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gtractorfan 01-23-2013 13:59:00 71.66.229.3 Report to Moderator	Below it was mentioned about the Silver Spade being scrapped. I found some interesting pictures of it being moved across a highway. Seems like a big shame it no longer exists. [Reply]   [No Email]
IHMANKY 01-24-2013 14:32:41 74.236.250.244 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   Prety impressive.. my FIL has laid many a bead across "Big Hog"'s steel in his days at Sinclair. I work at the TVA Paradise Steam Plant about 1 mile where she was buried. [Reply]  [No Email]
NEBeef 01-24-2013 11:01:12 198.51.119.151 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   Google "Big Hog". Bucyrus Erie 3850-B. It was the world's largest for a while. But it wasn't scrapped, it was buried on-site, in a hole it dug for itself... [Reply]  [No Email]
Nathan (SD) 01-24-2013 10:04:56 75.102.183.211 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   Wasn't it worth like $2 million in scrap? [Reply]  [No Email]
Fritz Maurer 01-25-2013 17:23:44 216.137.138.146 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to Nathan (SD), 01-24-2013 10:04:56   Yes it was. A local mining museum raised 2.3 million, but Consolidated still wouldn't let them have it. I sure would like to hear their side, cuz they went to a lot of extra trouble to be mean and standoffish [Reply]  [No Email]
ASEguy 01-24-2013 02:49:02 68.186.162.134 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   I've nrver heard or seen it. What state is it in. Very impressive machinery. [Reply]  [No Email]
Ol' Gimpy 01-23-2013 22:06:20 67.252.122.95 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   Wasn"t there a dragline known as "Big Muskie" used in that same area?? Was blown up when starting to scrap,I recall. [Reply]  [No Email]
casenut1 01-24-2013 06:01:48 107.8.39.45 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to Ol' Gimpy, 01-23-2013 22:06:20   the Big Muskie was the one i couldn't think of. [Reply]  [No Email]
casenut1 01-23-2013 19:31:51 107.8.39.45 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   Got to see the Silver Spade and some of the others in action when i was a kid. you know the , Mountaineer, Gem of Egypt, may of been some others too. they all worked in the Cadiz area. [Reply]  [No Email]
JRSutton 01-23-2013 19:28:41 75.130.109.233 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   that's impressive. those pictures really put it's size in perspective. [Reply]  [No Email]
Rollie NE PA 01-23-2013 16:42:42 108.57.14.219 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   That would keep a guy with a cutting torch busy for awhile. [Reply]  [No Email]
rrlund 01-23-2013 14:05:46 207.241.137.116 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to gtractorfan, 01-23-2013 13:59:00   Was that the one that caught fire? [Reply]  [No Email]
gtractorfan 01-23-2013 19:08:14 71.66.229.3 Report to Moderator	Re: More on scrapping old equipment in reply to rrlund, 01-23-2013 14:05:46   I looked that up in a book I have.. no it wasn't the Silver Spade that burned it was the Marion 6360 "The Captain" that burned on Sept. 9, 1991 thought to have been caused by a hydraulic leak ignited by electrical panels. [Reply]  [No Email]