Giant bucket wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF
Bagger 293
Bagger 293 in the Hambach brown coal mine, 2008
Class overview
Name
MAN TAKRAF RB293 (1995-2003)
Bagger 293 (2003-Present)
Builders
TAKRAF
Operators
East Germany (former)
Germany
Cost
€92.46 million (2007) or US$100 million (2007)
In service
1995
History
Germany
Name
Bagger 293
Builder
TAKRAF
Laid down
1985
Launched
1990
Commissioned
1995
Notes
Largest ground vehicle ever built
General characteristics
Class and type
Type SRs 8000-series Bucket-wheel excavator
Tonnage
14,200 t (31,300,000 lb)
Length
225 m (738.2 ft)
Beam
46 m (151 ft)
Height
96 m (314.9 ft)
Installed power
1 x 6,413 kW (8,600 hp) powered electric motor[2]
1 x 10.15 MW (13,611 hp) external coal power plant[1]
Total: 16.56 MW (22,207 hp)
Propulsion
12 x caterpillar tracks
Speed
2 to 10 m (6.6 to 32.8 ft) per minute (0.1 to 0.6 km/h)
Capacity
Blade capacity: 21 m (69.9 ft) in diameter, 18 buckets each holding 19.6 cubic yards (15.0 m3) or 16.5 short tons (15.0 t)
Complement
5[1]
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.[3][4]
It owns and 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 (built in 1958), Bagger 285 (1975), Bagger 287 (1976), Bagger 288 (1978), and Bagger 291 (1993). Moreover, like the Bagger 288, the Bagger 293 cost around a 100 million US dollars at the time of its construction with exactly the same construction and assemblage time period of ten years.[5]
It is used in a brown coal mine near Hambach in Germany. It is called Bagger 293 by its current owner, RWE Power AG (the second-largest energy producer of Germany). It was called RB293 by its former owner, the brown coal company Rheinbraun, which in 1932 became a subsidiary of RWE. During an internal reshuffle in 2003 it merged with another daughter company to form RWE Power AG. Manufacturer TAKRAF generally refers to it as an excavator of the Type SRs 8000.
Like its siblings, the Bagger 293 is operated by a disproportionately small crew of just five.[1]
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