The Real Big In The Construction Industry

Construction equipment is quite common especially if your place is near a construction site or if you are working in the construction industry. They have been created to build infrastructure bigger, faster, and safer. What you don’t know about such equipment is they have extraordinary facts you won’t believe are real. Get to know the real “big” in the construction industry with two of the largest equipment known in history.

For instance, did you know that the largest land vehicle in the entire world is an excavator? Yes. According to experts, the Excavator 288 or also known as Bagger 288 is today’s world’s largest land vehicle. It weighs 13, 500 tons and can excavate 240,000 tons of coal. Imagine an entire soccer field dug to 30 m deep. Because of its popularity, it was featured on two movies. In case you have not noticed, it was featured on the Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance film and was also featured on the sequel of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire.

If there’s such thing as biggest land vehicle, there’s also what we call the largest bulldozer. Built in Italy, it weighs 183 tons and is powered by two Caterpillar engines. It is over 40 feet tall and has a blade that is 23 feet wide and 9 feet high. Experts claim that this is the largest bulldozer ever built in human history. Unlike the excavator, there is no known record if it has been featured in any movie or film.

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