Big Brutus: The Electric Shovel That Ate Southeast Kansas
1962Big Brutus is a Bucyrus-Erie 1850-B electric mining shovel that stands 160 feet tall and weighs 11 million pounds, the second-largest electric shovel ever built.
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Big Brutus is a Bucyrus-Erie 1850-B electric mining shovel that stands 160 feet tall and weighs 11 million pounds, the second-largest electric shovel ever built.
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Big Brutus is a Bucyrus-Erie 1850-B electric mining shovel that stands 160 feet tall and weighs 11 million pounds, the second-largest electric shovel ever built.
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Get ready to be dwarfed! Big Brutus isn't just big; it's a monument to a bygone era of massive coal mining. This colossal Bucyrus-Erie shovel was the second-largest of its kind when it began operating in the 1960s. Its…