During his inspection trip to Panama in November 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt was photographed operating a Bucyrus shovel. In March 1910, a single Bucyrus shovel excavated 70,000 cubic yards in 25 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. In 1904, Bucyrus supplied 77 of the 102 steam shovels used to dig the Panama Canal. These 95-ton models had five-cubic-yard buckets that could move approximately eight tons of material at once. They were operated by a crew of four, headed by an engineer and including 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. Theodore Roosevelt said, "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."