Marion 183-M Documentary 

I love your vintage equipment walk-arounds! Best videos on RU-vid!

thank you for that walkaround. I dont know much about draglines.

Great video. Kyle

Can you do follow up videos explaining the fate of some of these grand machines since you filmed them

Nice video, very informative! How much work would need to be done to make it operational again? Do companies periodically 'maintenance' them so when they need to be put back into service, it is less work that needs to be done?

@PAmining I sort of thought that,but thought I'd ask anyways.Thanks

The guy explaining this is wrong. I worked with one of these machines in1966 The main engine , a Cat D398 ran the hoist and the drag. the cat D343 ran the generator for the swing motors, and the boom hoist, along with the aircompressor, common cooling fan, and the night digging lights.

@UnitCrane514 Thank you!

This machine is single-motor with mechanical transmission?

@JonesDieselPerforman Same way any electric machine is. Trailing power cable brings the power in to the generators.

Only 37 units sold from 1956 from 1974 ??? Or is that 37 000 ?

@FordGuy61 This machine had a lot of copper and parts robbed out of it over the years by vandals, so to re-wire the entire machine and make necessary repairs to get it operational again would be an expense.

How was this machine connected to the power grid?

The man behind the camera can be seen on my Faceboom Page, if you haven't already joined lol

I thought maybe he got the engines wrong. I never ran one of these but I know the drag load is heavier than the hoist load and you still have to provide power for pneumatic and electric systems.

@blinko656 Lol, it would make a cool show

No Bucyrus Erie bought Marion

@HouseForLife6 No 37

@keanan00709alex Thanks