machines like this helped build this country into a great nation, should have been preserved

How sad to see it go. I was a welder on the Spade back in the mid seventies. I remember when we replaced the boom support cables that they blew up. It was an amazing machine.

After all it's loyalty. 24 hours a day for 40 years. Good Lord, what have they done...

This is unbelievably sad to see. it's like some great workhorse being put down in the field cos it's no longer useful to the suits in charge of the dollars. At least we can still watch hours of her working, on Bennettshovel,

what a shame, I shed a tear for this lovely machine, from a Scottish Shovel Fan !!

Rest in peace silver spayed…your shiny paint will sparkle and shine up in the sky and let us know your watching of us as a beast…

The men that operate and work on these large machines grow to love and respect them > It's a very sad day to these men when their large machine is destroyed.

It just makes me sick to see this. Today's kids will grow up never to see a machine like this. So Sad...

Great video of kind of a sad event. The Monster is finally defeated. Too bad it couldn't have been preserved for history and tourism...

thanks for the awesome vid....i grew up watching the siver spade and the jem...watch the spade cross 519...awesome giant it was!!

The End of an era for sure.. One of the last, gone to the price of scrap metal...

thats really sad to see. i wish i got to see her in action. it would have been awsome if she became a museum.

Sad this happens to these AWESOME machines. Where I live, AMAX had a BE 3270 dragline & up the road PEABODY had a Marion 5900 shovel with the same results. Most people don't even know these things exist, let alone watch them work, a sight to behold!!! I've taken pic's and thanks to videos like this, my kids will know these machines walked the earth.

How depressing, this is like having to put your dog down. Nothing awesome ever hangs around, dogs, steam locomotives, ships and giant shovels. They give and give and give for no reward

What an indignant end . Cut up and buried

I’d consider this Murder A hate crime And the destruction of a historic monument I wish to see that coal company suffer for murdering the spade

@BlackPill-pu4vi

6 ай бұрын

Destruction of historic monuments and statues of national heroes is an evil specific to the Torah and Talmud. Guess who was tearing down all of our statues two or three years ago? The same ones (in the shadows) who decided to demolish the Spade and Big Muskie. The cost the cost the cost.... If those machines were somehow important to Israel, they would've been saved no matter the cost.

So sad why wouldn't they keep the machine as a tourist attraction I can only imagine what the operator of that machine was feeling

This is a sad video. She was such a good digger and she did it with style and grace. That big ole' hunk of junk will be missed.

I hated to see it go. It should have been a museum.

Unforgivable

Such a terrible shame that it wasn’t preserved. What a waist of history.

Guess I should feel lucky I had the opportunity to see that bahemoth in operation.. Its still sad and what a shame it wasnt saved..........

One of the saddest days I've ever seen. THE END OF AN ERA is right. I grew up watching a Marion 5761 sitting in a field, and it just disapeared one day as I recall (I was 5 or 6) and later on I watched Freeman United's 1050B and Bucket wheel work, and now I hear that they are both gone too...

I dont understand why they would get rid of it. It must of payed for if self a 100 times over. Even if it was horribly broken, to fix it would pay more then to buy anuther probily by a few million ( i would think becuase of the huge size price wise). And even it the mine closed they could send it to anuther part of the country, I know they can reasemble them. Did they take up to much power or werent green enoff? Just sad to see it go.

it's not about respect, it's about money

such a shame to see one of the giants becoming scrap. i have seen this shovel on tv a couple of times and loved it. now its gone....still its all 'progress' i suppose

There it goes and end to not one but a ton of machines why did it have to end like this

I think someone said great job. I wish they would have tied him to the machine before they blew it up.

They should have gave the preservation movement for this machine a chance instead of having it blown up this is what happened to Big Muskie people tried to save it because they cared about it and idiots had it blown up so I could not be saved so that people couldn't preserve it

@zacharys6672

4 жыл бұрын

@James Hammon yes that is true. People did try to buy the machine but funds came short

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"GREAT JOB"!?!?!?!

Okay, I have to ask. Why are there so many of essentially the same comment as opposed to just liking the first comment to say it? I figure few people read the comments to know someone else already said what they are going to say.

What was the horn blowing in the back ground for?

@asedecraft

5 жыл бұрын

To alert the incoming explosion (you probably don't care 8 year after)

Silver spade

R.I.P

@MrEletrotik Bucyrus was bought out by CAT in 2011. And even if some rich guy wanted an identical shovel, I dont think the equipment used to make the massive parts are still around. so that wud mean Mr. rich would have to pay for all of that as well. At this point ir looking at hundreds of millions. But ya if he walked into CAT and said hey money isnt an issue here, build me a silver spade twin im sure they do it. If your pockets are deep enough you can get just about anything. lol

@Leatherface123.

3 жыл бұрын

No rich Pearson would want to do that

It's too bad that these super strippers are no longer made. Iguess if they were built today the cost of raw materials would be more than what it was to manufacture.

sad as hell ! spade should of been preserved

@zacharys6672

4 жыл бұрын

they tried to preserve her but they lacked the funds to purchase the shovel from the coal company. Also, there is a similar (albeit slightly smaller shovel) called Big Brutus that is on display

@wharris302

2 жыл бұрын

@@zacharys6672 it would've been if it didn't break

That is sooo sad

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I have a diecast of it and one her last day of operation I seen it wan running she was massive I hate the co that had her I miss it 😭 this is what I say to the co🖕🖕

So sad

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Man that's hard to watch