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 ...

There have been some large Meccano models built – the construction toy invented by Frank Hornby over 100 years ago, but retired applied mathematics lecturer Graham Shepherd believes he has built the ...

What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...

You’ve seen the Godzilla of Khazakstan and sure, it’s an impressive piece of machinery. But it’s a Tonka Truck compared to its big brother, the Bagger 288. This ...

The minecart was developed hundreds of years ago, with examples of this style of vehicle dating back at least to the 1500s. They were used to help move earth and minerals out from the deep tunnels ...

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 dirt ...

What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...