Thursday, May 8, 2008

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

BIG-BRUTUS KANSAS

This will be our blog for our trip to Big-Brutus.

The statistics give the hard cold picture —

Type: vBucyrus Erie model 1850B
second largest electric shovel in the world
Height: 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)