Awesome Video! I love these old Demags. Demag was a great company we have got a 16 t crane from Demag build in 1963 and it s still working good.

Great video, Thank You ! I have never witnessed more critical or 'I can do better' people than those who are operators or were operators ... cracks me up

Thanks! Cool. Yeah Demag used to be #1 in mining. They're very tough and reliable machines.

Excellent vid Justin and awesome view point!! There is something very relaxing about watching a pro operator run a massive machine so smoothly.

No what it is, is people who like to go around criticizing other operators from what they see in a 7 min video clip when they have no idea of the reasons or conditions behind what they see. Thanks

The best mining videos on youtube keep up the great work

That Demag is a awesome machine and the bucket sure holds more than you think it does by looking at it impressive Justin great video.

I could watch this all day long! Excellent videos, by the way, I'm subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Madrid, Spain.

Thanks glad you enjoy them! I always try to have something different and mix it up

Umm yes it is wet and heavy, I was there you weren't. He has to be careful because swinging with an overfull bucket of wet clay is much heavier than rock and can easily upset the machine with one wrong move. Also because the clay is wet, he doesn’t have to curl back as far because the material sticks together. The only half buckets he takes are perpendicular to his tracks. It takes him 3 buckets to fill an 85 tonner and 4 to fill a 100 tonner, and he was filling some 100 tonners in 3 passes.

i love watching your videos its always something different!

that looks more like shale than clay particularly wet stuff. Wet clay sticks to everything, I once saw an RH170 getting lumps of it stuck in the bucket when it was loading, took the driver some doing to dislodge it. Good to see the 185s still going, we're down to 2 operational ones here in the UK now

@PAmining Backhoes Justin, one is working for Miller Argent at the Ffos y Fran project in Wales (an ex Celtic Energy machine) the other is in Scotland for Castlebridge (Scottish Coal). There are also 3 H255's still working away including the prototype (originally for Law Mining ) for ATH and 2 with Kier Mining. The rest of the 7 255s are exported and 2 were reportedly broken up.

Excellent video. Great view!

Wow, cool video! A huge excavator! I'm really impressed!

@jasonv2500 Yeah the one H185S we have over here has a H255S backhoe boom on it. You probably have seen that machine in my videos. Those H185's and O&K 120s had the market for 100 ton haulers. Good machines

Great video. Kyle

So the machine is parked on harder ground (it was real soupy where he was digging). Would you want to climb off the machine down in mud? And also so the machine is parked where the fuel truck can access it.

great video. lovely position of the operator's vision .. you could film the movements of the operator too ..

awsome video.. thank you for sharing with us :)

She's getting old but still runs good and averages about 20 loads an hour. Digging in wet clay like this, you have to watch with an overfill bucket or the machine can become unstable since clay is very heavy. He was easily packing 19-20yd in some buckets.

@NeAZ Thanks, and greetings from Pennsylvania!

Thanks; your welcome!

She sounds old ! How many hours ?

Thanks man!

@pup085 I think the operator knows what he loads out each day. Also, your comparing a totaly different class machine. An RH170 with a 17 cubic meter bucket is 22 cubic yards. If your loading a Cat 793 which is a 240 ton class truck with that small of a machine, no wonder it takes you so long to load! This machine is perfectly matches with 85-100 ton trucks that take it 3-4 passes to load.

around here, if you notice that other truck entering the working face at 1:23, the mine I work for would have you sending the truck getting loaded. so that way the next operator is back up to the cut by the next cycle. even though it's not a fully loaded truck, a truck sitting is a truck burning money is their idea I guess.

What was the clay being used for?

Awesome view! were you hanging off the side lol

@jasonv2500 There's lots of different types of clays. This clay or dirt has a lot of fragments in it, thats why it doesn't stick as much. Are the two 185's in the UK hoes or shovels?

yeah that definatly is soupy material but its way different from albert crap. the clay here can turn into super heavy plastic and it just aucks machines in

Thanks! If I was the video would have been pretty jerky lol. Nah, just standing on the catwalk

@tom4charley From what I understand there used to be a lot of Demag's working in the UK back in the day; now almost all gone. Thanks

Why does he park so far away from the face?

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Nothing, clay is the first layer of material to remove to start digging down to the coal.