Big Brutus
from Viewpoints – Placecloud (English) Hosted by Natalia Viana
Mayer (historical), United States. Once the second largest electric-powered shovel in the world, now a museum. The 16-story coal scoop, which could be moved at a rate of 1/5 mile per hour on its set of eight tank treads, scooped the overburden off a seam of coal in a mine near Hallowell, Kansas, from 1963 to 1974.
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