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Bagger 288

1978 establishments in West GermanyBucket-wheel excavatorsCoal mining in GermanyKruppVehicles introduced in 1978
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Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons. It took five years to design and manufacture and five years to assemble, with total cost reaching $100 million. In 1995, it was itself superseded by the slightly heavier Bagger 293 (14,200 tons). NASA's Crawler-Transporter remains the largest self-propelled land vehicle in the world, since bucket-wheel excavators are powered by an external power source, and the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60s hold the title of largest land vehicle of any type by physical dimensions.

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N 51.065 ° E 6.5078 °
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An der alten Kasterstraße und am grünen Plätzchen Im Baweiler


41363 (Garzweiler)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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