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AEP
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SRAL OHIO COAL CO.
BIG MUSKIE
OHO POWER
Back:
“Big Muskie”
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, weighs 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.
Photo by Floyd Hivnor
43612
Pub. by. R.C. Holmes, Centerville, Indiana 47330
