Inside Bucyrus_ The Takeover That Silenced America’s Shovel Giant

Bucyrus helped dig the Panama Canal, built some of the largest mining machines ever made, and became one of America’s great industrial giants. But after more than a century of engineering, expansion, and dominance in heavy machinery, the company was taken over by Caterpillar — and the Bucyrus name was slowly erased from the machines it had spent generations building.

In this video, we trace the rise of Bucyrus from its early steam shovels to the giant rope shovels and draglines that helped reshape the mining world. We also look at the billion-dollar takeover that ended Bucyrus as an independent company, and how one of America’s most legendary shovel makers was swallowed alive.

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