Bagger 293


Bagger 293, previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB293, is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF, formerly an East German Kombinat.
It owns or shares some records for terrestrial vehicle size in the Guinness Book of Records. Bagger 293 was built in 1995, one of a group of similar sized 'sibling' vehicles such as the Bagger 281, Bagger 285, Bagger 287, Bagger 288, Bagger 291, etc.
It is used in a brown coal mine near Hambach in Germany. It is called Bagger 293 by its current owner, RWE Power AG. It was called RB293 by its former owner, the brown coal company Rheinbraun, which since 1932 was already a daughter company of RWE. Manufacturer TAKRAF generally refers to it as an excavator of the type SRs 8000.

Statistics

Bagger 293 is 96 metres tall. It is 225 metres long, weighs 14,200 tonnes, and requires five people to operate. It is powered by an external power source providing 16.56 megawatts. The bucket-wheel itself is over 21.3 metres in diameter with 18 buckets, each of which can hold over 15 cubic metres of material.
It can move or 218,880 tonnes of soil per day.