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.[1][2]
Bagger 293 is 96 metres (315 feet) tall (the Guinness World Record for tallest terrestrial vehicle, shared with Bagger 288). It is 225 metres (738 feet) long (same as Bagger 287), weighs 14,200 tonnes (31.3 million pounds), 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 (70 feet) in diameter with 18 buckets, each of which can hold over 15 cubic metres (530 cubic feet) of material.
It can move 240,000 m3 (8,500,000 cu ft)[3] or[clarification needed] 218,880 tonnes of soil per day (the same as Bagger 288).
Bagger 288
๐ต The Bagger 288 is there to safeguard all mankind
๐ต The Bagger 288 wreaks total utter devastation
๐ต The Bagger 288 contains an artificial mind
๐ต This mind is full of hatred, violence is its sole vocation
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
This always pops up in the weirdest places
In a thread about giant baggers in Germany, of all places!
As a German I always have to giggle at โ...that's totally great."
It's one of the false friends any German chancellor would fall for.