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What storage weighs about 11 million pounds and is literally the biggest attraction in southeast Kansas well if you guessed big Brutus you are exactly right. Joe man's the general manager at big Brutus. It is the most amazing job I've ever had.

Obviously I have the biggest boss. I think that anybody has ever had. So let's talk a little bit about big Brutus and and how it came to be. Go back in time just a little bit my name in southeast Kansas actually dates back to the eight team seven. What was done was below surface mining and it required a lot of people so they hired people from all over the world. A lot of them were concentrated in the Balkans area of southeast Europe. Now the Balkans area. It's Italy, Austria, Germany, Yugoslavia, England, Wales, Scotland, France and Belgium just to name a few. So they were brought here because the mining underground was pretty much a thankless dirty job and it gave opportunities for the emigrants to come to the United States and make money. Below surface mining peaked in 1926 Kansas minors playing a key role in supplying lead thing. And of course coal that were needed during World War I into above the surface was much safer, but to get to it. It was anywhere from 20 to 40 feet below surface to get to the coal. How did they get to that well they needed bigger machinery and there was a rather ingenious fella and West mineral Kansas who invented his own machine in the late 1920s to help that happen. That little trouble is called the Markley shovel and it was an amazing piece of machinery.

Considering there were no welding machines barely any electricity. But the man designed this machine and prefabricated it and it went to work.

Mr. Markley was a rather amazing man in that he had 1/5 grade education. No formal engineering training, but he crept up the IDF. There's gotta be a better way to do this when the machine was completed it was actually operated by two Studebaker car engines bigger became better because, well, there's gotta be a more efficient way. How do you do that you make a larger machine and when they got ready to design Brutus what came in mind was the Markley shovel, which was literally operating about four or 5 miles northwest of where Brutus currently sets and they went and talked to the family and you wanted to know if they could maybe buy the design and the family said no it's it's not for sale literally tried to buy the machine and they said no it's not for sale literally offered the designer and builder a job to help design and build big Brutus and he said no, not interested in that, either because you don't really want me you want my machine and it's not for sale.

The engineers they went back to South Milwaukee which was where Brutus was designed and fabricated and got to checking in the design man that designed the Markley shovel and builder had not got a patent on his machine. Unfortunately that's the way it was in in the early 1960s.

They came back to West mineral Kansas and sat across the section literally from the little Markley shovel and sketched it all out and took it back to South Milwaukee view Cyrus theory basically copied it and enlarged it and voilà big Brutus was born. Now, at the time it was born. It was literally the largest coal shovel of its size, that was electric operated in a course. The 90 yd.³ bucket now.

Brutus's job was to take the overburden off of the top of the cold. The overburden is the dirt and rock that lie on top of coal to cycle which is to grab a scoop turn dump it and come back. That is one cycle it to complete the cycle in less than one minute, which is rather amazing considering your picking up 150 tons of dirt.

By the way, the equivalent of 150 tons is roughly 18 full-size African elephants.

I think that's kind of an amazing factoid in itself a Brutus itself is rather an amazing machine under peak operating conditions you're talking about 15,000 hp 15,000 hp with power and normal city of about 15,000 people. The primary operating crew for big Brutus and 11 million pound machine was three men.

The three men to operate the machine where the ground men the oiler and the operator so Brutus in his career, Doug, about 11 mi.², which doesn't sound like a lot when you're digging 40 to 60 feet deep and piling the dirt beside you the equivalent of that. So if you could start out Brutus from where he sat now and say, okay head East Brutus and just dig as far as you can dig. I want you to dig me up pit 40 feet deep and just keep going as long as is what Brutus actually ran were would run you out is on the other side of the Mississippi River now understand Brutus is about 30 miles from the Kansas Missouri state line and imagine it going well past that all way over to the Mississippi River. The a big Brutus Museum, which of course is where Brutus is located. He actually sets just behind the last pit that he dug when they backed him up there. They knew that Brutus was going to get shut down Brutus is a significant part of mining history and southeast Kansas a part of history, which is all too easily forgotten.

Because people they don't realize that it was here and actually part of what went on, and be.

It's such a behemoth machine that people need to know literally an engineering marvel in itself were very fortunate that we have a lot of the minors around that are still around the come out and share with people and when we have visitors, they are just totally in awe of how big the machine has and just try to wrap their mind around what it took to operate the machine and when you tell me that it literally only took three people to operate the machine there just totally awestruck. You cannot believe it with machinist big so it's it's very important for us to keep the mining history of Brutus alive because of what he did but also we celebrate at the big Brutus Museum, the mining history for the men toiled underground as well. The guys that had really really dangerous jobs because there digging underneath. They would have collapses and such as that and that's one of the primary reasons why above the surface coal mining became so important, so Brutus played an Porton Park in preserving those functions well, and a special thanks to face Buchanan for the preproduction romance for telling the story. Katrina Hein for collecting the audio and Monty Montgomery for the postproduction and what a story we just heard about a massive machine cranks out 15,000 hp 11 million pounds in weight, and yet only three men are needed to operate and by the way big Brutus Doug 11 mi.² of territory and that's that 40 to 60 foot depth staggering to think that one machine could do that much work by way what it did was help our industrialization of modern America.

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