Big Brutus

[yadada]

Since we went on this ride about a riding season and a half ago, here's the report. Yep, I put this off for a little while.

We rode from our house to West Mineral Kansas, the location of Big Brutus. Big Brutus is the pet name for a very large excavating machine that was used to mine coal. The ride was in Kansas, so not much to report about except that since I tried to take the 2 lane, I still had to go back to the 4 lane due to road construction, ugh! On the detour I decided to take my own detour and, without a map, decided that the road in front of me seemed like a good candidate to get us where we were going without hitting Satuday rush hour in Pittsburg. So out in the middle of nowhere I stop and take a look around. Sure enough I can see the boom of Big Brutus on the horizon. My manly sense of direction and navigation has saved the wifey and me again! Here's a pic of Stephanie (wifey) and the machine. I quote her when I type "Does this excavator make my butt look big?" Really, she asked that, I am not kidding.



Anyways, definitely worth a stop if you've never been. Here's a link to more pics.

http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../Big%20Brutus/

[Jerry]

Thats some rig! I know a little about Bucyrus Company since its roots are in Wisconsin. They made steam buckets for mining and were instrumental in digging the Panama Canal. For a history of the company check out their history section at http://www.bucyrus.com/history.htm

[trbig]

Hmmm.. Pretty cool! Nice and timely also! lol. Methinks much too many pics of you and not enough of Steph though..

I Liked the rule about no "Horse Play" (In quotes.. ) in the bucket. "My wife was feeling a bit frisky.. but I didn't want to hurt the tons and tons of solid steel.."

Tod

[madmax-im]

Crikey!

That thing is freakin huge! Cant imagine operating that! It must be loud too

[Wretched XS]

big is right.

Man that thing is big I saw a show on National Geograhic on how big that thing was and how they built it/ They say you could park 6 buses in the scoop.