From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How big?
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 22:13:57 -0400

I'm just impressed that someone else knows who John Prine is.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Lynch [mailto:rw_lynch at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:52 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How big?

--- "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:

> At 11:58 AM 6/9/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
> >http://www.raise.ru/articles/421/
> >
> >And for an approximate translation, go to
> >http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
>
> Yeah, those bucket wheel surface excavators are big
> machines alright.
> There's a better picture, and more of them, and some info
> in English, for
> it at:
>
http://www.midsouthraves.org/community/showthread.php?t=43294
>

A Bucyrus-Erie shovel, similar to the size of that beast,
was part of a lyric by John Prine in his song "Paradise".
Back when I worked for TVA I had a tour of that shovel, at
the time the world's largest self-powered machine, and
wrote about it (and other experiences in Paradise) in a
fanzine article:

http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m28/rich.htm

Rich Lynch
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