Bagger 288 is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine and stands taller than the Statue of Liberty and heavier than the Eiffel Tower.

The area in which it was found is destined to be an open-cast lignite mine, which makes us think that other Cold War artifacts may have fallen victim to the gore-covered blades of Bagger 288.

Bagger 288, built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine.

The Bagger 288 is not only one of the largest earthmovers in the world, it's one of the largest land vehicles anywhere, full stop. And now someone has turned the 13,000-ton coal-chewing crawling ...

The excavator pictured here, called Bagger 288, uses its revolving wheel of buckets as a shovel to continually shift 8.5 million cubic feet of dirt a day.

The RWE Bagger 288 The RWE Bagger 288 is the world’s largest land vehicle, owned and frequently used by RWE AG, a large utility company in Germany. More than 700 feet long and meant for mining ...

Because it’s a digging machine, the Bagger 288 doesn’t need to be mobile per se. But it would have cost more money to assemble it onto a crawler, transport it, then disassemble and reassemble it at ...

When it was completed, the Bagger 288 passed NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to move the space shuttle and Apollo space craft as the world's largest land vehicle.

The machine in the photo, a Bagger 288, is actually used for coal mining. Most lithium extraction comes from brining, which involves evaporating groundwater, experts say. Follow us on Facebook!

The Bagger 288 is what’s known as a bucket-wheel excavator, built by the Krupp company for the German mining firm, Rheinbraun.

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 ...