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It always puts a smile and excitement on my face when I see one of your videos pop up on my screen. Then the joy of watching the content done to perfection. Great job as always Sir. Have a blessed and great day .
As a kid I saw a walking dragline near Masontown, West Virginia. I never saw it in operation, but seeing a machine which seemed it could fit a school bus in its bucket was amazing. My grandfather was a coal miner and mine owner in a small way. His shovel operations were nothing like mountain moving work of the greater machines. I recall walking on a road he blasted out of a hillside by drilling holes hanging a cliff with a jackhammer. PAmining helps keep me connected with those long lost roots. Many thanks and God bless him.
Ambrosia's they have a 7400 but it wasn't the same one Adobe had the one with the 16 cylinder EMD in it and it was out in barkeyville Leonard chutz had bought it off of Jim sartory who had Willowbrook mine and then they all ended up underneath Adobe
The career I never knew I wanted until it was too late. I only discovered these giant mining machines from recommends deriving from watching Diesel Creek videos. Learned all about the giant stripping shovels and draglines and realized that THAT was what I wanted to do all along. I had uncles and cousins in the open mines in Ohio and remembered as a 9 year old seeing this brontosaurus sized shovel that scared the hell out of me. Now that I'm old, I wish I had loved those monsters when I was young and had the chance.
Shame you never got to enjoy a career working on/ operating them. It's a very good paying job! And loving what you do everyday makes all the difference.
For sure, I’ve been an equipment operator over 45 years in the mining industry and the draglines were My favorite machines. Been gone from my area in NW Pa. for many years. The last working 2400 in my area was just dismantled late last year and shipped to Viet Nam. Was happy, and sad , to get a little ride on it on its final block of coal. Thank You Roger!
It is. And you would be amazed how hard it is to find dragline operators today AND what companies are willing to pay for them. It is absolutely a dieing art to run these machines.
Thanks, Pal and a nice rig and a good operator. Didn't hear any sound changes so wondering if it was pigtail electric and one that size would suit me better than a big one since I've been known to get a little erratic sometimes. Happy spring-ish and God Bless Yall!
That's amazing to watch. It looks like a real art to keep just enough tension on the drag line to keep the bucket from dumping as it's lifted. What's that apparatus with the spinning wheel about two-thirds of the way up the boom?
And that is all operator finesse on that old beauty. No interlock on that one. I could make the assumption that this fella in the seat was a top notch operator just by seeing the bucket and bucket components before I even saw it swinging. How did I make that assumption? Not many will know the answer.
Even though they are actually enormous when you are beside one, (or parked your motorhome inside it, lol ) these buckets always look so undersized compared to the machine itself. But of course it’s all related to the “weight at a distance” math. I wish we had something this big in Ontario.
Absolutely correct, especially if you look at larger draglines. The machines themselves are enormous compared to the bucket... until you stand near the bucket lol. Cheers!
Even though this is a smaller machine, guessing about 9yd. bucket and maybe 140’ boom, it does the work of 3 or 4 trucks , a loader or two, and a couple dozers, and road building and maintenance for the trucks. Somewhat slower for sure, but way more economical in the long run.
