Big Muskie: The Ultimate Giant
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Published 2023-08-22
With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m3) 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 288 and Bagger 293 family.
The bucket alone could hold two Greyhound buses side by side.
It took over 200,000 man hours to construct over a period of about two years and cost $25 million in 1969, the equivalent of $185 million today adjusted for inflation.
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All Comments (21)
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Why, just why . It should of stayed as a national treasure
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I live local to Big Muskie. My grandpa took me to see the machine in 1999 a month before demolition began, I was only 6 and don't remember alot of it but I remember being in utter amazement of how massive it was. The bucket still leaves me in awe no matter how many times I see it. I fish the lakes and camp in the hills formed by its mark on that land. If you didn't know the history of the ReCreation lands you would never know that it was once a mine. To the untrained eye the landscape in modern day looks like any other part of surrounding appalachia. I love that place. There was once a point that the real good fishing ponds were inaccessible unless you had a capable 4WD (not to sound like a hick but a mud or off-road tire and at least a 3-4 inch lift) as the "road" that went to them was more of a mud trail. Now that the road is graded/graveled yearly the ponds are getting polluted with the higher traffic and use. A beautiful place to make a trip to, the surrounding area holds so much history.
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I was Lucky enough to see this as a young lad, even from a distance it Dominated the landscape.
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Great video. I saw Big Muskie once from the air, flying out of Akron-Canton. I never knew it existed before that and was amazed.
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My Dad worked on Big Muskie. I'm not sure if he helped build it. But I can remember him telling me about it. He also worked on the Gem of Egypt.
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I remember going to the assembly site to see it develop. The company made it like a little park to watch from.
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That would have been a dream come true to operate that for any amount of time
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I got to see this in operation when I was in the Boy Scouts back in the early seventies.
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Keep the great videos coming friend from Scotland 😊
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My agriculture class toured this in 1971. Also the land reclamation from it's work.
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Imagine a tractor so big you need a demolition team to take it down.
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Land monster machine! Bucket wheel monsters 14000 tons!
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The weight of a WWII heavy cruiser...or a six pack of destroyers!! Wow. Crazy that it didnt self-power though. I assumed itd of had diesel gensets!!!
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RIP you marvel of engineering
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😢 So Sad, you have to keep and preserve History ..
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شكرا على الاسلوب الرائع لتقديم المØتوى
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A true ONE OF.. legend
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I'm interested in the cable supplying the electricity to this machine. It's not like plugging in an extension cord!
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Luar biasa
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Bucketnya terlalu kecil,untuk ukuran mesin Segede itu,, harusnya d buat 3x lebih besar bucketnya.. supaya imbang dgn bobot mesin utama
