Caverns yawn as big muskie bites originally published. Largest dragline in the world biggest dragline ever built. The big muskie bucket looking south at miners memorial park, west of caldwell, ohio, may 20 eric gundersoncc by sa 3. Today, the bucket is all that is left from the dismantled dragline excavator. Largest strip mining shovel in existence, silver spade may become. Nov 03, 2012 dragline big muskie, american electric power co. Dedicated to celebrating and promoting all things related to the most challenging fish of freshwater the muskie. Big muskie was worlds largest dragline news barnesville. May 18, 2020 the big muskie was technically a walking dragline but looked like a gigantic crane. The immense dragline machine was churning along at full production until. See more ideas about heavy equipment, heavy machinery and mining equipment.
With a 220cubicyard 170 m3 bucket, it was the largest singlebucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the illinoisbased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket wheel excavators of the bagger 288 and bagger 293 family. Standing 22 stories tall and weighing 500 metric tons, big muskie was the worlds largest dragline and the biggest machine that has ever. One of the pictures my uncle leonard lucas took while doing some work on this machine in december 1970. The big muskie was a model 4250w bucyruserie dragline the only one ever built. Perhaps this machine was just too big to be economical. With a 220cubicyard 170 m 3 bucket, it was the largest singlebucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the ohiobased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket wheel. The bucket sits on a rise, overlooking the beautiful valley that it once mined and destroyed, which has been renamed recreation land. Books events neighbors bond and gripe on sites like nextdoor and facebook. Big muskie the largest walking dragline ever built. The strip mine a super site by dave hopper, featuring big muskie, silver spade, and other draglines and shovels. Big muskie was once the worlds largest earth moving machine. Muskiefirst best muskie book general discussion muskie.
Big muskie was a coal mining bucyruserie dragline excavator owned by the central ohio coal company formerly a division of american electric power, weighing,500 short tons 12,200 t and standing nearly 22 stories tall. Bm could swing its boom 600 feet, creeping across the landscape on four giant shoes. Bucyruseries 4250w big muskie walking dragline, shown soon after. With a 220cubicyard 170 m3 bucket, it was the largest singlebucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the illinoisbased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket. This video was was compiled, narrated and produced by keith. After two years of engineering development, three years of construction and roughly 200,000 man hours, the big muskie went into service in 1969 at an estimated price of 25 million dollars. Aug 01, 2017 my wife and i went down to mcconnelsville ohio on sunday and stopped at the big muskie bucket. Jul 14, 2001 2this book has many photos and some drawings. Bucyruserie 4250w big muskie walking dragline youtube. Big muskie the largest walking dragline ever built youtube. Big muskie was built because of the demand for coal for the muskingum power plant. Cable jointing the worlds largest walking mining dragline by. Big muskie was a coal mining bucyruserie dragline owned by the central ohio coal company. The big muskie is a model 4250w bucyruserie dragline the only one ever built.
Abandoned train abandoned places locomotive train tunnel old trains model train layouts train tracks train station model trains. Apr 24, 2011 tub pullout big muskie big muskie was the largest dragline ever built, with a 168m3 bucket. Bob was also disappointed to hear about the big muskie demolition in 1999. Watch my newest video, this impossible game makes no sense. The big muskie was a model 4250w dragline and was the only one ever built by the bucyruserie. Big muskie implosion cumberland, oh dragline big muskie, american electric power co. Big muskie bucket mcconnelsville, ohio atlas obscura. Compare the pictures of gem with the pictures in steam shovel. She was as wide as an eight lane highway, and as tall at the tip of her boom as a 22 story building. Coal from the mine was transported via the unique muskingum electric railroad. Some mining operations of the ohio power company were shown, featuring its gigantic dragline, big muskie. Like me, bob grew up watching the big muskie walking across the hills of southeastern ohio. Big muskie bucket, miners memorial park mcconnelsville. With a 220 cubic yards 170 m3 bucket, it was the largest singlebucket digging machine ever created and one of the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machines alongside the illinoisbased marion 6360 stripping shovel called the captain and the german bucket wheel excavators of the bagger 288 and bagger 293.
Big muskie was the largest ever walking dragline, and the biggest machine that ever moved on land. Standing 22 stories tall and weighing,500 metric tons, big muskie was the worlds largest dragline and the biggest machine that has ever walked on the face of the earth. Big muskie dragline bucket at rest ohio 1971 mining equipment, heavy. The subject of this book are the biggest shovels and walking draglines ever built. Big muskies bucket, mcconnelsville, ohio roadside america. The 14,000 ton bucyrus erie 4250ws walking dragline. Map to recommended offbeat attractions, and road trip sights museums, monuments, tourist traps, folk art, pet cemeteries. Feb 28, 2003 big muskie was a walking dragline the worlds largest mobile land machine ever built and was considered one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world. Declining demand for coal and the increasing cost of operating this supersized dragline caused the demise of the big muskie. The size of this largest dragline shovel in history was too much to visualize, so i made a point to visit the resting place of its bucket near mcconnelsville, oh. Process safety management, industrial safety, safety training, organization, signs, health, books, poster, getting. Big muskie worlds largest dragline ohio dec 1970 heavy.
They took it out of service a few decades ago, and all thats left is the big bucket. At 459 long 4876 boomed down, 222 tall and 151 wide, this 27 million pound machine could move the equivalent of two greyhound buses in one. Big muskie is a much larger version of the bucyrus erie 4250 series of draglines. Big muskie was a coal mining bucyruserie dragline owned by the. The coal mining dragline known as big muskie, owned by the central ohio coal company a division of american electric power, was the worlds largest mobile earthmoving machine, weighing nearly,000 tonnes and standing nearly 22 stories tall. My wife and i went down to mcconnelsville ohio on sunday and stopped at the big muskie bucket. Stripping shovels and walking draglines paperback july 14, 2001 on. This mining cable was made for the big muskie dragline that was in ohio. Worlds largest dragline excavator big muskie mega machines in the world.
Dozer is not included in the schematic if you use this in your build make sure to credit me download map now. They have it nicely landscaped with a staircase so you can get into it. Aug 06, 2007 big muskie the biggest walking dragline ever bild the bucyrus erie 4250w. The local preservation group will have information and videotapes.
Big muskie the largest walking dragline ever built mining. Tub pullout big muskie big muskie was the largest dragline ever built, with a 168m3 bucket. Hello today i have been building a close to scale model of the walking dragline the big muskie. It ceased operation in 1991 after 22 years of work and was dismantled in 1999. Biggest dragline went to work 50 years ago in ohio. Big muskie clocks in second tipping the scales at a massive 27 million pounds. It removed more than twice the amount of earth moved during the construction of. What remains today is a monstrous metal bucket, vaguely resembling a robot dog head. Mar 17, 2020 i first leaned about big muskie in a book called giant earth moving equipment. The story of big muskie in 1966, an exciting project started at the factories of the bucyrus erie co. Big muskie dragline with images heavy equipment, heavy. We must have been a couple of miles away when i first caught glimpse of big muskie, the worlds largest dragline, a machine designed to remove soil from the pit in front of it.
Big muskie bucket heavy equipment, mining equipment, big. Big muskie bucket, miners memorial park, mcconnelsville, ohio. Big muskie, the worlds largest earth moving machine, was dismantled in 1999. Everyone there was taking pictures of their companions in or in front of it. With the boom down, it was almost 500 ft in length.
Big muskie removed over 608,000,000 cubic yards 465,000,000 m3 of overburden, which is twice as much earth as was moved during the construction of the panama canal, uncovering over 20,000,000 tonnes 2. The big muskie dragline excavator holds the record for largest dragline in the world. Details have been moved to steam shovel, replacing the information about big muskie which is a dragline. Big muskie aeps goliath dragline bucket one of my favorite pastimes as a teens was to to go fishing at ohio power lakes. Dec 03, 2018 introduced in the late 1960s, big muskie performed its duty in a near continuous fashion for more than two decades before the clean air act cuts is massive legs out from under it. Readers can watch the big muskie videos on youtube. Special thanks to bob brown for reaching out and sharing some of the photos he has of the big muskie from his childhood. Construction of big muskie began in 1967 and started operationg in 1969.
With a 220 cubic yard bucket, she is the largest singlebucket digging machine ever created. The 4250ws was known by a more familiar name of big muskie. Big muskie in miners memorial park with photos then and now. The 14 millionpound silver spade, the last giant stripping shovel to. Built in 1969, big muskie could move 39 million pounds of. The largest piece of dragline equipment was located in eastern ohio and was known as big muskie, named after the muskingum river that passes through morgan and muskingum counties. The sign said when it was built, it was the largest moveable machine in the world. There are several kinds of coal, but the most common type in ohio is bituminous coal, and thats what. Stripping shovels and walking draglines keith haddock isbn. The immense dragline machine was churning along at full production until 1991, when power demands and other factors convinced the owners to shut down. The largest walking dragline ever built big muskie. See, the dragline was best at clearing the dirt off of high sulfur coal and that coal was all but banned under the clean air act, rendering its career over. The short journey of the be 1450 from ken to gibraltar near central city, kentucky.