page_title: Bucyrus-Erie
section_title: 1880-1927
hierarchical_section_title: Bucyrus-Erie / History / 1880-1927
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Original: Löffelbagger "Pan American" der Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wisc. U.S.A. "Der Löffelbagger&#160;»Pan American«&#160;der Bucyrus Co. (Fig. 2) besitzt in seiner Schaufel einen Fassungsraum von 6,3 cbm und wiegt dieselbe mit Stiel 161. Er macht bei 7,62 m Wassertiefe alle 40 Sekunden einen Hub und leistet demnach rund 4000 cbm in 10 Stunden. Der Löffel ist an einem Drahtseil aufgehängt. Um den Bagger von dem Gewicht der Schaufel nebst Stiel zu entlasten und zugleich den Prahm an der Baggerstelle festzuhalten, sind an dem Baggerende desselben zwei Pfähle vorgesehen, die mittels Drahtseilen auf den Grund niedergedrückt bezw. zum Verholen hochgezogen werden. – Die Löffelbagger eignen sich am besten für harten Boden und bei beengtem Raum. Sie beanspruchen bei dauerndem Betrieb etwa 0,30 ℳ. Betriebskosten pro Kubikmeter Erde."
context_page_description: Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie.
  Renamed Bucyrus International, Inc. in 1997, it was purchased by Caterpillar in a US$7.6 billion transaction that closed on July 8, 2011. At the time of its acquisition, the Bucyrus product line included a range of material removal and material handling products used in both surface and underground mining.
context_section_description: Bucyrus was an early producer of steam shovels in its Bucyrus, Ohio headquarters and manufacturing facility. In 1893, Bucyrus moved its operations to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  In 1904 Bucyrus supplied 77 of the 102 steam shovels used to dig the Panama Canal. These were 95 ton models with five-cubic-yard buckets that could move approximately eight tons of material at once.  They were operated by a crew of four.  Similar to a locomotive, the crew was headed by an engineer, and included two firemen who stoked the boiler with coal, and a craneman.  A support crew of six on the ground laid rails on which the shovel moved.  A photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt was taken in November 1906 operating a Bucyrus shovel in Panama during his inspection trip.  In March 1910, a single Bucyrus shovel excavated 70,000 cubic yards in 26 days at the Culebra cut, setting a canal construction record.  Each shovel averaged over 1,000,000 cubic yards of earth excavated at the cut.
caption: A Bucyrus steam shovel working in the Panama Canal
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