Have you heard of the Big Muskie Bucket? 🏗️ Big Muskie” was once the World’s Largest Earth Moving Machine. What remains today is a monstrous metal bucket, that guests can go inside! 🪣 🌳The bucket sits on a rise, overlooking the beautiful valley that it once mined and destroyed, which has been renamed “Re-Creation Land.” 🇺🇸The Big Muskie Bucket can be found at the Miners Memorial Park in McConnelsville, Ohio. The park is free to visit and has picnic tables along with a interpretive display t

After sitting inoperative for 8 years, the final act for Big Muskie came in 1999 when the state of Ohio and the Environmental Protection Agency began moving to enforce the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which required all equipment be removed from former strip mines so the sites could be environmentally remediated. Since further delays would result in millions of dollars in fines, and the cost of moving the obsolete machine would also run well into the millions, the COCC opted for i