Taller than the Statue of Liberty and heavier than the Eiffel Tower, this German ... excavator pictured here, called Bagger 288, uses its revolving wheel of buckets as a shovel to continually ...

This bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine was constructed by German company Krupp for energy ... as a shovel to continually shift 8.5 million cubic feet of dirt a day.

The Bagger 288, constructed by German company Krupp for energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile ... shovel to continually shift 8.5 million cubic feet of dirt ...

The first commercial petroleum mining at the Athabascan oil sands near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta began at the end of September 1967. German machinery was used right from the beginning . In ...