Big Muskie


Big Muskie was a Bucyrus-Erie dragline, the only one of this model ever built. With a 220 cubic yard bucket, at 22 stories high she was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. (Notice the backhoe sitting in front of Big Muskie). Big Muskie weighed 12 million kilograms (12,000 tonnes), and was 149 m long with the boom.
Find out more about these monsters on our Extreme Shovels page.



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