See The Biggest Land Vehicle On Planet

Taller than the Statue of Freedom and heavier than the Eiffel Tower, this German mining machine is one of the biggest land vehicles on Planet. In HBO's cutting edge Westworld, a can wheel excavator like this hooks out a whole city. As a general rule, these diggers work in open-pit mines. The excavator envisioned here, called Bagger 288, utilizes its spinning wheel of basins as a scoop to constantly move 8.2 million cubic feet of soil a day. When it achieves a crease of dark colored coal, or lignite, it can reap 270,000 tons of fuel a day. What's more, the team this behemoth requires? An insignificant three to four individuals.

It's Size 

4conveyor belts get overburden (soil and shake) or lignite from the containers, and convey the material at more than 11 mph. Each belt is 10.5 feet wide, sufficiently enormous to ship a Shrewd auto easily.

8,800square feet of tread convey the Bagger's 12,000 tons of weight at a stately 0.5 mph.

5,800feet of electrical links (each the measurement of a man's arm) encourage power to the excavator. In any given minute, it can use as much squeeze as a city of 22,000 individuals.

90,000pounds of paint cover the structure, which incorporates two arches—each 150 feet tall—and 7,218 feet of steel suspension links.

71feet tall, the basin wheel is the stature of a seven-story building. Each of its 19 pails is 7,800 pounds and can scoop 235 cubic feet of soil, enough to fill a payload van.

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