We've got the biggest LEGO Technic set in the world here this week and we're about to get in deep with how much we dig it. This is the LEGO Bucket Wheel Excavator, a "Technic" brand set that utilizes ...

Bucket wheel excavators (BWEs) represent a pinnacle of modern mining technology, designed to extract vast quantities of material under extreme conditions. Their mechanics integrate robust components ...

When you’re a kid, building a Lego fortress that can withstand attacks from G.I. Joe and Transformers is a real accomplishment. As an adult, you need a bigger challenge, and that’s what Lego’s ...

The first commercial petroleum mining at the Athabascan oil sands near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta began at the end of September 1967. German machinery was used right from the beginning . In ...

What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...

The Nuremberg toy fair has featured what is officially Lego’s largest Technic set to date, the Bucket Wheel Excavator. The Technic set comes with over 3,900 pieces and will be available starting Aug.

It is the world's largest open-ended huge drilling machine, and it is still in service and still in operation. Construction started in 1980, and it was completed five years later. Total construction ...

The 2016 New York Toy Fair doesn’t start until next month, but toy fairs in London and Nuremberg are already well under way. As a result, we’re starting to get sneak previews of what we’ll see in New ...

The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has overhauled a 27-year-old bucket wheel excavator deployed in Mine-I at a cost of ₹49.24 crore. NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director Sarat Kumar Acharya inaugurated the ...

What is 30 stories tall, moves at a half a mile per hour and churns through 240,000 tons of rock every day? Bucket wheel excavators. The most famous of which being the Bagger 288, bucket wheel ...