I'm still amazed by how big Muskie was.. I saw it work in person a few times and I couldn't take my eyes off it. I wish it had been preserved as a museum.
I didn't see anything of The Big Muskie, but a bucket, and, possibly, its chains. Unless I am seriously mistaken, none of the draglines shown working, was The Big Muskie. It had the complete double boom and a huge, prominent, easily seen, fairlead setup, with very large pulleys.
Big Muskie during it's career moved more material than was moved digging the entire Panama Canal. The land it stripped is now a wildlife sanctuary called The Wilds.
Mr. Bennett, I've watched this video numerous times and it never gets old. This footage is irreplaceable. I suspect your friend Carl has passed but what a great guy. His story about helping his neighbor is awesome, I always hope I could hear the end of it but I never do. The skids full of parts are amazing, probably worth more than my yearly salary X2. You truly have a small piece of American history here, thanks for sharing.
And you’d have to be over 60 now to even know what “matchbox toys” even were! Hit wheels pretty much took the market when they came out. I still have my collection of matchbox, and the larger versions, “Dinky Toys”. Born ‘52
Putting Big Muskie in prospective is like: A walking office building with 2 large radio antennas sticking out the side with a 2 bus garage hung upside down on a large wire. I would have given anything just to see it once, idle or otherwise.
I’ve visited the site where the bucket and some of the chain lays. Love to read about Big Muskie and the work she did. Like others have said to bad they didn’t just leave her and make her a museum. The videos of her walking to a new place to continue digging are truly amazing.
Vendors for this machine moved employees to it's location to help manage the maintenance on this machine while it worked 24/7. For AEP employees, it was an honor to be an operator and in support functions of this machine. Was a very sad day when it was destroyed.
Beautiful machine. I was invited to go see her back in the mid 90's and didn't go. When they shut her down I could have seen her but I thought they were going to make her into a museum so I didn't go again. Then they scrapped her. So sad. My dad was at the dedication when they put her to work and has some original pics of the event.
Used to work on natural gas pipelines in the oilpatch. Many times sat on spoil piles to eat lunch and watched the muskie working. Never forget size of this dragline! Should be the eighth wonder of the world!! Such a shame it was scrapped.
Boy I sure miss seeing that beast up there when I was fishing, my grandpa took me up there as a kid and I'm 35 today and still make three to four trips a year up there. Now we only got the bucket at campsite F to look at.
@@detroitdiesel-vu3ig I would love to be able to see it, I think it would be cool as hell to save it, but it's just not feasible, besides the money, you have to consider the different fluids in that thing, they will all eventually end up in the ground, so the epa is going to contact the owner and tell them, if you want to leave this here, you need to do this list of things, and how do you keep people from climbing on it, then one falls off and breaks their neck and sues you. Be honest, if that was yours, and you could sell it to a scraper for a million bucks, you'd sell it in a second.
@@detroitdiesel-vu3ig Earth to Bruce, earth to Bruce, can you imagine trying to convince people you want their tax dollars going for that, you'd have a better chance convincing people you are the real Bruce Springsteen. I just thought of something cool as hell, turn one into a house, you wouldn't have to worry about floods hurricanes anything, put a deck all the way around it, have a high dive off the boom into a pool. It is a shame, they are cool as hell.
Over there and Noble and Muskingum County we went through there with a pipeline and they did make that country over in their beautiful great big lakes everything
Bet they could have made much more money making muskie a museum than scraping her out . Not to mention the ingenuity that went into such a huge machine.
I remembers the Muskie. It was my friend and I criend when I saw what they did to it. Now it sinjo more. Ity was the dassest days of my life when they wreckes my friends the Muskie. Thanks Yous.
I wonder if they knew at the time the video was taken that the machine only had a few years of service left? I think they were not pleased. Greetings from Germany.
Hq was moved to Wisconsin. All casting an assembly was in ohio. The 2 biggest companies making stripping shovels were in Ohio. MARION, BUCYRUS WHICH BECAME BUCYRUS ERIE. It was made in ohio spent from 69 to 91 in cadiz ohio for aep.
Where did they hide the power lines? I understand this was a big earth mover but when you look at the machine then at the bucket looks like it could of handled a bucket twice the size.
What a beautiful machine too bad they never preserved it as a museum piece. Blowing it up does not erase history as a lot of people are hell bent on doing today. There is nothing wrong with history. Look back and learn.
to bad they scraped it should of just left it and used it as a musum now all that's left is the bucket it was a part of history true it out lived its usefulness and when built they knew it never be moved to another site or used again! but still it just fineshed its job it was STILL working condithion when it was shut down and finely scraped. hopefuly we can learn from this and if another 1 is ever built they keep it around to show people to bad nobody can make a repluca of it
Hi, And many thanks for this upload. I just need to point out that the ‘facts’ on the ‘year/s’ this machine was starting to work and finished working and was scrapped need some proof, going on what the interviewer said it was started work in 1989. Well on other videos it is said to have started work in 1969 and was scrapped in 1992. "Great" machine hardly seems to do this justice, does it?
He was referring to the smaller Marion with a 125 yd. bucket that you see being assembled starting at about 6:05. "Muskie" was put to work in 1969 and idled in 1991. "Muskie" had a 225 yd. bucket. It wasn't scrapped until Feb. 1999 and there was more than one fund raising campaign to save it for a museum but they couldn't raise even 1/2 of what the scrap value was. The company was looking at huge fines for not removing obsolete machinery so reclamation could take place. The insides had been mostly stripped out right after it was idled as they were gone in 1994 when my then 5 y/o son and I got a private tour of the site and were even allowed to look inside where the motors had been. We weren't supposed to but the security guard doing the tour offered. Some of the feed lines were still laying there beside the machine and they were easily 8-10 inches in diameter if not more. Somewhere I have a picture of my son and myself standing in the bucket while still attached to the boom that the security guard was kind enough to take. To give an idea of the length, I had to take side shots from about 50-75 feet away and it took three to get all of the body and boom in. The tour started at 9 am and the boom was shrouded in fog. From the time it was idled until it was scrapped it could be seen from State rte. 340-about 3 miles as the crow flies from the road-out of Cumberland Ohio.
Even though that bucket is huge it does look really small compared to the actual ‘crane’ itself. Modern shovels seem to have huge buckets compared to the body almost like for like. Guess things have just moved on.
My great uncle, Rueben Voight, used to dig basements with a Unit deadline powered by a 3-53 Detroit Diesel. Quite the thing at 6 years old to sit in the cab while he dug. And I thought that was the biggest machine in the world
Bethany Haskiell in the video here, in 1988 we were in the mid-stages of erecting a Bucyrus Erie 2570W. It was a 115 yard machine. He called it a Marion, which is incorrect. You are correct, the Muskie was a 220 yard Bucyrus Erie machine, however it was erected about 1969.
There was an 8750 machine also built at the same mine. It was much newer than Muskie. It was around that yardage too. When I went to see Muskie in 1992 the 8750 was off a good ways from muskie but you could still see it.
In 1994 maybe 95 There were two hundred yard or so bucket draglines still operating. My then 5 year old son and I went on a tour to see "Muskie" and ended up sitting in the security guards truck watching them work in an active pit. There were a few big Cat dozers, some haulers that had tires in excess of 6 feet in diameter, and a few smaller shovels on tracks in the Marion 5761/6360 size range loading the haulers in that mine pit. I was as awestruck being that close to those machines as my son was. Somewhere I have hundreds of pictures from that day.
Sorry but it was the company that decided to shut it down and scrap it. They got more money for the scrap than local organizations could raise to save it for a museum.
They had to shut down a lot of roads including I-70, I-77 and I-71 to truck the parts in. Mostly did the transporting at night. They even had to close down the two lane they brought the bucket over for the memorial site. You could search the Columbus Dispatch, The Morgan County Herald, The Journal & Noble County Leader, The Daily Jeffersonisn (Guernsey county), and The Zanesville Times Recorder (Muskingum County) newspapers for 1968-69 for pictures. Maybe even the Bucyrus (Crawford County) paper and for the smaller machines shown in this video they were built in Marion County Ohio. I've seen them just can't remember where. According to the Catepillar website (they bought Bucyrus International in 2011 after Bucyrus bought out Marion Power Shovel in 1997) it took 340 rail cars and 260 trucks to haul all the parts of Muskie in for assembly.
Big muskies memory videos…boy he was a beast that wanted to keep getting strength…but rest in peace Muskie….you will be missed…
I'm still amazed by how big Muskie was.. I saw it work in person a few times and I couldn't take my eyes off it. I wish it had been preserved as a museum.
I didn't see anything of The Big Muskie, but a bucket, and, possibly, its chains. Unless I am seriously mistaken, none of the draglines shown working, was The Big Muskie. It had the complete double boom and a huge, prominent, easily seen, fairlead setup, with very large pulleys.
Big Muskie during it's career moved more material than was moved digging the entire Panama Canal. The land it stripped is now a wildlife sanctuary called The Wilds.
twice as much dirt I heard as the Panama Canal
Sad
The wilds is only a small portion of the ground that was stripped.
@@adambutler4786 14 square miles. I suppose not if you are talking about all Ohio strip mining. Muskie stripped The Wilds.
Yep sure did, and a lot of other ground.
Mr. Bennett, I've watched this video numerous times and it never gets old. This footage is irreplaceable. I suspect your friend Carl has passed but what a great guy. His story about helping his neighbor is awesome, I always hope I could hear the end of it but I never do. The skids full of parts are amazing, probably worth more than my yearly salary X2. You truly have a small piece of American history here, thanks for sharing.
It’s a shame that the camera quality available at the time wasn’t as good as today. Would be great to see that beast in HD.
I keep loosing the scale of this behemoth until the dozer comes back in the frame and looks like a match box car.
And you’d have to be over 60 now to even know what “matchbox toys” even were! Hit wheels pretty much took the market when they came out. I still have my collection of matchbox, and the larger versions, “Dinky Toys”. Born ‘52
Putting Big Muskie in prospective is like:
A walking office building with 2 large radio antennas sticking out the side with a 2 bus garage hung upside down on a large wire. I would have given anything just to see it once, idle or otherwise.
It's interesting to note that, despite it's enormous size, the bucket still looks small compared to the body and booms of the machine.
I’ve visited the site where the bucket and some of the chain lays. Love to read about Big Muskie and the work she did. Like others have said to bad they didn’t just leave her and make her a museum. The videos of her walking to a new place to continue digging are truly amazing.
Vendors for this machine moved employees to it's location to help manage the maintenance on this machine while it worked 24/7.
For AEP employees, it was an honor to be an operator and in support functions of this machine. Was a very sad day when it was destroyed.
Beautiful machine. I was invited to go see her back in the mid 90's and didn't go. When they shut her down I could have seen her but I thought they were going to make her into a museum so I didn't go again. Then they scrapped her. So sad. My dad was at the dedication when they put her to work and has some original pics of the event.
What a great man! This was a joy to watch.
Big muskies memory video! I am still amazed by its dimension
Awesome ever! Muskie was a legend of all machines!
Oh how I wish I could have been there to experience this in person, just to see the scale alone is mind bending
Used to work on natural gas pipelines in the oilpatch. Many times sat on spoil piles to eat lunch and watched the muskie working. Never forget size of this dragline! Should be the eighth wonder of the world!! Such a shame it was scrapped.
Boy I sure miss seeing that beast up there when I was fishing, my grandpa took me up there as a kid and I'm 35 today and still make three to four trips a year up there. Now we only got the bucket at campsite F to look at.
Great video, thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting, very good video!!
they should have left big muskie alone and made a museum out of her they will never be another one that big
There's easily over a million dollars just in scrap for that thing, that's a lot of money to just leave in a field.
@@bigredc222 sometimes money is not everything
@@detroitdiesel-vu3ig I would love to be able to see it, I think it would be cool as hell to save it, but it's just not feasible,
besides the money, you have to consider the different fluids in that thing, they will all eventually end up in the ground, so the epa is going to contact the owner and tell them, if you want to leave this here, you need to do this list of things, and how do you keep people from climbing on it, then one falls off and breaks their neck and sues you.
Be honest, if that was yours, and you could sell it to a scraper for a million bucks, you'd sell it in a second.
@@bigredc222 I mean, fair enough, but I think they should be registered as a historic landmark and thus receive federal funding
@@detroitdiesel-vu3ig Earth to Bruce, earth to Bruce, can you imagine trying to convince people you want their tax dollars going for that, you'd have a better chance convincing people you are the real Bruce Springsteen.
I just thought of something cool as hell, turn one into a house, you wouldn't have to worry about floods hurricanes anything, put a deck all the way around it, have a high dive off the boom into a pool.
It is a shame, they are cool as hell.
amazing scale!! lifetimes welding at those buckets!!
I wonder how many D9s it would take to drag that bucket to load it full.
I wish I could have seen this beast!
Over there and Noble and Muskingum County we went through there with a pipeline and they did make that country over in their beautiful great big lakes everything
Bet they could have made much more money making muskie a museum than scraping her out . Not to mention the ingenuity that went into such a huge machine.
I remembers the Muskie. It was my friend and I criend when I saw what they did to it. Now it sinjo more. Ity was the dassest days of my life when they wreckes my friends the Muskie. Thanks Yous.
Very nice, congratulations!!!!!!!!!
I AM GERMAN THIS MACHINE WAS ENORMUS MY ENGLISH IS NOT SO GOOD BUT THIS SLOPE SHOVEL TRADE A BENCHMARK GREETINGS FROM GERMANY
Why are you shouting the whole time?
@@Nitramrec because he’s german!
Cool historic footage. Thanks for the upload.
I wonder if they knew at the time the video was taken that the machine only had a few years of service left? I think they were not pleased. Greetings from Germany.
This video needs to be in the national archives. This is apart of history.
I live in Ohio, proud to have such a huge machine built and used in Ohio....nothing built like it used to
Prouder that it came from Wisconsin
Hq was moved to Wisconsin. All casting an assembly was in ohio. The 2 biggest companies making stripping shovels were in Ohio. MARION, BUCYRUS WHICH BECAME BUCYRUS ERIE. It was made in ohio spent from 69 to 91 in cadiz ohio for aep.
Where did they hide the power lines? I understand this was a big earth mover but when you look at the machine then at the bucket looks like it could of handled a bucket twice the size.
Muskie actually mined coal in OHIO, I've seen that town.
We know what happened to muskie but what about the ram charger?
Who was the fellow narating?
What a beautiful machine too bad they never preserved it as a museum piece. Blowing it up does not erase history as a lot of people are hell bent on doing today. There is nothing wrong with history. Look back and learn.
Why drag the ropes and chains so heavily through the toe very expensive ? ?
to bad they scraped it should of just left it and used it as a musum now all that's left is the bucket it was a part of history true it out lived its usefulness and when built they knew it never be moved to another site or used again! but still it just fineshed its job it was STILL working condithion when it was shut down and finely scraped. hopefuly we can learn from this and if another 1 is ever built they keep it around to show people to bad nobody can make a repluca of it
Hi,
And many thanks for this upload.
I just need to point out that the ‘facts’ on the ‘year/s’ this machine was starting to work and finished working and was scrapped need some proof, going on what the interviewer said it was started work in 1989. Well on other videos it is said to have started work in 1969 and was scrapped in 1992. "Great" machine hardly seems to do this justice, does it?
He was referring to the smaller Marion with a 125 yd. bucket that you see being assembled starting at about 6:05.
"Muskie" was put to work in 1969 and idled in 1991. "Muskie" had a 225 yd. bucket. It wasn't scrapped until Feb. 1999 and there was more than one fund raising campaign to save it for a museum but they couldn't raise even 1/2 of what the scrap value was. The company was looking at huge fines for not removing obsolete machinery so reclamation could take place. The insides had been mostly stripped out right after it was idled as they were gone in 1994 when my then 5 y/o son and I got a private tour of the site and were even allowed to look inside where the motors had been. We weren't supposed to but the security guard doing the tour offered. Some of the feed lines were still laying there beside the machine and they were easily 8-10 inches in diameter if not more. Somewhere I have a picture of my son and myself standing in the bucket while still attached to the boom that the security guard was kind enough to take. To give an idea of the length, I had to take side shots from about 50-75 feet away and it took three to get all of the body and boom in. The tour started at 9 am and the boom was shrouded in fog. From the time it was idled until it was scrapped it could be seen from State rte. 340-about 3 miles as the crow flies from the road-out of Cumberland Ohio.
so few videos of it working during the day from what I understand most of it was at night to save on electrical rates
It must have been a job casting that bucket.
awesome cheers
Even though that bucket is huge it does look really small compared to the actual ‘crane’ itself. Modern shovels seem to have huge buckets compared to the body almost like for like. Guess things have just moved on.
I drive heavy plant too. Nothing like this. Wondering what the training period is on this machine before you got signed off? Thanks.
What does AEP stand for?
American Electric Power
It makes that massive bucket look tiny.
My great uncle, Rueben Voight, used to dig basements with a Unit deadline powered by a 3-53 Detroit Diesel. Quite the thing at 6 years old to sit in the cab while he dug. And I thought that was the biggest machine in the world
Is this Big Muskie that was once in Illinois coal mines?
Both of those 3270w have been scrapped.
Why did the guy say that was a marion 115 yard machine being built when the muskie was a Bucyrus Erie 220 yard dragline.
Bethany Haskiell in the video here, in 1988 we were in the mid-stages of erecting a Bucyrus Erie 2570W. It was a 115 yard machine. He called it a Marion, which is incorrect. You are correct, the Muskie was a 220 yard Bucyrus Erie machine, however it was erected about 1969.
There was an 8750 machine also built at the same mine. It was much newer than Muskie. It was around that yardage too. When I went to see Muskie in 1992 the 8750 was off a good ways from muskie but you could still see it.
The 2570w was broken down and I think it went to Australia in 2005. I'm not sure what happened to the Marrion, It was likely scrapped.
Ok i thought there was a 2570 at this site but just realized how much earlier this video was taken thank you for clearing things up
In 1994 maybe 95 There were two hundred yard or so bucket draglines still operating. My then 5 year old son and I went on a tour to see "Muskie" and ended up sitting in the security guards truck watching them work in an active pit. There were a few big Cat dozers, some haulers that had tires in excess of 6 feet in diameter, and a few smaller shovels on tracks in the Marion 5761/6360 size range loading the haulers in that mine pit. I was as awestruck being that close to those machines as my son was. Somewhere I have hundreds of pictures from that day.
Dragline harika makinadır,25 sene kullandım Türkiyede Tunçbilek Tavşanlı Kütahya da
What a shame it had to be destroyed, damn tree-huggers.
And the ironic part? It was running on electrical power!!
Liberals and tree huggers are destroying everything
Sorry but it was the company that decided to shut it down and scrap it. They got more money for the scrap than local organizations could raise to save it for a museum.
EPA AND LIBERAL TREE HUGGERS ARE CANCER
@@ToreDL87 that was irrelevant, the coal was rich in sulphur.
How the heck was those huge bucket components even cast? Then trucked to the assembly site??
They had to shut down a lot of roads including I-70, I-77 and I-71 to truck the parts in. Mostly did the transporting at night. They even had to close down the two lane they brought the bucket over for the memorial site. You could search the Columbus Dispatch, The Morgan County Herald, The Journal & Noble County Leader, The Daily Jeffersonisn (Guernsey county), and The Zanesville Times Recorder (Muskingum County) newspapers for 1968-69 for pictures. Maybe even the Bucyrus (Crawford County) paper and for the smaller machines shown in this video they were built in Marion County Ohio. I've seen them just can't remember where. According to the Catepillar website (they bought Bucyrus International in 2011 after Bucyrus bought out Marion Power Shovel in 1997) it took 340 rail cars and 260 trucks to haul all the parts of Muskie in for assembly.
I was seven years ago when this was filmed
I was 5 according to the date on the film lol
This would’ve been filmed in the late 80s they when they were just starting to build the 2570
American working hard for China to save itself in 1988.
I wonder why did we need dirt move a few hundreds yards for??
The overburden is removed to get at the valuable ores, minerals etc beneath. Coal, Iron, Bauxite, Copper, Krptonite, etc. Look up: strip mining
5/7/2018.
nice ram charger
9:33 I wanted to hear the rest of that man’s story
Me too
That thing would need its own power plant besides the one it's supplying coal to.
strangways56 g
Believe i read 13400 volts. So yeah a whole neighborhood of power.
That is the ugliest abomination ever made.
Good old days