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 currently the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas.
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[edit] Description
It is 160 feet (49 m) high and weighs 11 million pounds. The bucket holds 90 cubic yards (69 m3) or 150 tons. Maximum speed is 0.22 MPH. It cost $6.5 million in 1962.
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.[1]
[edit] Museum
The Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company donated Big Brutus in 1984 as the core of a mining museum which opened in 1985. In 1987, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated Big Brutus a Regional Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.[2]
The museum offers tours as well as camping.
[edit] See also
- The Silver Spade
- Bucket wheel excavator
- Dragline
- Dumper truck
- Excavator
- Marion Power Shovel
- Power shovel
[edit] References
- ^ Haddock, Keith (September 18, 2000). Colossal Earthmovers. MBI. pp. 67. ISBN 978-0760307717.
- ^ "About Big Brutus". Big Brutus, Inc.. http://www.bigbrutus.org/about.html. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
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Coordinates: 37°16′26″N 94°56′20″W / 37.273882°N 94.938827°W
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