Big Brutus Coal Scoop
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| The second largest electric-powered shovel in the world, now a museum. The 15-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. The mine, now reclaimed, its pits filled with water and stocked with fish, is adjacent to where Big Brutus sits today. The machine was retired largely due to the cost of operating it: the electric bill from its last month of operation was $27,000. |
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133 miles SE of Wichita, in Mineral
(POINT(-94.9227 37.2841))
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PO Box 25
West Mineral KS, 6682 |
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| Small admission. Visitors can sit in the operators seat, and are offered a wide view of the surrounding landscape from the top of the boom. |
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http://www.bigbrutus.org/
http://www.kshs.org/portraits/big_brutus.htm
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Cultural, Mining
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