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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 ...
Marion 6360, also known as The Captain, was a giant power shovel built by the Marion Power Shovel company. Completed and commissioned on October 15 1965, [1] it was one of the largest land vehicles ever built, [2] exceeded only by some dragline and bucket-wheel excavators.
In April 1946, the company changed its name to the Marion Power Shovel Company to more closely reflect its products. [6]Marion built its first walking dragline in 1939 and became a key player in providing giant stripping shovels to the coal industry, being the first to put a long-boom revolving stripping shovel to work in North America in 1911.
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Big Muskie's 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket is currently near McConnellsville, Ohio in a small park dedicated to coal mining. 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 ).
A Minnesota angler appears to have broken a 64-year-old state record with the nighttime catch of a nearly 56-pound muskie. Giant muskie catch on icy lake may have ‘crushed’ 64-year-old record ...
By projecting all three images onto a screen simultaneously, he was able to recreate the original image of the ribbon. #4 London, Kodachrome Image credits: Chalmers Butterfield