At the time of its creation in 1965 for the Southwestern Illinois Coal Corporation, the Marion 6360 was the. They backed Brutus out and parked the giant in the fields. Iron Profile: Marion 6360 Shovel The Captain. When the Pittsburg & Midway coal mine shut down in 1974, Big Brutus dug his last pit in West Mineral. 1774 The year is uncertain, but sometime before 1776, Captain John Ames began the manufacture of shovels on Town River in West Bridgewater. Big Brutus worked 24 hours a day for 11 years. 1/87th scale all brass construction museum quaility miniature replica of the Marion 6360 Stripping Shovel - The Captain Item was produced by Classic. "It took 52 men about 11 months to assemble," explains Betty. Each bucket load could fill three railroad cars. He's painted bright orange and once had the job of scooping rock and dirt off the coal seam in a strip mine. Chapter Five Bucyrus Erie 1850 - B ' Brutus ' The only ' super - stripping ' shovel preserved for public display is the Bucyrus Erie 1850 - B originally. Marion 6360 Shovel - The Captain - 1:87 Brass: Item : VINNR1045: Bucyrus 495 Shovel Bucket. She's the manager of Big Brutus and the mining museum - and she's been working here since the place opened in 1985.īig Brutus weighs 11 million pounds - that's 5,500 tons. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. Caterpillar 245 Front Shovel - Old Colors/Pacman: Item : VINDA0606. At the very top, it's 160 feet, or like a 16-story building. You can see it on the horizon from miles away. The Captain replied, 'Oh, as I shovel it out, He shovels it in, and the Lord has a bigger shovel.' You cannot out give God. The coal strip mine it helped clear of rock and dirt has long been shut down, and Brutus has been turned into a museum. Captain Levy, a believer from Philadelphia, was once asked how he could give so much to the Lord’s work and still possess great wealth. It stands 16 stories high amid the fields of rural southeast Kansas. Big Brutus is the world's largest electric shovel.
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