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The MAN Takraf RB293 is a giant bucket-wheel excavator made by the German industrial company MAN Takraf. It holds the record for the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history. It is used in Australia for removing overburden from a brown coal mine in Victoria.

Statistics
The RB293 is over 94.5 metres (310 feet) tall, over 220 metres (722 feet) long, weighs over 14,196 tons (31.3 million lbs), and requires five people to operate. The bucket-wheel itself is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 15 cubic metres of material.

It can move 240,000 cubic metres (8.475 million cubic feet) of earth per day.