September 10th.

Recently I was out with my gravel bike in the Lusatian Lakeland (“Lausitzer Seenland”) and also made a detour to the Welzow-Süd lignite opencast mine. Here it was possible to take a shot of one of the two large bucket chain excavators (Es 3750) directly from above.

Both excavators remove the overburden above the lignite. The removed material is then used with a conveyor bridge (F60) behind the exploited layer of lignite to backfill the mining pit.

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