Machines | Big Muskie - The Largest Walking Dragline Ever Built
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Standing 22 stories tall and weighing 13,500 metric tons, Big Muskie was the world's largest dragline and the biggest machine that has ever walked on the face of the earth. With the boom down, it was almost 500 ft in length. Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company. It removed more than twice the amount of earth moved during the construction of the Panama Canal. Its bucket could hold two Greyhound buses side by side. I was talking to a guy in a bar in Fort Stockton,Texas in 2001. When I told him I was from Ohio he said he just came back from Ohio. He was on a crew that was cutting up "Big Muskie". He said he was there a year outside of Zanesville. He was surprised that I never heard of Big Muskie. I was surprised when he said it took a year to cut up. Here's why.....
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I grew up with all this,i loved in mulberry florida and every mile u went u saw draglines and mines ,i always loved machines,i love cat stuff,and my dad was an oprtr for 45+ yrs,and i live my dad's legend after his passing
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I sat in the bucket
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I miss this history channel.
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quiero manejar una desas🐇😇
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Thank you for posting. I remember my Dad driving us over to eastern Ohio to try to get a glimpse of Big Muskie back in the 70s, after seeing a story in the Columbus Dispatch. Brings back great memories.
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there will never be another dragline crane like big muskie
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METAL GEAR MUSKIE!!!!!!
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dragbucket8@gmail,comI helped build the cab for the the Big Muskie back in the early 70's in Evansville,In.
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A stripping shovel that size would need a pretty big brass pole.
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Where is the captin now
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sad they're extinct
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the owner could move to mexico to work for druglords as body disposal guy
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Its too bad that CAT bought out Bucyrus.
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Bagger 288 owns this cutie
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My now deceased partner was a soft ware developer for AEP He got a lot of information and reprints from the company archives on this machine They also had a all electric railroad to transport the coal from the mine to the coal yard and crusher shame it was scrapped America used to be so great with our machines but that's a thing of the past sad .
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Does anyone, by chance, know the song in the background during this segment?
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very sad, that big muskie was scrapped so it did not become a monument to show young people what former generations created
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I had a dream where something like this was made into a very large war mechine D:
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Environmentalists is what brought the down fall of America. All of yall need to go die