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Bucyrus-Erie 1150RB walking dragline preserved at St Aidan's opencast coal mine, Yorkshire, England A 200-B power shovel, and a Class 24 on display at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum 4250-W walking dragline , also known as Big Muskie , was built in 1969, with a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3 ) bucket and weighed 13,000 metric tons.
The walking mechanism on a preserved Bucyrus-Erie 1150 dragline in the UK. The coal mining dragline known as Big Muskie, owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (a division of American Electric Power), was the world's largest mobile earth-moving machine, weighing 13,500 tons and standing nearly 22 stories tall. [15]
The Bucyrus company proper, from which the Bucyrus component of the Ruston-Bucyrus name was created, was an American company founded in 1880, in Bucyrus, Ohio. During the Second World War , the company developed a trench-cutting machine known by the code name Cultivator No. 6 at the behest of Winston Churchill .
Great Bear) at Black Thunder Coal Mine, Wyoming, is the largest dragline excavator currently in use in North America and the third largest ever built. [1] [2] It is a Bucyrus-Erie 2570WS model and cost US$50 million. The Ursa Major was one of five large walking draglines operated at Black Thunder, with the next two largest in the dragline fleet ...
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 Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...
Pages in category "Bucyrus-Erie" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Bucyrus-Erie; B. Big Brutus;
The "GEM of Egypt," the other large shovel, had similar size and weight, etc. statistics. The primary difference was the bucket and boom. The primary difference was the bucket and boom. The GEM was a 130 cubic-yard (99.4 m 3 ) bucket and 170 ft (52 m) boom, while the Spade sported 105 cubic-yard (80 m 3 ) bucket and 200 ft (61 m) boom.
The GEM of Egypt was a power shovel built by Bucyrus-Erie in 1966. The shovel was designed for strip mining at the Egypt Valley coalfield near Barnesville, Ohio.GEM is an acronym for “Giant Earth Mover” or “Giant Excavating Machine”. [2]