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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 ...
The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), often shortened to muskie, musky, ski, or lunge, is a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America. It is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae .
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.
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Big Muskie Bucket-- located in nearby Miners Memorial Park, the bucket is what remains from the famed coal mining dragline, Big Muskie. Morgan County Courthouse -- located in downtown McConnelsville, the Greek Revival style building was designed by architect William P. Johnson and built in 1858 at a cost of $10,000. [ 14 ]
The muskie is a species of freshwater fish native to North America. Muskie may also refer to: Muskie Act, nickname for the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1963; Muskie Muskrat, a character in American Deputy Dawg cartoons; Big Muskie, an enormous coal-mining dragline excavator used in Ohio, U.S. Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), American politician
When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons.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 [4] In 1995, it was itself superseded by the slightly heavier Bagger 293 (14,200 tons).
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