Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel excavators make shorter work of mines than typical drill and blast mining. The machine eats away at the rock ...

The wheels, of course ... from investing in multiple machines because they can [use] the same attachments as crawler excavators. One big differentiator is the hydraulic system.

“And just because the excavators have wheels, doesn’t mean they have ... cause less damage to driving surfaces and tow trailers with attachments or pipes, which decreases transport costs ...

The 5th of October was a lesson for the state – to ensure that mass worker resistance never happens again,” says Goran Perišić, a recently dismissed excavator operator from the Kolubara Mining Basin, ...