What Is a Bucket Wheel Excavator?

Bucket wheel excavator is an important equipment to complete the mining work in the continuous mining, transportation and discharge mining process. It is used for large projects with large mining volume and long service life. It is especially suitable for open-pit mines and large earthworks.

Bucket Wheel Excavator

Bucket wheel excavators have the advantages of large production capacity, high efficiency, adaption to complex coal seams for mining, large transport slopes, simple operation, convenient maintenance, and easy modern management. They are widely used in developed industrial countries.
The fuselage is generally composed of a bucket wheel excavator and a bucket wheel excavator, a loader, and a connecting bridge.
The world's largest saw came to light on a heavy machine at the Bogatyr coal mine. The Bogatyr coal mine is the world's largest coal mine, close to the city of Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan.
World's largest bucket wheel excavator (4 photos)
The photographer found a "large monster" in a coal mine in Kazakhstan. From the appearance, the "large monster" has a huge body, weighing 45,000 tons, and has a height of about 12 floors.
The "big monster" is called a bucket wheel excavator, and it has a wonderful device and a delicate design. It has a huge turning wheel in the front. The diameter of the saw in the swivel wheel is up to 12 meters. The body weight of the entire machine is 45,000 tons and the height is 45 meters, which is equivalent to the height of 12 floors. The outermost edge of the machine is a series of spoon-shaped or barrel-shaped devices, where the loading and unloading of coal is done by conveyor belts. This machine has a strong operating capacity and can dig up to 4,500 tons of coal per hour. Can clear all obstacles in front, even the tall mines.
However, it costs £ 66 million to produce one such machine, and the entire machine requires 27 miners to work together. Because of its large size, it moves slowly, and can only advance one mile (about 1.6 kilometers) every three hours. [1]

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