Excavator Bagger 288: Facts about one of the largest land vehicles on Earth

One of  largest land vehicles that can be found on earth is Bagger 288. This bucket-wheel excavator has power and capacity to dig out an entire city by itself. According to Forbes,  Bagger 288 was built by Krupp of Germany. This excavator is now under ownership of RWE AG, a large utility company. 

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Bager 288 facts

excavator is surely one of  largest land vehicles on earth at moment and boasts of some interesting features. re are four conveyor belts in vehicle that received soil or rocks from buckets. materials received are n carried at a speed of 11 mph by vehicle. individual belts are 10.5 feet wide. Such is width that y can easily carry a smart car. One of most interesting bager 288 facts is that its 13000 tons of weight can be easily carried by 8600 square feet of tre.

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electricity to this giant vehicle is fed by 5600 feet of electrical cables. This is equal to electricity consumption of a city with 20000 people. vehicle has been painted with 88000 pounds of paint. machine consists of two pylons of 148 feet each and 7218 feet of steel suspension cables.

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height of bucket wheel of vehicle is 71 feet. This is about height of a seven-story building. 18 buckets of vehicle are 7700 pounds when empty and can move 230 cubic feet of soil at one time. vehicle took five years for designing and manufacturing. And it took anor five years to assemble vehicle. cost of vehicle was $100 million.

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vehicle surpassed Apollo spacecraft and NASA’s Crawler Transporter that is used to move space shuttle as largest vehicle presently found in world. For operating this huge vehicle, five people are needed. This is not surprising as bucket wheel has a seventy-foot diameter. Hence one needs more people to steer it properly.

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Sites, where vehicle has been used, have moved vehicle on caterpillar tres as that was less expensive than assembling and reassembling entire machine. This vehicle was designed to be used in open-pit coal mines in Germany. Despite huge size and strength of vehicle, life span of vehicle is however not very long.