Big Brutus - Electric Shovel (Second Largest in the World) - West Mineral, Kansas
Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. It is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas where it had been used in coal strip mining operations where the coal seams were relatively shallow with the machine designed to dig from 20 to 69 feet (6.1 to 21.0 m).
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Visiting Big Brutus, Museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States
Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Big Brutus: My Kansas adventure, Full video
My first visit to Big Brutus, the worlds 2nd largest electric shovel formerly used in mining operations; now a museum in Kansas.
I had to re upload this video as the first time only the first 30 seconds loaded.
big brutus just off RT 66 in Kansas
Big Brutus is the second largest electric shovel built by Bucyrus Erie and is retired and on display in Moncure Kansas
Big Brutus Markley #1
A little-known piece of Southeast Kansas mining history has been moved to the Big Brutus Mining Museum near West Mineral, Kansas. Everyone can now visit Big Brutus for the full story of the Markley Number One coal shovel, home-built nearby in 1928.
Legends of Kansas: S0 Ep1 - Big Brutus
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Big Brutus Markley #1 Story
A little-known piece of Southeast Kansas mining history has been moved to the Big Brutus Mining Museum near West Mineral, Kansas. Everyone can now visit Big Brutus for the full story of the Markley Number One coal shovel, home-built nearby in 1928.
Big Brutus
We went up to visit Big Brutus in West Mineral Kansas. Very impressive!
- Bucyrus Erie model 1850B
- Largest electric shovel in the world
- 16 stories tall (160 feet)
- Weight 11 million pounds
- Boom 150 feet long
- Dipper capacity 90 cu. yds (by heaping, 150 tons - enough to fill three railroad cars.)
- Maximum speed .22 MPH
- Cost $6.5 million (in 1962)
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The World's Largest Electric Shovel (Big Brutus)
The Bucyrus Erie model 1850B while not the largest shovel ever produced is the largest remaining. It weighs 5500 tons or 11 million pounds and has a bucket capacity of 90 cubic yards or 150 tons. Big Brutus is 160 feet in height and took 52 men 11 months to assemble in 1962 after having been brought to Hallowell, Kansas in 52 railroad cars.
Although Brutus was designed for a 25 year lifespan, only 10 years were achieved, not due to the reliability of the 1850B, but due to market forces, namely cheap low sulphur coal from Wyoming and Montana. Powering it's huge electric 15,000 hp motors was no joke. In the it's last month of operation in 1974 Big Brutus used $27,000 of electricity, $137,000 adjusted for inflation.
It's been calculated that if Big Brutus had worked in a straight line it would have dug a pit that would have been 120 feet wide and 40 to 50 feet deep from Hallowell, Kansas, to Fort Worth, Texas, thats 368 miles!
Big Brutus Museum
All the rest except for the Brute himself
Big Brutus working near Hallowell Kansas, circa 1965-66
From an old 8mm my dad took. Just a couple of minutes of Big Brutus at work. I thought I would post it as I have never found any other video of this machine on the web. My grandmother lived in Hallowell Kansas during the 60's and 70's. The boom of this orange and black giant was a familiar landmark on the north horizon for many years during our summer visits to grandmas' house. Sorry about the quality, its all I got. That's me in the red shirt!
Visiting Big Brutus
I visited Big Brutus in Southeast Kansas. This giant shovel machine was once used to remove overburden in coal mining.
Years after its time as a working machine ended, Big Brutus and the land around it was turned into a tourist attraction. This footage was filmed Memorial Day, 2019.
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