- Big Brutus
"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 convert|160|ft|m high and weighs 11 million pounds. The bucket holds convert|90|cuyd|m3 or 150 tons. Maximum speed is .22 MPH. It cost $6.5 million in 1962. It is currently on display atWest 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. The Captain, at 28 million pounds, was the largest shovel and one of the two largest land-based mobile machines ever built. It was scrapped in 1992. (See "Colossal Earthmovers" by Keith Haddock, page 67, and http://www.stripmine.org/captain.htm)
ee also
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The Silver Spade
*Bucket wheel excavator
*Dragline
*Dumper truck
*Excavator
*Marion Power Shovel
*Power shovel External links
Official sites
* [http://www.bigbrutus.org www.bigbrutus.org]
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