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Inside the world's biggest land vehicle that's 300ft high and worth an incredible $100M

The world's largest land vehicle is a colossal excavator that stands taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs more than the Eiffel Tower. The Bagger 288, constructed by German company Krupp for ...
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In 2001, Germany's Rheinbraun needed to move its bucket-wheel excavator Bagger 288, a machine 225 meters long and 96 meters tall, some 22 kilometers between two open-pit mines ...

Picture something roughly the length of two football fields laid end to end, taller than most buildings you’ve ever stood beside, rolling across open German farmland under its own power, with no truck ...