Big Muskie Bucket
The Big Muskie Bucket in the Miners Memorial Park near McConnelsville, Ohio
"Big Muskie,” once the world's largest earth moving machine, what remains today is a monstrous metal bucket.
In the next photo of Big Muskie, the bucket is in the white circle, and also, on the left to the white circle, a small photo shows Morgan High School Marching Band in the bucket.
In the early 1960s, to meet rising demand of coal, the Big Muskie was built and began coal production in May 1969. Big Muskie’s 220-cubic yard bucket could move 325 tones of dirt in a single bite, the equivalent of a two-story house.
Big Muskie was idled in January 1991, sidelined by more efficient mining technologies, and decreased demanding for the miner’s high-sulfur coal because of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
Big Muskie Bucket
The Big Muskie Bucket in the Miners Memorial Park near McConnelsville, Ohio
"Big Muskie,” once the world's largest earth moving machine, what remains today is a monstrous metal bucket.
In the next photo of Big Muskie, the bucket is in the white circle, and also, on the left to the white circle, a small photo shows Morgan High School Marching Band in the bucket.
In the early 1960s, to meet rising demand of coal, the Big Muskie was built and began coal production in May 1969. Big Muskie’s 220-cubic yard bucket could move 325 tones of dirt in a single bite, the equivalent of a two-story house.
Big Muskie was idled in January 1991, sidelined by more efficient mining technologies, and decreased demanding for the miner’s high-sulfur coal because of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.