It took three years to build, and it operated in the U.S. state of Ohio from 1969 to 1991.
Friday, July 03, 2020
the base for Big Muskie, a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline excavator owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company, weighing 13,500 short tons and standing nearly 22 stories tall. The world's largest dragline and the biggest machine that has ever walked on the face of the earth.
It took three years to build, and it operated in the U.S. state of Ohio from 1969 to 1991.
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Amazing that something this big was built to be on the land. Growing up in North Dakota we lived not far from where the Garrison Diversion project (aka the McClusky Canal) was being built. They moved a gigantic dragline from Texas via rail to be the prime mover in digging the canal. Whenever they'd 'walk' the dragline from one location it left a path in the dirt that was as smooth and hard as a new concrete highway-and just about as wide.
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