It's on the shore of Lake Michigan and was once the headquarters of Bucyrus International, which was known for constructing large shovels and
dragline excavators, including Big Muskie, the world's largest mobile earth - moving machine.
This grotesque «mountaintop removal» method slices off summits with explosives, bulldozers, and enormous
dragline excavators as tall as an eight - story building.
Not exact matches
Large opencast mines can cover an area of many square kilometres and use very large pieces of equipment, such as
draglines, power shovels, large trucks, bucket wheel
excavators and conveyors.
At the mine, huge
excavators called
draglines clear loose earth from above black coal seams.