Terex RH 400 – the king of excavators

Without any doubt, Terex RH 400 is the biggest hydraulic mining excavator in the world – 2.233.000 lb use-weight is not a small number. The giant is 33.4 ft high, 28.3 ft wide and 27.7 ft long and it alone weights over 2.2 Glb. It is really huge and its traction force amounts up to 889.000 lb. RH 400 has a reference bucket of 58.9 yd³, which equals 198.00 lb. Loading shovel can get as high as 66.3 ft.

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A machine like that needs a lot of power. RH 400 is equipped with two 16-cyl engines that together can develop power of 4398 horsepower.

Mining excavator Terex RH 400 was first presented in Dortmund in 1997 and since then only six machines were built. They were all shipped to America – one to work in mine in the USA and five to work in Canada.