XPLAINER_ on Instagram: "The Bagger 293 ranks among the biggest machines ever created, built to dig enormous amounts of coal and soil in Germany’s open-pit mines. It reaches roughly 96 meters in height and spans 225 meters long, comparable to a skyscraper laid on its side. Its huge bucket wheel, over 21 meters wide, can collect up to 240,000 tonnes of material daily. Despite weighing more than 14,000 tonnes, it rolls steadily across the ground on massive tracked bases. . . . . #knowledge #didyou

science || tech || history on Instagram: "The Bagger 293 is the world’s largest and heaviest land vehicle. It is a colossal German built bucket wheel excavator used to strip overburden in open pit coal mines. Standing nearly 100 meters tall and stretching 225 meters long, it weighs an astonishing 14,200 tons. The machine moves on 12 massive caterpillar tracks and is powered entirely by electricity. Its enormous rotating wheel, packed with buckets, can shift up to 240,000 cubic meters of earth ev