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After two years of engineering development, three years of construction and roughly 200,000 man hours, the big muskie went into service in 1969 at an estimated price of 25 million dollars. Tubes for musky bass magnet lures and water wolf lures. With the boom down, it was almost 500 ft in length. What remains today is a monstrous metal bucket, vaguely resembling a robot dog head. Big muskie was once the worlds largest earth moving machine. The largest piece of dragline equipment was located in eastern ohio and was known as big muskie, named after the muskingum river that passes through morgan and muskingum counties. All that remains is the giant bucket in miners memorial park.
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