The big muskie

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  • Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 32

  • @cblackb
    @cblackb 14 лет назад +8

    My grandfather retired from Central Ohio coal company. He was one of the lead mechanics on the Big Muskie. This truely was an engineering marvel and should never have been scrapped. Many times he told me he had to go out on the end of the boom to troubleshoot problems while it was operating. It was better than any theme park ride you can bet on that. He said the lead operator could flip your hard hat off of your head with the middle tooth if you were man enough to let him.

  • @BlackPill-pu4vi
    @BlackPill-pu4vi Год назад +2

    Sometimes the profit motive must be overruled by higher powers. The capital and labor involved to design and build Big Muskie cannot be recovered and THAT cost far exceeds the scrap value.
    The idiotic law that required all mining equipment to be removed should've been amended to preserve Big Muskie in place as a museum.

  • @wmden1
    @wmden1 Месяц назад

    Great bunch of stills. Better than some of the videos. Thank you. The size and configuration of its fairlead was most impressive, along with the rest of the machine. I never saw it in real life, but discovered it here on youtube, I guess, 10 years ago. The video of the A-frame being blown off of it and that magnificent double boom falling and being destroyed is very sad to me. I guess I am odd, or silly, but I can't help it.

  • @007TruthSeeker
    @007TruthSeeker 12 лет назад +2

    Thank you for posting this tribute. All of us who understand the thought, work and problem-solving which went into the Big Muskie appreciate your efforts. The bucket is on display, but out-doors, where it slowly rusts away. Hopefully, someday, it will be better protected.

  • @sarahdiane24
    @sarahdiane24 13 лет назад +3

    My grandfather worked on the erection of the Big Muskie; West Kentucky steel!
    R.I.P Roger Monroe. My dad Barry Monroe worked with Molub-alloy lubriacation and he monitored temperatures and serviced the lube systems the last few years the Muskie walked. My dad would like to add "I remember seeing the tanker truck sitting at the ready, full of hydraulic fluid oil because she was gonna bust a line on one of the cylinders on the walking system at any given day-----> (continued)

  • @charliepc56
    @charliepc56 14 лет назад +1

    Should have been put on display. It would have been worth more as a tourist attraction then scrap steel. What a shame!! Great video Thanks!!

  • @montanasnowman3138
    @montanasnowman3138 3 года назад +1

    13,000 ton of steel and copper..

  • @whamboy200969
    @whamboy200969 15 лет назад +1

    what a class lot of pictures brilliant mate thanks

  • @decaid53
    @decaid53 12 лет назад +1

    Seems 99% of people here are sad about the demise of these once great and unique machines. More's the pity that we are not far-sited enough to realise the valuable contribution and the legacy that Big Muskie & The Captian left. We shall never see their like again!

  • @gumper1986
    @gumper1986 15 лет назад

    They should preserve things like this, and scrap big ships that nobody cares about instead. These massive machines are part of the world's history.

  • @AngelBearOH
    @AngelBearOH Год назад

    The Big Muskie appears to have four shoes on it to help it walk compared to two on other dragline excavators.

  • @mpedward2
    @mpedward2 14 лет назад +2

    The proplem is... U.S.A as lost its way! period... sad we lost a great machine..

  • @whamboy200969
    @whamboy200969 14 лет назад

    great vid! fantastic machine ! would love to see the bucket ! they should bo this with big geordie! kibs of today will never see beasts like these again! what a loss

  • @007TruthSeeker
    @007TruthSeeker 12 лет назад +2

    Ouch! I hope that something to protect that unique bucket would be installed, and eventually, that a building just like the Big Muskie's body would be fabricated next to it, or over it, with museum exhibits and explanatory displays for visitors to learn about it.

  • @hoistline
    @hoistline 14 лет назад +1

    I use this to weed my garden.

  • @declavin
    @declavin 15 лет назад

    its a shame to scrap a machine like that there'l never be a machine like that needed again what ever it cost it should have been preserved

  • @Megashovelman
    @Megashovelman 13 лет назад +1

    I remember when big muskie got scrapped and I think it was not necessary for the environmentalist to interfere with any mining operation. When environmentalist interfere it could mean "trespass" on a piece of equipment without authorization. If I was head boss and if any environmentalist tried to stop me from mining coal they would be "jailed" for trespassing.

  • @rotortilttt
    @rotortilttt 15 лет назад

    there is no machine left on the planet who can use that shovel :(

  • @wvcaseman5665
    @wvcaseman5665 13 лет назад

    The spreader bar off the Big Muskie is setting on a flatbed trailer in NY at Mr Winters place not to far from Buffalo. Really Sad that it's gone.

  • @generationll
    @generationll 15 лет назад

    Blake Malkamaki took the picture at 4:28 during February 1999

  • @sarahdiane24
    @sarahdiane24 13 лет назад

    ---->(continued)
    (Muskie bled hyd-oil like nobodys business)". "Does anybody remember a mean SOB named Dave Donahue? Because I'm looking for him! haha".

  • @customminis77
    @customminis77 12 лет назад

    iv stood in its bucket its amazing how big it is

  • @WKHalford
    @WKHalford 13 лет назад

    And I thought a Bucyrus Erie 1370 was big.

  • @lurch6stringsdown
    @lurch6stringsdown 14 лет назад

    Yeah it Dug the last bucket of coal on my 3rd birthday

  • @528jkl
    @528jkl 13 лет назад

    chuck norris distroyed him !

  • @duramax3388
    @duramax3388 15 лет назад

    beverly power plant is on the muskingum river not the ohio

  • @theoldgalah
    @theoldgalah 15 лет назад

    yes why scrap it and not save ,scraps not worth that much

  • @sneezabonk
    @sneezabonk 14 лет назад

    @charliepc56 Yeah but that company would have gotten more money to sell it for scrap then to give it to a park

    • @BlackPill-pu4vi
      @BlackPill-pu4vi Год назад

      Sometimes the profit motive must be overruled by higher powers. The capital and labor involved to design and build Big Muskie cannot be recovered and THAT cost far exceeds the scrap value.
      The idiotic law that required all mining equipment to be removed should've been amended to preserve Big Muskie in place as a museum.

  • @1snappytom
    @1snappytom 13 лет назад

    @sinclairopaline gee R Ragon was trying too run usa then R.i.p I.H,WABCO,A.C,CLARK,Terex.Euclid.and all the rest.