During our excursion to Garzweiler II we had an encounter with the worlds biggest bucket wheel excavator, Bagger 288 ( Excavator 288 ) build by Krupp in 1978. It is the largest moving land vehicle and is even larger then NASA’s Crawler Transporter (that carried the Space Shuttle)
Impression of the daily coal mining capacity: 240.000 cubic meters. That is a queue of trucks with a length of 250 kilometers!!!
More specs:
Height: 96 meters, length: 240 meters, weight: 13.500 tons

If you want to look it up in Google earth, fly to: 51.066724,6.470861
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Grootste graafmachine ter wereld.
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Größter Bagger der Welt.
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plus grande pelle dans le monde.
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excavadora más grande del mundo.
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крупнейший экскаватор в мире
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세계 최대의 굴삭기
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世界上最大的挖掘机
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世界最大の掘削機
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