Bucket wheel excavators are also known as BWEs. They are heavy equipments which are used mostly in surface mining and also civil engineering. The key function of bucket wheel excavator is for acting as continual digging machine in the operation with large scale. BWE comes with a large wheel which comprising a continuous bucket pattern. It is used for scooping the material as the wheel turns.
Bucket wheel excavator is known as the largest vehicles which ash been constructed. Also, it has the largest bucket which has been ever built.
Krupp Bucket Wheel Excavator
This is another option of bucket wheel excavator which is manufactured by Krupp. This heavy equipment can be moved to the destination of the site. It can be used for open pit coal mine. Moving this equipment to its destination is cheaper than reassemble it on the site.
This Krupp bucket wheel excavator is able to stand of up to more than 95 meters high. It can extend of up to 215 meters long. The weigh of this equipment is more than 45,500 tons. This equipment comes in a gigantic size which needs 5 years design and manufacture as well as five years to assemble. For operating this equipment, it needs five people. It has diameter of 70 feet with 20 buckets in which each of them is able to accommodate material more than 15 cubic. The size of the bucket is the same as 6 foot man.
Furthermore, this type of bucket wheel excavator is able to move on 12 crawlers in which each of the crawlers has the size of 3.6 meters wide x 2.4 meters high x 14 meters long. 8 crawlers are set in the front and 4 are at the back. The maximum sped of this heavy equipment is 10m/min. In addition; this equipment is able to remove the material of more than 76,455 cubic meters each day.
LEGO® Model Bucket Wheel Excavator
This is another option of bucket wheel excavator which you can take into your consideration. This heavy equipment is able to work in the open brown coal mines. The size of this heavy equipment is more than 200 meters long and the height is up to 100 meters. The daily duty cycle of this equipment is approximately 300,000 m³ of brown coal.
The total weight of this bucket wheel is around 13, 000 t so that this equipment can only be build up in the site and it takes around 4 or 5 years. In addition, the construction of this equipment takes 4 long weekends. It also has the real chain with the size of up to 3 meters wide and the length is up to 30 meters. This model is equipped with 1,000 wide Technic chains. Yet, it has a weakness that is the gears of this equipment are weak to move heavy machine more than 10 kg.
ZYL80 Bucket Wheel Excavator
ZYL80 bucket wheel excavator comes to you with some great features including rexroth hydraulic pumps, swing and hydraulic motors, and valves which are made in Germany. This is able to dig of up to 6695 mm with the digging depth is 3938 mm. the maximal vertical wall digging depth is 3298 mm. the maximal cutting height is 6486 mm. the tank fuel is able to accommodate 99 l and the hydraulic tank capacity is up to 150 L.
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