I worked at Bucyrus Erie for over 15+ yrs and it was in Erie, Pennsylvania I started off building there Marine Cranes for off shore rigs, then transfered to the shovel division building the 350h and the 400h shovel division
@@RobertStoopsjr-u6i I'll bet I saw you moving those machines across Weschler to await (I believe rail) transport. It's been years sinceI'veseenit, but I'll also bet that the heavy duty concrete slab they built to support the weight of those giant machines while they crossed the street is still there and holding up better than any other road surface in the area.
Big Brutus still exists in West Mineral, Kansas in a museum park. Long retired it is not operational, but you can explore it. The bucket from Big Muskie is in the Miners Memorial Park, State Route 78, McConnelsville, OH.
Big Brutus is a Great visit. The History of a local who hand built a gas power shovel for coal mining, it was the origin bases for Big Brutus. The original Shovel is on display next to Big Brutus. You can climb on Big Brutus. The Electrical motors have been removed. well worth a visit
Thanks for the great overview of an iconic company! That video of the demolition of Big Muskie kills me every time I see it. Really enjoying your videos!
My now deceased partner was with AEP I got to URBEX big Muskie before it was scrapped you cannot begin to imagine it’s size unless you saw it in person and got inside it and walked up the boom catwalk it was so big inside and it’s components so large there was a overhead crane inside it. That pair of rails on the back of the house was for that crane to move it’s internal parts in and out for servicing they were that massive ! the house was a bigger than a basketball court inside it was sad it was scrapped only part left is the bucket . I photographed it inside extensively even writing operators left on the cab walls when they moved it for the last time .
I would love to see those photos. Sounds like a piece of history that should have been preserved; but especially given that it’s not around anymore, I’m quite glad some got to admire it before it was unable to be again :)
I have trouble with the environmental movement blaming Bucyrus machines for damaging the landscape. Enough men with shovels damage the landscape. At the end of the day, we've still got big machines moving rock and dirt to the benefit of society.
I read a book recently on the history of the construction of the city circle train line in Sydney Australia in the 1920's and it said they used a bucyrus dragline excavator
Can't believe UA-cam recommended a Bucyrus Erie history video, the algorithm is actually getting better!!!! It knows what I like, boobies and bucketlines.
Shame no mention of the oilfield equipment that was huge. They constructed thousands ofaybe millions of cable tool drilling rigs. I had the pleasure to learn to drill and operated a number of their rigs. They were and still are magnificent machines even if considered obsolete along with those of us who ran them.
Vary interesting. Their 22B cable excavator dug the basement for the house I live way back in 1954 because that was the go to machine that dugout the basement foundations in the city I live in. They had a distinctive sound from the engine that powered them. The 22B was used all over town back in the day. From house foundations to sewer line construction and more.
@@RobertBee-fs8hv they had mainly inline 6 cylinder gasoline engines that had a vary distinctive sound. I’m not sure on the manufacturer. Maybe someone else knows.
My grandfather worked in strip mining his entire life in Central Illinois (Fulton County.) He retired in 1974. His shovel was a Bucyrus-Erie. I'm 65 but I remember well spending time with him on his shovel (pre-OSHA) during summer days. Sometimes he would swing the bucket around and scrape the ground so I could hunt for fossils. I would also get greasy climbing around the rig. I also remember times when county highways were shut down to allow one of the "walking" shovels to cross the road to another pit. It took a day or two to get to the other side. Up until a decade or so ago a shovel bucket was still residing on the side of the road near London Mills. I don't know if it is still there or not.
Having grown up in Milwaukee, I can think of a lot of different firms but Square D, Cutler Hammer and Allen-Bradley, come to mind. All of them big in electrical distribution and control.
As a teenager in the 1960's I would on occasion see the Great Northern Railroad bring an old steam powered B-E crane to take care of derailed locomotives and other heavy chores, I would watch for hours!
@@sadsffe1170 we could recycle them. They're far less impressive specimens than Big Muskie was. You don't recycle the biggest. You go recycle all the also rans. You leave the biggest and the best as monuments to achievement. Or you go out and top it. You don't just scrap it though. Just sitting there Big Muskie wasn't hurting anyone.
Point of fact, the original factory was actually in Milwaukee, and expanded to South Milwaukee, where CAT still operates the shovel works. As a truck driver who has been working with them since 2018, I've learned quite a bit... I also live in West Allis, WI Wonder why it's spelled that way? Lol Oh, and I promise you there are B-E marked parts and ALL of the sand cast molds in warehouses, i have seen them, "just in case an older unit needs a spare part"
What about the merger with Ruston here in England? At work tomorrow operating a Ruston Bucyrus 120 ton crawler crane! Delivered new in 1989. Powered by a Nta 855 Cummins engine with a Clark torque converter. Gets my company out of the shit regularly. 🏴🇺🇸
It is ironic that the video is about bucyrus equipment, yet the large shovel talk they showed was of the mountaineer a marion powershovel machine, the incab footage of a big shovel along with the crawler footage, was also mountaineer, then went on to show more clips with Osgood equipment, that was an offshoot of Marion engineering. Lol
Please stop with the excessive AI usage on what would otherwise be still pictures. AI doesn’t understand machine movement and it’s very apparent in your videos.
I agree. I'd also add that leaving images on screen longer so that viewers can look at them more thoroughly would reduce the temptation to add pictures that are completely irrelevant to the story such as pictures of factories and streets in the UK.
No. To many sensors!! Got a 120t. Ruston Bucyrus crawler crane her that regularly gets my company out of the shit because our 180 & 110 liebherr cranes have SENSOR problems. 🤔
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This could have been good. But the audio is horrible.
Continental Motors in Muskegon Michigan.
BLH, BLH LIMA, Clark, Doosan (?). Thank you. Take care.
Ditchwitch in Perry Oklahoma
Ingersoll rand
I worked at Bucyrus Erie for over 15+ yrs and it was in Erie, Pennsylvania I started off building there Marine Cranes for off shore rigs, then transfered to the shovel division building the 350h and the 400h shovel division
@@RobertStoopsjr-u6i I'll bet I saw you moving those machines across Weschler to await (I believe rail) transport. It's been years sinceI'veseenit, but I'll also bet that the heavy duty concrete slab they built to support the weight of those giant machines while they crossed the street is still there and holding up better than any other road surface in the area.
Big Brutus still exists in West Mineral, Kansas in a museum park. Long retired it is not operational, but you can explore it. The bucket from Big Muskie is in the Miners Memorial Park, State Route 78, McConnelsville, OH.
Is big Brutus an 1850b?
Big Brutus is a Great visit. The History of a local who hand built a gas power shovel for coal mining, it was the origin bases for Big Brutus. The original Shovel is on display next to Big Brutus. You can climb on Big Brutus. The Electrical motors have been removed. well worth a visit
Nice! 👍🙂
Big Brutus is worth seeing. Well maintained area with camping and a museum.
Well worth it.
Thanks for the great overview of an iconic company! That video of the demolition of Big Muskie kills me every time I see it. Really enjoying your videos!
I was born and raised in Bucyrus, Ohio. I always wondered how Bucyrus-Erie got it's name. Thanks for the great video and history lesson.
My now deceased partner was with AEP I got to URBEX big Muskie before it was scrapped you cannot begin to imagine it’s size unless you saw it in person and got inside it and walked up the boom catwalk it was so big inside and it’s components so large there was a overhead crane inside it. That pair of rails on the back of the house was for that crane to move it’s internal parts in and out for servicing they were that massive ! the house was a bigger than a basketball court inside it was sad it was scrapped only part left is the bucket . I photographed it inside extensively even writing operators left on the cab walls when they moved it for the last time .
I would love to see those photos. Sounds like a piece of history that should have been preserved; but especially given that it’s not around anymore, I’m quite glad some got to admire it before it was unable to be again :)
Thank you for preserving history, even if it is a little bit.
Another great video! Please make one for P&H too thank you
I'm glad Big Brutus was featured in the video. A real shame Big Muskie was scrapped instead of getting a similar retirement to Big Brutus.
I have trouble with the environmental movement blaming Bucyrus machines for damaging the landscape.
Enough men with shovels damage the landscape.
At the end of the day, we've still got big machines moving rock and dirt to the benefit of society.
very informative! thank you much for this vid! it makes me happy to see the history of what changed our world!
I read a book recently on the history of the construction of the city circle train line in Sydney Australia in the 1920's and it said they used a bucyrus dragline excavator
Can't believe UA-cam recommended a Bucyrus Erie history video, the algorithm is actually getting better!!!! It knows what I like, boobies and bucketlines.
Lol!🤣
Myself as well brother...
Good luck on the boobies!
Ai, Ai. 😂
Do you have a video on Marion Shovel company?
Shame no mention of the oilfield equipment that was huge. They constructed thousands ofaybe millions of cable tool drilling rigs. I had the pleasure to learn to drill and operated a number of their rigs. They were and still are magnificent machines even if considered obsolete along with those of us who ran them.
GETTING OLD SUCKS! I HEAR YOU !
I know that feeling 😁
You can get rid of those yellow chapter markers anytime. Other than that, good story
Vary interesting. Their 22B cable excavator dug the basement for the house I live way back in 1954 because that was the go to machine that dugout the basement foundations in the city I live in. They had a distinctive sound from the engine that powered them. The 22B was used all over town back in the day. From house foundations to sewer line construction and more.
What brand of winch motor did the 22b have. gasoline engine and diesel
@@RobertBee-fs8hvGM 3-71
@@RobertBee-fs8hv they had mainly inline 6 cylinder gasoline engines that had a vary distinctive sound. I’m not sure on the manufacturer. Maybe someone else knows.
Ok, great work on the B.E. history. Now, can you do American Derrick and Hoist?
My grandfather worked in strip mining his entire life in Central Illinois (Fulton County.) He retired in 1974. His shovel was a Bucyrus-Erie. I'm 65 but I remember well spending time with him on his shovel (pre-OSHA) during summer days. Sometimes he would swing the bucket around and scrape the ground so I could hunt for fossils. I would also get greasy climbing around the rig. I also remember times when county highways were shut down to allow one of the "walking" shovels to cross the road to another pit. It took a day or two to get to the other side. Up until a decade or so ago a shovel bucket was still residing on the side of the road near London Mills. I don't know if it is still there or not.
Having grown up in Milwaukee, I can think of a lot of different firms but Square D, Cutler Hammer and Allen-Bradley, come to mind. All of them big in electrical distribution and control.
Big Muskie was built in Evansville IN where I live. I’ve known many men who worked on it! Sad!
We have a little TL 6 Track Loader using a International W6 from the late 40s early 50s for its power. It's one big heavy chunk of Steel!😮😊
As a teenager in the 1960's I would on occasion see the Great Northern Railroad bring an old steam powered B-E crane to take care of derailed locomotives and other heavy chores, I would watch for hours!
Very cool story..
Very interesting 🤔
Those responsible for demolishing Big Muskie should be hunted down and reckoned with.
But they recycled it.
@@sadsffe1170 we could recycle them. They're far less impressive specimens than Big Muskie was. You don't recycle the biggest. You go recycle all the also rans. You leave the biggest and the best as monuments to achievement. Or you go out and top it. You don't just scrap it though. Just sitting there Big Muskie wasn't hurting anyone.
Lol! I agree with you 100%😂
@@sadsffe1170 Wonder how many Toyotas, Hondas, and Datsuns were made from Big Muskie's remains?
😂👏👏
Bucyrus contracts were valued at $4 billion.
Just want to say that Erie Shovel was in Erie Pennsylvania, and not Ohio as the video claimed.
Bucyrus was in Ohio, in a town named Bucyrus. Bucyrus and Erie merged in the 1920's.
Did some work at Ohio locomotive crane, it was in Bucyrus Ohio late 1970s same company?.
What about their underground coal mining machines. They built longwalls and continuous miner machines also.
Every sandpit lad's favourite toy.
One of these days when most people can’t afford electricity and there’s not enough to go around they will bring these machines back around
The 1850-B is a wire rope shovel not a dradline.
Point of fact, the original factory was actually in Milwaukee, and expanded to South Milwaukee, where CAT still operates the shovel works.
As a truck driver who has been working with them since 2018, I've learned quite a bit...
I also live in West Allis, WI
Wonder why it's spelled that way? Lol
Oh, and I promise you there are B-E marked parts and ALL of the sand cast molds in warehouses, i have seen them, "just in case an older unit needs a spare part"
Not true. Bucyrus moved directly from Bucyrus Ohio to South Milwaukee in 1893.
There used to be a scene in the movie African Queen
where at the base of the crane on the boat was the name Bucyrus was a casting.
Mike Mulligan! ;-)
Em 1965 eu visitei uma mineração de carvão em Santa Catarina-Brasil.
Lá tinha uma Bucyrus Marion (7800)
Era considerada uma das maiores do mundo.
What about the merger with Ruston here in England? At work tomorrow operating a Ruston Bucyrus 120 ton crawler crane! Delivered new in 1989. Powered by a Nta 855 Cummins engine with a Clark torque converter. Gets my company out of the shit regularly. 🏴🇺🇸
Excavators with Lorain(Thew Shovel)painted on the excavators must've been a smaller competitor of BE cause remember both🤔
Layman Boats , Sundusky , Ohio
..my old man always pronounced it "buck-a-russ"...I discovered the proper pronunciation by watching a documentary about the Panama Canal...
What about Ruston bucyrus of Lincoln England
It is ironic that the video is about bucyrus equipment, yet the large shovel talk they showed was of the mountaineer a marion powershovel machine, the incab footage of a big shovel along with the crawler footage, was also mountaineer, then went on to show more clips with Osgood equipment, that was an offshoot of Marion engineering. Lol
Need a better mic, sounds like your speaking through a tube
The Marion shovel company
Dude you have to get your history right Erie steam shovel was an earring not Ohio My grandfather worked there
Erie*
Blantent thieft of Peeky Blinders screen shots very poor. As others have pointed out it was Erie, Pennsylvania not Ohio. Come on, do your research.
Please stop with the excessive AI usage on what would otherwise be still pictures.
AI doesn’t understand machine movement and it’s very apparent in your videos.
I agree.
I'd also add that leaving images on screen longer so that viewers can look at them more thoroughly would reduce the temptation to add pictures that are completely irrelevant to the story such as pictures of factories and streets in the UK.
Tucker Sno-Cat
something with the audio, sounds overdriven thus garbled
I agree audio sucks
Too quite also it was a strain to listen to
Those "chapter" transitions, ouch.
Now Liebhere has led the world.
No. To many sensors!! Got a 120t. Ruston Bucyrus crawler crane her that regularly gets my company out of the shit because our 180 & 110 liebherr cranes have SENSOR problems. 🤔