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The world's largest land vehicle is a colossal excavator that stands taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs more than the Eiffel Tower. The Bagger 288, constructed by German company Krupp for ...

Built by Krupp (now ThyssenKrupp) of Germany, the Bagger 288 excavator is the world's largest land vehicle. It is now owned and operated by RWE AG, a large utility company. If you want to get the dirt ...

What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...

Topping the list of the 5 largest vehicles in the world is the Bagger 288, built by Krupp, a German company, is a bucket wheel excavator with a height of 94,79 meters. It is 214,88 meters long and ...

You’ve seen the Godzilla of Khazakstan and sure, it’s an impressive piece of machinery. But it’s a Tonka Truck compared to its big brother, the Bagger 288. This ...

There have been some large Meccano models built – the construction toy invented by Frank Hornby over 100 years ago, but retired applied mathematics lecturer Graham Shepherd believes he has built the ...

The RWE Bagger 288 excavator is the world's largest land vehicle and is currently moving mountains--or at least one mountain--in Germany where it's in use excavating an open pit coal mine for a ...

What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...