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Built in 1995, the Bagger 293 is part of a series of huge machines that include the Bagger 281 (1958), the Bagger 285 (1975), the Bagger 287 (1976), the Bagger 288 (1978) and the Bagger 291 (1993). The giant excavator No. 293 is currently operated by RWE Power AG, Germany’s second largest electricity producer, and is currently stationed at an opencast brown coal mine near Hambach. Originally named RB293 by its previous owner, the brown coal company Rheinbraun (a subsidiary of RWE since 1932), it was renamed Bagger 293 following RWE’s internal restructuring in 2003. The manufacturer TAKRAF classifies it as one of the SRs 8000 excavators. The 293 excavator, which is still in use in an opencast mine in North Rhine-Westphalia, has impressive dimensions: 220 meters long and 94.5 meters high and weighs 14,196 tons – which earned it entry into the Guinness Book of Records as the heaviest excavator land vehicle in the world Your vehicle (we will come back to this soon – the unveiling of the vehicle, that is). This huge machine can move 240,000 cubic meters of earth per day. It has 18 buckets of 6,600 liters each, which are mounted on a huge wheel (the paddle wheel) at the front. As the wheel rotates, these blades scoop up the soil and load it onto a conveyor belt for removal. Conveyor belts are held by cables connected to cranes at the same height as the machine. The paddle wheel itself has a diameter of 21.6 meters, which is the height of a four-story building. However, the excavator is certainly capable of moving around – it won’t win a real speed competition: it took more than three weeks for the excavator to cover the 128 km long journey from the factory to the Garzweiler mine at a speed of one kilometer per hour.
(Source: Guinness World Records, Sometimes interesting, WikiImage: Researchgate)
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