I have weened myself down to watching The Silver Spade and The Big Muskie, each about once a week. For some reason, their smooth, seemingly, unhurried movements, are relaxing to watch, plus; I have been fascinated by draglines, shovels, bull dozers and such, since I was a toddler.
Began operations - November 1965 Speed - 1/4 mph (400 m/h) Bucket capacity - 105 cu yd (80 m3) Operating weight - 14,000,000 lb (7,000 short tons, 6,400 metric tons) Height - 220 ft to top of boom (67 m) Boom length - 200 feet (61 m) Width - 59 ft (18 m) Height of crawlers - 8 ft (2.5 m) Length of crawlers - 34 ft (10 m) Maximum dumping height - 139 ft (42 m) Maximum dumping radius - 195 ft (59 m) Rating on A.C. motors - 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) peak Entire operation of the shovel is controlled by two hand levers and a pair of foot pedals. Digs 315,000 lb (143 metric tons) of earth in a single bite, swings 180° and deposits the load up to 390 ft (119 m) away from the digging points at heights up to 140 ft (42.5 m). Machine's four 2 5⁄8-inch-diameter (67 mm) hoist ropes total 3,000 ft (914 m) in length. Fourteen main digging cycle motors are capable of developing a combined peak of 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) at peak load. Automatically leveled through four 54-inch-diameter (1,400 mm) hydraulic jacks. Swings a 105 cubic yard (80 m3) dipper from a 200 ft (61 m) boom and a 122 ft (37 m) dipper handle. The "GEM of Egypt", the other large shovel, has similar statistics concerning size and weight, etc. The primary difference is the bucket and boom. The GEM is a 130 cubic-yard (99.4 m3) bucket and 170 ft (52 m) boom, while the Spade sports 105 cubic-yard (80 m3) bucket and 200 ft (61 m) boom.
@@yhonnymauriciozapata6925 nicio de operaciones - noviembre de 1965 Velocidad: 400 m / h (1/4 mph) Capacidad del cucharón: 105 yd3 (80 m3) Peso operativo: 14.000.000 lb (7.000 toneladas cortas, 6.400 toneladas métricas) Altura: 220 pies hasta la parte superior de la pluma (67 m) Longitud de la pluma: 200 pies (61 m) Ancho - 59 pies (18 m) Altura de las orugas: 8 pies (2,5 m) Longitud de las orugas: 10 m (34 pies) Altura máxima de descarga: 42 m (139 pies) Radio de descarga máximo: 59 m (195 pies) Clasificación en motores de CA: 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) pico El funcionamiento completo de la pala se controla mediante dos palancas manuales y un par de pedales. Excava 315.000 lb (143 toneladas métricas) de tierra de un solo bocado, gira 180 ° y deposita la carga hasta 390 pies (119 m) de distancia de los puntos de excavación a alturas de hasta 140 pies (42,5 m). Cuatro de la máquina 2
Los cables de izado de 5⁄8 de pulgada de diámetro (67 mm) tienen una longitud total de 3,000 pies (914 m). Catorce motores de ciclo de excavación principales son capaces de desarrollar un pico combinado de 13.500 hp (10,1 MW) a carga máxima. Nivelado automáticamente a través de cuatro gatos hidráulicos de 54 pulgadas de diámetro (1400 mm). Balancea un balde de 105 yardas cúbicas (80 m3) desde una pluma de 200 pies (61 m) y un mango de balde de 122 pies (37 m). La "GEM de Egipto", la otra pala grande, tiene estadísticas similares en cuanto a tamaño y peso, etc. La principal diferencia es el cucharón y la pluma. El GEM es un cucharón de 99,4 m3 (130 yardas cúbicas) y una pluma de 52 m (170 pies), mientras que el Spade tiene un cucharón de 80 m3 (105 yardas cúbicas) y una pluma de 61 m (200 pies).
I am a miner and have been so for almost 20 years. I love the business, it’s heritage and history. It is really heartbreaking that this incredible machine is no longer here. If I ever have the means, I will bring it back to life and if nothing else, she will be a museum.
Local group tried to raise money to save the "Big Muskie", including Ohio Power Executives but the Board of Directors after listening to shareholders refused to help fund the save. Ohio Power wanted it moved off their property, but the actual move under it's own power would have cost millions and the local group could not raise the money and the State of Ohio refused to help the move....Big Muskie was sold for about 800,000.00 dollars to a PA scrap company...would have been a great tourist attraction for Ohio.
I live less than a mile from where this was at one time used. And about a 20 minute drive from where the Gem of Egypt was used. Relics of the past torn apart and long forgotten
Just got back from a trip to West Mineral Kansas to see Big Brutus, the last big shovel left in existence. Well worth the trip to see and tour the insides of a 90 yrd machine. Just do it!!
It’s really interesting that when you look at the largest hydraulic excavators and shovels of today you think wow that’s enormous, but in order to build a truly colossal machine such as this you have to go back to an earlier technology using cables and winches. The only difference is instead of steam or diesel power you have to use high voltage to get the immense power and torque required to run the machine. The best of old meets modern!! Very cool stuff 👍
QUE SAUDADES O TEMPO PASSOU, EU TRABALHEI COM UMA 38 B, UMA NCK, E UMA 54 B, A 30 ANOS ATRÁS, FOI A MINHA PRIMEIRA PROFISSÃO NA CARTEIRA NA IMPRESA CLÓ ZIRONE ORGANIZAÇÃO LMTD, DO ITALIANO SENHOR LORES TEIXEIRA CLÓ.
I obviously love these Goliath's and know there is a reason but: Scoop the dirt up from here, pile it up over here, tomorrow put it back (I'm just being silly and understand mining). What a wonderful monster, RIP. Great video !!
Yes, All of these incredibly large machines are engineering marvels. The production tooling to cast and assemble them, and the assembling of them, it's self are marvels of engineering, and production, in their own rights.
@@troyfitzmaurice6834 Actually, it wasn't that old; it had finished it's work at that site, but was just too dang expensive to disassemble and move to a new site. It was for sale for awhile, but noone bit, so it was cut up for scrap. Doesn't mean it wasn't a sad day though.
They cut it up?!!😭😭😭😭Oh that hurts! I would have been happy to give it a home.. I have an Electric Rope Shovel that I saved from the scrap yard.. Me and my Dad were out on a road trip and we saw it out in a dirt side road with a sign that said "If you can move it, you can have it". No charge. My Dad was like, Do you want to take this opportunity on? Hell yeah I did! You don't get an opportunity like that everyday! It is now good as new and in a display building next to the house.
That big little thing running around under it keeping everything pushed away from tracks...wheel loader with a dozer blade...don’t see a lot of them but would be handy lol what stories you’d have to tell
The machine itself needs to increase in size more than the bucket because the weight multiplication on the bucket is huge Where’s big Brutus could dig 130 tons The spade did 150 So the size of the machine had to increase around 1/6 - 1/5 to support the 20 more tons
I like that the tiny little splats in the water as the shovel passes overhead in reality are probably hunks of rock big enough to smash your head like melon.
I have this same footage recorded from a tv documentary called "monster machines" this was part of a segment on the show in the late 90s early 2000s, identical footage used
such a shame she was scrapped....but you can't save every shovel out there...at least we still have Big Hog in Paradise...though buried....its still around!
How does one even begin to design something like this with no computer models etc to assist. All down with a slide rule and probably sketch on the back of a napkin while half drunk
I looks like it but physics and gravity are whores. The bucket could pick up 300,000 lbs or 150 tons and the bucket itself probably weighed twice that. That's a lot of weight at the end of a 200ft boom for any structure to support
I saw the Spade for the first time in the summer of 2000 and it is hard to describe just how huge it was. I had just turned sound from Cadiz on route 9 and I could see something huge on the horizon but I wasn't sure if it was the Spade but as I got closer I could see that it was the Spade. Once I turned down Rt 519 the Spade loomed over the trees. Once I got to where it was parked it was absolutely mindblowing because my car was dwarfed by the tracks. It was impossible to see the entire machine at once. It literally was a skyscraper on tracks. As a woman, I could not help but be impressed by the sheer size of this.
@@dougb6239 thanks man silver spade gets a lot of love but if the other hadn't had a hydraulic fire down below causing it to expensive to repair she still would have been the queen and 22 stories high! Spade was big but nothing compared to that beast.
D10 dozers and excavators, rock trucks, etc. surface mining went away around here for awhile. It slowly came back but on a much smaller scale and with more modern techniques
All that machine for just a teaspoon of dirt .... goes to show you how heavy dirt and rock is ! Imagine how big the machine would be if it had a bucket the size of the machine !!! Even today !
I wonder if they ever relocated any of these behemoths to other job sites. I know they would have to dismantle and haul them to the new site and put it back together again. Cost wise I figured they would lose their butt doing that but just curious if they ever did. Dont think a heavy haul trucker would be able to handle it lol
Some of them moved around, this machine wasn’t far from where I live and after being shut down sat there for a lot of years, from what I understood that wasn’t it’s first job, so they did get transported, I’d say one truck with a lowboy may have been able to haul just the bucket lol it was absolutely unbelievably massive
@@joshrepik i live about 35 minutes from Big Brutus. Thats the only one I've ever seen. Although it wasn't the largest but man its a monster to me. Of course I was born in 82 so I didn't see it in action. Theres a UA-cam video of it working. But I grew up with heavy equipment. My dad used to work for a construction that plowed fiber optic cable. They had backhoes bulldozers excavators rock saws all trucks dump trucks Etc. And every time I was out on school breaks and summer my dad would take me to work with him and he taught me how to run a backhoe and dozer and the other guys put me in the semi trucks and taught me how to drive them when I was a young boy. All grown up now I drive a truck over the road for a living so heavy machinery it will always be very dear to me since my dad is no longer here
This machine, the "Silver Spade" had a sister machine called the "Gem of Egypt" that worked an open pit coal mine about 30 miles south of this one....I was told one these machines worked a mine initially on the south side of Interstate 70 and moved across to the north side of Interstate 70. I was told they built a dirt ramp across the interstate to cross to the north side of the interstate. Big Muskie, Gem of Egypt and Silver Spade were assemble on site with parts delivered by trucks and railroad cars and not expected to be taken apart to move again. When mine played out, they were sold for scrap.
I have weened myself down to watching The Silver Spade and The Big Muskie, each about once a week. For some reason, their smooth, seemingly, unhurried movements, are relaxing to watch, plus; I have been fascinated by draglines, shovels, bull dozers and such, since I was a toddler.
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@@erkkileponen7908 Just myself.
They are electric, quiet, just hear chains....weird when you watch electric machines.
Began operations - November 1965
Speed - 1/4 mph (400 m/h)
Bucket capacity - 105 cu yd (80 m3)
Operating weight - 14,000,000 lb (7,000 short tons, 6,400 metric tons)
Height - 220 ft to top of boom (67 m)
Boom length - 200 feet (61 m)
Width - 59 ft (18 m)
Height of crawlers - 8 ft (2.5 m)
Length of crawlers - 34 ft (10 m)
Maximum dumping height - 139 ft (42 m)
Maximum dumping radius - 195 ft (59 m)
Rating on A.C. motors - 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) peak
Entire operation of the shovel is controlled by two hand levers and a pair of foot pedals.
Digs 315,000 lb (143 metric tons) of earth in a single bite, swings 180° and deposits the load up to 390 ft (119 m) away from the digging points at heights up to 140 ft (42.5 m).
Machine's four 2
5⁄8-inch-diameter (67 mm) hoist ropes total 3,000 ft (914 m) in length.
Fourteen main digging cycle motors are capable of developing a combined peak of 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) at peak load.
Automatically leveled through four 54-inch-diameter (1,400 mm) hydraulic jacks.
Swings a 105 cubic yard (80 m3) dipper from a 200 ft (61 m) boom and a 122 ft (37 m) dipper handle.
The "GEM of Egypt", the other large shovel, has similar statistics concerning size and weight, etc. The primary difference is the bucket and boom. The GEM is a 130 cubic-yard (99.4 m3) bucket and 170 ft (52 m) boom, while the Spade sports 105 cubic-yard (80 m3) bucket and 200 ft (61 m) boom.
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@@yhonnymauriciozapata6925 nicio de operaciones - noviembre de 1965
Velocidad: 400 m / h (1/4 mph)
Capacidad del cucharón: 105 yd3 (80 m3)
Peso operativo: 14.000.000 lb (7.000 toneladas cortas, 6.400 toneladas métricas)
Altura: 220 pies hasta la parte superior de la pluma (67 m)
Longitud de la pluma: 200 pies (61 m)
Ancho - 59 pies (18 m)
Altura de las orugas: 8 pies (2,5 m)
Longitud de las orugas: 10 m (34 pies)
Altura máxima de descarga: 42 m (139 pies)
Radio de descarga máximo: 59 m (195 pies)
Clasificación en motores de CA: 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) pico
El funcionamiento completo de la pala se controla mediante dos palancas manuales y un par de pedales.
Excava 315.000 lb (143 toneladas métricas) de tierra de un solo bocado, gira 180 ° y deposita la carga hasta 390 pies (119 m) de distancia de los puntos de excavación a alturas de hasta 140 pies (42,5 m).
Cuatro de la máquina 2
Los cables de izado de 5⁄8 de pulgada de diámetro (67 mm) tienen una longitud total de 3,000 pies (914 m).
Catorce motores de ciclo de excavación principales son capaces de desarrollar un pico combinado de 13.500 hp (10,1 MW) a carga máxima.
Nivelado automáticamente a través de cuatro gatos hidráulicos de 54 pulgadas de diámetro (1400 mm).
Balancea un balde de 105 yardas cúbicas (80 m3) desde una pluma de 200 pies (61 m) y un mango de balde de 122 pies (37 m).
La "GEM de Egipto", la otra pala grande, tiene estadísticas similares en cuanto a tamaño y peso, etc. La principal diferencia es el cucharón y la pluma. El GEM es un cucharón de 99,4 m3 (130 yardas cúbicas) y una pluma de 52 m (170 pies), mientras que el Spade tiene un cucharón de 80 m3 (105 yardas cúbicas) y una pluma de 61 m (200 pies).
I am a miner and have been so for almost 20 years. I love the business, it’s heritage and history. It is really heartbreaking that this incredible machine is no longer here. If I ever have the means, I will bring it back to life and if nothing else, she will be a museum.
"Big Brutus" in West Mineral Kansas was preserved as a museum piece and can be seen from miles away!
I kind of know how you feel, but you would have to build it from scratch, because it has all been melted down by now, I would expect.
@@clydediddit5753 Yes, and I hope it stays viable as a museum. I might try to go and see it, before I die, along with the Noah's Ark replica museum.
@@wmden1 They took it down about halfway then buried the rest.
Local group tried to raise money to save the "Big Muskie", including Ohio Power Executives but the Board of Directors after listening to shareholders refused to help fund the save. Ohio Power wanted it moved off their property, but the actual move under it's own power would have cost millions and the local group could not raise the money and the State of Ohio refused to help the move....Big Muskie was sold for about 800,000.00 dollars to a PA scrap company...would have been a great tourist attraction for Ohio.
I like heavy equipment. The operator is a very good skill. Very good sound. Thank you from Japan.
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I live less than a mile from where this was at one time used. And about a 20 minute drive from where the Gem of Egypt was used. Relics of the past torn apart and long forgotten
I’m in flushing!
Just got back from a trip to West Mineral Kansas to see Big Brutus, the last big shovel left in existence.
Well worth the trip to see and tour the insides of a 90 yrd machine. Just do it!!
My grandfather was a miner but he never seen anything like this big beast
Bravo! What fantastic footage of this old giant. Giant cranes have always fascinated me. Thank you for posting.
It’s really interesting that when you look at the largest hydraulic excavators and shovels of today you think wow that’s enormous, but in order to build a truly colossal machine such as this you have to go back to an earlier technology using cables and winches. The only difference is instead of steam or diesel power you have to use high voltage to get the immense power and torque required to run the machine. The best of old meets modern!! Very cool stuff 👍
Amazing machine. Operator is right out front. Just beautiful
Simply... Impressive ! Great video...
this is jaw dropping
that shot of the operator in the cab... truly mesmerizing scale
moving mountains literally.
Wife: "Hunny, what'd you do today?"
Husband: "Meh, moved a few mountains, the usual."
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It is a good heavy machine. They are cool. I enjoyed the video.
I obviously love these Goliath's and know there is a reason but: Scoop the dirt up from here, pile it up over here, tomorrow put it back (I'm just being silly and understand mining). What a wonderful monster, RIP. Great video !!
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i like watching the silver spade .I wish there were more videos of it and the captain
Superb video!
My Grandpa Jim Cibulka was an electrician on that. Hanna Coal Company had The Silver Spade.
You are correct, it was the Silver Spade and Consolidated owned the mine.
The ingenuity of this beast is beyond incredible.
Yes, All of these incredibly large machines are engineering marvels. The production tooling to cast and assemble them, and the assembling of them, it's self are marvels of engineering, and production, in their own rights.
Wow 105yds with just one scoop. Thats amazing. I would love to been able to see this machine in action.
You should have seen big muskies 220 cubic yard bucket
Yes, but this operator is only getting about 55 yards a scoop. Very inefficent too!!
10 minutes of superb footage thanks for sharing
Steven Boyd At 240p quality no HQ here
@@clobbyhops its 12 years ago,the video is recorded during 1970,so this is good quality during their time
one hell of a machine...
Soo big...first time i see this video.. someday i want driver this..
awesome
I've never witnessed such colossal sized machinery before. It must take a small army to maintain, fuel, and maintain this monster.
No one fuels it, it's electric. Buy yeah they do maintain it maintain it I'm sure 😌
@@kenney4043it fuels itself by unxposing coal that is burned to make electricity.
One big machine, but to me a little bucket, never made much sense to me, cool video my compliments sir
That is one huge boom to ride on 2 large pins at the base.
Amazing...the old Giant excavator
Amazing machine 🧐👍
The spade has such a pre historic look mainly because of how huge it is.
Interesting video 🔥🔥🔥, avtor 💪 💪 💪
you got to admire to this big machines they move tons of dirt from one place to another.
What a huge and powerful machine wow!!!.
What does it morph into when its mad?
I am Russian and I love Silver spade. I regret that it no longer exists
Why not was it to old .ioperate excavators for a living machines in the blood
@@troyfitzmaurice6834 Actually, it wasn't that old; it had finished it's work at that site, but was just too dang expensive to disassemble and move to a new site. It was for sale for awhile, but noone bit, so it was cut up for scrap. Doesn't mean it wasn't a sad day though.
@mistermodified1 no way in hell lol
They cut it up?!!😭😭😭😭Oh that hurts! I would have been happy to give it a home.. I have an Electric Rope Shovel that I saved from the scrap yard.. Me and my Dad were out on a road trip and we saw it out in a dirt side road with a sign that said "If you can move it, you can have it". No charge. My Dad was like, Do you want to take this opportunity on? Hell yeah I did! You don't get an opportunity like that everyday! It is now good as new and in a display building next to the house.
@@SarahAParis are you kidding? )
There is a Cat 992C and a Michigan L480 on the other side.I can hear them.The wheel dozer is a Cat 834B.Great shot at 3:30
Wtf is a wheel dozer
That big little thing running around under it keeping everything pushed away from tracks...wheel loader with a dozer blade...don’t see a lot of them but would be handy lol what stories you’d have to tell
Cat Dozers moved the electric cables to the machine....
The bucket still looks so small compared to the huge boom and housing of this machine!
The machine itself needs to increase in size more than the bucket because the weight multiplication on the bucket is huge
Where’s big Brutus could dig 130 tons
The spade did 150
So the size of the machine had to increase around 1/6 - 1/5 to support the 20 more tons
I'm having a hard time finding any footage of "The Captain".
Looks like something out of a science fiction movie. WoW!!
I like that the tiny little splats in the water as the shovel passes overhead in reality are probably hunks of rock big enough to smash your head like melon.
Look how small that loader is when it’s close to it
What an amazing machine. Compare the size to the wheel dozer next to it. Wow, just don't build em like that anymore
It's a shame we'll likely never see such mechanical monsters again.
Wow giant excavator😯😯
worlds largest mining shovel i never seen like the silver spade
That is one big Deception.
I have this same footage recorded from a tv documentary called "monster machines" this was part of a segment on the show in the late 90s early 2000s, identical footage used
Never seen one as big as this shovel
RIP beautiful lady....
Amazing ....
When does the “High Quality” begin ?.
What a marvel of engineering.
Amazing
Got that Early Star Wars feel. Why does the whole building rotate ?
I believe that the building houses all of the cables and also acts as the counterweight to the bucket.
Good job!!
Obsolete yet still a marvel
Bucket was built into the sticks.? Ouch
I've been on this machine.its got a elevator that takes you up to operators cab and inside the house of the machine.
AWESOME!!
Omg that's huge.
Welcome to PANDORA.....where are the AVATARS. ????????
Кто нибудь, подскажите, зачем копать, что рядом вываливать? Я бы понял если бы грузил вагоны
such a shame she was scrapped....but you can't save every shovel out there...at least we still have Big Hog in Paradise...though buried....its still around!
Big hog was mutilated
It’s house was crushed flat and the gantry was cut up and a crawler was removed
that's a dirty big shovel....
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Just.... wow!
A guy I worked with in Cadiz Ohio, his dad was one of the operators.
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How does one even begin to design something like this with no computer models etc to assist. All down with a slide rule and probably sketch on the back of a napkin while half drunk
How many cubic meters?
Alien: Ripley's going to have a hard time taking this beast out? We're doomed
love you vehicle
Just tearing the earth up some more!
Not sure if that is human ingenuity or insanity.
Optimus Prime is hiding somewhere hoping this Decepticon doesn't wake up...
Great machine
era una machine lenta of big pero de muy poca carga hoy la tegnologia hay machines bigs y sped y mas carga
De que pais es esta chingonoderia enorme
looking at large units like this I like seeing the film trans former
Deception Demolishor turns into a Terex RH400 mining excavator.
Parker schnabel needs to see this
LOL
How big is the grease gun for this 🤣
Big one
Love these videos. Love all the big stuff. You always see digging but where the hell is the coal?
Spade is sitting on it.
Yep, the spade removes almost all the overburden.
"Small" equipment comes in and takes care of the rest.
Strip of coal might be a small percentage under all that overburden, regular size machines remove the coal.
Seems to me the bucket is undersized, operator consistently overloaded it, the machine ignored it like it was nothing. Great video,thanks for posting.
I looks like it but physics and gravity are whores. The bucket could pick up 300,000 lbs or 150 tons and the bucket itself probably weighed twice that. That's a lot of weight at the end of a 200ft boom for any structure to support
With such big machine ...the bucket must be larger🤦🏾♂️
It's already big,150 tons of dirt in single bite
Like operating a mobile skyscraper
I saw the Spade for the first time in the summer of 2000 and it is hard to describe just how huge it was. I had just turned sound from Cadiz on route 9 and I could see something huge on the horizon but I wasn't sure if it was the Spade but as I got closer I could see that it was the Spade. Once I turned down Rt 519 the Spade loomed over the trees. Once I got to where it was parked it was absolutely mindblowing because my car was dwarfed by the tracks. It was impossible to see the entire machine at once. It literally was a skyscraper on tracks. As a woman, I could not help but be impressed by the sheer size of this.
Don't forget she wasn't the biggest there was a Marion but I can't remember her number there is limited footage on here if you can find it.
6360 Marion The Captain
@@dougb6239 thanks man silver spade gets a lot of love but if the other hadn't had a hydraulic fire down below causing it to expensive to repair she still would have been the queen and 22 stories high! Spade was big but nothing compared to that beast.
monster bucket......
that's how big I make my scoops of coffee in the morning
So what took the place of the drag lines and this silver spade?
D10 dozers and excavators, rock trucks, etc. surface mining went away around here for awhile. It slowly came back but on a much smaller scale and with more modern techniques
@@joshrepik Thank you kindly.
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All that machine for just a teaspoon of dirt .... goes to show you how heavy dirt and rock is ! Imagine how big the machine would be if it had a bucket the size of the machine !!!
Even today !
Just remember each bite it takes is 150+ tons of dirt.
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I wonder if they ever relocated any of these behemoths to other job sites. I know they would have to dismantle and haul them to the new site and put it back together again. Cost wise I figured they would lose their butt doing that but just curious if they ever did. Dont think a heavy haul trucker would be able to handle it lol
Some of them moved around, this machine wasn’t far from where I live and after being shut down sat there for a lot of years, from what I understood that wasn’t it’s first job, so they did get transported, I’d say one truck with a lowboy may have been able to haul just the bucket lol it was absolutely unbelievably massive
@@joshrepik i live about 35 minutes from Big Brutus. Thats the only one I've ever seen. Although it wasn't the largest but man its a monster to me. Of course I was born in 82 so I didn't see it in action. Theres a UA-cam video of it working. But I grew up with heavy equipment. My dad used to work for a construction that plowed fiber optic cable. They had backhoes bulldozers excavators rock saws all trucks dump trucks Etc. And every time I was out on school breaks and summer my dad would take me to work with him and he taught me how to run a backhoe and dozer and the other guys put me in the semi trucks and taught me how to drive them when I was a young boy. All grown up now I drive a truck over the road for a living so heavy machinery it will always be very dear to me since my dad is no longer here
This machine, the "Silver Spade" had a sister machine called the "Gem of Egypt" that worked an open pit coal mine about 30 miles south of this one....I was told one these machines worked a mine initially on the south side of Interstate 70 and moved across to the north side of Interstate 70. I was told they built a dirt ramp across the interstate to cross to the north side of the interstate.
Big Muskie, Gem of Egypt and Silver Spade were assemble on site with parts delivered by trucks and railroad cars and not expected to be taken apart to move again. When mine played out, they were sold for scrap.
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