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What's with the dodgy 70s porn music 😂😂😂

My Uncle Joe did not operate nor work on Big Muskie.

У меня вопрос: зачем делать такой гигант, что-бы просто пересыпать грунт с одного места на другое? А вообще❤❤❤❤❤

This beauty and the others like it are, I think, some of our greatest creations as a species. The fact that we made a machine over 67 times the weight of an antarctic blue whale for a specific purpose, and that fulfills that purpose well, that just makes me happy and proud of humanity.

This fella loves this machine like it is a baby.The way he makes the big beast go gently through it's cycles so gingerly clearly shows that.

No wonder they canned it, it's slow.

Music on a dragline video should be a criminal act.

bgm is crazzzy

0:58 What about the song at the begining of the video ? Thank you

Small bucket for a machine that big

Great man great people that actually built this country

mine land is not only restored but improved??????????? you lying cunt.......... roflmfao........ surfcace mining is toitally un needed... just corruption to get it as fast and cheap as possible and fuck the people and nature for it.

Thanks for this great video. The closeups of the bucket digging and dumping were excellent and gave me a slight feeling of operating it. I can only imagine the feeling of controlling all of that extreme power. I will state it again. The Big Muskie, and other machinery similar to it, are engineering, fabricating, and production marvels, in the mechanical world. Impressive is not a good enough description.

My grand dad was one of the operators on this through the 70’s and retired in 78 ,, Roy Ginn rest his soul,,,, who would of known I’d follow suit, I have been i the crane and rigging industry since 1991 here in Southern California. It has been a great career and couldn’t be happier. I have pictures of us standing in front of his 1978 ford crew cab in the bucket of Big Muskie!!

It is unfortunate this machine is no longer in use. An engineering marvel I would like to see in person.

Absolute travesty what happened to Big Muskie, an Engineering Marvel of that caliber definitely should have been preserved, turned into a museum.

The bucket for the big muskie is in park in Mc Connellville Ohio

My now deceased other half was with AEP I was able to explore that machine before it was scrapped pictures can never show the scale of it. The house had a overhead crane inside to lift motors and other parts they were servicing it’s a shame it was cut up nothing like it had ever existed and never will .

My uncle Glenn Horner was the head of operations for Muskie. Some old timers might remember him. Coal miners grand daughter here. A disaster at mine 6 was when Grandpa, Pop Horner quit mining. Great history of miners. His son was Glenn.

It swings like there is no weight at all

The sheer size of old equipment is amazing.

Some Awesome things we use to build here in the !!!USA 🇺🇸!!! BIG Toys! Like Big Muskie and Brutus for removing coal from the ground which wasn't feasible to dig mining tunnels for being the ground above was either not supportive enough or it was shallow enough to just remove the top layer of overburden. The size and weight of these machines are incredible alone. Then taking into account that they were mostly running on strictly electric motors and not so much hydraulics is another incredible feature of these things. American ingenuity at its best👌

of course you had to listen to that muzak while operating this behemoth

Discovery +, Disney and Nickelodeon are all coming out with several “Drag Line” TV programs in 2022 (I don’t recommend them). What a difference 30 years makes…

Never again shall such a Titan roam the earth, there will never be another.

THEY TRULY SHOULD TRULY HAVE MADE (( BIG MUSKIE )) INTO (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) (( BECAUSE )) (( BIG MUSKIE )) (( WAS )) (( 1 OF A KIND )) . . . (( AND )) . . . LEFT IT WHERE IT WAS AS (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) AND MADE A LOT OF MONEY FROM HAVING (( BIG MUSKIE )) AS (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) . . . BUT NO . . . (( BUT )) . . . (( NO )) (( STUPID PEOPLE )) (( WHO )) (( DO NOT )) (( SEE OR EVEN CARE ))(( ABOUT ))(( HISTORICAL VALUES )) IN (( HISTORICAL OBJECTS )) JUST (( DESTROY )) (( PARTS )) OF (( HISTORY )) (( FOREVER )) .

Honey,, the excavator finally showed up, that septic tank can go in finally. Wow that guy doesn’t mess around. Hope he doesn’t charge travel time.

NetZero a clean coal plant made to burn this dirty coal was never built mothballed since 2000. No CO2 released.

My dad was a crane operator in an operators union and was gifted a horn from Big Muskie at some point during his time before he retired. I can thankfully say that I still have that horn!

Pity that only bucket is left..

For those who dont really understand earthwork, this might put into perspective of how much dirt 220cy is. An average dump truck will hold 10-12 cy. For cowboy math lets just use 10cy/truck. That would be 22 dump truck loads in one bucket for Big Muskie. Thats what you would call not fucking around. Awesome machine!!!

Well, that was cool. 220 yard bucket!

Terrible quality music is a pain no need for crap music

Absolutely astonishing machine. It is hard to fathom.

I was a night operator for 3 years,I can't tell u how many times I banged my wife on in muskie she loved it

She was a beauty = RIP muskie

My all time favorite Dragline!😍I love watching this and remembering watching Big Muskie work in real life before she was lost. That was such a shame..if my family had been there before demolition, we could have purchased Big Muskie and preserved her as a museum piece. We worked on projects like this with various other gigantic machine restoration and preservation..not as big as this one, but we would have pulled it off. Everyone in my family has worked with Draglines all of their lives, so this would have been a welcome opportunity.

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We are planning our annual "Bucket Run!" down to the Big Muskie Bucket. Kick stands up at 8:00am from the Circle K at St Rts 224 & 241 in Akron. This is an all day ride with the Righteous Riders chapter 216 of the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Come Ride With Us!

I saw the completed machine operate in 1972 or 1973 so tub placement had to be prior to Dec 1982..

Hey Brian, I am an editorial assistant with 100 Days in Appalachia. For a documentary film we are working on, our filmmaker has been looking for footage of the Big Muskie to use. If possible, I would love to speak further with you about this footage. Please feel free to message me. I am happy to provide you with my email address if that would be best! Gabriella

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Still a shame of what happened

Great video. I love the music in the beginning

In 1972 I spent many nights watching this beast at work, wow I love the internet!

Ok the music in this is kinda catchy

My uncle worked for Bucyrus-Erie back in the 1970s-1980s, and he showed me a photo of two Greyhound buses side by side within the bucket of this machine. Yes, it was just *that* big.

They said they could get their Electric cheaper at night yet the crane was owned by the Power CO ????

You have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time to be able to be a good drag line crane operatior...

I witnessed them moving a dragline from the north side of I70 to the south side in the early nineties near Terre Haute In. Anyone familiar with that machine?