Bucket-wheel excavators have been used in mining for the past century, with some of the first being manufactured in the 1920s.

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The design is used in bucket-wheel excavators.

Bucket-wheel excavator, a larger cousin of the trencher.

The company is especially well known for its huge bucket-wheel excavators, semi-mobile crushing plants and heap leach systems.

The largest engineering vehicles, and the largest mobile land machines altogether, are bucket-wheel excavators, built from the 1920s.

"Big Wheels Keep on Turning" - Information about the development of bucket-wheel excavators and similar vehicles.

Bucket-wheel excavators are the biggest (externally-powered) land vehicles ever built by man, but do not fit into the popular conception of a landship.

Bucket-wheel excavators, BWEs, are used for continuous overburden removal in surface mining applications.

The mine has around 2,400 workers and is endowed with 15 bucket-wheel excavators, seven spreaders, two mixed machines and one deposit spreader.

Originally, the sands were mined with draglines and bucket-wheel excavators and moved to the processing plants by conveyor belts.

Bucket-wheel excavators (BWEs) are heavy equipment used in surface mining and mechanical engineering/civil engineering.

Among their products are some of the largest mobile land-based objects on the planet, such as the bucket-wheel excavators RB293 and SRs 8000.

A bucket-wheel excavator is prominently featured in the 2011 film "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" as the temporary steed of the titular character.

This type of mining uses some of the largest machines on earth, including bucket-wheel excavators which can move as much as 12,000 cubic meters of earth per hour.

At the Spandau factory, O&K built cable-operated excavators and bucket-wheel excavators for use in the lignite coal mines of eastern Germany.

Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine.

Current use of bucket-wheel excavators is mainly focused in the area of lignite (brown coal) mining for the production of electricity, mostly in Germany and East/Southeastern Europe.

They are among the largest vehicles ever constructed, and the biggest bucket-wheel excavator ever built, Bagger 293, is the largest terrestrial (land) vehicle in human history according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Bagger 293, previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB293, is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company TAKRAF, formerly an East German Kombinat.

Four giant bucket-wheel excavators, called dredgers, operate 24 hours a day in the Loy Yang open cut mine, mostly feeding coal directly to the boilers via conveyor belt, 18 hours of reserve supply is held in a 70,000 tonne coal bunker.