The Bucket Wheel Excavator
This bucket wheel excavator is the king of all diggers. It is called the Bagger 288 and it's the largest land machine ever! It's even bigger than NASA's crawler transporter.
It works at a huge open cut mine all day and all night.
It is the size of an oil tanker, but on land. It’s so enormous, that it makes a huge mining dump truck look tiny!
And it’s heavy too. It's as heavy as 2000 elephants. But sitting on it’s 12 massive crawlers, the excavator moves very slowly.
It works at a huge open cut mine all day and all night.
It is the size of an oil tanker, but on land. It’s so enormous, that it makes a huge mining dump truck look tiny!
And it’s heavy too. It's as heavy as 2000 elephants. But sitting on it’s 12 massive crawlers, the excavator moves very slowly.
The giant digger has 18 buckets, attached to a tremendous spinning wheel.
The spinning wheel sits at the end of really long boom, picking up coal as it spins. Each bucket can pick up tons and tons of dirt and coal.
It is the fastest machine at digging in the world!
The bucket wheel excavator digs and dumps at the same time. It does this by moving the dirt and coal along a conveyer belt. The coal travels through the machine and along the long conveyer belt. Big freight trains take the coal away to power stations where the coal is burnt to create electricity.
The spinning wheel sits at the end of really long boom, picking up coal as it spins. Each bucket can pick up tons and tons of dirt and coal.
It is the fastest machine at digging in the world!
The bucket wheel excavator digs and dumps at the same time. It does this by moving the dirt and coal along a conveyer belt. The coal travels through the machine and along the long conveyer belt. Big freight trains take the coal away to power stations where the coal is burnt to create electricity.
Why is it the king of all diggers?
In what way is the spinning weel tremendous?
What is it fast at doing?
Part of the video was _______ up to show the excavator moving left and right.
In what way is the spinning weel tremendous?
What is it fast at doing?
Part of the video was _______ up to show the excavator moving left and right.