Bagger 288 - The World's Largest Vehicle

This is the largest digging machine in the world. The bucket-wheeler excavator -Bagger 288 or Excavator 288 has been built by the German company Krupp. More specially, it is a mobile strip mining machine. It is the biggest tracked vehicle in the world. Its weight is 13,500 tons. It even outdated NASA’s Crawler-Transporter that helped to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle. The excavator is up to 220 m (721 ft) long and approximately 96 m (315 ft) high. It can dig out 240,000 tons of coal per day.














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