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carnkie
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16 years ago

I must admit I haven't a great interest in machines but some, such as this, I find a tad mind boggling.

Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. It is 160 feet (49 m) high and weighs 11 million pounds. The bucket holds 90 cubic yards (69 m3) or 150 tons. Maximum speed is 0.22 MPH. It cost $6.5 million in 1962. It is currently on display at West Mineral, Kansas, and can be seen from miles away.

Big Brutus, while not the largest electric shovel ever built, is the largest electric shovel still in existence.
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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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Vanoord
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16 years ago

Veering a little bit off-topic, the right hand side of that photo seems to contain something that reminds me of this:

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It gives an idea of scale!

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

carnkie
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16 years ago

I see what you mean and yes it does.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

derrickman
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16 years ago

there was, for a long while in the late 70s and early 80s, a specimen of these big walking draglines in 'storage' in the Kettering area - left over from the last days of the Kettering / Corby ironstone mines. I remember driving past it several times, but don't recall taking any particular interest in it.

It disappeared sometime in the early 90s and the location was used as a landfill site and is now back to agricultural use.

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.