Cool Factoid Vid of the Bagger 288, a $100 million bucket wheel excavator that digs 240,000 tons of rock a day

by | Jan 18, 2017 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Mining News

Cool Factoid Vid of the Bagger 288, a $100 million bucket wheel excavator that digs 240,000 tons of rock a day

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 excavators make shorter work of mines than typical drill and blast mining. It cost $100 million to build in 1978, with inflation it would cost $380 million to build in 2017. The machine eats away at the rock, sorts out the coal and dumps the overburden all while being manned by 5-10 people.

by Rob Ludacer Business Insider


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