The World's Largest Shovel Still In Existence | BIG BRUTUS (Exclusive Footage & Pics)

[@UnknowableAbsolute]

This is why hydraulic machines never will be so large and powerful as rope shovel. Mighty machine. It's good that they preserved it as a museum

[@SerialDesignationNShorts]

Big Brutus had to be the luckiest monster made of steel…while the rest of his brothers Muskie and Silver Spade had died in scrap…Brutus right now has to hold the record of how he’s still alive and able to see all the people who watched him work…rest in peace Metal monsters of steel.

[@miningshorts]

Well to get to that lucky outcome it took a bunch of incredible people who moved mountains to save it from a sad destiny. P&M also played a fair game and did a lot to help the organization. CONSOL wanted $2.6 million so Silver Spade could be saved. Not the same mindsets...

[@SerialDesignationNShorts]

@@miningshorts I see…but not gonna lie, the reason why I say big Muskie and silver spade is big brutus’s brother is because they were born and raised by Bucyrus Erie…but hopefully they’re resting peacefully

[@timrankin8737]

1 of Big Muskies buckets still exists. It's worth the drive if u love big machines.

[@timrankin8737]

@far_outlook Google big Muskie bucket. It's in the Ohio country side. And it's awsome

[@mikemoore9757]

I got to see it in operation in 1964. The one thing that was suprising to me was how quiet it was. I was expecting a lot of noise and smoke until I was told it was electric. It was a sight to behold when it scooped a load of coal!

[@ilaholloway2904]

Big Brutus has continued to fascinate my children. They were introduced to “him” in the mid 1980s

[@SarahAParis]

I'm really glad at least one of those giants was preserved..i remember all of them fondly. The Silver Spade, The Captain, Big Muskie and this one, Big Brutus.

[@JoeBManco]

This is an excellent video. I never get tired of seeing Big Brutus, and the museum is very special to me.

[@lateatday9826]

Same here i grew up in Arma and love going back to see it

[@kevinbridle1831]

I climbed all the way to the boom tip when I visited Brutus in 1996, I have a lot of photos looking over the museum site, impressive machine indeed.

[@raventuretv9812]

What a stunning piece of iron. Happy it's still "alive" and i can't wait to see it in person, one day. It's only 7000km away 😂 Great video 🎉

[@Jking0005]

I've seen it twice. It's always impressive and totally worth it.

[@DanceTranceTV]

What a monster!!! So glad tho it could be saved from being scraped. Great video 🎉🎉

[@taxpayer6079]

We were a proud and capable America then, unlike today.

[@dennisneo1608]

Yep. Sadly America is finished. 😢

[@PiTjlang]

Amazing what America was capable of ....our PARASITE "leaders" gave it all away

[@donkauer6744]

Big Brutus museum has been on my bucket list for a few years now. I almost made the trip from nw Oregon this year, but it will be a 2025 trip for certain. I'm hoping to loop through a few working open pit mines, though of other mineral types, on the round trip. But Big Brutus is the main stop. Of the many dozens of videos I have watched of many of the monster rope shovels and drag lines, this footage that included the factory is one of the best ever. Thank you for sharing this awesome video.

[@shadovanish7435]

Great documentary of the Bucyrus Erie 1850B electric mining shovel! A video documentary of the Marion 6360 "Captain" shovel (the largest electric mining shovel ever made), would also be great! There doesn't seem to be much KZbin video of the Marion 6360 mining shovel, which is disappointing, & surprising, since the Marion 6360 shovel was the largest mining shovel made, & the only one of its type.

[@miningshorts]

Thank you 🙂 There's definitely not enough content available to make an actual documentary about The Captain. And trust me I'd love to make it happen. Gonna try to send some emails and see what can be found 😉

[@kylebuchmann463]

It’s great you can still see this thing at its museum in Kansas 😊 I grow up seeing it time to time in the summer go on a car ride to go see it

[@lucmarchand617]

Thank very much on this film.i former fording coal limited,elkford,bc worker 1980- 88 work myself 8750 marion dragline.this piece of history was well look after expose know how us heavy equipment builders.the coal mining change drastic last 80 years include reclamation start by fred mannix coal mining.the shovel models change too with cables and hyd systems.thanks video thump hup.😊

[@jwhiteker1]

It's such a sight to see. I just stand in awe. I was blown away by the plaque next to the tracks. Each piece is over 2k lbs. It's just spectacular. Back when this country knew how to build things.

[@TL64329]

Great video- I enjoy the old shovels especially the giant ones. I have never read the full story on Brutus until now and this is the only video I have found of Brutus working. 👍

[@miningshorts]

Thank you for watching 🙂 The footage was kindly provided by the museum. Very thankful for that 😉

[@torralf9926]

Big Brutus, a machine so big and strong like this gorgeous country! Greetings from Germany.

[@theunemployedtrucker]

Big Muskie should have been preserved that was a crime scrapping it, could you please do a video on the CAT 666 SCRAPER PLEASE 🙏

[@jamesgarrison6430]

I got to see him when i was 8 loved it then and still do today

[@cavemanballistics6338]

Very fine job on this video, well done!

[@miningshorts]

Appreciate your comment 🙂 Thanks for watching

[@a-fl-man640]

hell of a machine, just thinking about meshing those gears during assembly scrambles my brain. well done documentary also. liked and subscribed.

[@miningshorts]

Thank you! Appreciate you watching and subscribing 🙂

[@CharlesWiiliamson]

Great video! Thank you.

[@miningshorts]

Thank you for watching 😉

[@tylerbuilt_chevy_tough5163]

We are in big brutas right now taking a tour lol

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thanks

[@miningshorts]

Thank YOU 😉

[@doug2078]

Well done !!

[@miningshorts]

Thank you, Doug 🙂

[@nameless5512]

Must be amazing to know Giants are real. Perhaps not as flesh and bone, but of steel.

[@rogerwestgate4724]

Great video

[@miningshorts]

Thank you! Glad you liked it 🙂

[@wmden1]

I am happy one of these mechanical engineering marvels was saved. I didn't get to see any of them in real life. There is footage, here on youtube, of the A-frame being blasted loose on The Big Muskie dragline, dropping the boom forever, in the scrapping process. It is very sad, to this old fart anyway.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

So...the ratio of potential energy gained (coal) is about equal to the kinetic energy consumed (recovering coal)? Same amount used to operate in one hour as 15,000 homes? No wonder they gotta scrape away a square mile every year.

[@pilbomags488]

The shovels look tiny compared to the rest of the machine.

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Not the brightest investment. Amazing they could economically strip 50' of overburden to get a couple of tiny seams of coal.

[@miningshorts]

Well they thought the market would move in a different direction. It was worth it at the beginning since in 1963 coal price in KS was $25 per ton, the equivalent of $250 today. Brutus helped to uncover over $2 billion of coal (in today's money) so it wasn't a gigantic fail by any means but, yeah, forecasting data could have been better. But markets were/are shifting too quickly.

[@matchox_backwards]

IT WASN'T SCRAPPED???? cool 😄

[@tehjamerz]

Why not big bertha

[@cemondeestfou4829]

I hope one day shovels of this size get built again. I know there is like no chance but that would be so amazing to get to see one at work. Museum is better than nothing i guess but nothing can compare to seeing one working. oh well, probably never 🥲

[@BooneStephenson-so5rz]

Brutus was in my grandparents back yard southeast Kansas west mineral