Big Muskie

4250-W "Big Muskie"
Big Muskie in February 1999
Type	Dragline excavator
Manufacturer	Bucyrus-Erie
Production	1969
Length	487 ft (148 m)
Width	151 ft (46 m)
Height	222 ft (68 m)
Weight	13,500 short tons (12,247 t)
Propulsion	2x hydraulically driven walker feet
Gross power	18.04 megawatts of electricity supplied via trailing cable, total 13,800 volts of electrical power
Speed	0.1 miles per hour (0.16 km/h)
Blade capacity	220 cubic yards (168.2 m3) or 325 short tons (295 t)

Big Muskie was a dragline excavator built by Bucyrus-Erie and owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power), weighing 13,500 short tons (12,200 t) and standing nearly 22 stories tall. It mined coal in the U.S. state of Ohio from 1969 to 1991. It was dismantled and sold for scrap in 1999.