big muskie
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  • The trouble is that strip mining left everything a mess.

    The plan all along was to scrap the shovel at the end of its useful days, the fact that it drew attention was something nobody had planned for.

    Now strip mining has a running reclamation program, no massive lakes with deadly chemicals present.

    But, that was then and this is now.

  • WISH MY KIDS COULD OF SEEN IT. BUT THEY CAN SEE THE BUCKET!!!!! AND USE THERE IMAGINATION!!!! I THOUGHT OHIO HAD A HISTORY OF COAL MINEING( BIG SLAP IN THE FACE), HEY AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER. BETTER SCRAP THE BUCKET WHILE SCRAP PRICES ARE UP!! AND YOU CAN SAY YOU RECYCLE!!! THE MONEY SPENT TO BUILD THE PARK , IS LESS THAN MOST NORNAL PEOPLE HAVE IN THERE HOMES!! AGAIN OHIO.AEP KISS MY ASS!!!!

  • BIG BRUTIS (2ND LARGEST) BRINGS IN ALOT OF TOURIST INCOME FOR KANSAS (PRESERVED) IMAGINE WHAT BIG MUSKIE OR EVEN THE SILVER SPADE WOULD OF BROUGHT IN FOR OHIO. BUT I GUESS AEP DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT AFTER MOLESTING A LARGE CHUNK OF THE STATE. PLUS SCRAP PRICES WERE UP.AND THAT WAS THERE LAST DITCH EFFORTS TO MINE HIGH SULFER COAL BEFORE EPA REGULATIONS KICKED IN. I SEEN IT BEFORE THEY SCRAPED IT AND THE STUPID F- - -ING BUCKET (NOT THE LARGEST BUCKET IT HAD) AEP AND THE STATE CAN KMA!!!

  • HUGE!!!!!!

  • They killed her at the end... so sad :( ....

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  • this machine is big, strong but fucking worthless

  • @dratekarlstad How is it worthless when it spent it's life digging at a coal mine?

  • Needs more Ace of Spades.

  • Now I want to see a video of Big Geordie featurng AC/DC.

  • Thanks for sharing, some really great memories of this engineering marvel.

  • This monument went to be scraped; a sad thing. I live in Brazil.

  • it was compleated in 69 and scrapped in 99 right? this thing is badass!

  • i live just below the bucket of this thing, i see it everyday

  • I forget, is it near 78? Its been a couple years since I hit the Rec Lands, I forget how to get there from Perry County.

  • @americansmark yea its right along 78. i love runnin the ponds, great fishin an campin

  • @countryman1222 Yea. I actually was over there in July, the week I bought my awd.  Unfortunately, it got quite a test as the land we were planning on fishing on had just been bulldozed and the flat land was all rough. Car never got stuck, but I angered a park ranger who thought I stealing heavy equipment.

  • my grandparrents live 20 min away i c it all the time 2 do you live my the cematary

  • @JCS300ex i live on the road just across 78 from trail head

  • that was one sick ass machine. the bucket is out east of me in Ohio I live out close to Newark one of these I'll go out there & see it

  • I got to see it work when I was 11 years old and when I heard it was going to be cut into scrap, I took my kids to see. I went over the fence that they had around it and went insideand took all the pictures I could. It was so cool. All the ele. motors was gone that ran it and it had it's own over head crane.. It was something that's forsure. All we have now is pictures and it doesn't even come close to the real thing..A one of a kind.

  • they sold it for scrap iron i watched this thing work in the 70s as a kid it worked 24 hours a day 3 shifts bad ass at nite all lit up oh yea im from ohio and it does suck here.

  • Now there is only bucket left.. RIP.

  • What the fuck does this tune have to do with a giant dragline? Great vid but extremely poor choice in music.Rage can roll around in barb wire with magic johnson.

  • Ohio sucks assholes. Dumbest, self righteous hypocrites I ever seen. Casinos no EVIL take em away. Save Big muskie for a tourist attraction to make um MONEY! NO its EVIL take it away. Hey I know lets open a park instead parks are fun. We will plant lots of trees it will be great people will come from miles to see it. Anything that can make some money to help these SAME people that put tax issues on the ballet every 6 fucking months cause they are BROKE! This could have made some money.

  • Hey douchebag. You spelled ballot wrong.

  • OK I will give ya that. But everything else is correct. You must be one of those it's EVIL take it away people. Enjoy your tax increases cause issue 3 is EVIL TAKE IT AWAY!!!!!!! Bet you don't support that do you? oh check for spelling it might be your only comeback.

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  • I think it weighs around 13,000 tons which equals out to 26,000,000 pounds.

  • All that's left of it is the bucket. It's in Ohio on 83 in the Recreation Lands. I just looked at it last Saturday when I visited my son at Muskingum College. WHen I was a kid I got to see it operate which was pretty rare. It used electricity and had a monster of a cable that dragged behind it.

  • How much does it weight??

  • Your government should've bought her, turned her into the biggest artillery piece ever (think of it as ten times Schwerer Gustav) and shipped her to Afghanistan.

    The Taliban forces would've surrendered that very same day.

  • Well more like in about 7-8 years. Which is about how long it'd take to pull it apart, modefy it, ship it, rebuild it, and then wait for it to walk VERY SLOWLY from the army base to the battlefield! LOL

  • lol wut. we have nukes son. wtf is artillery?

  • magic dragline i loved it wen he was alive

    they shuda neva blew t up

  • Just a few extra feet o cable on hand at 3:12

  • i live were this sits

  • Maybe the dragline?

  • Thks

  • i remember as a kid going to see the muskie the pictures dont do that thing credit it was so huge

  • what is the song ?

  • killing in the name by rage against the machine

  • Imagine that.America builds the biggest mobile machines the world has ever seen...then cuts them up for scrap...what gives?The captain was burnt but Big Muskie....Is this because of some Green legislation?

  • I think it was mainly because of new laws in strip mining allowing only a certain amount to be stripped, and the land then had to be returned to normal or something. But this machine couldn't have been run in that way, its still a load of shit they cut it up.  Why not make it into a museum? Its not like anything like it will EVER be made again. I guess coat hangers car rims are more worth it though.

  • it has nothing to do with green legislation they would have scrapped it anyway, 40+ years is a good run for something like that.

    the mining company wants to stay in the black they can't just keep machinery around just because it's cool.

  • nothing like putting a piddling piss poor monetary value on mankinds greatest feats.See the post below Infinitemushroom is right.

  • yes it's sad but it's just not feasable, you can't expect a company to go through an incredible amount of labor and expenses just to satisfy your desires

  • Big Brutus was saved when the company donated the machine and surrounding land to people who turned it into a very successful museum.Big brutus was half the size of the captain and big muskie.I still think infinitemushroom is right.

  • 100 years from now when Americans have become accustomed to their poverty and slavery, they won't believe that we ever built such a magnificent machine.

  • Of course they sold the scrap over seas.They mixed it up with old coat hangers and make imports out of it.Don't forget this,cars are not suppose to last more than 7 years...

  • i once stood on the big electric cable,,,that runs it,,,,,,,,,safty man chewed me out good,,,,,,,,,ha ha,,,,,asked me if i knew how many volts were in there ,,,,,,,i was stupid dumbass kid then,,,,,16 or so

  • volts don't kill, amps do...could've been a million volts at 1 amp and 12 volts at 100amp would kill you first...

  • this was the good ole days,,thats for sure,,,,,,,,,,

  • whats the name of this song

  • rage agains the machine killing in the name of

  • wow this video is awsome, not sure about the song, ive been to the bucket at the park its an awsome view of the place and the old strip mine is now an awsome camp ground called REcreation land. ive been there a site to be seen let me tell you

  • How the hell do you think this music could possibly go with this vid

  • They both rock. Nice song choice.

  • nice images, the music is absolutely horrid

  • damn i wish i knew about this behemoth machine before is was demolished. i would have loved to see it up close in all its humongous glory and awesomeness.

  • i once took a piss underneath this monster

  • I like your video of Big Muskie. I work for one of the men who shot the boom down with explosives when it was being demolished.  Thanks for putting this together.

  • bit tough doing this sort of work.Wrecking history I guess.These machines will never be replaced and future generations probably won't believe that such machines ever existed.I personally hate scrappers...the companies I mean not employess.....

  • What a machine!, sadly it's being demolished :( only thing left is the bucket.. and that is HUGE too

  • That was very well made, I don't know where you dug up so many pics.

    Coal will make a comeback but surface mining probably won't since near surface deposits are disappearing. Either way Big Muskie could not be used because the mine was reclaimed and it would be easier to build a new one than to entirely dismantle it and reassemble elsewhere.

    The owners would have left it there for the public, but the environmentalists wanted it gone. Thanks a lot...

  • Guess again. The company sold it for scrap to the Chinese you goofball.

  • i own a ho scale model of the 4250w and even in that scale it is more than half the size of my car and is almost as tall as me!

  • This was a weapon. It sure left a bid hole in the ground. The picture with dozers looks like the where changing the Tub or base.

  • this is about 20 miles from my house it is the biggest dragline of all time it was like a factory in side they had a power line running from it stsight from the power plant!!

  • what's going on at 2:32?

  • the scrapers are pulling the dragline

  • no they pulling the tub or base

  • there is about 20 tandem axle trucks there trying to pull it

  • tub chance

  • I love these old draglines, they make the ones we have out in Genesee Alberta Canada look like nothing.

  • the ending is cool but its a shame they scraped it

  • sucks ass it was scrapped it was a legend i know at least the bucket of it is still there to remember its presence but would of brought more attention and tourist to the park if big muskie itself was there

  • a bad ass machine and song...

  • way too much fuel wasted..

  • actually draglines are ran off large electric motors. they run a power cable to it and when the boom is going up it uses electricity and when the boom goes down it actually sends power back through the lines. it creates electricity as its using it. a dragline is the most productive way of minning coal.

  • aww, thanks!

  • its kinda funny.. i live 10 minutes from the wilds..(where the big muskie is!) and uh i know nothing about draglines :).. but i was refering to all the "fuel" and labor that went into making it.. but atleast your well educated man :)

  • pwned....

  • the era of the monster shevels are officialy over with the scrapping of the silverspade sad

  • Rage Against The Machine singing an anti-war song to these images with not even the slightest bit of attention paid to editing them to the music anyway. Just what is the point?

    Big Muskie rocks though, shame it's not running after such a history.

  • from my understanding it put out a lot of pollution and the high sulpher coal it would bring out was no longer in good demand so she was parked and the mine closed, the land restoration act required all machines to be removed, and so she was though she would have made a great tourest attraction. She was cut up in 99, its been almost ten years, the bucket though is still there being the largest one ever created

  • the irony is that not even ten years later, the tech is there to make "bad" coal viable again. don't know how much is actually left in south eastern ohio, but with a coal-liquid plant being built near east liverpool, someone's probably kicking themselves.

  • I dont know where east liverpool is, but yes you are right there are ways to make dirty coal cleaner even if they have to convert it to coke. and you might be surprized how much is left in ohio, we have over 200 years of coal reserves left in the states not including oil shael even with the new techniques to boil the oil out of the shale it is still very expencive and it will be a much better day when we can have renewable resorces to fuel our contry. then we can truly be free.

  • east liverpool is as far as you can go north on the ohio river, and still be in ohio...call it six hours by rail from mcconnelsville, 50 miles from egypt valley(still surface mining there), or possibly mere minutes from parts of harrison county.

  • how long did big muskie work for.

  • it worked for aep and he worked from 1969 to1992 i belive

  • i have 8 mil. at home of the muskie and is about shot i play it all the time. my buddys say i should get it put on DVD but i dont now where to have somethin like that done?

  • Got to take a class field trip and got to go inside it while it was working. Was an awesome machine.

  • Man it makes me mad I never got to see this thing in person, I only live like 40 miles away (Newark). Now all I get to see is the bucket, which I will probably go see this spring.

  • the music fucking sucks !

  • Great video, shame it has been scrapped. WHY did they put the terrible music in the background? It has no meaning and does not go with the video. It spoiled the viwing of what I thought was intelligent, now is brain dead.

  • Our industrial heritage is as important to our history as anything else. I don't understand why amazing machines like this can't be preserved.

  • Unfortunately, AEP is a greedy company. The Ohio Historical Society offered to buy the dragline but unfortunately the dragline was scrapped because AEP received a better offer from the scrapping company.

  • does anybody know the size of the boompoint sheaves and dump blocks on that thing

  • Too bad you couldn't have made a video of her actually operating to RATM!

  • massive absolutely amazing piece of work RIP . does any body know where to find the video of the largest shovel/bucket loader it was built about 10 years ago in europe and there is a video of ti being built and driven across the countryside to to the coal face

  • R.I.P. big muskie

  • do you have a video from the big muskie?

  • People usually can't fathom just how huge this machine was. You could take out an entire subdivision of houses in minutes with this machine. My grandpa worked in the Muskie for many years and I've seen this machine work..AMAZING and it's a true shame that it got scraped.

  • I just saw the bucket today, It as saved, I'm going to make a tribute to the big muskie soon!

  • That was cool!

  • i wish they preserved it, it would have been awesome to see

    kinda sucks that they scraped it

  • they should have preserved it like they did

    Big Brutus...would have been awesome to have seen it in person.

  • so sad that the bastards scrapped it. why? not like it had no use, sell it if you can't afford to use it dammit!

  • My dad built that.

  • the bucket is 224 yards

  • I saw the bucket off that today, it is HUGE

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