small rural setting with property management , large goldfish pond, raising ornamental plants and a few new flower beds being created, laid back easy going mom and dad life
My Uncle Joe did not operate nor work on Big Muskie.
@user-zk3yn1pw4e4 ай бұрын
У меня вопрос: зачем делать такой гигант, что-бы просто пересыпать грунт с одного места на другое? А вообще❤❤❤❤❤
@nosidenoside24585 ай бұрын
This beauty and the others like it are, I think, some of our greatest creations as a species. The fact that we made a machine over 67 times the weight of an antarctic blue whale for a specific purpose, and that fulfills that purpose well, that just makes me happy and proud of humanity.
@TomokosEnterprize5 ай бұрын
This fella loves this machine like it is a baby.The way he makes the big beast go gently through it's cycles so gingerly clearly shows that.
@cherrychevys6 ай бұрын
No wonder they canned it, it's slow.
@hacktester695 ай бұрын
Of course its slow,that thing weighs 13,500 tons
@pmtips44826 ай бұрын
Music on a dragline video should be a criminal act.
@eavesdropss7 ай бұрын
bgm is crazzzy
@maui-maui4011 Жыл бұрын
0:58 What about the song at the begining of the video ? Thank you
@nunyabuziness8421 Жыл бұрын
Small bucket for a machine that big
@catzzzz1450 Жыл бұрын
220 cubic yard bucket ain't that small
@hacktester695 ай бұрын
Fact : Muskie's bucket is the largest digging bucket used in any heavy equipment
@avalanche9026 Жыл бұрын
Great man great people that actually built this country
@ownerofyourblackass7244 Жыл бұрын
mine land is not only restored but improved??????????? you lying cunt.......... roflmfao........ surfcace mining is toitally un needed... just corruption to get it as fast and cheap as possible and fuck the people and nature for it.
@wmden1 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great video. The closeups of the bucket digging and dumping were excellent and gave me a slight feeling of operating it. I can only imagine the feeling of controlling all of that extreme power. I will state it again. The Big Muskie, and other machinery similar to it, are engineering, fabricating, and production marvels, in the mechanical world. Impressive is not a good enough description.
@rossginn1171 Жыл бұрын
My grand dad was one of the operators on this through the 70’s and retired in 78 ,, Roy Ginn rest his soul,,,, who would of known I’d follow suit, I have been i the crane and rigging industry since 1991 here in Southern California. It has been a great career and couldn’t be happier. I have pictures of us standing in front of his 1978 ford crew cab in the bucket of Big Muskie!!
@Dave-co1cv Жыл бұрын
It is unfortunate this machine is no longer in use. An engineering marvel I would like to see in person.
@jtangen98 Жыл бұрын
Only the shovel remains
@SomeOrdinaryJanitor Жыл бұрын
Absolute travesty what happened to Big Muskie, an Engineering Marvel of that caliber definitely should have been preserved, turned into a museum.
@jeffreymoore902 Жыл бұрын
The bucket for the big muskie is in park in Mc Connellville Ohio
@jhonsiders6077 Жыл бұрын
My now deceased other half was with AEP I was able to explore that machine before it was scrapped pictures can never show the scale of it. The house had a overhead crane inside to lift motors and other parts they were servicing it’s a shame it was cut up nothing like it had ever existed and never will .
@FranBSoCal Жыл бұрын
My uncle Glenn Horner was the head of operations for Muskie. Some old timers might remember him. Coal miners grand daughter here. A disaster at mine 6 was when Grandpa, Pop Horner quit mining. Great history of miners. His son was Glenn.
@BakaBhe2392 жыл бұрын
It swings like there is no weight at all
@josh330252 жыл бұрын
The sheer size of old equipment is amazing.
@jimciancio90052 жыл бұрын
Some Awesome things we use to build here in the !!!USA 🇺🇸!!! BIG Toys! Like Big Muskie and Brutus for removing coal from the ground which wasn't feasible to dig mining tunnels for being the ground above was either not supportive enough or it was shallow enough to just remove the top layer of overburden. The size and weight of these machines are incredible alone. Then taking into account that they were mostly running on strictly electric motors and not so much hydraulics is another incredible feature of these things. American ingenuity at its best👌
@uncareid55572 жыл бұрын
of course you had to listen to that muzak while operating this behemoth
@nigel9002 жыл бұрын
Discovery +, Disney and Nickelodeon are all coming out with several “Drag Line” TV programs in 2022 (I don’t recommend them). What a difference 30 years makes…
@Joe-xq3zu2 жыл бұрын
Never again shall such a Titan roam the earth, there will never be another.
@davidney24122 жыл бұрын
THEY TRULY SHOULD TRULY HAVE MADE (( BIG MUSKIE )) INTO (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) (( BECAUSE )) (( BIG MUSKIE )) (( WAS )) (( 1 OF A KIND )) . . . (( AND )) . . . LEFT IT WHERE IT WAS AS (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) AND MADE A LOT OF MONEY FROM HAVING (( BIG MUSKIE )) AS (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) . . . BUT NO . . . (( BUT )) . . . (( NO )) (( STUPID PEOPLE )) (( WHO )) (( DO NOT )) (( SEE OR EVEN CARE ))(( ABOUT ))(( HISTORICAL VALUES )) IN (( HISTORICAL OBJECTS )) JUST (( DESTROY )) (( PARTS )) OF (( HISTORY )) (( FOREVER )) .
@billbright17552 жыл бұрын
Honey,, the excavator finally showed up, that septic tank can go in finally. Wow that guy doesn’t mess around. Hope he doesn’t charge travel time.
@MitzvosGolem12 жыл бұрын
NetZero a clean coal plant made to burn this dirty coal was never built mothballed since 2000. No CO2 released.
@sTpblitz2 жыл бұрын
My dad was a crane operator in an operators union and was gifted a horn from Big Muskie at some point during his time before he retired. I can thankfully say that I still have that horn!
@markdanielczyk9442 жыл бұрын
Sweet!
@alexjohnward2 жыл бұрын
big?
@sTpblitz2 жыл бұрын
Honestly I’d say its a little bigger than a train horn.
@SomeOrdinaryJanitor Жыл бұрын
YOO! that is sick! bet a lot of people would pay big money for something like that.
@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 Жыл бұрын
I'm dumb, what do you mean by horn?
@pekkavalkonen19732 жыл бұрын
Pity that only bucket is left..
@morebeer44352 жыл бұрын
For those who dont really understand earthwork, this might put into perspective of how much dirt 220cy is. An average dump truck will hold 10-12 cy. For cowboy math lets just use 10cy/truck. That would be 22 dump truck loads in one bucket for Big Muskie. Thats what you would call not fucking around. Awesome machine!!!
@mikepowell10762 жыл бұрын
Well, that was cool. 220 yard bucket!
@marklimbert21992 жыл бұрын
Terrible quality music is a pain no need for crap music
@catzzzz14502 жыл бұрын
Use mute button
@jonathansheeder51532 жыл бұрын
Absolutely astonishing machine. It is hard to fathom.
@joegomes13522 жыл бұрын
I was a night operator for 3 years,I can't tell u how many times I banged my wife on in muskie she loved it
@lozarok2 жыл бұрын
She was a beauty = RIP muskie
@SarahAParis2 жыл бұрын
My all time favorite Dragline!😍I love watching this and remembering watching Big Muskie work in real life before she was lost. That was such a shame..if my family had been there before demolition, we could have purchased Big Muskie and preserved her as a museum piece. We worked on projects like this with various other gigantic machine restoration and preservation..not as big as this one, but we would have pulled it off. Everyone in my family has worked with Draglines all of their lives, so this would have been a welcome opportunity.
@MegaDonns Жыл бұрын
I wish you could have preserved her. Many people were interested but the cost of cleaning her was going to be enormous. I believe the Tub was around half full of Open gear Lubricant that would have cost a bundle to have removed and disposed of.. Anyway it is a shame to lose this piece of history.
@SarahAParis Жыл бұрын
@@MegaDonns Believe me it would have been a pleasure to preserve her..money wouldn't have been a problem at all and I would have enjoyed the challenge.
@MegaDonns Жыл бұрын
@@SarahAParis I can imagine you would have had a lot of volunteers to help, i probably would have been one of them too. I spent most of my working life as a Marion Power Shovel Co. Erectore setting up Draglines and Shovels in mostly foreign locations. I miss the big guys every day.
@SarahAParis Жыл бұрын
@@MegaDonns Me too. Remember the Silver Spade? She was HUGE!
@JoeSmith-wd8ks Жыл бұрын
I’m sorry you didn’t get the opportunity to save this amazing machine . It’s a shame how machines work their time faithfully and then mostly when their job is done they are cut up . This is true for almost everything , then it’s too late , oh we should have saved that machine . I’m interested in steam engines , old earthmoving equipment and am always looking out for interesting stuff to save for future generations . You family is doing a great job , keep teaching young people about restoring and keeping the knowledge of maintaining this incredible equipment alive . All the best from New Zealand
@jamesmcgee24472 жыл бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻
@jimchristie89922 жыл бұрын
We are planning our annual "Bucket Run!" down to the Big Muskie Bucket. Kick stands up at 8:00am from the Circle K at St Rts 224 & 241 in Akron. This is an all day ride with the Righteous Riders chapter 216 of the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Come Ride With Us!
@alanmorrison35982 жыл бұрын
I saw the completed machine operate in 1972 or 1973 so tub placement had to be prior to Dec 1982..
@jeffreymoore9022 жыл бұрын
No they replaced in 82
@alanmorrison35982 жыл бұрын
@@jeffreymoore902 the completed machine operated in 1972 or 1973, I saw it operate..so maybe the tub was replaced in 1982?
@gabriellabrown8592 жыл бұрын
Hey Brian, I am an editorial assistant with 100 Days in Appalachia. For a documentary film we are working on, our filmmaker has been looking for footage of the Big Muskie to use. If possible, I would love to speak further with you about this footage. Please feel free to message me. I am happy to provide you with my email address if that would be best! Gabriella
@mehmetalihakarayan13822 жыл бұрын
25 sene kullandım,harika makinadır.
@Leatherface123.2 жыл бұрын
Still a shame of what happened
@robertswift87082 жыл бұрын
Great video. I love the music in the beginning
@ofinenu3 жыл бұрын
In 1972 I spent many nights watching this beast at work, wow I love the internet!
@Leatherface123.3 жыл бұрын
Ok the music in this is kinda catchy
@Gunners_Mate_Guns3 жыл бұрын
My uncle worked for Bucyrus-Erie back in the 1970s-1980s, and he showed me a photo of two Greyhound buses side by side within the bucket of this machine. Yes, it was just *that* big.
@jtangen98 Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this photo. My grandfather worked at Bucyrus Erie since the 40s or 50s. Now he's a volunteer at the Bucyrus museum.
@mikeskidmore67543 жыл бұрын
They said they could get their Electric cheaper at night yet the crane was owned by the Power CO ????
@mikeskidmore67543 жыл бұрын
You have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time to be able to be a good drag line crane operatior...
@donmcconnery50803 жыл бұрын
I witnessed them moving a dragline from the north side of I70 to the south side in the early nineties near Terre Haute In. Anyone familiar with that machine?
@ncljm12 жыл бұрын
It went from chinook mine to farmersburg mine and is now working at bear run mine near Carlisle
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My Uncle Joe did not operate nor work on Big Muskie.
У меня вопрос: зачем делать такой гигант, что-бы просто пересыпать грунт с одного места на другое? А вообще❤❤❤❤❤
This beauty and the others like it are, I think, some of our greatest creations as a species. The fact that we made a machine over 67 times the weight of an antarctic blue whale for a specific purpose, and that fulfills that purpose well, that just makes me happy and proud of humanity.
This fella loves this machine like it is a baby.The way he makes the big beast go gently through it's cycles so gingerly clearly shows that.
No wonder they canned it, it's slow.
Of course its slow,that thing weighs 13,500 tons
Music on a dragline video should be a criminal act.
bgm is crazzzy
0:58 What about the song at the begining of the video ? Thank you
Small bucket for a machine that big
220 cubic yard bucket ain't that small
Fact : Muskie's bucket is the largest digging bucket used in any heavy equipment
Great man great people that actually built this country
mine land is not only restored but improved??????????? you lying cunt.......... roflmfao........ surfcace mining is toitally un needed... just corruption to get it as fast and cheap as possible and fuck the people and nature for it.
Thanks for this great video. The closeups of the bucket digging and dumping were excellent and gave me a slight feeling of operating it. I can only imagine the feeling of controlling all of that extreme power. I will state it again. The Big Muskie, and other machinery similar to it, are engineering, fabricating, and production marvels, in the mechanical world. Impressive is not a good enough description.
My grand dad was one of the operators on this through the 70’s and retired in 78 ,, Roy Ginn rest his soul,,,, who would of known I’d follow suit, I have been i the crane and rigging industry since 1991 here in Southern California. It has been a great career and couldn’t be happier. I have pictures of us standing in front of his 1978 ford crew cab in the bucket of Big Muskie!!
It is unfortunate this machine is no longer in use. An engineering marvel I would like to see in person.
Only the shovel remains
Absolute travesty what happened to Big Muskie, an Engineering Marvel of that caliber definitely should have been preserved, turned into a museum.
The bucket for the big muskie is in park in Mc Connellville Ohio
My now deceased other half was with AEP I was able to explore that machine before it was scrapped pictures can never show the scale of it. The house had a overhead crane inside to lift motors and other parts they were servicing it’s a shame it was cut up nothing like it had ever existed and never will .
My uncle Glenn Horner was the head of operations for Muskie. Some old timers might remember him. Coal miners grand daughter here. A disaster at mine 6 was when Grandpa, Pop Horner quit mining. Great history of miners. His son was Glenn.
It swings like there is no weight at all
The sheer size of old equipment is amazing.
Some Awesome things we use to build here in the !!!USA 🇺🇸!!! BIG Toys! Like Big Muskie and Brutus for removing coal from the ground which wasn't feasible to dig mining tunnels for being the ground above was either not supportive enough or it was shallow enough to just remove the top layer of overburden. The size and weight of these machines are incredible alone. Then taking into account that they were mostly running on strictly electric motors and not so much hydraulics is another incredible feature of these things. American ingenuity at its best👌
of course you had to listen to that muzak while operating this behemoth
Discovery +, Disney and Nickelodeon are all coming out with several “Drag Line” TV programs in 2022 (I don’t recommend them). What a difference 30 years makes…
Never again shall such a Titan roam the earth, there will never be another.
THEY TRULY SHOULD TRULY HAVE MADE (( BIG MUSKIE )) INTO (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) (( BECAUSE )) (( BIG MUSKIE )) (( WAS )) (( 1 OF A KIND )) . . . (( AND )) . . . LEFT IT WHERE IT WAS AS (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) AND MADE A LOT OF MONEY FROM HAVING (( BIG MUSKIE )) AS (( IT'S (( OWN )) MUSEUM )) . . . BUT NO . . . (( BUT )) . . . (( NO )) (( STUPID PEOPLE )) (( WHO )) (( DO NOT )) (( SEE OR EVEN CARE ))(( ABOUT ))(( HISTORICAL VALUES )) IN (( HISTORICAL OBJECTS )) JUST (( DESTROY )) (( PARTS )) OF (( HISTORY )) (( FOREVER )) .
Honey,, the excavator finally showed up, that septic tank can go in finally. Wow that guy doesn’t mess around. Hope he doesn’t charge travel time.
NetZero a clean coal plant made to burn this dirty coal was never built mothballed since 2000. No CO2 released.
My dad was a crane operator in an operators union and was gifted a horn from Big Muskie at some point during his time before he retired. I can thankfully say that I still have that horn!
Sweet!
big?
Honestly I’d say its a little bigger than a train horn.
YOO! that is sick! bet a lot of people would pay big money for something like that.
I'm dumb, what do you mean by horn?
Pity that only bucket is left..
For those who dont really understand earthwork, this might put into perspective of how much dirt 220cy is. An average dump truck will hold 10-12 cy. For cowboy math lets just use 10cy/truck. That would be 22 dump truck loads in one bucket for Big Muskie. Thats what you would call not fucking around. Awesome machine!!!
Well, that was cool. 220 yard bucket!
Terrible quality music is a pain no need for crap music
Use mute button
Absolutely astonishing machine. It is hard to fathom.
I was a night operator for 3 years,I can't tell u how many times I banged my wife on in muskie she loved it
She was a beauty = RIP muskie
My all time favorite Dragline!😍I love watching this and remembering watching Big Muskie work in real life before she was lost. That was such a shame..if my family had been there before demolition, we could have purchased Big Muskie and preserved her as a museum piece. We worked on projects like this with various other gigantic machine restoration and preservation..not as big as this one, but we would have pulled it off. Everyone in my family has worked with Draglines all of their lives, so this would have been a welcome opportunity.
I wish you could have preserved her. Many people were interested but the cost of cleaning her was going to be enormous. I believe the Tub was around half full of Open gear Lubricant that would have cost a bundle to have removed and disposed of.. Anyway it is a shame to lose this piece of history.
@@MegaDonns Believe me it would have been a pleasure to preserve her..money wouldn't have been a problem at all and I would have enjoyed the challenge.
@@SarahAParis I can imagine you would have had a lot of volunteers to help, i probably would have been one of them too. I spent most of my working life as a Marion Power Shovel Co. Erectore setting up Draglines and Shovels in mostly foreign locations. I miss the big guys every day.
@@MegaDonns Me too. Remember the Silver Spade? She was HUGE!
I’m sorry you didn’t get the opportunity to save this amazing machine . It’s a shame how machines work their time faithfully and then mostly when their job is done they are cut up . This is true for almost everything , then it’s too late , oh we should have saved that machine . I’m interested in steam engines , old earthmoving equipment and am always looking out for interesting stuff to save for future generations . You family is doing a great job , keep teaching young people about restoring and keeping the knowledge of maintaining this incredible equipment alive . All the best from New Zealand
👍🏻👍🏻
We are planning our annual "Bucket Run!" down to the Big Muskie Bucket. Kick stands up at 8:00am from the Circle K at St Rts 224 & 241 in Akron. This is an all day ride with the Righteous Riders chapter 216 of the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Come Ride With Us!
I saw the completed machine operate in 1972 or 1973 so tub placement had to be prior to Dec 1982..
No they replaced in 82
@@jeffreymoore902 the completed machine operated in 1972 or 1973, I saw it operate..so maybe the tub was replaced in 1982?
Hey Brian, I am an editorial assistant with 100 Days in Appalachia. For a documentary film we are working on, our filmmaker has been looking for footage of the Big Muskie to use. If possible, I would love to speak further with you about this footage. Please feel free to message me. I am happy to provide you with my email address if that would be best! Gabriella
25 sene kullandım,harika makinadır.
Still a shame of what happened
Great video. I love the music in the beginning
In 1972 I spent many nights watching this beast at work, wow I love the internet!
Ok the music in this is kinda catchy
My uncle worked for Bucyrus-Erie back in the 1970s-1980s, and he showed me a photo of two Greyhound buses side by side within the bucket of this machine. Yes, it was just *that* big.
I remember seeing this photo. My grandfather worked at Bucyrus Erie since the 40s or 50s. Now he's a volunteer at the Bucyrus museum.
They said they could get their Electric cheaper at night yet the crane was owned by the Power CO ????
You have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time to be able to be a good drag line crane operatior...
I witnessed them moving a dragline from the north side of I70 to the south side in the early nineties near Terre Haute In. Anyone familiar with that machine?
It went from chinook mine to farmersburg mine and is now working at bear run mine near Carlisle
Big ass machine for a small ass shovel