Largest Land Vehicle
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The largest machine capable of moving under its own power is the 31.3 million-lb (14,196-tonne) RB293 bucket wheel excavator, an earthmoving machine manufactured by MAN TAKRAF of Leipzig, Germany.Employed in an opencast coal mine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, it is 722 ft (220 m) long, 310 ft (94.5 m) tall at its highest point, and is capable of shifting 8.475 million ft3 (240,000 m3) of earth daily.
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