Have you seen a bucket wheel excavator? You can find one wherever you need to extract and move large amounts of soil efficiently and cost-effectively. These continuous mining machines for overburden, including semi-hard materials such as clay, sand, gravel and marl, as well as lignite and hard coal, are indeed worth seeing: they look a bit like post-apocalyptic, and some may even find Because of their intimidating size and strength, they are frightening. However, in the final analysis, they are basically huge, well-designed shovels.

For example, look at Bagger 288 made by Krupp, Germany, used to remove overburden before coal mining. It can dig 240,000 tons of coal or 240,000 cubic meters of overburden per day, which is equivalent to digging a football field with a depth of 98 feet (30 m). If you want to see the operation of the bucket wheel excavator, be sure to watch the video embedded above and grab your seat, because it will undoubtedly surprise you.

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