The World’s Largest Bucket Excavator | Colossal Machines | National Geographic UK

These massive digging toys are on a scale nearly impossible to visualise. Meet the Bagger 293, the biggest bucket wheel excavator, or BWE, on the entire planet. This coal-mining machine is as tall as Big Ben and weighs 14,000 tonnes, yet leaves a trace as light as a human footprint.

A dragline excavator, a machine the size of a building and a new generation of climate-friendlier mining-monsters are just some of the remarkable inventions showcased in brand new episodes of Colossal Machines. Wednesdays at 8pm, on National Geographic UK. 📺

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