Bucyrus: Making the Earth Move for 125 Years

By Keith Haddock

Bucyrus International Inc., formerly Bucyrus-Erie Company, celebrates 125 years of building heavy excavating machinery, including the largest earthmovers ever to roam the planet. Founded in 1880 by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760322864
• ISBN13: 9780760322864
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.5" x 8.0"

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Bucyrus International has built heavy excavating machinery for over a hundred years: it began in 1880 building equipment and became the leading supplier of draglines, shovels and drills for the mining industry, purchasing competitors and today building about 90 percent of the walking draglines in existence. Mergers, pivotal changes, and construction techniques are detailed along with plenty of color and vintage photos in BUCYRUS, of interest to any in the equipment industry. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Bucyrus: Making the eath move for 125 years

This book is a comprehensive review of the Bucyrus company from its humble beginings in the steam shovel era through to the modern electric mining shovels of today. The book outlines the progress of the company and its machines such as drilling rigs, stripping shovels of the '60's, electric rope shovels and draglines. A must for any heavy machine enthusiest.