M123 proves it's the MAN of the house!

[Gamagoat1]

Here is some more poop on Big Muskie.The Big Muskie is a model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline (the only one ever built). With a 220 cubic yard bucket, she is the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. Here are some of her specifications:

Weight: 27 million lbs., or 13,500 tons
Bucket Capacity: 220 cubic yards, 325 tons (12 car garage)
Height: 222 ft., 6 in.
Length of the boom: 310 feet
Length of machine with boom down: 487 ft., 6 in.
Empty bucket weight: 230 tons
Width: 151 ft., 6 in., compare to an 8 lane highway!
Cable diameter: 5 in
Electrically powered: 13,800 volts
Mobility: hydraulically driven walking feet
In her working lifetime, the Big Muskie removed over 608,000,000 cubic yards of overburden (twice the earth moved during the construction of the Panama Canal), uncovering over 20,000,000 tons of clean coal. She cost $25 million in 1969.

 

[JDToumanian]

It's a shame they scrapped it... I remember the company that owned it was willing to sell it for only the scrap value, but IIRC the combined scrap/salvage value was around $1.5M.

I've visited Big Brutus in Kansas, it's the second largest...

http://www.bigbrutus.org/index.html

 

[Pinkie]

My m35 could pull it!

 

[TheBuggyman]

I'm okay with uphill, downhill would bother me! Too wide to clear if you have to bail!
Maybe a surplus ejection seat?

 

[AMGeneral]

Man,I really gotta get to work on my M123!!!!!

 

[Gamagoat1]

I could park my Gamagoat in that bucket, keep my tires clean.

 

[m.walker]

You could turn your gama goat around in that bucket !

 

[maddawg308]

You could almost turn a HEMTT around in that bucket!

 

[timntrucks]

this has got to be the best pic i have ever seen many thanks hats off to this M123

 

[Recovry4x4]

You could almost turn a HEMTT around in that bucket!

Maybe but I bet you can't turn Ron's M819 around in it!