Big American Diesel
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From: Houston, Tx
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:
And the Photos We Got Today as we Visited the Memorial
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
And the Photos We Got Today as we Visited the Memorial
. My Dmax can pull that piece of crap around like a rag doll. 
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From: Blue Ridge Mountains
Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: Grady, Al
Little cat get out of the way "give:
Diesel Wrench
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From: TX
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.
Yes the rest of the Big Musky was scrapped after a catastrophic fire.
