page_title: Bucyrus-Erie
section_title: Historical
hierarchical_section_title: Bucyrus-Erie / Products / Historical
caption_attribution_description: English: Bucyrus Erie This walking drag line excavator was built in 1948 by the Bucyrus Erie Co, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It worked in the U.S.A for 4yrs before it was dismantled and shipped to England. It’s been dismantled 4 times in its history and worked in Pontypridd, South Wales and Cannock, Staffordshire. It finally moved to the St Aidans opencast mine near Leeds in 1972 where it worked until 1983. It is one of only four remaining drag line excavators still in existence. It weighs 1200 tons and has a bucket capacity of 20 cubic yards. To see more information and pictures see here http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendID=265602590&amp;blogID=375577351
context_page_description: Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie.
  Renamed Bucyrus International, Inc. in 1997, it was purchased by Caterpillar in a US$7.6 billion transaction that closed on July 8, 2011. At the time of its acquisition, the Bucyrus product line included a range of material removal and material handling products used in both surface and underground mining.
context_section_description: 4250-W walking dragline, also known as Big Muskie, was built in 1969, with a 220-cubic-yard (170 m³) bucket and weighed 13,000 metric tons. Big Muskie's 220-cubic-yard (170 m³) bucket is currently near McConnellsville, Ohio in a small park dedicated to coal mining.
  Two 3850-B stripping shovels built in 1962 and 1964, with bucket capacities of 115 and 145 cu yd (88 and 111 m³).
  The 2570-W or WS, one of B-E's most popular dragline models with bucket capacities between 120 and 160 cu yd (92 and 122 m³). Ursa Major at Black Thunder Coal Mine was reported to be the third largest dragline ever built.
  The Silver Spade and its twin the GEM of Egypt, 1950B Stripping shovels, was built in 1965 and 1967 respectively, with a bucket capacity of 80 m³ (100 cu yd). The Silver Spade was dismantled in 2007. Videos of it working are on Bennetshovel on YouTube.com
  The Stripping shovel Big Brutus, a 1850-B, was built in 1962, with a 90-yard bucket. It is in West Mineral, Kansas, as the centerpiece of a museum.
  The Bucyrus-Erie 50-R, 55 feet high and housing a massive drill, was responsible for the successful rescue of two miners during the 1963 Sheppton, Pennsylvania mining disaster.
  The 1250-B/W and 1260-W walking draglines, with buckets between 33 and 45 cu yd (25 and 34 m³).
  The 5-W walking dragline, carrying a 5-cubic-yard (3.8 m³) bucket and produced until around 1970;
  Marion Power Shovel Company of Marion, Ohio designed the crawler transporter used to carry Saturn V rockets and Space Shuttles to their launch pads.
  in 1946 an 1150RB walking dragline was transported to Britain as part of the Marshall Plan. It was used to remove overburden at various mines around the UK, lastly at St Aidan's opencast coal mine, Yorkshire, until the River Aire burst its banks and flooded the mine in March 1988. It has been preserved as a static monument at the site.
caption: Bucyrus-Erie 1150RB walking dragline preserved at St Aidan's opencast coal mine, Yorkshire, England
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