Outlaws and big shovel

[Phill Griggs]

Sat April 4 the wild bunch took off north of the border to se a “Gang of Outlaws” and this great big old shovel that could move a lot of this earth in one swipe! come and go along with us on this day long adventure

 

[Ozarkryder]

We've ridden up to see Big Brutus a few times - kind of strange to think it cost $6.5 million* in 1962, and when the coal played out it was cheaper to leave it set than to move it to use it somewhere else.

*According to the CPI inflation calculator that is $50,519,635.76 in today's money.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=6,500,000&year1=1962&year2=2015