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  1. 1Bagger 288Bagger 288Krupp finished this bucket-wheel excavator in 1978, and at about 13,500 metric tons, 96 meters tall and 220 meters long it is the machine most people picture when they hear "world's biggest vehicle." Its wheel carries 18 buckets of 6.6 cubic meters each and can strip 240,000 cubic meters of earth a…0
  2. 2Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60At 502 meters long, the F60 overburden conveyor bridge is the giant you can actually walk on. It stands about 80 meters high and takes its name from its 60-meter cutting height, the depth of soil it could strip away above the lignite seams. It worked only from March 1991 to June 1992 before its…0
  3. 3Big MuskieBig MuskieRetired: only its bucket survives Bucyrus-Erie's 4250-W was the largest walking dragline ever built, swinging a 220-cubic-yard bucket at a coal mine in southeastern Ohio. Between 1969 and 1991 it moved more than 483 million tons of rock and earth, and the whole machine weighed about 13,500 tons.…0
  4. 4Big BrutusBig BrutusThe largest electric shovel still in existence is a 16-story Bucyrus-Erie 1850-B in West Mineral, Kansas. Put to work in 1963, it ran around the clock for 11 years until mining there ended in 1974. At over 11 million pounds it was too expensive to dismantle, so the mining company donated it and it…0
  5. 5Crawler-transporterCrawler-transporterNASA's two crawler-transporters were built in 1965 to carry Saturn V rockets, and they still do the same job, moving the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center. Crawler-Transporter 2, upgraded to lift 18 million pounds, was named the heaviest…0
  6. 6Liebherr LR 13000Liebherr LR 13000The construction giant of the group, Liebherr's LR 13000 is rated by its maker as the most powerful conventional crawler crane in the world, lifting up to 3,000 metric tons at a 12-meter radius and hoisting to a maximum height of 236 meters. The clever part is how it travels: for all that…0
  7. 7Liebherr R 9800Liebherr R 9800R 9800 G6 Hydraulic excavators are the machines that actually fill the giant trucks further down this list, and Liebherr's R 9800 is one of the very biggest in the class. The current G6 weighs 800 metric tons as a backhoe or 810 as a face shovel, with a 47.5-cubic-meter backhoe bucket and two…0
  8. 8Caterpillar 6090 FSCaterpillar 6090 FSThe heavyweight of the hydraulic shovels here, Caterpillar's 6090 FS is listed at about 1,000 metric tons in face shovel form, some 190 more than the R 9800. Its heaped bucket holds 52 cubic meters and carries about 93.6 metric tons a pass, driven by two Cummins QSK60 diesels with 4,500 hp between…0
  9. 9BelAZ 75710BelAZ 75710The Belarusian BelAZ 75710 has the biggest rated payload of any haul truck: 450 metric tons, about 87 more than the Caterpillar, Liebherr and Komatsu trucks that follow. Two MTU 16-cylinder diesels of about 2,300 hp each power it, and the truck alone weighs around 360 metric tons, measuring 20…0
  10. 10Caterpillar 797Caterpillar 797797F Caterpillar's flagship truck hauls a nominal 363 metric tons (400 short tons) a load behind a single 20-cylinder Cat C175-20 diesel rated at 4,000 gross horsepower. Where the BelAZ splits the work between two engines, the 797F does it with one, and it still reaches 39.5 mph loaded on its…0