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Bagger 288 is the heaviest land vehicle

The bucket wheel excavator weighs 13,500 tonnes and is 240 metres long Bagger 288 was built in 1978 for the Hambach open cast lignite mine in Germany and weighs about 13,500 tonnes. It runs on twelve tracks and moves at up to 10 metres a minute, cutting coal and overburden with a wheel of 18 buckets. It draws enough power for a small town and took five years to design and assemble. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The bucket wheel excavator weighs 13,500 tonnes and is 240 metres long. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.