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i wanna be the guy in the cab next the wheel what a job!

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Originally Posted by DieselMinded (Post 25384)

Known As the Big Muskie

The Big Muskie is a model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline (the only one ever built). With a 220 cubic yard bucket, she is the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. Here are some of her specifications:

Weight: 27 million lbs., or 13,500 tons
Bucket Capacity: 220 cubic yards, 325 tons (12 car garage)
Height: 222 ft., 6 in.
Length of the boom: 310 feet
Length of machine with boom down: 487 ft., 6 in.
Empty bucket weight: 230 tons
Width: 151 ft., 6 in., compare to an 8 lane highway!
Cable diameter: 5 in
Electrically powered: 13,800 volts
Mobility: hydraulically driven walking feet

In her working lifetime, the Big Muskie removed over 608,000,000 cubic yards of overburden (twice the earth moved during the construction of the Panama Canal), uncovering over 20,000,000 tons of clean coal. She cost $25 million in 1969.

http://little-mountain.com/bigmuskie...BigMuskie2.jpg

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attra...kie_dawson.jpg

And the Photos We Got Today as we Visited the Memorial

That aint :edit:. My Dmax can pull that piece of crap around like a rag doll. :D

Just to give you all some perspective on how big that German wheel excavator is... here's a pic of what happened when a D-9 Cat bulldozer was left in it's blind spot.

https://www.picturehosting.com/image...orvsdozer3.jpg

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Originally Posted by ABOBB (Post 25532)

Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :f: :f: :f:

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Originally Posted by ABOBB (Post 25532)

Little cat get out of the way "give:

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Originally Posted by bway1341 (Post 25562)

Little cat get out of the way "give:

Yeah.. well... that "little cat" has an operation weight of over 105,000 lbs!!!

plus 10 lbs of poop in the seat "give:

I've got a cool powerpoint presentation on how they got the D-9 off the Muskie if anyone wants to see. I cant attach it here because it's too large.

I heard the dozer in the bucket wheel was a D8 it was left to close to the edge of there the bucket wheel was working, so no was inside.

Yes the rest of the Big Musky was scrapped after a catastrophic fire.