There was 1 around Evanston WY that you could see the lights on after dark working south of I80 And this was back in 93/94 when I ran from NC to pst terminal in salt lake city there was also 1 on I 20 in Texas you could see at night to
@@gora323 and north American coal has a huge coal mine just west of waskom tx they mine on the south side of I 20 and the coal is hauled to the Northside to the power plant the 1 on I 30 is near Paris tx because back in 1993 they were moving it from 1 side of I 30 to the other they had the interstate filled with dirt because I drove a 1983 Peterbilt under the drag cables where they detoured the traffic off an off ramp across the rd they built for the dragline and back onto I 30 I was 23 yrs old at the time and that was the biggest thing I had ever seen in my life I'll go to my grave with that memory on my mind
They need to mount a large American Flag on the very top of that boom!! Wish we had sound too!!! Pretty sure that's a Phosphate mine. That machine doesn't look to be very productive right now, with such small buckets!
@@gora323 Right on. I live in central Pennsylvania in the coal region and it was impressive to see that dragline setting near the interstate out there. I always wanted a closer look but never had the time.
wake up folks it's cheaper to run big drawings then digging with tea spoon excuvators go back to your algebra book and relearn that section on calculating velocity and arch length
@@gora323 cleaning? not sure what you mean , but the lake maker dredges by my house in michigan suck up the sand and water pumping it onto land, depositing into sand piles.
@@MUCKFOOT⁶⁶⁶ they dig out stones and have to crash it with a lot of force . That's why they use excavator and not dredged. I know that dredged are limited to cleaning and digging soft (relatively) materials. Watched it in Sacramento Port bottom cleaning . All the garbage ppl drop in the water gave hard time to dredger operators.
Various ways of mining in FL. Dredges, draglines, excavators. Dredges are used to extract the sandy materials. What people don't know is FL is mostly caprock and gravel with sand. The caprock is extremely hard, takes hammers or dragline force to break
Only kind of trucking I’d do. I bet the old DM800 Mack I’ve got my eye on would drag a low boy. #65,000 bogies, bigger than that and you have to go planetary’s.
Where is that Hollywood FL? Alligator Alley and the Turnpike? I know there are some big ones in-between Arcadia and Bartow off 17 and in Center hill in Sumter county
Not very efficient that's for sure. It was either the hardest sand in the Universe or they had an elevation limit on their cut. Whatever the reason may be, I have no doubt those quarter or half buckets don't come close to offsetting the operating cost. He might have been smoothing the bottom, but I can't imagine why. Maybe that's as deep as the good sand goes. Who knows. One thing for sure- it's an awesome machine to watch. I've sat in a smaller drag at a coal mine in PA, and it was sweet let me tell you. I'm used to the cab of a D-6 or a Volvo 250, but they have nothing on a dragline. You could live in the cab of one of those. Just the cab. Heck, there were 4 of us in the cab watching the operator do his thing and we still had plenty of room to walk around. Amazing machines.
@@bethanyhaskiell9116 may be you right, and this one is not , but I was told it is the Ursa Major. I took this video from a big distance and didn't research much about this. Still , D11 bulldozer looks 4 times smaller of bucket of this thing.... Other one I film in Florida looks smaller .
@@gora323 yes the 1570w is actually a pretty large dragline and this is actually a 1570 super which is about 400 ton heavier than the regular 1570w but either way you got video of a magnificent machine a lot of people go there whole lives without ever seeing one
