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World's Largest Vehicle | Bagger 293
Out of the mining industry comes a vehicle you have to see to believe. On this episode we cover the world’s largest vehicle.
Built by German company TAKRAF, is the Bagger 293, a machine used in a brown coal mine near Hambach, Germany. Gaining the title as the world’s largest terrestrial vehicle in 1995, the bagger isn’t the first of it’s kind. Small sibling vehicles such as the Bagger 281, 285, and 287 date back to 1958. Current owner RWE Power AG, the 2nd largest energy producer in Germany uses this machine to ripe huge circular sections of the earth away with its huge bucket wheel that measures 70 feet or 21.3 meters in diameter. The bucket wheel holds 18 buckets each capable of holding 529 cubic feet or 15 cubic meters of material. Moving nearly 219,000 tonnes or 240,000 cubic meters of soil daily this machine has been an invaluable machine for the mining industry for the past 50 years.
Standing 314.9 feet or 96 meters tall the Bagger 293 holds a Guinness world record for its size. Weighing in at 31.3 million pounds or 14,200 tonnes this vehicle requires a team of 5 people to operate. Working 24 hours a day it only takes 3 different teams or 15 people to keep this machine going non stop. An external power source providing 16.56 megawatts of power is needed just to make this beast come alive. As the bucket wheel spins the material is dropped onto it’s back where a conveyor belt system takes the material away. This material is than loaded onto trains which head off to the power company. Large amount of fine dust are produced in this mining process, to combat this water jets constantly spray in and around the Bagger’s bucket wheel to keep everything wet. At a top speed of less than ½ a mile or just under 1 km/h this machine doesn’t travel far. An 8 mile or 13 km trip takes the Bagger 293 3 weeks to complete. It’s slow speed is the least of it’s problems when moving around, power lines, train tracks and road closures make it difficult to get this machine from site to site.
While it may be a dirty job working on this machine, employees stay in good shape. It takes workers 2000 steps and about a ½ mile or 0.8 km of walkways just to reach the control room. On a single shift, monitoring equipment, opening and closing valves and doing checks on the equipment, workers will cover over 6 miles or 10 km in a single day of work.
Music: Blue Wednesday
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Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293
Footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2L6JUmfQs
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