The World’s Largest Land Vehicle ... Actually, It's an Excavator (Video)

February 06, 2025

The Bagger 293 bucket-wheel excavator is considered to be the heaviest and largest land vehicle in the world at over 31 million pounds, according to Guinness World Records. Built in 1995 by German mining equipment company TAKRAF, Bagger 293 can move 8.5 million cubic yards a day of overburden to reveal the coal seams at the open-pit Hambach coal mine. TAKRAF refers to the excavator as the SRs 8000.

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