I am a miner and have been so for almost 20 years. I love the business, it’s heritage and history. It is really heartbreaking that this incredible machine is no longer here. If I ever have the means, I will bring it back to life and if nothing else, she will be a museum.
Local group tried to raise money to save the "Big Muskie", including Ohio Power Executives but the Board of Directors after listening to shareholders refused to help fund the save. Ohio Power wanted it moved off their property, but the actual move under it's own power would have cost millions and the local group could not raise the money and the State of Ohio refused to help the move....Big Muskie was sold for about 800,000.00 dollars to a PA scrap company...would have been a great tourist attraction for Ohio.
I have weened myself down to watching The Silver Spade and The Big Muskie, each about once a week. For some reason, their smooth, seemingly, unhurried movements, are relaxing to watch, plus; I have been fascinated by draglines, shovels, bull dozers and such, since I was a toddler.
Began operations - November 1965 Speed - 1/4 mph (400 m/h) Bucket capacity - 105 cu yd (80 m3) Operating weight - 14,000,000 lb (7,000 short tons, 6,400 metric tons) Height - 220 ft to top of boom (67 m) Boom length - 200 feet (61 m) Width - 59 ft (18 m) Height of crawlers - 8 ft (2.5 m) Length of crawlers - 34 ft (10 m) Maximum dumping height - 139 ft (42 m) Maximum dumping radius - 195 ft (59 m) Rating on A.C. motors - 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) peak Entire operation of the shovel is controlled by two hand levers and a pair of foot pedals. Digs 315,000 lb (143 metric tons) of earth in a single bite, swings 180° and deposits the load up to 390 ft (119 m) away from the digging points at heights up to 140 ft (42.5 m). Machine's four 2 5⁄8-inch-diameter (67 mm) hoist ropes total 3,000 ft (914 m) in length. Fourteen main digging cycle motors are capable of developing a combined peak of 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) at peak load. Automatically leveled through four 54-inch-diameter (1,400 mm) hydraulic jacks. Swings a 105 cubic yard (80 m3) dipper from a 200 ft (61 m) boom and a 122 ft (37 m) dipper handle. The "GEM of Egypt", the other large shovel, has similar statistics concerning size and weight, etc. The primary difference is the bucket and boom. The GEM is a 130 cubic-yard (99.4 m3) bucket and 170 ft (52 m) boom, while the Spade sports 105 cubic-yard (80 m3) bucket and 200 ft (61 m) boom.
@@yhonnymauriciozapata6925 nicio de operaciones - noviembre de 1965 Velocidad: 400 m / h (1/4 mph) Capacidad del cucharón: 105 yd3 (80 m3) Peso operativo: 14.000.000 lb (7.000 toneladas cortas, 6.400 toneladas métricas) Altura: 220 pies hasta la parte superior de la pluma (67 m) Longitud de la pluma: 200 pies (61 m) Ancho - 59 pies (18 m) Altura de las orugas: 8 pies (2,5 m) Longitud de las orugas: 10 m (34 pies) Altura máxima de descarga: 42 m (139 pies) Radio de descarga máximo: 59 m (195 pies) Clasificación en motores de CA: 13,500 hp (10.1 MW) pico El funcionamiento completo de la pala se controla mediante dos palancas manuales y un par de pedales. Excava 315.000 lb (143 toneladas métricas) de tierra de un solo bocado, gira 180 ° y deposita la carga hasta 390 pies (119 m) de distancia de los puntos de excavación a alturas de hasta 140 pies (42,5 m). Cuatro de la máquina 2 Los cables de izado de 5⁄8 de pulgada de diámetro (67 mm) tienen una longitud total de 3,000 pies (914 m). Catorce motores de ciclo de excavación principales son capaces de desarrollar un pico combinado de 13.500 hp (10,1 MW) a carga máxima. Nivelado automáticamente a través de cuatro gatos hidráulicos de 54 pulgadas de diámetro (1400 mm). Balancea un balde de 105 yardas cúbicas (80 m3) desde una pluma de 200 pies (61 m) y un mango de balde de 122 pies (37 m). La "GEM de Egipto", la otra pala grande, tiene estadísticas similares en cuanto a tamaño y peso, etc. La principal diferencia es el cucharón y la pluma. El GEM es un cucharón de 99,4 m3 (130 yardas cúbicas) y una pluma de 52 m (170 pies), mientras que el Spade tiene un cucharón de 80 m3 (105 yardas cúbicas) y una pluma de 61 m (200 pies).
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I just noticed. This is probably, visually, the highest quality video I have seen on these machines. I expanded it full screen and could make out more details than on any other. Thanks for the quality.
It’s really interesting that when you look at the largest hydraulic excavators and shovels of today you think wow that’s enormous, but in order to build a truly colossal machine such as this you have to go back to an earlier technology using cables and winches. The only difference is instead of steam or diesel power you have to use high voltage to get the immense power and torque required to run the machine. The best of old meets modern!! Very cool stuff 👍
I live less than a mile from where this was at one time used. And about a 20 minute drive from where the Gem of Egypt was used. Relics of the past torn apart and long forgotten
Just got back from a trip to West Mineral Kansas to see Big Brutus, the last big shovel left in existence. Well worth the trip to see and tour the insides of a 90 yrd machine. Just do it!!
I obviously love these Goliath's and know there is a reason but: Scoop the dirt up from here, pile it up over here, tomorrow put it back (I'm just being silly and understand mining). What a wonderful monster, RIP. Great video !!
Yes, All of these incredibly large machines are engineering marvels. The production tooling to cast and assemble them, and the assembling of them, it's self are marvels of engineering, and production, in their own rights.
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@@troyfitzmaurice6834 Actually, it wasn't that old; it had finished it's work at that site, but was just too dang expensive to disassemble and move to a new site. It was for sale for awhile, but noone bit, so it was cut up for scrap. Doesn't mean it wasn't a sad day though.
They cut it up?!!😭😭😭😭Oh that hurts! I would have been happy to give it a home.. I have an Electric Rope Shovel that I saved from the scrap yard.. Me and my Dad were out on a road trip and we saw it out in a dirt side road with a sign that said "If you can move it, you can have it". No charge. My Dad was like, Do you want to take this opportunity on? Hell yeah I did! You don't get an opportunity like that everyday! It is now good as new and in a display building next to the house.
such a shame she was scrapped....but you can't save every shovel out there...at least we still have Big Hog in Paradise...though buried....its still around!
That big little thing running around under it keeping everything pushed away from tracks...wheel loader with a dozer blade...don’t see a lot of them but would be handy lol what stories you’d have to tell
The machine itself needs to increase in size more than the bucket because the weight multiplication on the bucket is huge Where’s big Brutus could dig 130 tons The spade did 150 So the size of the machine had to increase around 1/6 - 1/5 to support the 20 more tons
I like that the tiny little splats in the water as the shovel passes overhead in reality are probably hunks of rock big enough to smash your head like melon.
How does one even begin to design something like this with no computer models etc to assist. All down with a slide rule and probably sketch on the back of a napkin while half drunk
I have this same footage recorded from a tv documentary called "monster machines" this was part of a segment on the show in the late 90s early 2000s, identical footage used
I looks like it but physics and gravity are whores. The bucket could pick up 300,000 lbs or 150 tons and the bucket itself probably weighed twice that. That's a lot of weight at the end of a 200ft boom for any structure to support
All that machine for just a teaspoon of dirt .... goes to show you how heavy dirt and rock is ! Imagine how big the machine would be if it had a bucket the size of the machine !!! Even today !
You would think the operator would be required to get a full bucket each time. Just seems so wasteful to only get half a bucket. That sure would add up over a short period of time!!!
Full bucket, notice how he prevents dirt falling off pile both when digging and how he makes a place in overburden pile to keep dirt falling to his tracks....he only removes overburden for the small coal seem and overburden after coal removed per Ohio regulations for strip mining. Mine eventually closed, machine sold, then destroyed for scrap. I saw working roughly between 1985 and 1990, no engine noise...all electric, large electric cables dragged behind and brought to side on high voltage. Dozers moved the electric cables...Big Muskies, about 50 miles away in Cumberland, Ohio was biggest dragline ever made, same fate and use. This shovel was about 20 miles south of Cadiz, Ohio in this video.
Doesn't look cost effective moving all that material, it must have been or they wouldn't have done it, the shear size of her and the pure grace and what seem effortless movements is just mind blowing amazing and, to think that man built that awesome machine in the days before computer design, cad cam , CnC and all the other modern aids we have these day. It just goes to show what we as a species can achieve but, we do seem hell bent on destroying ourselves and everything around us, we sure are strange..... LoL.... Anyway thanks for sharing your video....
I saw the Spade for the first time in the summer of 2000 and it is hard to describe just how huge it was. I had just turned sound from Cadiz on route 9 and I could see something huge on the horizon but I wasn't sure if it was the Spade but as I got closer I could see that it was the Spade. Once I turned down Rt 519 the Spade loomed over the trees. Once I got to where it was parked it was absolutely mindblowing because my car was dwarfed by the tracks. It was impossible to see the entire machine at once. It literally was a skyscraper on tracks. As a woman, I could not help but be impressed by the sheer size of this.
