The Bucket Wheel Excavator will soon hold the honor of being the largest LEGO Technic set in history. This isn't just an enthusiast build – it's a real-deal for-purchase set from LEGO. Users will be ...

We got a sneak preview of Lego’s new Bucket Wheel Excavator at the Nuremberg toy fair earlier this year, but now we have official details on the monstrous set, which will come with over 3,900 pieces, ...

The RWE Bagger 288 excavator is the world's largest land vehicle and is currently moving mountains--or at least one mountain--in Germany where it's in use excavating an open pit coal mine for a ...

DUESSELDORF, Aug 18 (Reuters) - RWE has launched an online auction for one of its 22 bucket-wheel excavators, as Germany's largest power producer prepares for a coal-free future, it said. With a ...

What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...

The world’s largest land vehicle is a huge excavator that's taller than the Statue of Liberty and heavier than the Eiffel Tower. Bagger 288, built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining ...

Bucket wheel excavators (BWEs) represent a pinnacle of modern mining technology, designed to extract vast quantities of material under extreme conditions. Their mechanics integrate robust components ...

DUESSELDORF, Sept 30 (Reuters) - RWE (RWEG.DE), opens new tab has received 45 bids for one of its giant bucket-wheel excavators used in mining that it put up for sale in an online auction earlier this ...

The is the largest and heaviest vehicle on land. The Bucket-Wheel Excavator is used for continuous coal mining, a process that the machine's creators say is much more cost and energy efficient than ...

The largest vehicles in the world won't fit on any highway. They are the enormous bucket-chain and bucket-wheel excavators used in strip mining operations. These giant machines weigh thousands of tons ...