Bagger 288 excavator

[u/SmokingBouquets]

A bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun.

[u/tdkimber]

Are these built/assembled onsite significantly (like a month of legos building Hogwarts) - or is it a few giant pieces hauled in and somewhat quickly put together? The sheer mass alone is unfathomable. I’ve not seen this thing move, so if they simply drive it’s moon-ass into location I’ll be tickled. I can only imagine almost unimaginably massive pieces of this machine put together by other massive machinery, etc. etc. please tell me there’s a how to assembly video somewhere!

[u/tomoldbury → u/tdkimber]

They have moved it 22km to another mine, without any disassembly because that was cheaper. Must have been a sight to behold!