Tuesday, March 17, 2009

TAKRAF RB293: Largest Terrestrial Vehicle


Like the Bagger 288, the TAKRAF RB293 is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company

TAKRAF. It holds the record for the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history. It is used in Australia for removing over-

burden from a brown coal mine in Victoria. It is also recognized as the largest and heaviest land vehicle.

Features

Height: over 94.5 meters or 310 feet tall

Length: over 220 meters or 722 feet long,

Weight: over 14,196 tons or 31.3 million lbs

Operation: requires five people to operate.

Others: The bucket-wheel itself is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 15 cubic meters

of material.It can move 240,000 cubic meters or 8.475 million cubic feet of earth per day.


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