It was beyond a beast Definitely one of a kind. I am a heavy equipment operator and know the sadness of discontinued equipment. I wish someone could have saved the whole machine as a museum piece. What a piece of history
Hey Dave. I agree with you 100%. It's actually strange that they didn't save it. By 1999 it was clear that Big Muskie was THE ultimate piece of history so the museum option was the obvious one imo. People travel from all around the world to see Big Brutus so imagine the traffic that could have been generated by Big Muskie. Oh well... Grainy footage is all we have left sadly. Enjoy your weekend 🙂
The bucket is still in existence within a state park in Ohio. I drove there and stood inside the bucket. The boom was 310 feet long. I was there in July of 2022.
I worked for the company at the time. They had that drag line and it's amazing because it was all electric and electric is stronger than any diesel or gasoline engine. It was amazing huge generators to run that piece of equipment
@OffGridInvestor yeah that's good tho. BM was cool but it also pretty much stripped the forest for a toxic product. Glad she's no longer in use but it would have been cool to keep her around as a monument.
Not only is Big Muskie gone, but so are the electric railroad, conveyor belt, and the power plant that the coal was hauled to. The power plant last for years until the EPA said that CO2 was a pollutant. The companies filed a lawsuit that they eventually won but it was too late for the power plant and all the jobs it supported.
If i remember correctly, they moved her across the interstate. They had to shut the interstate down and bury the interstate to pad it in order to cross to the other side.
We don’t keep enough of our history in america. That was a museum of american history. Should be a monument to remind generations to come of what enabled america to become the greatest economic power in the world. It’s more than a machine, it’s a history book waiting to be told.
Should make a new one even bigger. Just for the point of it. We still have a few in Australia but nothing like this. But now they use the rotating bucket machines with elevators taking the product to the power station/port. We even have ones that use A PIPE and pump iron ore AS A SLURRY to the port. Terrible wear on them and a huge diaphragm pump, but that's how it is at one mine. Seriously hot area so they can dry the slurry easily
Unfortunately very large equipment costs well to much to disassemble, transport, and reassemble…around here gas drilling rigs that are in storage yards sometimes get scrapped!, yes refinishing them isn’t worth the downtime!
Sorry I’m late, and they didn’t have to destroy big boi Muskie! They could’ve just put him in a museum with big Brutus! Not blow her up and watch her turn into scrap! R.I.P big Muskie 1967-1999 will always be remembered as a mighty dragline beast
Extremely interesting !! But what was the cause of its demise/collapse/failure : that is more interesting than to see it fall down without any explanation .!?? 🤷♂️
I call BS on the amount of material moved. If you do the math, that’s 14.5 buckets per hour 24/7 for the whole life of the rig. No way. These rigs had downtime, moves, repairs. It’s not possible.
Actually it moved 608 million cubic yards to be exact. The cycle time was just over a minute from the hole to the spoil pile and back so more like 55-60 buckets an hour not 14.5. It operated 24/7 364 days a year and only shut down for Christmas. Operator switches were done on the fly, no pauses for shift changes. Any scheduled maintenance was planned months in advance to have as little down time as possible. It had a very good uptime record and one of its only major unscheduled downtime’s was a 10 month stretch when the base tub cracked and had to be removed for repair. Long stories short. 608 million/220 is 2.76 million buckets divided by let’s say a slow pace of 50 buckets an hour is 55,300 hours over 8760 hours a year is 6.3 years of running. Pretty doable.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy there’s no way it did 50 cycles an hour over its life. I’ve spent the last 30 years in mines. Nothing in a mine and I mean nothing has up time like you are talking about nor that fast of cycles.
I wonder if it's the one that used to operate beside Route 7 in North Lima, Ohio. Saw a huge one there many times when driving by in the 1970s & into the '80s.
I worked in a surface coal mine for 27 years before I retired. Now, the mine the mine I worked for had 2 Bucyrus Erie, 1 Page and 1 Marrion drag lines. Now, thanks to Biden they are shutting down the mine and the adjacent power plant. Not only are many good paying jobs being lost that were directly and indirectly related to the coal mine, but the energy infrastructure of the entire country is in jeopardy due political decisions that will cost us all financially. This is all being done in the name of "climate change" but anybody with half a brain cell knows this is happening in order to force American citizens and citizens throughout the world subsidize an industry that is designed to make some rich men richer. The battery industry is 10 times worse for the environment and doesn't produce nearly enough electricity to fuel our nation.
If your facts are true about battery industry being much worse, well then, how doggone evil. The richest people on Earth and their pocket politicians are out to permanently destroy the entire economy for every ordinary person, and accordingly themselves too, the dumbshits. Evil's never gonna end. It just gets stronger.
My issue with coal is that it doesn't create as many jobs as the mining companies like to state. It's getting more and more automated, not going to be too long before much of it is autonomous.
@@andrewyork3869 Hmm I'm not saying that's not true, but none of the mines I've ever been around are all that automated. Can you give an example of what you're talking about??
@@1texasminer All of this is said with the understanding that not all automotion looks the same. Goldcorp has a autonomous drill, someone else has an autonomous haul truck. A less obvious example of automation is the Komatsus flexible conveyer belt cutting down on underground haul trucks. Lastly the end of the miner is remotely operated equipment, I am known for shitting on teslas self driving function. I will say in a controlled environment like a mine shaft it would be trivial to out right automate it. From the continuous miner to haultruck to surface, even some maintenance operations could be performed autonomously. (Tire/oil/bit changes, explosive charge hole drilling stuff like that.) No one has invested in it is the only reason we don't see it. I know some of these is of today but much of it is coming tomorrow. Particularly with remote operated or even remotely monitored equipment you really really want to make sure that no one is mining that data. If a team of half competent data scientist had access to that data set you would find your self out a job very quickly and suddenly. Combined I am sure you could amass 200+ years of experience into a dataset in very very short order. Open pit mining is an entirely separate animal however. (More ways for a person to step in front of a machine.)
@@OffGridInvestor Coal power plants are today usually equipped with desulphurization with scrubbers. Thus I would guess that modern plants could handle coal with a higher sulphur content.
That’s a sad commentary on a lifetime of providing fuel for the electricity that keeps this nation going! I’ve pushed some fairly big dirt crews in my time, and the most dirt I ever moved in one shift was 28,000 yards, which I thought was a pretty big deal at the time. But it’s all a matter of perspective, in terms of this machine, I was only making dust! I salute you Big Muskie, as well as the operators and the multitude of men and women who kept you running! 🫡🙏🇺🇸💪💪👊
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They should have kept her. For everyone to go see
Absolutely hate seeing them destroy history like this!
Every time I see them booms come crashing down, it makes me sick! What I would give to see her again in real life
You must cry over spilt milk.
It was beyond a beast
Definitely one of a kind. I am a heavy equipment operator and know the sadness of discontinued equipment. I wish someone could have saved the whole machine as a museum piece. What a piece of history
Hey Dave. I agree with you 100%. It's actually strange that they didn't save it. By 1999 it was clear that Big Muskie was THE ultimate piece of history so the museum option was the obvious one imo. People travel from all around the world to see Big Brutus so imagine the traffic that could have been generated by Big Muskie. Oh well... Grainy footage is all we have left sadly. Enjoy your weekend 🙂
ya Allah datangkanlah pocong keluar dari sini aaammiiiin
AEP didn't want it to happen
@@dewiizhafran7172que?
You have one narrow view of history.
The bucket is still in existence within a state park in Ohio. I drove there and stood inside the bucket. The boom was 310 feet long. I was there in July of 2022.
Me too. Near McConnellsville. Parked my minivan up the sidewalk and took a cool picture!
I worked for the company at the time. They had that drag line and it's amazing because it was all electric and electric is stronger than any diesel or gasoline engine. It was amazing huge generators to run that piece of equipment
Clean Air Act was ultimately the end of it because of the sulphur in that coal. But you already know that more than me.
@OffGridInvestor yeah that's good tho. BM was cool but it also pretty much stripped the forest for a toxic product. Glad she's no longer in use but it would have been cool to keep her around as a monument.
As a excavator operator for 38 plus years. I would have loved to see this. Cheers perth wa
Cheers mate
I can say I'm lucky enough to have seen it in operation. To give you some idea the size of it, when you see the control cab, it is a 10'X10' room.
@@gravelydon7072 cheers mate
Why!! They should have kept her! It was the biggest one ever! No she's gone forever! RIP Big Musky
Not only is Big Muskie gone, but so are the electric railroad, conveyor belt, and the power plant that the coal was hauled to. The power plant last for years until the EPA said that CO2 was a pollutant. The companies filed a lawsuit that they eventually won but it was too late for the power plant and all the jobs it supported.
@@gravelydon7072 It's a real shame and a crime for what's been done
If i remember correctly, they moved her across the interstate. They had to shut the interstate down and bury the interstate to pad it in order to cross to the other side.
No, the Interstate is further East than where she worked.
We don’t keep enough of our history in america. That was a museum of american history. Should be a monument to remind generations to come of what enabled america to become the greatest economic power in the world. It’s more than a machine, it’s a history book waiting to be told.
I saw the big MUSKI, it was located at mine near ROGERS OHIO. The thing was a BEAST of a machine, absolutely amazing. 🇺🇸✝️
The frickin one and only bro you nailed it Nick great job brother
Haha thank you sir 😀
Should make a new one even bigger. Just for the point of it. We still have a few in Australia but nothing like this. But now they use the rotating bucket machines with elevators taking the product to the power station/port. We even have ones that use A PIPE and pump iron ore AS A SLURRY to the port. Terrible wear on them and a huge diaphragm pump, but that's how it is at one mine. Seriously hot area so they can dry the slurry easily
I went on this when it was working. Unbelievably Massive!
I live about 30 miles from where it was working and knew the operator.
All dinosaurs of the past unfortunately died out, huge stripping shovels, giant draglines, now unfortunately the world does not need such equipment
@O1988fy4hkyeah, only reason they really had to destroy it was the EPA, which, should be abolished
My company moved the bucket
Unfortunately very large equipment costs well to much to disassemble, transport, and reassemble…around here gas drilling rigs that are in storage yards sometimes get scrapped!, yes refinishing them isn’t worth the downtime!
Oh this was in Ohio...
Tools for idiots that destroy Forrests and mountains.
Turn paradise into a parking lot.
Yeah buddy. Right outside my hometown.
Me too that's one awesome machine
I can guarantee you that in 91 she was losing money thats why they dont us draglines anymore
How the machine made the bucket look tiny gives you an idea of just how much force it takes to move that much dirt. Crazy!
its sad when the ocean of all places, takes better care of historical machines than the people who built them
😢sad day in 1999
It's sad to see such a machine destroyed
Sorry I’m late, and they didn’t have to destroy big boi Muskie! They could’ve just put him in a museum with big Brutus! Not blow her up and watch her turn into scrap! R.I.P big Muskie 1967-1999 will always be remembered as a mighty dragline beast
Should have made it into a museum
The bucket looks like a table spoon next to the body of the drag liner
Extremely interesting !!
But what was the cause of its demise/collapse/failure : that is more interesting than to see it fall down without any explanation .!?? 🤷♂️
Long form video is on the channel
Should have been made into a museum the steel is not worth much
The bucket is a tourist stop off, I believe, I 77 in Ohio.
It would be a major attraction if they had kept it. Scrapping it was dumb
You can still go see the bucket it's huge
Μηχανήματα με ιστορία😢😢😢
Put big Muskie and the bucket wheeler in Germany together, see whose bigger
Wrong…Russia built the largest crane, still in use today…
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I call BS on the amount of material moved. If you do the math, that’s 14.5 buckets per hour 24/7 for the whole life of the rig. No way. These rigs had downtime, moves, repairs. It’s not possible.
Actually it moved 608 million cubic yards to be exact. The cycle time was just over a minute from the hole to the spoil pile and back so more like 55-60 buckets an hour not 14.5. It operated 24/7 364 days a year and only shut down for Christmas. Operator switches were done on the fly, no pauses for shift changes. Any scheduled maintenance was planned months in advance to have as little down time as possible. It had a very good uptime record and one of its only major unscheduled downtime’s was a 10 month stretch when the base tub cracked and had to be removed for repair. Long stories short. 608 million/220 is 2.76 million buckets divided by let’s say a slow pace of 50 buckets an hour is 55,300 hours over 8760 hours a year is 6.3 years of running. Pretty doable.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy there’s no way it did 50 cycles an hour over its life. I’ve spent the last 30 years in mines. Nothing in a mine and I mean nothing has up time like you are talking about nor that fast of cycles.
@@ryanabbott1104 whatever helps you sleep at night. The size of the hole it dug don’t lie.
Sern it loved it in operation
I wonder if it's the one that used to operate beside Route 7 in North Lima, Ohio. Saw a huge one there many times when driving by in the 1970s & into the '80s.
Holy God!
I worked in a surface coal mine for 27 years before I retired. Now, the mine the mine I worked for had 2 Bucyrus Erie, 1 Page and 1 Marrion drag lines. Now, thanks to Biden they are shutting down the mine and the adjacent power plant. Not only are many good paying jobs being lost that were directly and indirectly related to the coal mine, but the energy infrastructure of the entire country is in jeopardy due political decisions that will cost us all financially. This is all being done in the name of "climate change" but anybody with half a brain cell knows this is happening in order to force American citizens and citizens throughout the world subsidize an industry that is designed to make some rich men richer.
The battery industry is 10 times worse for the environment and doesn't produce nearly enough electricity to fuel our nation.
We all know this but the sheep dont
If your facts are true about battery industry being much worse, well then, how doggone evil. The richest people on Earth and their pocket politicians are out to permanently destroy the entire economy for every ordinary person, and accordingly themselves too, the dumbshits. Evil's never gonna end. It just gets stronger.
My issue with coal is that it doesn't create as many jobs as the mining companies like to state. It's getting more and more automated, not going to be too long before much of it is autonomous.
@@andrewyork3869
Hmm I'm not saying that's not true, but none of the mines I've ever been around are all that automated. Can you give an example of what you're talking about??
@@1texasminer All of this is said with the understanding that not all automotion looks the same. Goldcorp has a autonomous drill, someone else has an autonomous haul truck.
A less obvious example of automation is the Komatsus flexible conveyer belt cutting down on underground haul trucks.
Lastly the end of the miner is remotely operated equipment, I am known for shitting on teslas self driving function. I will say in a controlled environment like a mine shaft it would be trivial to out right automate it. From the continuous miner to haultruck to surface, even some maintenance operations could be performed autonomously. (Tire/oil/bit changes, explosive charge hole drilling stuff like that.) No one has invested in it is the only reason we don't see it.
I know some of these is of today but much of it is coming tomorrow. Particularly with remote operated or even remotely monitored equipment you really really want to make sure that no one is mining that data. If a team of half competent data scientist had access to that data set you would find your self out a job very quickly and suddenly. Combined I am sure you could amass 200+ years of experience into a dataset in very very short order.
Open pit mining is an entirely separate animal however. (More ways for a person to step in front of a machine.)
Was Recycled to be Reborn
Where did all the scrap go.
I don't know but another video stated there was enough scrap steel to make 9,000 cars.
My dad worked pipeline in Ohio one reason my truck has so many miles but he took a picture in that bucket
Thought that said big mistake!
They destroyed the earth to make something to destroy the earth
Russia made a walking one
Tiny, compared to Big Muskie.
@@MrSlanderer maybe
@@thatrussianguy116 The Russian one that you referenced was only 280 metric tons, whereas Big Muskie weighed over 12,000 tons.
All cables
I hope that coal mining revives ...then we will see many of such great machines.
They use rotating bucket machines now. This coal had sulphur in it and that is ultimately what closed this mine and bought this machine to it's end.
@@OffGridInvestor Coal power plants are today usually equipped with desulphurization with scrubbers. Thus I would guess that modern plants could handle coal with a higher sulphur content.
So sad
It really is!
The $$ they made from her. Was the same amount that they spent to run her. So it was an even push..
That is our government at work then and now
Dovevano tenerla, metterla in un museo 😭
Aep power had it then they blew it up for scape metal
What a shame, looks like the US economy
Thats a big as my ex girlfreind
I see some video they were demolishing big muskie but I don't know put out the explosion RIP big Musk
The captain was bigger know your facts before you spread wrong info
Big muskie is a she?
Of course it’s from Ohio. LoL
Owners buy a new one, cheaper ,better and bigger, from China!😂😂😂
That’s a sad commentary on a lifetime of providing fuel for the electricity that keeps this nation going! I’ve pushed some fairly big dirt crews in my time, and the most dirt I ever moved in one shift was 28,000 yards, which I thought was a pretty big deal at the time. But it’s all a matter of perspective, in terms of this machine, I was only making dust! I salute you Big Muskie, as well as the operators and the multitude of men and women who kept you running! 🫡🙏🇺🇸💪💪👊
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