This machine featured a 220yard bucket on a 450foot boom and weighed 14,500 tons. Shop for dragline art from the worlds greatest living artists. It ceased operation in 1991 after 22 years of work and was dismantled in 1999. It did undergo an incident where it almost slid into the pit. I dont have the details yet, but i have heard some rumblings about the incident. Boom the dragline boom height is 215 feet from the tip of the boom to the ground and the boom is 360 feet long. Big muskie is a much larger version of the bucyrus erie 4250 series of draglines. Mar 17, 2020 the big muskie was technically a walking dragline but looked like a gigantic crane. Big muskie was the largest dragline ever built, with a 168m3 bucket. Big muskie was a coal mining bucyruserie dragline owned by the central ohio coal company.
The captain was the first of the big draglines, built by marion power shovel for the captain mine in illinois. Jan 14, 2010 just a tribute to the worlds biggest dragline crane. Like other mining equipment, the future of draglines is automation. Construction of big muskie began in 1967 and started operationg in 1969. The design is unusual, as it uses a knee action crowd, and only these two bucyruserie 1950bs were fitted with this technology.
May 09, 2010 a slightly closer crop on the two cabs and the machine house. Big muskie worlds largest drag line in ohios coal fields. Dragline tub push big muskie was the largest dragline ever built, with a bucket. This is a marion model 7820m walking dragline, named brutus. Weighing nearly 12,000 tons, this dragline was 22 stories tall with a boom length of 310 feet. Big muskie the largest walking dragline ever built mining. See more ideas about bucyrus erie, mining equipment and walking. Big muskie bucket here is some history of big muskie from the beginning to the end. They have it nicely landscaped with a staircase so you can get into it. One such dragline bucket excavator holds the record for largest dragline in the world, even though the machine has been out of operation for nearly 30 years. Bob was also disappointed to hear about the big muskie demolition in 1999.
After the merger with monighan in 1946, bucyrus began producing much larger machines using the monighan walking mechanism such as the 800 ton 650b which used a 15yard bucket. The big muskie, so named for the mine where it spent its working life, drew,800 volts of electricity to create 62,600 peak horsepower which it used to move a 220 cubic yard, 325 ton capacity bucket. This is the old bucket of the largest piece of earthmoving equipment in the world, big muskie. With the boom down, it was almost 500 ft in length. I normally pose in front of machines that i take photos of to show scale, but in this case i had to use our jeep liberty. It removed more than twice the amount of earth moved.
Big muskie bucket 1 9998 oh78 mcconnelsville oh 43756. Brutus lives in west pittsburg, pa in a limestone quarry. Declining demand for coal and the increasing cost of operating this supersized dragline caused the demise of the big muskie. Sold for scrap in the late took the electric power of 27500 homes to run volts the eighteen and ten electric motors to operate it. See the actual bucket from big muskie, which was the worlds largest dragline and one of the seven engineering wonders of the world. This artifact has generated unbelievable interest from young and old all across the united states and from around the world. The largest walking dragline ever built was called big muskie. The rise and fall of the two biggest draglines ever built. With a 220cubicyard 170 m3 bucket, it was the largest single bucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the illinoisbased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket wheel excavators of the bagger 288 and bagger 293 family. Although many have taken the winding 16mile detour off i77 to snap a picture or stand inside the giant bucket. Big muskie the largest walking dragline ever built standing 22 stories tall and weighing 500 metric tons, big muskie was the worlds largest dragline and the biggest machine that.
There are several kinds of coal, but the most common type in ohio is bituminous coal, and thats what. Its bucket is 160 cubic yards 120 m 3, and it has a 360foot 110 m boom. Sadly, big muskie was not saved, but at least one can got an idea of its size from the bucket. All dragline artwork ships within 48 hours and includes a 30day moneyback guarantee. I think the german bucket wheel excavator bagger would be a cool minecraft project, i love its design especially since its buckets. Mcallister i used to go by the factory in erie as a boy. Today, the bucket is all that is left from the dismantled dragline excavator. Big brutus never took a day off as it ran shifts from 1963 to kansas, missouri, arkansas and oklahoma have a long history of surface and deep mining. Fuck yeah infrastructure the big muskie was a model. As big as this bucket is, two of them would fit inside the bucket of big muskie. You are allowed to climb into the bucket, and it makes an interesting photo op.
The big muskie by bucyruserie strip mining dragline 14 posts page 1 of 1. I think the german bucket wheel excavator bagger would be a cool minecraft project, i love its design especially since its buckets look like a chainsaw. Mining equipment heavy equipment caterpillar equipment heavy and light industrial machine vintage industrial compact tractors big plants heavy machinery. To learn more details about her, please go to the big muskie remembering the walking giant page. Weighing in at over 27,000,000 pounds, it stood nearly 22 stories high and had a 330foot twin boom and a 220cubic yard bucket the size of a 12car garage. When the northern mine closed in 1974 the 7509 was sent to the black mesa mine in arizona. Come along with me and jill as we take you to visit the big muskie bucket. When built, the big muskie was the worlds largest dragline, and one of the seven engineering wonders of the world. Built in 1969, big muskie could move 39 million pounds of. Special thanks to bob brown for reaching out and sharing some of the photos he has of the big muskie from his childhood.
Individual ventilation grates, access doors, walking feet hydraulic lines and valves and maintenance walkways top off the details that can be found on. Shortly before the scrapping of big muskie in 1999, the largest dragline ever built, construction of another ultraheavy dragline excavator soon commenced. The biggest dragline in the world is the big muskie in the east but the dragline and its 225cubicyard bucket were mothballed and has since been taken down piece by piece, schaefer said. With a 220 cubic yard bucket, she is the largest single bucket digging machine ever created. The big muskie is a former dragline excavator for the central ohio coal company near cumberland, ohio. Jun 01, 2012 big muskie aeps goliath dragline bucket one of my favorite pastimes as a teens was to to go fishing at ohio power lakes. It removed more than twice the amount of earth moved during the construction of. Map to recommended offbeat attractions, and road trip sights museums, monuments, tourist traps, folk art, pet cemeteries. Big muskie s bucket was large enough to hold 12 automobiles. Bucket details include externally welded reinforcements, accurate wire rope clevises and two unique sheaves appropriate to the midlife representation ccm has chosen for their big muskie model. The entire machine weighed more than 150 boeing 727 jetliners, and the dragline used more electrical power than a city of 100,000 people. The big muskie was a model 4250w bucyruserie dragline the only one ever built. The bucket sits on a rise, overlooking the beautiful valley that it once mined and destroyed, which has been renamed recreation land. From 19691991, it stripped overburden from the highsulfur coal beds of southern ohio.
Big muskie was the largest ever walking dragline, and the biggest machine that ever moved on land. Named one of the 8 wonders of kansas commerce, big brutus is the largest electric coal shovel in the world and is located about miles northwest of columbus. Perhaps this machine was just too big to be economical. Aug 01, 2017 boom the dragline boom height is 215 feet from the tip of the boom to the ground and the boom is 360 feet long. The 14,000 ton bucyrus erie 4250ws walking dragline. Big muskie moved, as do most large mobile drag lines, on two huge hydraulically driven walking feet. Standing 22 stories tall and weighing,500 metric tons, big muskie was the worlds largest dragline and the biggest machine that has ever walked on the face of the earth. See more ideas about big, heavy equipment and mining equipment. This is the largest dragline bucket ever built belonging to the largest dragline ever built.
Big muskie bucket heavy equipment, mining equipment, big. Big muskie bucket, miners memorial park, mcconnelsville, ohio. In 1976, big muskie removed 8,000 yards of overburden for the coal company per operating hour. In its working lifetime, the big muskie removed over 608,000,000 cubic yards of overburden twice the earth moved. The largest dragline in the world took 300 rail cars and over 250. Largest dragline in the world biggest dragline ever built. All that remains of what was one of the worlds largest earthmoving machines is the bucket, now part of a park on reclaimed strip mine lands. They took it out of service a few decades ago, and all thats left is the big bucket. The big muskie by bucyruserie strip mining dragline. Big muskie abandoned abandoned building photography.
The big muskie bucket looking south at miners memorial park, west of caldwell, ohio, may 20 eric gundersoncc by sa 3. Big muskie dragline bucket in action ohio 1971 by bill greene 6 2 postcard big muskie worlds largest dragline ohio 1970s by bill greene. Luminant completes industryleading dragline relocation project duration. In may 1999, the big muskie was destroyed with the remainder of the dragline being used as a centerpiece to memorialize the men and women who mined in ohio. The largest piece of dragline equipment was located in eastern ohio and was known as big muskie, named after the muskingum river that passes through morgan and muskingum counties. Some mining operations of the ohio power company were shown, featuring its gigantic dragline, big muskie. The big muskie is a model 4250w bucyruserie dragline the only one ever built.
Big muskie clocks in second tipping the scales at a massive 27 million pounds. Mar 17, 2020 this is the old bucket of the largest piece of earthmoving equipment in the world, big muskie. Do you know mike mulligan and his steam shovel, thats how i was found about the big muskie and the big brutus, gigantic earth moving machine. Its volume is equal to that of a twelve car garage. The 4250ws was known by a more familiar name of big muskie. Big muskie a giant bucyruserie walking dragline in southeast ohio. Bucyrus erie 2570w walking dragline big kate megamachine. It was built, but then could not be moved, so they just let it rot away. Efforts to preserve the big muskie as an historical museum and tourist attraction for the region have failed and she is being cut up. This bucket is also located in mcconnellsville,ohio about 20 miles south of interstate 70. Bucyrus largest dragline was big muskie built for the ohio coal company in 1969. Big muskie was built because of the demand for coal for the muskingum power plant.
Big muskie bucket mcconnelsville, ohio atlas obscura. Big muskie was a coal mining bucyruserie dragline owned by the central ohio coal company weighing nearly metric tons long tons. With a 220cubicyard 170 m3 bucket, it was the largest single bucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the illinoisbased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket wheel excavators of the bagger. The enormous dragline machine, now disassembled with only the bucket surviving, is remembered through a display overlooking the beautiful valley it once mined. There is a nice park surrounding the bucket with bathroom facilities and. Black thunder to operate worlds largest dragline bucket. The largest walking dragline ever built big muskie. If you followed a link here for a photo of big muskie, they have been moved to some notes dedicated to the largest dragline ever built. Read more about dragline history and the rise and fall of big muskie, the largest dragline in the world. The big muskie was a model 4250w dragline and was the only one ever built by the bucyruserie. Everyone there was taking pictures of their companions in or in front of it. With a 220cubicyard 170 m3 bucket, it was the largest singlebucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the illinoisbased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket. Simple page for the simple operators that sat sippin coffee while waiting on the drag. Big muskie in miners memorial park with photos then and now.
Choose your favorite dragline designs and purchase them as wall art, home decor, phone cases, tote bags, and more. Big muskie was once the worlds largest earth moving machine. Like me, bob grew up watching the big muskie walking across the hills of southeastern ohio. Once the worlds largest earth moving machine, big muskie could move 39 million pounds of earth and rock every hour. Then, in may 1999 it was dismantled, leaving only the huge bucket. My dad would always slow down so we could see the cranes and shovels in. Aug 06, 2007 big muskie the biggest walking dragline ever bild the bucyrus erie 4250w. The big muskie bucket is the centerpiece of miners memorial park located just 17 miles west of caldwell off i77, exit 25, right along sr 78. A big muskie 4250w bucyruerie album with 22 photos and the comment. What remains today is a monstrous metal bucket, vaguely resembling a robot dog head. Bucket the bucket weighs 244,000 pounds empty and holds 125 cubic yards or 160 tons of material. The artifact is now the centerpiece of miners memorial park, which.
Big muskie bucket, miners memorial park mcconnelsville. The dragline dump height feet, reach depth is 180 feet. Order online tickets tickets see availability directions. Big muskie aeps goliath dragline bucket one of my favorite pastimes as a teens was to to go fishing at ohio power lakes. Big muskie dragline heavy equipment, heavy construction. Big muskie s 230ton empty bucket currently resides in miners memorial park, which is dedicated to educating visitors about the central ohio coal company. With a 220 cubic yards 170 m3 bucket, it was the largest single bucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the illinoisbased marion 6360. Big muskie the largest walking dragline ever built.
The bucket weighs 460,000 pounds empty and carried an additional 640,000 pounds when loaded. Although not as large as the big muskie, the ursa major was. All that remains is the giant bucket in miners memorial park. Apr 24, 2011 big muskie was the largest dragline ever built, with a 168m3 bucket. With a 220cubicyard 170 m 3 bucket, it was the largest single bucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the ohiobased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket wheel. The big muskie was technically a walking dragline but looked like a gigantic crane.
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