Krupp Bagger 288: World’s Largest Trencher
To put it lightly, the Bagger 288 is a bucket-wheel excavator. But
there’s nothing light about a 13,500-ton mobile strip miner. The German
creation is 721 feet long, 315 feet high, and can clear an area the size
of a football field three stories deep—in just one day.
Its nickname is Doobi (Hebrew for teddy bear) but this heavily armored
bulldozer is anything but soft and cuddly. With 15 tons of
Israeli-engineered armor protecting the entire machine and bulletproof
windows sealing in the cabin, this monster machine is equipped for
construction, rescue, demolition, and even defending itself with
custom-fitted grenade launchers and machine guns.
The Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 telescopic crane is ridiculous. It can lift
up to 1,200 tons. It’s boom extends to 100 meters long with up to 126
meters of additional lattice. Rolling along on a nine-axle suspension,
this bad boy can handle any job. Disc brakes come standard.
The world’s largest rubber-tire front loading vehicle of its kind, the
L-2350’s bucket is roughly the size of a studio apartment. It has a
2,300 horsepower engine capable of lifting up to 160,000 lbs. The
operator stands two stories off the ground, and the mammoth bucket
extends to a maximum height of nearly 44 feet.
Quite possibly the largest demolition shear in the world, the Genesis
2500 wields devastating power, especially mounted on the Rusch
excavator. It is a destruction machine with Godzilla-like force.
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