I've watched a lot of videos on these huge machines and this one is the best so far, bar NONE! THanks for whoever shot this one and got everything there was to get about everything there was that worked.
Thanks for this video. Back in the early '80s my wife and I watched the GEM in action near New Athens Ohio. While we were there a small tornado came through the mining site but the GEM kept working like nothing happened. This was back when you could still visit places like this.
@@joshrepik Yes, it had "THE GEM" on the side in big letters. We stopped at the Consol office and they gave us some nice promotional literature for it and then allowed me to drive my car down to the work site where we sat and watched the beast at work. Nice people. Great memory.
I got to see it in action more than once and also it’s “kind of” twin the Silver Spade. It was altogether different than watching Big Muskie as it was a literal dragline and these two were closer to dragline excavators. It’s like watching 3-4 story buildings that move around acting like machines. When I was a kid, things like these were the spark for my imagination.
I live in Holloway Ohio right next to Egypt Valley the place the shovel was named after .
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Jeeezus, what the main boom does during acceleration / deceleration when the whole machine is rotating! I mean...I knew it but visually...its almost horrifying! Great video. Shame its all gone.
It IS a shame that these giant mining machines are all gone. What is even worse is that the MEANS to build those machines are also gone. Even if we magically restored the heavy smokestack industries and all the backstory to making stuff like the Gem and Big Muskie, the PEOPLE have long lost the knowledge and industrial habits that make it all work. In short, we couldn't build great things, like these mining machines, if our lives depended on it.
The silver spade is the twin to the gem of Egypt both and big brute and big David were bucyrus erie 1950 b power shovel and boy are those machines bigger than a house
