A 2015 Komatsu PC3000-6 double benching blasted rock into a fleet of Komatsu HD785-7 off-road trucks. Like coal mining? Then join the PA Channel today! PAmining is on Facebook: / 100046519906306 Follow the PA on Instagram: / pa_mining
Those dump trucks are awesome, so huge. The excavator is beyond awesome, I have always wanted to learn to operate one ever since I was a kid using the sandbox lever buckets.
Katy STEVEN CLARK this machine has rock tracks, excavator and mining shovels track chains aren't designed to twist while traveling over the uneven terrain of rocks. you don't have to worry about the machine sinking here so they run these very skinny tracks to minimize the undercarriage damage
Really so do i . I love seeing excavtors work people ask me all the time i thought you were done plzying with tonka truks . I keep telling them i whent bigger ones . Loe the video.
That was another good one. I liked the drill 'squad' and watching the shot 'walk'. The 3k is a fine machine and has a fine operator. That knothead at the local boulder hole could take some lessons from him. Smooth is good, bang/flop is not!
PAmining True enough. The shooting was always good enough but some of the loading got really rough. I'm sure if I'd done it to him like he did it to us he would not have been happy.
Looks like a new mine...boy how I wish they'd leave us alone and let us mine here in eastern ky....we just lost one of the cooling towers to the coal fired plant in Ashland ky..demo for natural gas upgrade. If someone don't make some big changes around here things are gonna get far worse...someone's getting robbed every min cause peoples gotta have money and they'll get it one way or another...btw one of your best all around vids...thanks justin.. hope pa is a little better
Actually this mine started operation in 2000. $20 million was spent to completely upgrade the fleet between 2014-2015. P.S. better hope Trump gets in! And thanks, glad you enjoyed it! This was a fun video to shoot.
Can't they just ask for government assistance? 1st world countries typically have a social security system so you don't have to rob your neighbors to survive. Now I understand that the South isn't part of that and that Kenntucky has the living standard and human development index of Romania but I'm sure more successful states like California would help you out. Better asking for help and trying to develop new industries than smoking meth and living of roadkill.
Good question. Those were big boulders that were too large to load that were then re-drilled and loaded with explosives and tied into the main blast to break them up.
dang that pit looks deep. How do you guys get the coal vs how they do it in say eastern kentucky with 100 foot wide pits? looks like a bit more involved here.
The coal here lies in a syncline so there's constant coal extraction while mining down to the basin (bottom of coal) which is over 400ft deep. Think of this mine as operating within the shape of the letter "U". The rock face you see behind the PC3000 is called the bottom rock- that's the south wall of the syncline and what the main coal seam lies up against. A switchback road network is developed to allow access for the big equipment to reach the bottom coal.
I kind of miss the dinosaur sized Big Muskie and the other unique, made for purpose machines. These are still awesome if a bit generic and mass produced.
3:42 it’s funny they got protectors that protect the Rams but they do not have covers protection for the hydraulic motors and hoses on the bottom of the Machine
That's just the model number, these weigh about 250 tons, this is one of the smaller models, they do 4000,5000,7000,and 8000, now that is massive take a look.
@@PAmining thats what i thought. Our 2000s have that. Not bad when they are in rock but we have alot of junkier material and its like walking on egg shells sometimes
Yes, the 3000 loads all overburden while smaller excavators extract the coal which lies at a maximum depth of 460 feet at this mine. The coal lies in a syncline so there is continuous coal extraction as the pit progresses down
