Buycrus Erie 50B Steam Shovel heading out to the pi.
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@loopwithers Жыл бұрын
When I was five, my mum used to take me to see Ruston Bucyrus shovels working in the quarry. She sketched them from the cliff top. Easel and watercolor. One day, we got spotted. Big guys turned up and started shouting. Then, they saw her drawings. They took their caps off and departed. Apologised. Carried on. Great men.
@critical_always
Жыл бұрын
That is a cool story. Did any of the drawings survive?
@loopwithers
Жыл бұрын
@@critical_always yes! And the coloured watercolor and ink ones, as well.
@blueborealis
Жыл бұрын
@@loopwithers Links or scans for the curious? Even a picture on imgur on something? I'd love to see these.
@loopwithers
Жыл бұрын
@@blueborealis the artist formally known as Entropic Kitten...? Thanks for your interest. Are you on Instagram?
@blueborealis
Жыл бұрын
@@loopwithers Yes, and yes, but rarely used. Are they on there? I really would like to see them. It's not often you hear about people doing water colors of heavy equipment.
@rand49er Жыл бұрын
To this day, I don't call them excavators. I call them steam shovels. Such a beast of a machine. Thanks for showing us that survivor.
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think anyone in the earthmoving industry did until hydraulics took over from cables. I helped rebuild a Northwest shovel in 1966 and it was powered by a DOHC 6-cylinder Murphy diesel.
@elliotkane4443
Жыл бұрын
You call a hydraulic excavator a steam shovel?
@fjs_forfjun1107
Жыл бұрын
Grew up in company housing on mine property. Still called “Shovels”. They dropped the “Steam” part of the name since they’re electric now.
@jackb8682
Жыл бұрын
Steam, electric or diesel, if the mechanical action is like this old girl's, it's a shovel. (It replicates the action of a hand shovel) as opposed to a dragline, (self descriptive) or excavator, which have different soil moving actions.
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
@@jackb8682 True. But they all like to play in the dirt.
@georgecarter838 Жыл бұрын
What amazes me about steam shovels is that it's like a living being instead of a machine.
@silflim
Жыл бұрын
Тогда видимо это живое существо при смерти
@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan
Жыл бұрын
Yes, indeed, anything powered by steam whether it’s a steam shovel, steam truck, steam crane, steam traction engine, or a steam locomotive is the closest thing man has come to creating life
@theshapeexists
Жыл бұрын
I saw union pacifics Big Boy Locomotive in Denver recently. That is one helluva steam machine if you haven't seen it. I'd been waiting 40 years for 1 to be restored. So glad they did. I love the ground shaking as it rolls up. So much power its almost unfathomable.
@walter6873 Жыл бұрын
Thank you to all that save these beautiful machines
@johngillon6969 Жыл бұрын
not a transistor or capacitor or cpu or tech support needed here . so refreshing.
@bacilluscereus1299
Жыл бұрын
Low-teck FTW.
@iancraig5471
Жыл бұрын
I kinda wonder if there is a way of modernizing this without adding electronics. Natural gas fired boiler, closed loop steam. Kinda like a Doble steam car but with more modern materials.
@BNU30C
Жыл бұрын
Post-EMP mining rig right here
@sykostevesfupadventure
Жыл бұрын
The operator was using every limb they had to run this and needed another feller keeping the fire going.
@sykostevesfupadventure
Жыл бұрын
Definitely took a lot of know how or you'd be messing up a lot of stuff lol. Not only do they not make equipment like this but they don't make men like that either.
@acdii Жыл бұрын
Pretty cool to see an old shovel running that at one time built the Panama Canal by the dozens. Imagine running one down in Panama in all that heat and all the noise they make in a canyon.
@adambergendorff2702 Жыл бұрын
Wow, those things must have looked like monsters when they were running!
@robertjones7419
Жыл бұрын
You give that machine plenty of room….
@bacilluscereus1299
Жыл бұрын
Ever seen the modern incarnations:question
@tomp.6239
Жыл бұрын
That's actually a small one.
@piekielrl Жыл бұрын
Love these old machines, so much nicer than modern stuff! OK, since no one else seems to have said it, here goes...LOOK It's Mike Mulligan and Mary Ann!
@stacase
Жыл бұрын
1st thing I thought of, thanks for posting (-:
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
I said that under a Caterpillar video about the Bucyrus Erie shovels building the Panama Canal. I would love to have one of these smaller ones. Somewhere I read that the last steam shovels made was just after WW II. A California company ordered two from the Lima Locomotive Works. One it put to work while the other was stored so that future generations could see a steam shovels the way they came from the factory.
@QuadMochaMatti
Жыл бұрын
I knew I should have scrolled down a bit farther, because I just made a similar comment referring to Mike Mulligan! As someone born in the early '70s, that was one of my most favorite stories as a young boy. 😊
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
@@QuadMochaMatti As someone born in the late ‘40s, it was one of my favorites man and boy. Still is. Wish I could find a detailed schematic if one so I could try to build one of wood for my grandson. Friends of ours in South Georgia had an ancient wooden model of one. It must have been built from at least 200 parts. Absolutely gorgeous.
@bullhauler5065
Жыл бұрын
Can't imagine how hot it was inside that steam control room, no thanks I'll take air-conditioned cab any day.
@squangan Жыл бұрын
I am in awe. I guess I always thought the term steam shovel was just a saying. That’s a second guy in the back running the boiler isn’t he? What a machine!
@RobertBrown-jz4qj
Жыл бұрын
You never read the story pf the steam shovel that dug the basement for a school. Then could not het out. So they use it as the furnace. Read ot in 1st grade.
@chucklipka3215
Жыл бұрын
@@RobertBrown-jz4qj That's "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel." The machine had a name, but it's too many years ago to remember.
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
The guy in the back is the “fireman”. Just like on a railroad steam engine.
@jamespowell7302
Жыл бұрын
@@chucklipka3215 Mary-Ann is the name you are looking for. (and no, I didn't have to go look it up. Is a town hall, not a school. 50 trucks to carry away the dirt :).
@terrystewart2070 Жыл бұрын
To those comments about "this thing should be in a museum", it is. The Roots of Motive Power is a working and restoring museum in Willits, Ca. Comprised of a group of people who have over many years put together a pretty big stable of steam operated logging and construction equipment (as well as some gas and diesel antique stuff) that has been salvaged after years of abandonment in the woods, or as they explained at one their shows, this shovel last worked on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and was left in the mud flats for years (at least that's what I think they said, don't quote though LOL). They do their own restoration work and used to put on classes where you could join up, and learn all about these machines and do hands on work. They generally have a big show once a year, used to be on Labor Day weekend I think. Anyway, if you have interest in this stuff you really need to go to their show.
@jasoncorreal8810 Жыл бұрын
Blows my mind that this was once considered state of the art!
@AKUJIVALDO
Жыл бұрын
When all you have is hand shovels...This is A Miracle!
@desubtilizer
Жыл бұрын
And that was only like 100 years ago...
@williamsmith9048
Жыл бұрын
Its a work of art
@hobsonbeeman7529 Жыл бұрын
Who would have ever thought it would be headed out the gate under its own power…..amazing!
@barryphillips7327
Жыл бұрын
Never EVER underestimate the POWER in Steam!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Ollisaa6095
7 ай бұрын
to me it looked like it had some problems moving (not enough power) but it can be just because of the large gear reducions?
@frontagulus Жыл бұрын
There's always someone out there waving their arms around uselessly
@robleary3353 Жыл бұрын
Love that old bits of kit like this still exist and work! Nice one!. Nuff said!. 🙂
@barryphillips7327 Жыл бұрын
So GOOD this old girl Did NOT end up on the Scrap like so many others, a similar machine is not too far from me in town Not in running order, this machine MUST be at LEAST 150 years old the fact that it is still here is a miracle but it runs drives under its OWN POWER QUITE INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@damiencrossley7497 Жыл бұрын
Back then the wave of the future!
@MitzvosGolem1 Жыл бұрын
Panama canal machines I recall? I ran a BE 66 shovel Murphy Diesel at our antique show . Compare to my 325 CAT 1998 excavator.. Operator got some workout in those friction shovels. Wow!
@Nick-nw6zg Жыл бұрын
Awesome beautiful piece of history
@MidwestSirenProductions Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful machine. A fine piece of craftsmanship!
@athensboy123
Жыл бұрын
I agree as well...
@chrisstaylor8377 Жыл бұрын
Nothing worse than some one on the ground waiving there arms around when you can see what your doing
@jamielacourse7578 Жыл бұрын
A real life "Mike Mulligan & his Steam Shovel"........
@ryanmiller2143
Жыл бұрын
That was my favorite book as a kid
@artmoss6889 Жыл бұрын
I've often wondered what a steam shovel looked and sounded like. Thanks for the video.
@tootired76 Жыл бұрын
I love how they pulled blocks of wood out from the track after turning the machine!
@jackb8682
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for explaining what that was about. Was this the standard way to turn these or is it a work-around because the track drive was faulty ?
@tootired76
Жыл бұрын
@@jackb8682 That from what I understand is how they did it. No faults with it. I watched them do it in Rollag, Minnesota a year and a half ago.
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
I think that is a work around. I’ve done that on much newer diesel machines. I mean look for yourself. The new has worn off this machine eons ago. And it is obviously nowhere near restored. It’s probably pretty dangerous. If you are reading this, you have some sort of computer. Look up steam explosions.
@stevendephillips2490 Жыл бұрын
I am very happy they have preserved that piece of machine history.
@chemistryinstruments7156 Жыл бұрын
Saw an abandoned one in Virginia once amazing to see one working
@fordsrestorations970 Жыл бұрын
What a wonderful piece of Art , if I owned this I would park it right in my front yard , what a dinosaur !
@miked.5287 Жыл бұрын
Imagine how hot it would be in the cab of that beast..
@oldfarthacks
Жыл бұрын
Yep no AC, and even more so for the engineer running the powerplant.
@bigears4014 Жыл бұрын
What a challenging machine to operate
@ersikillian Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing an ancient steam pile driver working in the Chesapeake bay back around 1980.
@fraserport6623 Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic contraption that is!
@dtj9923 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love it! I didn't realize these had horizontal boilers, the front of the smokebox poking out the side of the cab scores extra points!
@KMPandme Жыл бұрын
That's incredible. Never seen one in action, what a monster
@williamworth2746 Жыл бұрын
Awesome living museum piece
@jackb8682 Жыл бұрын
The guys who invented the steam shovel said......."let's make a giant mechanical digging machine.....but how shall we do it ?" "I know ! lets copy the way a man uses a long handled shovel to shift dirt" ........and there you have it, watch these things working and that's exactly what it is.
@nikson1520 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful 🥰
@theMG174 Жыл бұрын
I read the Mike Mulligan book a zillion times myself!
@tomrogers9467
4 ай бұрын
Still have my copy.
@kd4pba Жыл бұрын
I honestly think this is the coolest shit I have seen in years.
@hughezzell100005 ай бұрын
My back makes the sounds of those tracks every morning when I roll out of bed. i hope that old guy running that thing teaches some young buck how to do it. kudos to the guy in the back keeping that boiler running correctly. looks like they were using the wood blocks to lock the left track for the turn.
@cartman4885 Жыл бұрын
So that's so cool to see, so did it pull a water tank along with it
@Lichnaya_pravda Жыл бұрын
It seems alive, like ancient dragon
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
The antithesis of the tiger.
@Fluffy-Tail-000010 ай бұрын
Boy, to see that thing in action was something.
@glynluff2595 Жыл бұрын
Looking at the sheer dynamics of size and motion one can see it must have been quite possible to upset or overturn one of these amazing machines!
@CybreSmee Жыл бұрын
Jeez, thats something out of my childhood nightmares.
@michaelguerin56 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. I have subscribed.
@oldfarthacks Жыл бұрын
Such fun. Would be a great model build. You would of course have to bury a RC system in it to properly use it. But say in one of the live steam railroad scales, say at about 1/5 scale.
@gregdolecki8530 Жыл бұрын
Such a fantastic beast of a machine.
@Ollisaa60957 ай бұрын
beautiful machine!
@charliedunivan2660 Жыл бұрын
Old school gotta love it
@metalrooves3651 Жыл бұрын
These were so much better than what we have now!
@AndreZA979 Жыл бұрын
What a machine!
@athensboy123 Жыл бұрын
Wow that's older than my mom 🤣 TRULY A DINOSAUR!!!! just imagine being drunk or high and seeing this scary ass old Beast coming at u?? 😂 Way different than the trackhoes we run at my job...
@PlanetMojo Жыл бұрын
Beautiful machine!
@robertfeeley-6514 Жыл бұрын
God, what a machine!
@scottmeeker9971 Жыл бұрын
Looks like a great lumbering behemoth, perhaps a dragon.
@benjaminallen2370 Жыл бұрын
Holy cow… i’ve seen my granddad in pics with bucyrus eerie shovels… but have never seen one run.
@bobburro3642 Жыл бұрын
What a monster
@s.a.3882 Жыл бұрын
There used to be two walking bucket cranes at my local sand pits. Sadly I never managed to arrive when they were working.
@crazyfvck Жыл бұрын
Awesome machine :)
@Cola645 ай бұрын
This is what a TRex looked like before breakfast 🦖
@jeromejeanbaptiste5921 Жыл бұрын
Nice very nice greating from ardenne
@user-fn1rb9ze6p Жыл бұрын
😯 this is amazing
@dean4817 Жыл бұрын
That is awesome 👍💪
@edunb1497 Жыл бұрын
Bucyrus, Bucyrus...!
@zoozu2067 Жыл бұрын
What a fine machine
@user-wd5hs1ko2g Жыл бұрын
Охренеть можно, этим экскаватором можно и капать и в нём же в баню ходить!!!
@user-tq6eq8kj3t
Жыл бұрын
Фсьо правильно - хто хорошо работает - тот хорошо купается)))
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
It might take the hide off!
@wandergrift-e1y Жыл бұрын
Wonderful it's really monster!
@user-vz1wf1dv9e Жыл бұрын
Охренеть живой динозавр 👍
@robertfeeley-6514 Жыл бұрын
Can't swing when traveling. Both functions use same clutches. I worked on these machines and when the teeth break off the swing gear you can get underneath and weld the back in. No mechanic that I know ever did a decent job. Just to difficult.
@waltergorzkowski72466 ай бұрын
Really cool. I wish more were saved. But who knew back then.
@jjrod50 Жыл бұрын
A real live Snort.
@irishlad8797 Жыл бұрын
Wow shes gorgeous ❤
@robertjackson8728 Жыл бұрын
I'm trying to imagine Big Musky running on steam like this!
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
Big Muskie was primarily electric with some hydraulic(mostly in the travel). Big Muskie was also a dragline, not a shovel front.
@TheGhostzZ Жыл бұрын
This should go inside a museum!
@marvindebot3264
Жыл бұрын
Why? Why would you want it sitting dead in a building instead of being outside, alive and doing what it was built to do? What a messed up POV you have sir.
@Rubensgardens.Skogsmuseum
Жыл бұрын
Se have a museum and the machines are used every year in our own forestry. Even the hand saws are kept sharp and used.
@confusinga.d.d5064 Жыл бұрын
Did anyone else think of the book Mike mulligan and his steam shovel?
@terryatpi Жыл бұрын
That’s hot! Cool
@toddr.4630 Жыл бұрын
" it's like a sauna in this cab" 😝
@goransandstrom6266 Жыл бұрын
Nu hjälps vi åt att sprida detta program vidare 😃😃😃😃😃😃
@dont-want-no-wrench Жыл бұрын
what an aweseome old dragon
@kriscalverley2131 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting machine. Cables ,pulleys,fulcrum points,. Germany needs to feed their coal plants now,it will fit into their agenda
@bacilluscereus1299
Жыл бұрын
Just waiting on Greta's approval.
@swampen85 Жыл бұрын
Unbelewebel cool!!!! 😮😊 what a Beast!!!
@PS-wn7cw Жыл бұрын
This is the stuff of my books as a kid in the 70s. Steam shovel this, steam shovel that. Very cool, or hot - literally. Let's see, an external combustion engine with exposed firebox, pressurized steam, cables, pulleys. Gutsy people back then.
@realtruth172 Жыл бұрын
do they still have the owners manual?
@randymagnum143 Жыл бұрын
Get some, Mike Mulligan!
@RonnieNees22 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@maxkallio3723 Жыл бұрын
What a monster!
@bartonrobinett3790 Жыл бұрын
The Rona will get me if I don’t wear a mask outdoors while driving/herding a STEAM SHOVEL! Love it!
@jackb8682
Жыл бұрын
Driving/herding....😂😂😂 love it !
@bishopcorva Жыл бұрын
An elder iron dragon in disguise if there ever was one. Going to be hard to convince otherwise.
@johnr5252 Жыл бұрын
Cool name. If I had a son I would name him Bucyrus.
@gehlen52 Жыл бұрын
That's Bucyrus, as in Bucyrus, Ohio where the company first started.
@jockellis Жыл бұрын
Is that a railroad track between the cut and high grass? What RR is the caboose from?
@xXturbo86Xx Жыл бұрын
SPS. Self Propelled Sauna. It can even dig out it's own coal.
@pedroalvesoliveira4910 Жыл бұрын
muito melhor que um churrasco que não tem como come
@cliffbrown4217 Жыл бұрын
That is cool.
@ld4244 Жыл бұрын
Amazing they were still building them in 1939, 3 years after the first Spitfire flew.
@HayWoodsandWetlands Жыл бұрын
awesome
@dominictoon7768 Жыл бұрын
Spelling Bucyrus correctly would have made it easier to find.
@robertfitzsimmons9428 Жыл бұрын
Good god what magnificent absolute beast! Big ugly brute and its gorgeous!
@75impalaca91 Жыл бұрын
Was this machine in Evansville or where they made there? I live close by and never knew of any steam shovels left it’s pretty awesome.
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When I was five, my mum used to take me to see Ruston Bucyrus shovels working in the quarry. She sketched them from the cliff top. Easel and watercolor. One day, we got spotted. Big guys turned up and started shouting. Then, they saw her drawings. They took their caps off and departed. Apologised. Carried on. Great men.
@critical_always
Жыл бұрын
That is a cool story. Did any of the drawings survive?
@loopwithers
Жыл бұрын
@@critical_always yes! And the coloured watercolor and ink ones, as well.
@blueborealis
Жыл бұрын
@@loopwithers Links or scans for the curious? Even a picture on imgur on something? I'd love to see these.
@loopwithers
Жыл бұрын
@@blueborealis the artist formally known as Entropic Kitten...? Thanks for your interest. Are you on Instagram?
@blueborealis
Жыл бұрын
@@loopwithers Yes, and yes, but rarely used. Are they on there? I really would like to see them. It's not often you hear about people doing water colors of heavy equipment.
To this day, I don't call them excavators. I call them steam shovels. Such a beast of a machine. Thanks for showing us that survivor.
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think anyone in the earthmoving industry did until hydraulics took over from cables. I helped rebuild a Northwest shovel in 1966 and it was powered by a DOHC 6-cylinder Murphy diesel.
@elliotkane4443
Жыл бұрын
You call a hydraulic excavator a steam shovel?
@fjs_forfjun1107
Жыл бұрын
Grew up in company housing on mine property. Still called “Shovels”. They dropped the “Steam” part of the name since they’re electric now.
@jackb8682
Жыл бұрын
Steam, electric or diesel, if the mechanical action is like this old girl's, it's a shovel. (It replicates the action of a hand shovel) as opposed to a dragline, (self descriptive) or excavator, which have different soil moving actions.
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
@@jackb8682 True. But they all like to play in the dirt.
What amazes me about steam shovels is that it's like a living being instead of a machine.
@silflim
Жыл бұрын
Тогда видимо это живое существо при смерти
@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan
Жыл бұрын
Yes, indeed, anything powered by steam whether it’s a steam shovel, steam truck, steam crane, steam traction engine, or a steam locomotive is the closest thing man has come to creating life
@theshapeexists
Жыл бұрын
I saw union pacifics Big Boy Locomotive in Denver recently. That is one helluva steam machine if you haven't seen it. I'd been waiting 40 years for 1 to be restored. So glad they did. I love the ground shaking as it rolls up. So much power its almost unfathomable.
Thank you to all that save these beautiful machines
not a transistor or capacitor or cpu or tech support needed here . so refreshing.
@bacilluscereus1299
Жыл бұрын
Low-teck FTW.
@iancraig5471
Жыл бұрын
I kinda wonder if there is a way of modernizing this without adding electronics. Natural gas fired boiler, closed loop steam. Kinda like a Doble steam car but with more modern materials.
@BNU30C
Жыл бұрын
Post-EMP mining rig right here
@sykostevesfupadventure
Жыл бұрын
The operator was using every limb they had to run this and needed another feller keeping the fire going.
@sykostevesfupadventure
Жыл бұрын
Definitely took a lot of know how or you'd be messing up a lot of stuff lol. Not only do they not make equipment like this but they don't make men like that either.
Pretty cool to see an old shovel running that at one time built the Panama Canal by the dozens. Imagine running one down in Panama in all that heat and all the noise they make in a canyon.
Wow, those things must have looked like monsters when they were running!
@robertjones7419
Жыл бұрын
You give that machine plenty of room….
@bacilluscereus1299
Жыл бұрын
Ever seen the modern incarnations:question
@tomp.6239
Жыл бұрын
That's actually a small one.
Love these old machines, so much nicer than modern stuff! OK, since no one else seems to have said it, here goes...LOOK It's Mike Mulligan and Mary Ann!
@stacase
Жыл бұрын
1st thing I thought of, thanks for posting (-:
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
I said that under a Caterpillar video about the Bucyrus Erie shovels building the Panama Canal. I would love to have one of these smaller ones. Somewhere I read that the last steam shovels made was just after WW II. A California company ordered two from the Lima Locomotive Works. One it put to work while the other was stored so that future generations could see a steam shovels the way they came from the factory.
@QuadMochaMatti
Жыл бұрын
I knew I should have scrolled down a bit farther, because I just made a similar comment referring to Mike Mulligan! As someone born in the early '70s, that was one of my most favorite stories as a young boy. 😊
@jockellis
Жыл бұрын
@@QuadMochaMatti As someone born in the late ‘40s, it was one of my favorites man and boy. Still is. Wish I could find a detailed schematic if one so I could try to build one of wood for my grandson. Friends of ours in South Georgia had an ancient wooden model of one. It must have been built from at least 200 parts. Absolutely gorgeous.
@bullhauler5065
Жыл бұрын
Can't imagine how hot it was inside that steam control room, no thanks I'll take air-conditioned cab any day.
I am in awe. I guess I always thought the term steam shovel was just a saying. That’s a second guy in the back running the boiler isn’t he? What a machine!
@RobertBrown-jz4qj
Жыл бұрын
You never read the story pf the steam shovel that dug the basement for a school. Then could not het out. So they use it as the furnace. Read ot in 1st grade.
@chucklipka3215
Жыл бұрын
@@RobertBrown-jz4qj That's "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel." The machine had a name, but it's too many years ago to remember.
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
The guy in the back is the “fireman”. Just like on a railroad steam engine.
@jamespowell7302
Жыл бұрын
@@chucklipka3215 Mary-Ann is the name you are looking for. (and no, I didn't have to go look it up. Is a town hall, not a school. 50 trucks to carry away the dirt :).
To those comments about "this thing should be in a museum", it is. The Roots of Motive Power is a working and restoring museum in Willits, Ca. Comprised of a group of people who have over many years put together a pretty big stable of steam operated logging and construction equipment (as well as some gas and diesel antique stuff) that has been salvaged after years of abandonment in the woods, or as they explained at one their shows, this shovel last worked on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and was left in the mud flats for years (at least that's what I think they said, don't quote though LOL). They do their own restoration work and used to put on classes where you could join up, and learn all about these machines and do hands on work. They generally have a big show once a year, used to be on Labor Day weekend I think. Anyway, if you have interest in this stuff you really need to go to their show.
Blows my mind that this was once considered state of the art!
@AKUJIVALDO
Жыл бұрын
When all you have is hand shovels...This is A Miracle!
@desubtilizer
Жыл бұрын
And that was only like 100 years ago...
@williamsmith9048
Жыл бұрын
Its a work of art
Who would have ever thought it would be headed out the gate under its own power…..amazing!
@barryphillips7327
Жыл бұрын
Never EVER underestimate the POWER in Steam!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Ollisaa6095
7 ай бұрын
to me it looked like it had some problems moving (not enough power) but it can be just because of the large gear reducions?
There's always someone out there waving their arms around uselessly
Love that old bits of kit like this still exist and work! Nice one!. Nuff said!. 🙂
So GOOD this old girl Did NOT end up on the Scrap like so many others, a similar machine is not too far from me in town Not in running order, this machine MUST be at LEAST 150 years old the fact that it is still here is a miracle but it runs drives under its OWN POWER QUITE INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back then the wave of the future!
Panama canal machines I recall? I ran a BE 66 shovel Murphy Diesel at our antique show . Compare to my 325 CAT 1998 excavator.. Operator got some workout in those friction shovels. Wow!
Awesome beautiful piece of history
What a beautiful machine. A fine piece of craftsmanship!
@athensboy123
Жыл бұрын
I agree as well...
Nothing worse than some one on the ground waiving there arms around when you can see what your doing
A real life "Mike Mulligan & his Steam Shovel"........
@ryanmiller2143
Жыл бұрын
That was my favorite book as a kid
I've often wondered what a steam shovel looked and sounded like. Thanks for the video.
I love how they pulled blocks of wood out from the track after turning the machine!
@jackb8682
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for explaining what that was about. Was this the standard way to turn these or is it a work-around because the track drive was faulty ?
@tootired76
Жыл бұрын
@@jackb8682 That from what I understand is how they did it. No faults with it. I watched them do it in Rollag, Minnesota a year and a half ago.
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
I think that is a work around. I’ve done that on much newer diesel machines. I mean look for yourself. The new has worn off this machine eons ago. And it is obviously nowhere near restored. It’s probably pretty dangerous. If you are reading this, you have some sort of computer. Look up steam explosions.
I am very happy they have preserved that piece of machine history.
Saw an abandoned one in Virginia once amazing to see one working
What a wonderful piece of Art , if I owned this I would park it right in my front yard , what a dinosaur !
Imagine how hot it would be in the cab of that beast..
@oldfarthacks
Жыл бұрын
Yep no AC, and even more so for the engineer running the powerplant.
What a challenging machine to operate
I remember seeing an ancient steam pile driver working in the Chesapeake bay back around 1980.
What a fantastic contraption that is!
Absolutely love it! I didn't realize these had horizontal boilers, the front of the smokebox poking out the side of the cab scores extra points!
That's incredible. Never seen one in action, what a monster
Awesome living museum piece
The guys who invented the steam shovel said......."let's make a giant mechanical digging machine.....but how shall we do it ?" "I know ! lets copy the way a man uses a long handled shovel to shift dirt" ........and there you have it, watch these things working and that's exactly what it is.
Beautiful 🥰
I read the Mike Mulligan book a zillion times myself!
@tomrogers9467
4 ай бұрын
Still have my copy.
I honestly think this is the coolest shit I have seen in years.
My back makes the sounds of those tracks every morning when I roll out of bed. i hope that old guy running that thing teaches some young buck how to do it. kudos to the guy in the back keeping that boiler running correctly. looks like they were using the wood blocks to lock the left track for the turn.
So that's so cool to see, so did it pull a water tank along with it
It seems alive, like ancient dragon
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
The antithesis of the tiger.
Boy, to see that thing in action was something.
Looking at the sheer dynamics of size and motion one can see it must have been quite possible to upset or overturn one of these amazing machines!
Jeez, thats something out of my childhood nightmares.
Thank you for this video. I have subscribed.
Such fun. Would be a great model build. You would of course have to bury a RC system in it to properly use it. But say in one of the live steam railroad scales, say at about 1/5 scale.
Such a fantastic beast of a machine.
beautiful machine!
Old school gotta love it
These were so much better than what we have now!
What a machine!
Wow that's older than my mom 🤣 TRULY A DINOSAUR!!!! just imagine being drunk or high and seeing this scary ass old Beast coming at u?? 😂 Way different than the trackhoes we run at my job...
Beautiful machine!
God, what a machine!
Looks like a great lumbering behemoth, perhaps a dragon.
Holy cow… i’ve seen my granddad in pics with bucyrus eerie shovels… but have never seen one run.
What a monster
There used to be two walking bucket cranes at my local sand pits. Sadly I never managed to arrive when they were working.
Awesome machine :)
This is what a TRex looked like before breakfast 🦖
Nice very nice greating from ardenne
😯 this is amazing
That is awesome 👍💪
Bucyrus, Bucyrus...!
What a fine machine
Охренеть можно, этим экскаватором можно и капать и в нём же в баню ходить!!!
@user-tq6eq8kj3t
Жыл бұрын
Фсьо правильно - хто хорошо работает - тот хорошо купается)))
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
It might take the hide off!
Wonderful it's really monster!
Охренеть живой динозавр 👍
Can't swing when traveling. Both functions use same clutches. I worked on these machines and when the teeth break off the swing gear you can get underneath and weld the back in. No mechanic that I know ever did a decent job. Just to difficult.
Really cool. I wish more were saved. But who knew back then.
A real live Snort.
Wow shes gorgeous ❤
I'm trying to imagine Big Musky running on steam like this!
@carlcarlamos9055
Жыл бұрын
Big Muskie was primarily electric with some hydraulic(mostly in the travel). Big Muskie was also a dragline, not a shovel front.
This should go inside a museum!
@marvindebot3264
Жыл бұрын
Why? Why would you want it sitting dead in a building instead of being outside, alive and doing what it was built to do? What a messed up POV you have sir.
@Rubensgardens.Skogsmuseum
Жыл бұрын
Se have a museum and the machines are used every year in our own forestry. Even the hand saws are kept sharp and used.
Did anyone else think of the book Mike mulligan and his steam shovel?
That’s hot! Cool
" it's like a sauna in this cab" 😝
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what an aweseome old dragon
Very interesting machine. Cables ,pulleys,fulcrum points,. Germany needs to feed their coal plants now,it will fit into their agenda
@bacilluscereus1299
Жыл бұрын
Just waiting on Greta's approval.
Unbelewebel cool!!!! 😮😊 what a Beast!!!
This is the stuff of my books as a kid in the 70s. Steam shovel this, steam shovel that. Very cool, or hot - literally. Let's see, an external combustion engine with exposed firebox, pressurized steam, cables, pulleys. Gutsy people back then.
do they still have the owners manual?
Get some, Mike Mulligan!
Thanks for sharing
What a monster!
The Rona will get me if I don’t wear a mask outdoors while driving/herding a STEAM SHOVEL! Love it!
@jackb8682
Жыл бұрын
Driving/herding....😂😂😂 love it !
An elder iron dragon in disguise if there ever was one. Going to be hard to convince otherwise.
Cool name. If I had a son I would name him Bucyrus.
That's Bucyrus, as in Bucyrus, Ohio where the company first started.
Is that a railroad track between the cut and high grass? What RR is the caboose from?
SPS. Self Propelled Sauna. It can even dig out it's own coal.
muito melhor que um churrasco que não tem como come
That is cool.
Amazing they were still building them in 1939, 3 years after the first Spitfire flew.
awesome
Spelling Bucyrus correctly would have made it easier to find.
Good god what magnificent absolute beast! Big ugly brute and its gorgeous!
Was this machine in Evansville or where they made there? I live close by and never knew of any steam shovels left it’s pretty awesome.
Bucyrus Erie
Mike Mulligan's Magic Machine.