The world's largest excavator, bagger 288

the world's largest excavator, bagger 288, the world's largest excavator, is produced by Krupp company of Germany. It is 220 meters long and 96 meters high. It covers an area of about 2.5 football fields and weighs 13500 tons. It is a tracked vehicle. It is designed and manufactured for up to five years, and needs five people to operate. The diameter of the bucket wheel is more than 70 feet, and there are 20 buckets in total. Each bucket can bear more than 530 cubic feet (soil, etc.), a 6-foot-tall person can stand in the bucket, and the excavator relies on 12 wheels for moving forward (each wheel is 12 feet wide and 8 feet high Long 46) eight in the front, four in the back, the maximum speed of the excavator is three hours and a mile.

Bagger 288 is a special machine for open-pit mining, which can produce 240000 tons of coal a day. NASA later used it to replace the crawler transporter, transporting the space shuttle and the Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle. You can imagine the uniqueness of bagger 288. It looks a little like a transformer.