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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 Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...
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 ).
After the merger with Monighan in 1946, Bucyrus began producing much larger machines using the Monighan walking mechanism such as the 800 ton 650-B which used a 15-yard bucket. Bucyrus' largest dragline was Big Muskie built for the Ohio Coal Company in 1969. This machine featured a 220-yard bucket on a 450-foot boom and weighed 14,500 tons.
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.
Model Type Length Diameter Weight Year introduced Year discontinued LZ 129 Hindenburg: Rigid airship: 245 m (803 ft 10 in) [13] 41.2 m (135 ft 2 in)
At one time, they owned and operated Big Muskie in the Cumberland, Ohio area. [2] They were responsible for fueling the AEP Muskingum River Power Plant at Relief, Ohio. [3] From the 1960s to the late 1980s, the company employed nearly 1,000 people in southeastern Ohio, [4] producing up to 1.7 million tons of coal annually. [5]
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When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons.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] It took five years to design and manufacture and five years to assemble, with total cost reaching $100 million. [4] In 1995, it was itself superseded by the slightly heavier Bagger 293 (14,200 tons).