BUCKET WHEEL EXCAVATORS Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the - TopicsExpress



          

BUCKET WHEEL EXCAVATORS Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. It was built for the job of removing overburden before coal mining in Tagebau Hambach (Hambach stripmine), Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal or 240,000 cubic metres of overburden daily – the equivalent of a football field (soccer) dug to 30 m (98 ft) deep. The coal produced in one day fills 2400 coal wagons.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:21:55 +0000

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