You're welcome! I make these videos for people who want to learn about this big iron. Glad you enjoy them!

She is really becoming one with nature, its nice to see an old gem like that still in one piece.

Oh man, I've missed these documentaries. Thanks for taking the time to put another one together for us!

Really like the way you do these videos. Lots of good info. Thanks

As always, great production. Informative and excellent video to go with it!

@PAmining

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks

The old man stands there for while ;-) Nice done doc!

Ya see stuff like this sitting out in the woods and it kinda makes you wish these machines could talk. I bet the stories they could tell would be amazing. Also kinda makes you wonder what the opperators were thinking on the last day they ran these machines and finally parked them one last time.

@UnitCrane514

10 жыл бұрын

Yea I think the same thing! If you really think about it, these old pieces of iron have more history and stories than a history book!

Very articulate and informative

I have been around equipment most of my working life but still fascinated by your in dept videos. keep em coming. Phil

@PAmining

8 жыл бұрын

+farmerphil Thank you! Glad you enjoy them

Love these vids! I always get to see and hear about something I otherwise had no idea even existed. Really interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing and documenting these old machines. Nice work!

Always great stuff you find👍

Love these old shovels. Makes me wonder if I could put in an 8 or 10 hour shift on one -- even if I were a younger man! Great vid. I appreciate the time and effort you put into them. So thanks!

Thanks. It pleases me to know you enjoy and learn from them!

My late father ran one when I was a kid in Clearfield county. I ran dozer and loader there until I moved to Texas

@PAmining

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Thanks!

So very cool i really enjoy your videos.

another great find and walk around nice of you to take the time to research it and then go out video and explain the find to us thanks

Thanks and welcome!

great video sir

Thanks! A lot of time and research

Fascinating

I'm new to your channel and you do an amazing job,

Such a cool machine never seen one with the chain drive.

fantastic,, i'd like too travel to US and search for Old abandoned machines, great vid

Glad your finding these machines and videoing them, it needs to be done. Thank you. Seems like such a waste to just leave history in the woods to rust away.

Go ahead and Start'er up! It's sad to see great pieces of history rusting away. A short walk through the woods at my house there's a 50's or 60s Euclid dump, 4 50's Mack tandem dumps, a Fiat-Allis Loader, a 60's Hydra Unit Excavator.. and more stuff I probably forgot about I'll try to Record it someday!

I hope someone has the money to save this ole Manitowoc shovel. Be a real shame to scrap her. Excellent video !

Great documentary Justin, very interesting, this machine will obviously be never used again, so why do they just leave them to rust away?. The bucket makes a great unusual plant pot, with the tree growing out of it, lol.

It makes me wonder the same things too, and that's part of the mystery! I don't remember the engine model (I'm sure someone will) but it was a big V-8 CAT

Awesome video! Although it would be nice to see a machine like that being preserved, there is something poignant and beautiful about it just the way it is out there in the woods.

Your welcome! There will be plenty more

awesome vid, always enjoy you machinery documentaries, im a heavy machinery mechanic myself and always enjoy learning about the old iron. how do you find these machines?

Engine is probably a Cat D17000, about 190 horse. Hey Justin, are you familiar with a book called "Moving the Earth- The Workbook of Excavation"? It's got a lot of great info about these old machines. I have the 1st and 3rd editions, don't know if the later editions still have the old stuff in them.

Yep, that's it you're right! It's a 17000. Surprisingly I don't have those books but I think my one buddy does.

Wow, now there is a cool find! Kind of sad to see it rotting away, but still neat to find old jewels like that out in the woods. When I see old equipment like this just abandoned, I wonder when was it's last day of work and how they got to where they are. It was dark so couldn't tell what kind of engine it was, do you know?

What brand is the Diesel Engine? Looks amazing!!

@PAmining

7 жыл бұрын

That is a Cummins

Amazing! Where do you keep finding these awesome machines? And how do you know so much about them?

@PAmining

10 жыл бұрын

I visit a lot of surface mines and enjoy researching and locating older mining equipment to feature in videos, such as this one, so that other people can get a personal view of the machine and learn about it.

How long has it been out of service. And what kind of diesel does this one have? A Caterpillar I'm guessing?

cool vid but you need to bring some lights with you for some of these closed in machines

I don't remember the model, but it is a CAT V-8

i wonder how long its been sitting there im guessing at least ten years

It’s kinda sad to see such machines just abandoned in the middle of nowhere

Why dont it being restored??? Its a lagendary meachine and should be a hostory for the young to know the old man behind all of the success in mining industries.

Id love to walk threw old quarrys and mines and see stuff abandond parked and forgoten i love abandond stuff some say its a shame but i love abandond history better then most of them that made it to the scrap yard so glade its forgoten and wasent scraped wen out of use the old cabel rigs were fast i see them fixedup and run on youtube and they arent slow like u think some are faster then hydrolics u dont have comfort and they were hard to run but they did the job well

why dosen't any restoring these machine? they would be great pieces of working art

true, but imagine the amount of money that is needed. Noone will pay it just because the machine is a "great piece of working art"

speaking of gone: 2 of the machines (on the pics I sent to you) are gone. the white BOMAG and the cat dozer

Yeah right...quadruple that

I agree because one day eventually they'll be gone.