McCONNELSVILLE – Around 20 former Central Ohio Coal Company employees filled Big Muskie's Bucket on June 9 for a photo op as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources celebrated the retired ...

Big Muskie, a 27 million pound and behemoth, was the largest walking dragline ever built in May 1969, according to an announcement from ODNR. It was 240 feet tall and 480 feet long.

The Big Muskie Bucket was once part of the largest piece of land machinery on earth. Now it's a tourist attraction in Southeast Ohio, part of the new Jesse Owens State Park near McConnelsville.

Its maw is four-fifths the size of the largest dragline buckets in the world. It's five times heavier than the legendary Big Muskie, an Ohio specimen that reigned as the largest from the late ...

Upon its completion in 1978, Bagger 288 overtook Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle globally, ... and each of its 18 buckets weighs in at 7,700 pounds when empty.