Bagger 293 (above), a 31.3-million-pound bucket-wheel excavator capable of mining 220,000 tons of brown coal in a day. And if the only cost-effective way to get the Bagger 293 ...

In HBO’s futuristic Westworld, a bucket-wheel excavator like this claws out an entire city. In reality, these diggers work in open-pit mines. The excavator pictured here, called Bagger 288 ...

Built by Krupp (now ThyssenKrupp) of Germany, the Bagger 288 excavator is the ... Technically it is a bucket wheel excavator. In appearance it seems to be a giant's version of an Erector Set ...

More than 700 feet long and meant for mining operations, the 13,000-ton beast is a $100 million state-of-the-art bucket-wheel excavator for digging up coal in mountainous and rocky areas. Upon its ...

The colossal Bagger 293 bucket-wheel excavator is used for strip-mining operations in Germany and it weighs a barely believable 14,200 tonnes. That's about the same as 78 empty Boeing 747-400s.

Bagger 293 is a bucket-wheel excavator that is used to mine coal. It is the largest land vehicle in the world and weighs over 31 million pounds. Bagger 293 is over 700 feet (225 metres ...

Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel excavators make shorter work of mines than typical drill and blast mining. The machine eats away at the rock ...