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Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. ... 3850-B power shovels for stripping, one built each in 1962 and 1964, ...
One stripping shovel, The Bucyrus-Erie 1850-B known as "Big Brutus" has been preserved as a national landmark and a museum with tours and camping. Another stripping shovel, The Bucyrus-Erie 3850-B known as "Big Hog" was eventually cut down in 1985 and buried on the Peabody Sinclair Surface Mining site near the Paradise Mining Plant where it was ...
The Bucyrus Erie 3850-B power shovel named "Big Hog" went to work next door to Paradise Fossil Plant for Peabody Coal Company's Sinclair surface mine in 1962. When it started work it was received with grand fanfare and was the largest shovel in the world with a bucket size of 115 cubic yards (88 m 3). After it finished work in the mid-1980s, it ...
Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric 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. The shovel was designed to dig from 20 to 69 feet ...
Bucyrus-Erie delivered the largest truck crane that had been sold in Erie to Perry Truck and Erection Co., to erect concrete beams on the thruway, in September 1958. The 88,000-pound crane sold ...
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 Ohio-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the Bagger ...
Complement. 3-5. The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio. Manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the model 1950-B was one of two of this model built, the other being its sister ship, the GEM of Egypt. Its sole function was to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam.
"It was hauling a 1915 Bucyrus Erie Steam Crane. The barge started taking on water and the Coast Guard was called," Hanson told Fox News through an email. "In an effort to pull the barge faster to ...