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Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie. In 1997, it was renamed ...
Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric power shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas , United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations.
Bedford truck fitted with Ruston-Bucyrus drilling rig, in Lixouri, Greece Ruston-Bucyrus No4 face shovel of 1931 at Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Ruston-Bucyrus 10-RB in the United Kingdom. Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd was an engineering company established in 1930 and jointly owned by Ruston & Hornsby based in Lincoln, England, and Bucyrus-Erie based in ...
The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie company. [1] With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...
Industrial equipment manufacturing giant Caterpillar (CAT) said it will acquire mining equipment company Bucyrus International (BUCY) in a deal valued at approximately $8.6 billion. With this ...
The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio.Manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Silver Spade was one of two model 1950-B shovels built, the other being its sister ship, the GEM of Egypt.
The GEM of Egypt was a power shovel built by Bucyrus-Erie in 1966. The shovel was designed for strip mining at the Egypt Valley coalfield near Barnesville, Ohio.GEM is an acronym for “Giant Earth Mover” or “Giant Excavating Machine”. [2]
In April 1946, the company changed its name to the Marion Power Shovel Company to more closely reflect its products. [6]Marion built its first walking dragline in 1939 and became a key player in providing giant stripping shovels to the coal industry, being the first to put a long-boom revolving stripping shovel to work in North America in 1911.