Bucyrus Heavy Equipment: Construction and Mining Machines 1880-2008
Bucyrus Heavy Equipment: Construction and Mining Machines 1880-2008
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By Keith Haddock
With a rich heritage stretching back 128 years to 1880 the Bucyrus name, in all of its manifestations, has become synonymous with moving earth. From the smallest loader-backhoe to some of the largest machines ever to move on land, no other company has produced such a wide variety of types and sizes of excavating equipment.<p>Nothing could be more apt to describe this manufacturing powerhouse than its 1960s slogan - “The Longest Line on Earth.”
Over 450 spectacular black and white photos combined with detailed captions chronicle and describe all the major equipment product lines from Bucyrus Company, Erie Steam Shovel, Bucyrus-Erie, and Ruston-Bucyrus. Every machine model from the extensive lines of cable excavators, hydraulic excavators, walking draglines, stripping shovels, and drills are included, plus tables of machine introductions and production. There’s also detailed coverage of floating dredges, tractor equipment, cranes, bucket wheel excavators and other special machines.
This book is sure to satisfy the serious equipment historian as well as the enthusiast.
Softbound, 8.5”x11”, 224 pages, 456 photos
Covering Bucyrus International from its origins in 1880 through 2008, this book, author Keith Haddock explains, “is intended to be an illustrated reference source for everything Bucyrus.” Chapter 1 provides a 12-page, 10-photograph summary of the “Corporate History” that began with the Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Co., in Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1880; the move to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1893; the establishment of the Bucyrus-Erie Co., as a result of a merger, in 1927; the creation of Bucyrus International in 1996; and concluding with a brief update through 2007. Twelve chapters offering a brief introduction and illustrated with a marvelous array of 458 black-and-white archival photographs cover different machine categories, including cable excavators, stripping shovels, walking draglines, dredges, drills, hydraulic excavators, and cranes. An additional chapter surveys “Miscellaneous Machines” that do not fit into the chapter categories, such as locomotive pile drivers, railroad spreader plows, and dump trailers. The extensive photograph captions include a product model designation enabling readers to determine “production totals and manufacturing dates” provided in Appendix 1 and 2. Appendix 3 offers a listing of production facilities past and present, while Appendix 4 presents a glossary of “common words” used in the heavy equipment industry.
Book Review by Robert Gabrick
