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Big Muskie bucket (dragline excavator)
A dragline excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining. The much larger type, which is built on site, is commonly used in strip-mining operations to remove overburden above coal and, more recently, for oil sands mining.
Among these monstrous mining machines, the largest dragline ever made was in 1969 by Bucyrus-Erie Corporation. It was named “The Big Muskie”. In its 22 years of service, it removed twice the amount of earth moved during the original construction of the Panama Canal.
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