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 ...

Built by Krupp (now ThyssenKrupp) of Germany, the Bagger 288 excavator is the world's largest land vehicle. It is now owned and operated by RWE AG, a large utility company. If you want to get the ...

In reality, these diggers work in open-pit mines. The excavator pictured here, called Bagger 288, uses its revolving wheel of buckets as a shovel to continually shift 8.5 million cubic feet of ...