Bagger 288 1 Articles . Hackaday Links: March 1, 2020. March 1, 2020 by Dan Maloney 16 Comments . Talk about buried treasure: archeologists in Germany have – literally – unearthed a pristine ...

The Bagger 288 is part of a series of similarly sized and constructed vehicles, including the Bagger 281 (built in 1958), Bagger 285 (1975), Bagger 287 (1976), and Bagger 293 (1995).

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 Bagger 288 is one of a group of similar sized and built vehicles, such as Bagger 281 (built in 1958), Bagger 285 (1975), Bagger 287 (1976), and Bagger 293 (1995). Related articles.

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 ...

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.

Summary. The RWE Bagger 288 excavator is the world’s biggest land vehicle, manufactured for coal mining in mountainous and rocky regions. Manufactured by RWE AG in 1978, it still proudly holds the ...

The Bagger 288 represents a masterful symphony of cutting-edge technology, brought together by the best minds of physics, machinery, and logistics and illustrates perfectly the inevitability of ...

The Bagger 288 weighs 13,500 tons, spans 215 ft and is about 100 ft high. DarkRoastedBlend The Bagger 288 can excavate about 240,000 tons of coal daily.

But the claim is false. 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 ...

RWE Bagger 288 excavator, left, is moving across a highway in Germany. It dominates the horizon and overwhelms the highway, as would any vehicle that weighed as much as 2,000 sedans. Courtesy of RWE ...