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Look at the size of those excavators--the bulldozer in the lower left of the image looks like a forgotten child's toy by comparison! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine#/media...

What’s more, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator has the same photo, and says “Note the 90-ton CAT front loader at lower left for size comparison”

⇒ chances are a normal-sized bulldozer is half the height of that one.

That is bagger288, it weighs over 10Gg and it's like 100m tall or something

I love the metric system and all that, but perhaps 10,000 tonnes might be a better way of expressing the mass of the digger.