Germany-based Breuer & Wasel used three of its Liebherr all terrain cranes to replace a 140 tonne bucket on a brown coal excavator at the Hambach open-cast mine in Germany. The company already has seven cranes permanently installed at the site for the ongoing work. The replacement of the bucket wheel was the biggest challenge to overhaul the machine. Weighing 13,000 tonne, the 96 m high, 200 m long excavator is amongst the biggest machines of its kind in the world, and boasts of 18 buckets with a traction force of 100 tonne. Working in tandem with the LTM 1500-8.1, LTM 1400-7.1 and LTM 1350-6.1, all terrains turned the new 18 m diameter bucket wheel from its assembly position, loading it onto the heavy load crawler excavator.
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