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Bucyrus Erie 1850 B
Bucyrus Erie 1850 B

Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States where it was used in coal strip mining operations. The shovel was designed to dig from 20 to 69 feet (6.1 to 21.0 m) down to unearth relatively shallow coal seams, which would themselves be mined with smaller equipment.

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Big Brutus
Northwest 60th Street,

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Big Brutus

Northwest 60th Street
66725
Kansas, United States
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