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Vintage shots from days gone by!
1956 Cadiz, OH, World's biggest power shovel rolls to work in coal pits. Dwarfing cars, with its 16-storey skeleton. "The Mountaineer," built by the Marion Power Shovel Co. for the Hanna Coal Company's strip mines
The Unique Huge Coal Mining Complex - English Russia
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Krupp Bagger 288, world largest digger and vehicle, wt 13,500tons, 215ft long, 100ft tall, can load 240,000 ton of coal daily.
Bucket-wheel excavator
bucket-wheel excavator | Bucket-wheel excavator "Bagger 288"
Another Look at the World's Biggest Excavator
The 100 million Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp (now ThyssenKrupp) 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 When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA’s Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle, as the largest land vehicle in the world.