What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...

“Some excavator owners think a bigger bucket ... coral or frozen ground, a rock ripping bucket will be required. “It is best to have several different width buckets of different duty types, ...

These are the bucket wheel excavators, the largest land-roaming ... Its job is to clear the overburden, the layers of soil ...