Bob was also disappointed to hear about the big muskie demolition in 1999. Map to recommended offbeat attractions, and road trip sights museums, monuments, tourist traps, folk art, pet cemeteries. The largest dragline in the world took 300 rail cars and over 250. It ceased operation in 1991 after 22 years of work and was dismantled in 1999. Aug 06, 2007 big muskie the biggest walking dragline ever bild the bucyrus erie 4250w. Big muskie worlds largest dragline ohio dec 1970 heavy. The immense dragline machine was churning along at full production until 1991, when power demands and other factors convinced the owners to shut down. Declining demand for coal and the increasing cost of operating this supersized dragline caused the demise of the big muskie. Big muskie clocks in second tipping the scales at a massive 27 million pounds. Big muskie is a much larger version of the bucyrus erie 4250 series of draglines. The strip mine a super site by dave hopper, featuring big muskie, silver spade, and other draglines and shovels. Watch my newest video, this impossible game makes no sense.
Big muskie dragline bucket at rest ohio 1971 mining equipment, heavy. Big muskie was worlds largest dragline news barnesville. Big muskie dragline slides and prints taken in 1970 by my uncle leonard lucas while doing some work on the hydraulics on the worlds biggest dragline excavator. Everyone there was taking pictures of their companions in or in front of it. Details have been moved to steam shovel, replacing the information about big muskie which is a dragline. Like me, bob grew up watching the big muskie walking across the hills of southeastern ohio. Dozer is not included in the schematic if you use this in your build make sure to credit me download map now. She was as wide as an eight lane highway, and as tall at the tip of her boom as a 22 story building. Built in 1969, big muskie could move 39 million pounds of earth and rock every hour, revealing rich coal seams 100150 feet down in southeastern ohio. Built in 1969, big muskie could move 39 million pounds of. 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. Big muskie bucket heavy equipment, mining equipment, big. It removed more than twice the amount of earth moved during the construction of. With a 220 cubic yard bucket, she is the largest singlebucket digging machine ever created.
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. Perhaps this machine was just too big to be economical. The short journey of the be 1450 from ken to gibraltar near central city, kentucky. Tub pullout big muskie big muskie was the largest dragline ever built, with a 168m3 bucket. Caverns yawn as big muskie bites originally published. Cable jointing the worlds largest walking mining dragline by. 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.
The bucket sits on a rise, overlooking the beautiful valley that it once mined and destroyed, which has been renamed recreation land. Compare the pictures of gem with the pictures in steam shovel. 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. Big muskie bucket, miners memorial park, mcconnelsville, ohio.
Dedicated to celebrating and promoting all things related to the most challenging fish of freshwater the muskie. The big muskie was a model 4250w dragline and was the only one ever built by the bucyruserie. There are several kinds of coal, but the most common type in ohio is bituminous coal, and thats what. Worlds largest dragline excavator big muskie mega machines in the world. One of the pictures my uncle leonard lucas took while doing some work on this machine in december 1970.
What remains today is a monstrous metal bucket, vaguely resembling a robot dog head. 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. The largest walking dragline ever built big muskie. Big muskie aeps goliath dragline bucket one of my favorite pastimes as a teens was to to go fishing at ohio power lakes. Bucyruseries 4250w big muskie walking dragline, shown soon after.
Big muskie bucket mcconnelsville, ohio atlas obscura. 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. Muskiefirst best muskie book general discussion muskie. Bucyruserie 4250w big muskie walking dragline youtube.
Books events neighbors bond and gripe on sites like nextdoor and facebook. This mining cable was made for the big muskie dragline that was in ohio. The sign said when it was built, it was the largest moveable machine in the world. Big muskie the largest walking dragline ever built. The big muskie bucket looking south at miners memorial park, west of caldwell, ohio, may 20 eric gundersoncc by sa 3. Big muskie was a coal mining bucyruserie dragline owned by the central ohio coal company. Apr 24, 2011 tub pullout big muskie big muskie was the largest dragline ever built, with a 168m3 bucket.
This video was was compiled, narrated and produced by keith. Hello today i have been building a close to scale model of the walking dragline the big muskie. Big muskie in miners memorial park with photos then and now. May 18, 2020 the big muskie was technically a walking dragline but looked like a gigantic crane. Aug 01, 2017 my wife and i went down to mcconnelsville ohio on sunday and stopped at the big muskie bucket. They have it nicely landscaped with a staircase so you can get into it. Abandoned train abandoned places locomotive train tunnel old trains model train layouts train tracks train station model trains. Process safety management, industrial safety, safety training, organization, signs, health, books, poster, getting. 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. 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.
Big muskies bucket, mcconnelsville, ohio roadside america. The big muskie was a model 4250w bucyruserie dragline the only one ever built. Big muskie bucket, miners memorial park mcconnelsville. Mar 17, 2020 i first leaned about big muskie in a book called giant earth moving equipment. Largest strip mining shovel in existence, silver spade may become. Special thanks to bob brown for reaching out and sharing some of the photos he has of the big muskie from his childhood. 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. Some mining operations of the ohio power company were shown, featuring its gigantic dragline, big muskie. The 14,000 ton bucyrus erie 4250ws walking dragline. With the boom down, it was almost 500 ft in length. Nov 03, 2012 dragline big muskie, american electric power co. 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 story of big muskie in 1966, an exciting project started at the factories of the bucyrus erie co. 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 4250ws was known by a more familiar name of big muskie. Bm could swing its boom 600 feet, creeping across the landscape on four giant shoes. Big muskie was the largest ever walking dragline, and the biggest machine that ever moved on land. The subject of this book are the biggest shovels and walking draglines ever built.
My wife and i went down to mcconnelsville ohio on sunday and stopped at the big muskie bucket. Standing 22 stories tall and weighing 500 metric tons, big muskie was the worlds largest dragline and the biggest machine that has ever. The big muskie is a model 4250w bucyruserie dragline the only one ever built. Big muskie was a coal mining bucyruserie dragline owned by the. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about html5 video. Construction of big muskie began in 1967 and started operationg in 1969.
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. 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. Jul 14, 2001 2this book has many photos and some drawings. The local preservation group will have information and videotapes. Biggest dragline went to work 50 years ago in ohio. 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. Today, the bucket is all that is left from the dismantled dragline excavator. The big muskie dragline excavator holds the record for largest dragline in the world. The immense dragline machine was churning along at full production until. Stripping shovels and walking draglines paperback july 14, 2001 on. Big muskie implosion cumberland, oh dragline big muskie, american electric power co.
Coal from the mine was transported via the unique muskingum electric railroad. Largest dragline in the world biggest dragline ever built. 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 the largest walking dragline ever built mining. Stripping shovels and walking draglines keith haddock isbn. They took it out of service a few decades ago, and all thats left is the big bucket. Big muskie dragline with images heavy equipment, heavy. Big muskie was built because of the demand for coal for the muskingum power plant. The 14 millionpound silver spade, the last giant stripping shovel to.
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