I'll never understand the half full buckets, Never!!!!! Waste of machine, time and money!!! If their pay-check depended on full buckets, they would be overflowing every cycle!!!!
I have watched videos of this machine hundreds of times, and of The Big Muskie dragline, and other machines over the years. I still do and they never cease to amaze and impress me. They all are engineering and manufacturing marvels. It is very sad that most are gone, now, torn down and scrapped.
Stupid photographer...and evidence made me wait 13 minutes until I saw it fall and settle on the ground, but he missed the beautiful shot. He stopped filming at minute 13.
I have watched these Silver Spade videos hundreds of times. I just thought and had to wonder; What gets tore up if a lift cable breaks, which might cause the other cable to break, and that loaded bucket and arm swings down and hits the machine? I assume it never happened, but still, it could have and that would be a lot of weight falling into the machine.
Who checks if any people are in the bucket before going again? Seems like the operator would not be able to see inside or immediately in front of the bucket as it stopped.
Moved many 2400s back in the 70s, 80s. Back then the company I worked for when there wasen't anything to pick up with the crane the operators got out of the crane and got greasy with everyone else.
The operator of the silver spade has some serious skills to get that dipper arm in the hole without damaging the threads on it. Boy i bet it's a massive pain in the arse having to carry the massive tools all the way up that boom to reattach the dipper arm , i bet the mechanics are pleased that it doesn't happen very often 😂
So sad watching them cut these awesome machines up for scrap, it's a real shame that the biggest one's wasn't preserved for future generations to be able to see these awesome giant's face to face, especially big muskie that should have been saved because there will never be another dragline that size ever built again.
I can't believe that no one bothered to check if the ground it was walked onto was stable enough to take it's weight and make sure it was rebuilt properly, i mean to me that's just basic common sense but obviously cemex thought different. I'm so sorry the operator was put in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, dam he was lucky to survive that .
I bet it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild it , it just looks like a massive pile of scrap. Does anybody know how much it cost to rebuild?????? and would it have been easier to just buy a new one ?????
Dam that must have been shit your pants scarry when that flipped on it's roof , i bet the poor guy operating it when it flipped didn't know what the hell was going on. I really hope he wasn't seriously injured.
Thats not at all what i remember the Page the worked near my parents home in 1970s. This clearly is turbocharged and running at much higher rpm than what i remember. And one of their mechanics showed me a piston ring,it was 15" in diameter.
