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#158 - Postcards From The Past

 

#158 - Postcards From The Past
Caption on back: "Big Muski" - World's Largest Earth Moving Machine. Owned by Central Ohio Coal Co., A subsidiary of Ohio Power Co., located in South Eastern Ohio near Cumberland. This machine used in strip mining of Coal, weights 27,000,000 pounds and has a 310 ft. boom. The bucket is 220 Cubic yards, that can strip 325 tons of earth and rock at a catch. The cables that pull the bucket are 5 inches in diameter. It can walk too.

 
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