Most pricey crawler excavators

The compilation begins with typically tailored but uncommonly huge crawler excavators and ends with astounding bucket-wheeled vehicles that may seem weird in non-professionals’ eyes. Do learn if a machine that moves up to 8.48m cubic feet of material every day is worth a fortune of 100 million dollars and share your impressions in the comments!

5. Doosan DX700LC – $755,000

4. XCMG XE700С – $790,000

3. Terex RH 400 – $11,000,000

2. Bagger 288 – $80,000,000 - 90,000,000

We wager the majority will be surprised to see such an incredible excavator. Still, this monster is a bucket-wheel excavator, applied as a mobile strip mining machine. It is aimed at removing overburden prior to coal mining. The value of such vehicles can’t be overestimated. It takes the Bagger 288 only a few days to perform the work that even reliable bulldozers and conventional excavators will have been doing for several months.

Our runner-up boasts 13.500 tons of weight, 240 meters of length, 96 meters of height and 46 meters of width. The boom with a rotor at the end is over 200 meters long. The size of the rotor is comparable to the one of an 8-storey building. The scary outlook of the rotary mechanism is brought out by 18 buckets (with the capacity of 6.6 m³) fixed around. But this is the case when appearances are deceptive. The performance of this self-moving vehicle is mind-boggling: it shovels 240.000 m³ of rock per day. To make it clear, this capacity could fill the bowl of a football stadium up to the height of a 10-storey building.

1. Bagger 293 (MAN TAKRAF RB293) – $100,000,000

Do you know what could you buy with $100 million? If you haven’t ever thought about such a fortune, here is the example of your possible possessions: at least 2 luxury houses in California, a sports car (no worse than a Bugatti), a 35-meter long yacht, an extraordinary helicopter trip to China’s Great Wall for a privately created dinner, a business jet, the whole island somewhere in the Bahamas, a baseball team and you will even have $35 million more for charity.

Or, you can purchase a bucket-wheel excavator Bagger 293 (previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB293) and be the owner of the world’s largest and heaviest land vehicle according to the Guinness record book. Built in 1995, it is presently used in a brown coal mine in Germany. The champion dimensions are a 96-meter height, a 225-meter length and a 14.200-ton weight. The up-dated 293 model features the same number of excavator buckets (18) on the rotor as its predecessor, Bagger 288, but their capacities are far too great and can hold over 15 m³of material.