This monster looking huge automobile is the largest land vehicle in the world. It weighs around 13500 tons and by dimensions its 311 feet tall and 705 feet long and the name by which its known is "BAGGER 288".
It was built by the German company 'Krupp' for the energy and mining firm 'Rheinbraun', Germany.
The machine was built for the coal mining industry where its job is to dig the area around and extract the coal. Then it transfers the coal to the transport equipment which ferry the load to its useful destination.
Bagger 288 : Rotary Wheel
The huge rotary wheel is the most important part of this machine. This excavating head is 22 meters in diameter. And has 18 baskets which can hold up to 6.6 cubic meters of excavated coal load.
Bagger 288 : In mining fields
The machine is used to excavate coal from mining fields which in turn turn is used to produce electricity. But this generator of electricity itself requires 16.5 MW of energy for operation.
Bagger 288 : Huge Tires
This machine has the option to move around. Don't be surprised as it has 3 rows of 4 caterpillar track assemblies which makes the large surface area for machine and which in turn reduce the ground pressure developed by the weight of this machine. To your surprise the machine can move 15-30 ft per minute.
Bagger 288 : Outdoors
For a machine like this big what you expect the radius should be???
It's around 100 meters that's so huge that even an Olympic race can happen for that distance.
Bagger 288 : In action in night
This machine is huge as a monstor but as far as its capability is concerned you can give it full marks as it can excavate 240,000 tons of coal on daily basis which is equivalent to digging a football field to 30m deep. Now that's a sign of a monster.
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