Embark the world of extreme machinery with a monster excavator that generates enough power to light up thousands of homes! This engineering beast moves massive amounts of earth with precision ...

Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel excavators make shorter work of mines than typical drill and blast mining.

"We are standing at the edge of a mine that was opened in 1901," guide and former miner Josef Gerthner told a group as they snapped pictures of monster excavators in the distance on a hot summer day.