Category 5 World's Biggest Heavy Equipment

Cranepedia - Currently we have often seen the heavy equipment that is operating in the mining, roadwork, construction, etc. But did you know there are heavy equipment used and created by man with a very large and weigh in excess of other heavy equipment? Yaps, no. Therefore we will now discuss which includes five major categories of heavy equipment in the world.

5. Dumb Truck Caterpillar 797F

Caterpillar 797F is a refinement of some of the previous 797 series with the addition of features and then dumb truck payload capacity is arguably the largest in the world today.

This truck is made for the purposes of mining with very high production and for heavy construction. Load capacity of the truck is one of the highest and largest in the world. This model was introduced in 2008 and entered full production in 2009. This new model is much bigger and stronger than the previous model of the series 797B and has a payload capacity of 400 tons, while the 797B series cuman of 380ton.

4. Liebherr 996 Hydraulic Shovel / Excavator

Hydarulic Liebherr 996 shovel is one of the world's largest hydraulic excavators, giant excavators are manufactured by Liebherr Group, a manufacturing company located in Germany, and one of the largest in the world for a similar type.

This tool is used for heavy work in open-pit mining. This vehicle has a weight of 656 tons. With Cummins diesel engines K 180 E, with 16 cylinders and 50.3 liter capacity capable of producing power of 3000hp at 1800rpm engine rotation, whereas the power to dig the soil is 1,500 kN.

Fuel tank capacity is 13,000 liters, while the hydraulic tank capacity is 4,600 liters and a maximum hydraulic pressure is 350bar. Volume up to 36 m3 bucket, or the equivalent to a load 60ton.

3. Hitachi EX 8000-6 

  

Model Code EX8000-6
Engine Rated Power 2 x 1450 kW (2 x 1940 HP)
Operating Weight Loading Shovel: 825 000 kg
Backhoe: 837 000 kg
Loading Shovel Bucket heaped: 40.0 m3
Backhoe Bucket SAE, PCSA heaped: 43.0 m3
CECE heaped: 38.0 m3

It is owned excavator Hitachi construction machinery japan and bring the two engines Cummins qska 50 in combo (2 x 1940 hp) and weighing 811.000kg and shovel bucket capacity of 40.0 m3 making it the world's largest hydraulic excavators defeat of LIEBHERR 996 excavator.

2. Bagger 288 Excavator

  

This machine is the world's largest excavator machine. Excavators that use this wheel named Bagger 288 was built by the German company Krupp. 13,500 Tons weighing machine consists of two parts, the "bucket-wheeler excavator" as his digging tool and Crawler -Transporter as the support vehicle that allows the tool to move.

Height: 95 m
Length: 215 m
Weight: 13,500 tons

1. TAKRAF RB293 Excavator

The biggest machine in Human History as Bagger 288, this is the biggest excavator made by the German company, TAKRAF Industry. This machine holds the record for the largest and heaviest machine in the earth and used in a coal mine in Victoria, Australia

Height: about 94.5 meters or 310 feet
Length: approximately 220 meters or 722 feet
Weight: approximately 14.196 tons or 31.3 million lbs

To operate this machine takes more than five people to operate it. Her bucket having a diameter of 70m, with 20 buckets, each of which can carry 20 cubic. This machine can be moved about 240,000 cubic meters of material per day.

Perhaps in the future there will be more tools that can beat the biggest and heaviest tools today.