science || tech || history on Instagram: "The Bagger 293 is the world’s largest and heaviest land vehicle. It is a colossal German built bucket wheel excavator used to strip overburden in open pit coal mines. Standing nearly 100 meters tall and stretching 225 meters long, it weighs an astonishing 14,200 tons. The machine moves on 12 massive caterpillar tracks and is powered entirely by electricity. Its enormous rotating wheel, packed with buckets, can shift up to 240,000 cubic meters of earth ev