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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 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 ...
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 ...
From 1985 onwards, all new machines carried the 'RB' name instead of 'Ruston-Bucyrus', and in 1987, a new mechanical/hydraulic powered 51–60 model developed from the 38-RB was offered for use as a crane or dragline excavator [1] In 1990, RB bought from its rival Priestman, the design and manufacturing rights to Priestman's Variable ...
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]
Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric power shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas , United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations.
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.
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]