Dragline excavator
WEBDragline excavator. Built by BucyrusErie in 1969, Big Muskie was the world's largest ever dragline, being 487 ft (148 m) in length, weighing some 13,500 short tons (12,247 t), and hoisting a 220 cu yd ( m 3) bucket that could move 325 short tons (295 t) of material at a pass. A dragline excavator is a heavyduty excavator used in civil ...