Big machines

Exactly how big does a land-based vehicle need to be to qualify for the Guinness Book of World Records as largest in the world? How about 315 feet tall, 740 feet long, and weighing over 31 million pounds? The Bagger 293 is a giant bucket-wheel excavator built in Germany in 1995. It requires a crew […]

Introducing the Bagger 288, built by Krupps in Germany. Weighing in at 45,000 tons, this bad boy is the biggest moving machine on the planet. According to Dark Roasted Blend, "If you discount CERN's Large Hadron Collider (which is officially the Largest Machine in the World), then the biggest MOVING machine built by humans would be the giant bucket wheel excavator 'Bagger 288' built by Krupp in Germany in 1978. This enormous mining machine (300 meters long, weight: 45,500 tons) is capable of…

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The biggest coal mine in the world has some enormous machinery for excavation.

With the roll-out of ABB’s Azipod “D” series of gearless thruster this past March, I decided to make my way over to Helsinki to see where and how these impressive machines...

Mesta Machine Company employee stands next to a molded staggered tooth gear at the company's West Homestead facility, 1913.

Nora Milling Machine - made by A. Nothelfer & Söhne, at Ravensburg in southern Germany.

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