New Athens, Ohio: Bucket of Silver Spade
The giant scoop of America's last monster earth-moving machine, displayed for your snapshot pleasure.- Address:
- New Athens, OH
- Directions:
- Planned, but not yet definite, to be about two miles west of New Athens on Hwy 519/Stumptown Rd.
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Beginning in 1965, a giant mechanical shovel named Silver Spade, weighing 14 million pounds and standing taller than a 12-story building, began chewing its way through eastern Ohio. For over 40 years the behemoth scoured the countryside for surface coal, outlasting rivals such as Big Brutus and Big Muskie, to become the world's last operating "super stripper."
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