Ohio inventions and firsts · Invention · 1969
Big Muskie, the largest dragline excavator ever built
Built by Bucyrus-Erie as a model 4250-W dragline, Big Muskie mined coal in Ohio from 1969 to 1991 for the Central Ohio Coal Company, then part of American Electric Power. Its bucket held 220 cubic yards, the machine weighed 13,500 short tons and stood 222 feet tall. It was dismantled in 1999; the bucket is at Miners' Memorial Park in Morgan County.
At a glance
- Year
- 1969
- Company
- Bucyrus-Erie (builder); Central Ohio Coal Company (operator)
- Place
- Morgan County, Morgan County ZIP 43756 · Morgan County
Why it matters
Guinness World Records lists it as the largest dragline excavator ever; Wikipedia calls it the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created.
Sources
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