Electric Shovel is Mechanical MONSTER (Apr, 1933)
Electric Shovel is Mechanical MONSTER
A NEW monster in the mechanical world has made its appearance in the form of an electric excavation shovel of almost incredibly gigantic dimensions.
Shown above, the shovel has a dipper that will scoop up 18 cubic yards of dirt at one sweep, and will dig enough in a 24-hour day to fill 7,500 motor trucks of 4 yards each. A seven-passenger car can be driven through the dipper with room to spare.
The enormous reach of the shovel is illustrated in the fact that it can pick up a dipper full of earth, rotate, and dump it 200 feet away on the top of a seven-story building.
Look at the name on the side of the machine. Did anyone else read about Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne when they were little?
Later, the Jawas bought it for their own uses.
Years later the Marion Power Shovel Company built NASA’s crawler transporters.
George: I did! Had it on an LP, too, with several other stories.
I still think of it every time I see the little powershovel/bulldozer finishing off the ramp they use to get the BIG shovel out of the hole, then digging itself out (usually helped by a crane.)