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2. Big Muskie - Wikipedia

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   The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie company. [1] With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Ohio-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the Bagger ...

3. Dragline excavator - Wikipedia

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   A dragline bucket system consists of a large bucket which is suspended from a large truss-like boom (or mast) with wire ropes. The bucket is maneuvered by means of a number of ropes and chains. The hoist rope, powered by large diesel or electric motors, supports the bucket and hoist-coupler assembly from the boom. The dragrope is used to draw ...

4. Steam shovel - Wikipedia

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   Otis excavator. 1841. Grimshaw of Boulton & Watt devised the first steam-powered excavator in 1796. [1] In 1833 William Brunton patented another steam-powered excavator which he provided further details on in 1836. [2] [3] The steam shovel was invented by William Otis, who received a patent for his design in 1839. The first machines were known ...

5. Bucyrus-Erie - Wikipedia

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   3850-B power shovels for stripping, one built each in 1962 and 1964, with bucket capacities of 115 and 145 cu yd (88 and 111 m 3). 2570-W or WS, one of B-E's most popular dragline models with bucket capacities between 120 and 160 cu yd (92 and 122 m 3). Ursa Major at Black Thunder Coal Mine was reported to be the third largest dragline ever built.

6. Bagger 288 - Wikipedia

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   Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB288 [2] built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons. [3]

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