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

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  @SDNS_Officals · 2 years ago

  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.

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• IL

  @ilaholloway2904 · 2 years ago

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

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• UN

  @UnknowableAbsolute · 2 years ago

  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

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• MI

  @mikemoore9757 · 2 years ago

  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!

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• KE

  @kevinbridle1831 · 2 years ago

  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.

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• SA

  @SarahAParis · 2 years ago

  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.

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• MO

  @moosey1978 · 1 year ago

  I got to go see big Brutus last summer. Pictures and videos don't do it justice. The size is massive

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• JO

  @JoeBManco · 2 years ago

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

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• DE

  @dennisdill9433 · 1 year ago

  Imy wife and I took our 2 oldest grandsons to see it probably 12 years ago or so and as we were getting closer I could see the top of the boom from quite a distance away above the tree tops, I'm a retired heavy equipment operator ,( mostly large excavators )  and I was in awe of the sheer size and nass of this behemoth. we went up inside and as I sat in the operators seat I just tried to imagine what it would be like to dig with that monster, the operator of big Brutus probably had like a rock star image wherever he went. I'm just glad that it was preserved

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• KA

  @KathyXenos-s7v · 1 year ago

  Dad was a welder on it. I went several times while it was working. I loved riding on its elevator and also got to push the buttons to unload the coal!

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• IL

  @IloveHITACHIEH5000AC-3 · 2 years ago

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

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• CO

  @countryboysteve · 10 months ago

  What's interesting is just how small of an area it actually traveled. The total length of its pit was something like 10 miles. The mined land wildlife area is a fantastic place to visit these days and offers great fishing and camping.

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