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Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral Kansas where it was used in coal strip mining operations. Big Brutus Electric Mining Shovel So Big ‘You Have To. 2016-8-20 Big Brutus the largest existing electric shovel in the world. It is 16 stories tall and weighs 11 million pounds.

Aug 17, 2010 Bucyrus RH400 Hydraulic Shovel. Bucyrus International Inc. Many of the extreme machines on our list have spent time in mines, but only the Bucyrus RH400 has made a cameo in a Michael Bay film. The ...

Steam shovel, side view, Burt mine, Mesabi Range, Minn., U.S.A. Stereograph showing side view of large steam with man operating the controls; shovel dumping iron ore into open railroad cars. Contributor: Keystone View Company Date: 1905

Standard equipped with a large, 8.1 m3 (10.6 yd3) bucket, the 6015 is designed to optimally pass popular Cat 773, 775, and 777 trucks, at 4, 5, and 7 passes, respectively. This is a one pass advantage over leading standard equipped shovels in its class. When consistently achieved, the result is more material moved, and greater profit.

Purchased in 1962, Big Brutus removes overburden from coal seams. It operated until April 1974. In 1984, P&M donated the shovel and 16 acres of surrounding land to Big Brutus, Inc. for restoration and transformation into a museum and memorial.

Power and performance. The EX1200-7 has the power and performance you need to get the job done. Available in both front-shovel and backhoe configurations, the EX1200-7 features the latest advancements in engine and fuel optimization technologies to provide you with efficiency, reliability and durability for all kinds of jobs.

Big-time productivity. There’s no job too big for the EX8000-6.*. It’s our largest mining shovel, and it delivers incredible arm crowding, breakout force and horsepower. You get efficient engines, a comfortable cab, advanced hydraulics, a tough frame and powerful arm- and bucket-digging forces so you can get more work done every day.

Jun 17, 2019 The Markley shovel is now located next to its successor, Big Brutus, an 11 million-pound electric shovel built in 1962 by Bucyrus-Erie for the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. The shovels are displayed at Big Brutus Visitors Center, a nonprofit …

Jun 12, 2019 Historic Shovel Big Brutus FILE--In this Oct. 16, 2018 file photo, Jim Lovell, left, and Carmen Boccia look over the Markley shovel where it has been for 70 years in nearby Cherokee, Kan.

Jul 06, 2014 Cat 8200 is the second biggest dragline produced by Caterpillar that comes with a bucket capacity up to 61m (80yd ) and 100m (328ft) long boom. The AC-powered walking dragline weighing up to 4,173t has 19.5m base diameter and offers up to 48.2m of dumping height and 49.7m of digging depth. The Cat 8200 is powered by three or four 1,650hp ...

Building Big Brutus. Dubbed Big Brutus by a Pittsburg and Midway Coal Mining Company Mine 19 superintendent in 1963, the machine was actually named Bucyrus Erie Company Coal Shovel Model 1850-B, and it cost a whopping $6.5 million to manufacture. Designed to stay in service for 25 years, the purpose of the shovel was simple.

H Y D R AU L I C E X C AVAT O R PC2000-8 HORSEPOWER Operator Comfort Newly Designed Mining Shovel Cab Provides Comfortable Operation • Excellent operational visibility with extended front wind shield and large twin wipers • Extremely low noise and vibration Dynamic in-cab noise reduced to the same level as passenger cars • Rugged OPG top guard integrated into the cab • Easy-to-see and ...

This shovel was placed in the Danville Coal Field in 1911 and is still in use there. The advent of this shovel, the first of its type, brought strip mining to the status of a practical and profitable industry after many discouraging and financially disastrous efforts, going back almost half a century.

Sep 04, 2020 The company made cranes, and later, mining shovels. P&H, owned by Komatsu since 2016, has spent the past 100 years just outside city limits in …

The rapidly expanding mining industry in make big additions to its output. The $3 million Dragline Shovel in Operation at Nowra. February 28, 1968. . Uralmash produced 20/90 heavy dragline excavator works on Chernogorsky open-pit mine in the Republic of Khakassia of the Russian Federation. 20/90...

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Dec 20, 2013 The Bucyrus RH400, owned by Caterpillar, is the world’s biggest hydraulic excavator. It was originally launched by Terex in Germany in 1997 but Bucyrus acquired the mining equipment division of Terex in 2010. Bucyrus was acquired by Caterpillar in 2011. The Bucyrus RH400 is a front-shovel excavator weighing approximately 889t.

May 11, 2020 Caterpillar has designed its next-generation 6060 hydraulic mining shovel for increased performance, durable service, operator comfort in a new cab, and easy maintenance. The 662-ton (600-metric-ton) crawler excavator comes with new, Tier 4 Final-compliant engines with maintenance-free exhaust aftertreatment systems.

Sep 17, 2006 NEW ATHENS, Ohio -- Over a rise on a road at the recently closed Mahoning Valley Mine, a giant metal arm pokes over a high wall like a

Jan 04, 2014 The fifth largest hydraulic mining excavator is available with both shovel (like those used in metal detecting) and backhoe attachments. 6. Liebherr R 996 B. Youtube. Weights up to 672 tonnes. The R 996 B, produced by the equipment manufacturer Liebherr, is the number six in the world. 7. Hitachi EX5600-6. Mining-technology.com. Weights up to ...

Feb 01, 2019 Big Brutus in West Mineral, Kansas. Big Brutus is enormous. It’s 160 feet high and weighs 9.3 million lbs. When it was used to mine for coal, it was the world’s second largest electric shovel. The largest was called the Captain and was three times the size at 28 million lbs – I can’t even imagine how large that must’ve looked!

Big Brutus - West Mineral, Kansas. Big Brutus near West Mineral, Kansas was the world's second largest electric mining shovel when it was in operation in from 1962 to 1974. Now it is a tourist attraction. Big Brutus is 160 feet tall and weights 11 million pounds. These giant electric shovels, and the earlier draglines that they replaced, were an important part of the Kansas strip mining ...

The Cat 992 Large Wheel Loader has set the standard in its size class for more than 50 years, delivering industry-leading productivity, unparalleled reliability and long life. The new 992 raises the bar ― significantly increasing productivity without increasing fuel usage and helping operators work more comfortably and productively.