I watched this machine work all my young life - 1950's on up. This is near Harrisville, OH. We used to drive up to Rt. 250 on Sundays and watch it. Gypsy610

My Cousin Teddy Zeroski use to operate the Silver Spade..

when you look at something like that you'd never think it is all electric and it has a huge extension cord. its unwinding as it goes across the road.

Scandalous that they cut this machine up but at least we have your video to marvel at, thanks so much Walt, (posted by PM from Sotland)

@richardmyers137

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I agree with you!!

@BRORANDYMARTIN

2 жыл бұрын

Probably made 11000 rail cars from the scrap!!

@BlackPill-pu4vi

11 ай бұрын

@@BRORANDYMARTIN We very likely sent all the scrap to China.

why did the silver spade cross the road?? to dig on the other side!!! HA!

@Emilystar1095

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

I'm gonna make a Lego version of the captain big muskie and silver spade shovel

I remember the crossing, I also remember stealing some of the road cones as we drove by on the way home from work 8-) Teenagers are idiots... I still have one.

@zenotuuc

3 жыл бұрын

Lool

It's sad this thing wasn't saved I mean it's litterly a walking sky scraper 😲

I sure do miss huge equipment!! I seen it in person with my parents in Cadiz Ohio,when I was a little boy.

@ThePlanemadness

3 жыл бұрын

I have never seen any of the big shovels :(

@raeisthe34

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePlanemadness ive seen Big Brutus in person, but it stopped service decades before I was even born

@gerrywagoner26

10 ай бұрын

Gem of Egypt?

awesome!. seen the pictures, but the video brings it to life. 5 stars!

NASA called , they want their vehicle transport platform back .

I watched this machine work all my young life - 1950's on up. This is near Harrisville, OH

Back in 2002 Me and my pareants whent to cadiz at ten pm to watch this and we were back in the mine on the ackse road and some guy in a bulldover tried to trow us out but some person who worked there let us stay R.I.P SILVER SPADE

Has anyone ever heard from the exec's at the mine as to why it was cut up and not made a museum? Or as I suspect, have they all quit and are no longer available for questioning. Some underhanded shit went down I'll bet.

@williambryant5946

3 жыл бұрын

They had to make their last million a piece on the scrap money they got for cutting it up. That's why it didn't go to a museum. But the money it would take to move this to a museum would be crazy. Taking it apart, trucking it, and putting it back together would be quite the expensive undertaking.

@wharris302

2 жыл бұрын

They found that the turn table thing was broken anyway I think?

@BlackPill-pu4vi

11 ай бұрын

The turntable broke when it was only a quarter mile from its destination. Allegedly it was too risky to move it any further. Sadly, America is so deindustralized that neither the mine nor the preservation group could get replacement parts anyway. Very high probability that the scrap was sent to China. There is a far greater loss in losing the Silver Spade. People don't grasp that the industrial matrix, the capital investment, and the expertise that went into building the Spade can never be recovered. We couldn't build another power shovel like this (or mega dragline) if our lives depended on it. THAT right there was why it should've been saved at all costs for posterity. Same for other unique one-of-a-kind machines like the Captain and Big Muskie.

@somafire4121

5 ай бұрын

I heard that once these were out of commission that “like Big Muskie” they got scrapped because the EPA busted their balls over leaving equipment just sitting along with not finishing the reclamation it was on.

i would have liked to seen the spade and the captain next to each other

April 2001 Found out about it when I was in the Northeastern University Library that Saturday

Such a perfect machine! Althogh Marion the Captain was bigger.

Such a small bucket for such a huge machine.

@wmden1

Жыл бұрын

This is true, but it holds, and moves over 100 cu yards of dirt and/or rocks, as far as 300 feet, in one bucket full. It can load and dump it that 300 feet away, in less than 2 minutes. I believe that is over 400,000 pounds.

@martymartin2894

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking the very same thing.

THAT IS NOT GONNA FIT UNDER THOSE POWER LINES!!!....

Awesome excavator!

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I wish I could have been there to see this

@charles97th

4 жыл бұрын

I live 40 miles away, and planned on going to watch. The trouble was, they made the move two weeks ahead of "schedule" to avoid crowd control problems.

Just the roof of the house dwarfs the steel electrical transmission line poles, on the left. Higher than a 5 story building, I believe. It would have to take a lot of patience to drive it. This was, probably at top speed.

@drisdrisdrisdris What i was asking is how long it took to put everything down so it could get accross and then to take it back up after wards

looks like they put down about six feet of dirt to protect the road

@kingofthedammed whats the taller 1?

Amazing. Here in 9/25/22

I remembr mi unkle tellin me how the covrd the hi-way with dirt before they moved a P & H 5700 over the othr side of the road to mine coal.

Every time I'm late for work 🤦🏻‍♂️

now the last super stripper is past...:-(

Is this the biggest ever excavator i wouldn't think they built anything like that these days.

Que é a altura disso

SLOW

Oops can't spell, that's Scotland not Sotland!

How long did that take to cross the road

@WAL_DC-6B

Жыл бұрын

Looks to have taken about a half hour. It is to be hoped there were no cracks in the highway pavement following this move.

I wonder where it is now? Cut for scrap or museum I Hope museum but I doubt it ☹️

@catzzzz1450

Жыл бұрын

This shovel was scrapped in 2007

where is this at?

@Metallislayer1

Жыл бұрын

McDonald's a

Why so slow?

Makes Big Brutus look small.

CGx.. no such machine this size could ever exist

@RailPreserver2K

5 жыл бұрын

Uh there's proof in the video

@tomhinklejr.5055

4 жыл бұрын

Check out some of the walkers that have been built.

@thomaserixton4662

3 жыл бұрын

Big Muskee could have probably lifted the spade without it's boom.......that might be stretching it a little but she was huge

@ls6-ss413

3 жыл бұрын

Idiot 🤦🏻‍♂️

@wanderingangelstudio1359

3 жыл бұрын

Big Muskie and The Captain were even bigger. The Bagger 228 bucket wheel excavator is bigger still.

bro i can run faster than that 💀