Thanks!! I need to do a new one with a story about it or more detail. I’ll get a new one out soon as it warms up soon. Thanks for the compliment and thanks for watching. Glad you liked it.
Thank you!! I’m going to do another video soon and I hope it will be better with more info. That was my first real video on here. I agree, there should be a museum with more of this type stuff. These are sitting in the woods rotting away, sad to see them there.
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it!! It was one of my first videos and I had no idea what I was doing. I need to make another video with more info as a follow-up.
The first machine, the one with tracks, is a Manitowoc 3500, there's an operating one at the National Pike Steam Show on the other side of PA. The walking machine is a Page 600-series, there should be a plaque on the front right that says exactly what it is, on the other side of the boom from where you were standing.
Harold, you are the man!!! Thank You!! I’ve been looking a plate with a name on it for a long time and I’ve never found but one and it had part patent info on it but not the machine. I’ll make another video once I research these machines some more. This was one of my first videos and I didn’t have much info.
@@southerntraveler I think it should be below the window. If you're not able to find it it may be missing. I think it's really cool you live so close to those machines. If I lived there, personally, I'd try to buy the land and make a museum.
@@HaroldBiondo I’ll try to check this week and I’ll let you know. If not, it will be next week. Those machines through the woods are about 200 yards from me. Everyone on RU-vid loves them, here, they are just old machines to the locals. I’ll stay in touch and let you know what I find.
Interesting video of old abandoned draglines! The long piece next to the dragline bucket is a spreader bar that would have been suspended above the bucket, & towards the rear of the bucket. Its purpose is to connect the bucket lift (hoist) chains (attached on both sides of the bucket, near the bottom of the bucket) to two lift chains above the spreader bar, & also to keep the bucket lift chains from contacting the bucket sides during the digging process. The ends of the two lift chains above the spreader bar would come together (& form a triangle) & attach to the bottom of a bucket dump pulley block, & the bucket lift cable would attach to the top of the bucket dump pulley block, to raise & lower the bucket. Long winded explanation, I know, but if watch a RU-vid dragline video, it would be quick & easy to see how the dragline bucket pieces are arranged.
Thank you for the explanation. I’ve been there many times but never filmed it. It’s beside my house about 100 yards away. Someone took one of the other buckets recently as they were going to sell the property. I’ll check out some videos over the weekend. Thanks for the comment and also watching the video.
First one looks to be a Manitowoc 3500. Sadly i think the crack heads got to the radiator. Looks like the rear cover were the rad is missing. The other one is a Page 6-18 looks like it has been vandalized also. Missing its radiator and engine parts. The 6-18 has a very interesting page diesel engine they were a low idle high torque engine.
From what I could see of the larger drag line bucket it appears to be an ESCO bucket with a cast arch that would have been cast in Portland, Oregon. The cast parts were produced in Portland, shipped to Danville Illinois where the bucket would have been fabricated. Some of those buckets were fabricated in Portland, but by far the buckets of that size and larger would likely have been fabricated in Danville, Danville being much closer to the location of use. Buckets of that size were very difficult to ship assembled, so they were fabricated at the closest facility. Nick, North West Farmer (Oregon)
King Coal has had deep pockets, cheap labor, and next to no public sector oversight. Steel is sought for smelting in South Korea. My.87 truck was scrapped and came back as fresh poured hex hardware parts.
Just guessing, but the old truck (which doesn't appear to have a cab or chassis) was probably only used to store the explosives on site, not to transport them. The other box was is where they probably stored their blasting caps. For obvious reasons it is normally considered a bad practice (also illegal) to store caps and explosives in the same container.
That makes sense as they should never be stored together. It just looks like a stove, I’ll go back and look inside of it and see what the inside looks like.
I live in Langhorne Pa but would make the trek up there for the day, I’m sure my kids and I would love to see them in person. Can I drive a pick up truck back there or is it ATV only trail?
I’m in Olyphant, just outside of Scranton. You can actually walk to them from my house. They are about 200 yards from the house. I’m in Thailand until Sunday but most any weekend you could come up. Email me your contact info, timseaman9@gmail.com and I’ll send you my number.
😂That wasn't a stove beside the old vehicle it was a very old explosives storage magazine I'm guessing this might have been what they kept the blasting caps in to keep them separated from the other explosives that were stored inside the truck. because you don't store blasting caps and dynamite together because that's just asking for trouble
I think you are correct! Another user commented on that as well. I never would have thought of keeping the blasting caps in a stove but maybe it was code back then. For sure, you wouldn’t store them together either. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching.
@@southerntraveler I grew up in the southern West Virginia coal fields and had several family members who worked in underground coal mines and several surface coal mines. My stepfather was a state fire marshal and at the time they were the ones who had to deal with any explosives bombs etc. that were found in the state and disposed of them. So I grew up with a healthy understanding of explosives and how dangerous they could possibly be. I guess that's why I because a US Navy EOD technician. EOD means Explosive Ordnance Disposal so I have dealt with different types of bombs IEDs and explosives all over the world and still continue to do this same thing but as a private military contractor these days. So I'm not trying to say that I'm a expert on explosives but I do have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to this subject matter lol. Keep posting videos and I'm sure you will get the occasional rude comments from time to time but you just have to overlook them and keep doing what you do and try to have a good time in the process. Peace love an chicken grease Dude out
@@dudester7876 cool..thanks for info! I’ll keep posting for sure. I do have a ‘Broken Arrow’ I could post a video on down the road from me here in NC. I’m home for a few weeks and in the 60’s they lost a nuclear bomb in a B-52 crash here.
@@southerntraveler I would love to hear the broken arrow story. Most people don't realize that it happened enough times that it got the code name Broken arrow. While I was going through EOD training we were taught how to render safe every type of nuclear weapon our country has an possibly a nuke or two from some other countries around the world. I was thinking to myself when I was taking one of the hands on test's on one of our nuclear weapons and I was like if this was a real world event and I messed up not only would it take my life and my EOD teammates lives but everyone else's lives say like half the East Coast give or take a couple hundred thousand lives. If I ever mess up on a bomb or IED then it's suddenly not my problem anymore and they will develop new procedures to try and prevent whatever I messed up on so that it hopefully never happens again. But if it were to happen I know they will say my name on the first Saturday in May every year because that's national EOD day and they have a service at the national EOD memorial and they read all the names of the fallen EOD brothers and sisters so they are never forgotten. # WE REMEMBER #EOMFD 🧨💥🦄
The trees may overtake the boom by the time that happens. There isn’t anyone in the woods near it and it’s about a mile back in the woods from the road. Hopefully, nothing will happen.
I’m thinking the company went broke due to the coal being so deep in the ground. They moved about 500 acres of dirt from looking at the area. I’ll have to find someone who remembers the operation.
