Big Muskie was a dragline excavator built by Bucyrus-Erie and owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power), weighing 13,500 short tons (12,200 t) and standing nearly 22 stories tall. It mined coal in the U.S. state of Ohio from 1969 to 1991. It was dismantled and sold for scrap in 1999.

Weighing in at over 27,000,000 pounds, it stood nearly 22 stories high and had a 330-foot twin boom and a 220-cubic yard bucket the size of a 12-car garage. In 1976, “Big Muskie” removed 8,000 yards of overburden for the coal company per operating hour.

2018年12月8日 · The Big Muskie is a former dragline excavator for the Central Ohio Coal Company near Cumberland, Ohio. All that remains of what was one of the world's largest earth-moving machines is the bucket, now part of a park on reclaimed strip mine lands.

2021年2月24日 · Standing nearly 22 stories tall and weighing as much as 10,000 Miatas, this is the story of Big Muskie, the biggest, most-badass walking dragline ever made. So keep reading to find out how it...

2020年3月31日 · The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline (the only one ever built). With a 220 cubic yards (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 Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket ...

The “Big Muskie” was a singular engineering and manufacturing feat in world history. The massive 4250W dragline was the world’s largest earth moving machine created to the time and still holds the record for the largest single-bucket excavator ever created.

The Big Muskie is a model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline (the only one ever built). With a 220 cubic yard bucket, she is the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. Here are some of her specifications: Weight: 27 million lbs., or 13,500 tons Bucket Capacity: 220 cubic yards, 325 tons (12 car garage)

2024年12月1日 · Nicknamed Muskie or Ol’ Musky, the Big Muskie was a Model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline and the only one of its kind ever built. Constructed between 1967 and 1969, the machine cost $25 million at the time—equivalent to $171 million today .

Big Muskie. Big Muskie was a legend among machines while in operation. Also called Muskie and Ol Musky, the machine was a model 4250-W Bucryus-Erie dragline. It was the only model ever built, and took two years and some 200,000 hours to construct. When Muskie was built in 1969, it cost $25 million dollars. That’s approximately $171 million today!

The Big Muskie is a former dragline excavator for the Central Ohio Coal Company near Cumberland, Ohio. All that remains of what was one of the world’s largest earth-moving machines is the bucket, now part of a park on reclaimed strip mine lands.