Bucket-wheel excavator "Bagger 288" (Erkelenz)
Germany /
Nordrhein-Westfalen /
Juchen /
Erkelenz
World
/ Germany
/ Nordrhein-Westfalen
/ Juchen
World / Germany / Nordrhein-Westfalen / Düsseldorf
mining, excavation
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A 13,500-ton bucket-wheel excavator working in the Garzweiler strip mine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo missions, as the largest tracked vehicle in the world.
NASA's Crawler-Transporter still remains the largest "self-powered" land vehicle in the world, since bucket-wheel excavators are powered by an external power source.
A 13,500-ton bucket-wheel excavator working in the Garzweiler strip mine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo missions, as the largest tracked vehicle in the world.
NASA's Crawler-Transporter still remains the largest "self-powered" land vehicle in the world, since bucket-wheel excavators are powered by an external power source.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
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Coordinates: 51°5'5"N 6°26'19"E
- Garzweiler II open-pit mine 1.8 km
- RWE Group 3.3 km
- RWE Group 16 km
- RWE Group 23 km
- Sources of the best Hauyne mineral specimens 90 km
- Lhoist Group 123 km
- Lhoist Group 131 km
- Lhoist Group 163 km
- Kali Mine 248 km
- Sondershausen Mines 307 km
- Wind turbine 1.1 km
- Wind turbine 1.2 km
- Wind turbine 1.4 km
- Wind turbine 1.6 km
- Wind turbine 2.3 km
- Wind turbine 2.5 km
- Garzweiler II open-pit mine 2.6 km
- Road bridge 4.4 km
- RWE Group 5.8 km
- Heinsberg (district) 19 km