Big American Diesel
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Big American Diesel
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
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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
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toy4xchris (05-27-2007)
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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)
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)