Big Muskie Click on the top, bottom, right or left side of the picture to go in that direction. Click more than once to go faster. Click in the center to pause. Big Muskie was a Bucyrus-Erie dragline, the only one of this model ever built. With a 220 cubic yard bucket, at 22 stories high she was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. (Notice the backhoe sitting in front of Big Muskie). Big Muskie weighed 12 million kilograms (12,000 tonnes), and was 149 m long with the boom. Find out more about these monsters on our Extreme Shovels page.

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