Big American Diesel
3 Attachment(s)
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:
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 |
She is awsome...........in 79 I was a greaser on a big Bucyrus Erie dragline in a coal mine..............you could put a D-9 cat in the bucket and turn it around...anyway in its day of birth in 1960 it wwas the largest at the time
just a baby now but far retired |
that thing is huge. where is it at?
|
Incredible specs....5" cable thats crazy....
What are the missing pics? |
|
I remember when we got a new chain for the bucket where it attaches to the drag cable.....the links were about 30" tall and about 3" diameter steel.........one of the old buggers there bet me I couldnt lift a link...I lifted one link to my waist and had the second link about half way up but couldnt get it off the ground:sen:
|
Originally Posted by toy4xchris
(Post 25400)
that thing is huge. where is it at?
|
thats pretty impressive, i wonder how much they got for that thing in scrap, and also what kinda motors were in it, im guessing some huge detroits
|
Originally Posted by dozerboy
(Post 25454)
FIY the bucket is the only thing left its in Noble county Ohio
|
3 Attachment(s)
in the 70s & 80s Big Muskie was the biggest in the world...
the biggest the world now is below... on cable, i saw this one in use...... Ultimate Earth Mover This is the largest earth mover in the world..... built by the German company, Krupp, and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine). It is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite. Specifications: The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long. It weighs over 45,500 tons Cost $100 million to build Took 5 years to design and manufacture 5 years to assemble. Requires 5 people to operate it. The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material. A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets. It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46 feet long). There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back. It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour). It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40yds. each) |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:03 AM. |
© 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands