Big Muskie - The Largest Walking Dragline Ever Built

Standing 22 stories tall and weighing 13,500 metric tons, Big Muskie was the world's largest dragline and the biggest machine that has ever walked on the face of the earth. With the boom down, it was almost 500 ft in length. Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company. It removed more than twice the amount of earth moved during the construction of the Panama Canal. Its bucket could hold two Greyhound buses side by side.
I was talking to a guy in a bar in Fort Stockton,Texas in 2001. When I told him I was from Ohio he said he just came back from Ohio. He was on a crew that was cutting up "Big Muskie". He said he was there a year outside of Zanesville. He was surprised that I never heard of Big Muskie. I was surprised when he said it took a year to cut up. Here's why.....

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• Worlds Largest
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• Bucyrus-Erie

[1970cubcadet106]

Big Muskie was going to be made into a museum and eatery. It's a shame it's gone and all we have are a few videos, pictures, mental images, and images of standing on the front porch and seeing the monsters booms from 14 miles away. Southeatern Ohio sure looks different than it did 60 years ago, all thanks to the morks of Big Muskie!!

[Ratkill9000]

On December 8, 2011 the technical college I'm attending gets to tour Bucyrus.

[2001yz250rider1]

@jonnyboy6625 u got that right!!! fuckin environmentalists and their stupid ass clean air act!!!

[genilson505]

showwww

[jonnyboy6625]

shame that they scrapped it