The bagger 288 bucket wheel excavator was built in 1978 and is the largest in the world. It measures 240 meters, is 96 meters high and weighs an incredible 13,000 tons.
Bucketwheel excavators are used on large construction sites and for mining raw materials. Bucket wheel excavators like the bagger288, with a size of several hundred meters, are used in lignite mining. The excavatror lifts 240,000 tons of coal or overburden every day.