Originally Posted by DieselMinded

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.





And the Photos We Got Today as we Visited the Memorial

Originally Posted by ABOBB

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.

Originally Posted by ABOBB

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.

Originally Posted by bway1341

Little cat get out of the way "give: