I luv these smaller older draglines. This one looks like a small house or shed on tracks with a boom. Lol ...I noticed the bucket is a bit "shallow"...was that the norm back then?
The bucket is an R-B type AL lightweight , with a capacity of about 7 cu. ft. They were primarily designed for dredging, and the digging teeth, being pretty much aligned to the bottom of the bucket, didn’t have the penetration of the heavier AX series, but were more suited to cleaning ponds and waterways, where you might want to remove the silt, but not the clay lining. They are wide and shallow to carry silt, but not water.
@@arightpest3367 I’d be inclined to think that it is a Ruston and Hornsby 3 VRO or 3 VRH , depending on the age of the machine. VRO’s came first and were governed at 1050 rpm. The VRH was a higher speed engine, with alloy pistons, in lieu of cast iron, and a different design of cylinder head; they ran at 1300 rpm.
