That dragline bucket moves with real grace and that is because the operator is superb at his job!

@WannabeAGYEEHEE

22 күн бұрын

Well I would sure hope so being that he’s operating a 14.5 million pound piece of equipment!

I think he's making it look a lot easier than it is to be that smooth.

I made all the parts for that bucket when I worked at Esco. Lips arches sides chains everything was a lot of fun enjoyed watching this video 👍

@four-turns

7 ай бұрын

I installed your parts on a Terex and D11T/R … shank guards n ripper tips at K mine but also rode the 8750 watched 8200 and 2570

The amount of force required to move something that heavy on that long of a lever at that speed is just insane.

Better than sitting on a steel tractor seat, yanking on levers with a Detroit Diesel screaming 2 feet behind you.

@evil2rs

Жыл бұрын

Nothing beats the sound of a screaming Detroit 😊

@maxhiltin1133

Жыл бұрын

Sound like your talking about our old 514 Unit crane lol nailed it

@kace1k

Жыл бұрын

Idk but a diesel gettin down always sounded like an eargasmn

@mindbulletz2803

Жыл бұрын

Nothing made me hate the sound of diesel like sitting in my machine everyday for 15 years 😂 sound reminds me of work when I’m not at work lol

@808TheDuck

10 ай бұрын

Ah, c'mon!

It’s really cool to see all these comments from people with so much life experience in excavation and construction.

Great video and great hearing the explanation from the operator. Also, perspective to see actually how much dirt is moved in one pass. 221 tons per pass. Massive!

@hugolafhugolaf

8 ай бұрын

So where is the 14.5 million pound figure coming from?

@jeppelrkesen9060

8 ай бұрын

@@hugolafhugolafguess it’s the weight of the machine itself

@Trey4x4

7 ай бұрын

An average 18 wheeler hauling a load of 40 ton gives you a great perspective per scoop. Almost as heavy as yo mama

@abagoftoes4108

7 ай бұрын

lol@@Trey4x4

I'm an old man and have wanted to see this view for a long time, as clear as being there, thanks for posting...each scoop the equivalent of four 30 yard roll offs, pretty amazing...over 1000 tons every 5 pulls...

I really like this operator. Smooth and precise.

Wow, swinging over 200tons (just in dirt) all the way out there at speeds I can't guess we'll enough, but fast. What a beast of a machine!

@rael5469

Жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. Holy cow, the centrifugal force from swinging 221 tons that far out.

A rock quarry my grandpa worked at had a small shovel I was so fascinated with it when I was younger they taught a 7yrold kid how to run a d8 and I became a heavy equipment operator at the family landfill and many job opportunities in my 50+ yrs working. I'm still fascinated by the shovels, our local quarry had one and at night I would go out and watch it. The quarry closed up and the shovels gone.👍🇺🇸👌

@DarkVoidIII

Жыл бұрын

I bet there weren't many 7yo kids in your area that could doze a back yard flat if they got asked to! 😊😂😇🤪👍

@williamjones9985

2 ай бұрын

Holy cow and that's what I need to get my hands on so I can bury my foes

It's just amazing how the dragline bucket scoops that many cupic meters of earth with ease and it gets swung over some football field length and places the load in its new spot!!! Be fun with a job like the operater handling the huge monster machine. And one full scoop or full bucket is over 200 tons, oh shit that's nearly half a million pounds per scoop, plus the empty scoop is over 50 tons itself!!!😳😳😳😲😲😲🤸🤸🤸🤸😜💪💪👍👍

MY FATHER worked on a sand and gravel site he did draglines a lot smaller than this monster and also drove dumpers and shovel loaders in the 60s and 70s but he worked bloody hard for long hours and enjoyed his job i think he spent a bit too much time working but he brought up 5 kids and was a wicked dad to us all he died aged 68 i am now 63 but i still miss him and my mother

One of my first memories is my father taking me to a site where an old timer was digging a canal with a dragline. He would cut a vertical trench, then he would lay the bucket at an angle and cut a 1:1 slope so the canal had sloped sides. As a union dozer and excavator operator having moved much dirt myself, looking back at that old man, I’m stunned at what an amazing talented operator he was. 🇺🇸🙏💪👊

I used to run D11 dozer, like the one in the background, they used to play around and ive had that bucket fly overhead, but was cool to sit inside and observe. These are huge machines.

@jamessantiago9724

20 күн бұрын

That's awesome! I was jealous when my buddy got to operate a d12 up here in Alaska for a mining company he worked for. He made them lots of money with that behemoth

They need something like this in the middle of Seattle just slowly leveling that shit hole out

Falkirk Mine near Underwood ND. My friends grandma actually won the naming contest for this dragline. Good ole chief ironsides!

That's a good operator, he doesn't beat his bucket and chains when he dumps .I a electric drag line before i retired. 😊

I enjoyed watching this video and I loved hearing their conversation with the Dragline Operator

We worked on Marion 8750 and 8200 draglines in Alberta coal mines for noise control. Very cool electric toys! Interesting sensations inside the equipment bay, which is like the size of a gymnasium, while sweeping or walking. No visual cues of exterior movement. Thanks for sharing.

What a smooth and quiet operating machine. Very impressive. Great view, also. Thank you.

There's a whole damn office in that thing 😮. I can here an accountant, receptionist, manager, sales...

@nettlesac

Жыл бұрын

...I swore i heard a birthday party for Phyllis in the break room

So smooth and buttery.

In worlds largest lignite mine in Germany, they do not use draglines for earthmoving but instead they a use crawler crane with a massive boom and a huge rotating wheel with buckets on it. While operating, the buckets empty their content on a kilometers long belt conveyor that transports the dirt or coal to the desired locations. The dirt is dumped and temporary stored somewhere, the coal is transported per belt to power stations nearby for combustion.

@belacickekl7579

Жыл бұрын

Bucket wheel excavators are great for moving lots of softer dirt and lose gravel but they cannot dig in rocky soil well.

@mortenfrosthansen84

Жыл бұрын

Bagger 288

@mortenfrosthansen84

Жыл бұрын

​@@belacickekl7579 you can equip any form of bucket on it, and control the speed. If it wasn't build as a crane, it would be able to dig trenches. And besides, any machinery struggles and needs constant maintenance, when dealing with hard material. Rock, stone, steel, plastic

@mortenfrosthansen84

Жыл бұрын

To add to the above.. Plastic and plastic-/rubber-like materials/substances is actually some very difficult stuff to destroy and reuse

@belacickekl7579

Жыл бұрын

@@mortenfrosthansen84 So if I'm understanding you right, you're saying that if you just attach the right bucket to a BWE like bagger 288, it'll do fine with the correct wheel speed? I'm not a mining engineer, but I don't think so. Hard, rocky soils like this will tear up conveyor belts, the wheel will lose cutting speed and stall out much easier, and your buckets will be wrecked faster as well. (BTW, trenchers are a completely different class of equipment; they have tungsten carbide teeth to cut into rock, and are not good at removing large volumes of material)

I have probably watched this a dozen times. Granted the dirt is loose and easy to load, but still, it is some slick operation going on.

Pushed in a D11 to big Kate for a while and it’s insane how much material a drag line can move lol. Did the math once and it was right at 100 tractors to move the same tonnage the same distance in the same time… impressive

@zachary3777

3 ай бұрын

100 D11s?

If you think the operator is good watching the video at normal speed, try watching at 2x and he is amazing. Great video. Thank you.

real smooth ..........great vidio

Great video-I am a big dragline fan and always wanted to get on one while it was operating but never did. This should be some fantastic memories for you.👍

All about rhythm & timing. Just music in motion

Lignite..that mine produces 7 million tons a year. Keeps Minnesota warm.

@tomrogers9467

Жыл бұрын

Sure does. And keeps the climate even warmer! Enjoy your tornados and hurricanes! Keep that coal burning!

@redgoldd1

Жыл бұрын

@@tomrogers9467thank you, winters can get pretty cold.

Really neat video, thanks for sharing it.

Looks like just over one minute per scoop, or 300-400 scoops in a workday. I wonder if that gets old after a while.

That young man is a very efficient operator. Most of the drag line guys and gals will spell cord a bit of dirt back into the cut this young man very very little lost great job.

I'm from S Illinois and there's a lot of strip pits here, fished a lot of them from Freeburg, New Athens, Marissa, Sparta, Pinckneyville and many more. Dad worked for ICRR and hauled coal out of a lot of them, he also would take me down to the mines sometimes on weekends, I got to see the Captain at the mine of the same name down in Pinckneyville IL when I was little and other smaller shovels. Dad took me to the Freeburg mine and we went to the maintenance shed and the guys were playing craps on these big thick pieces of plywood down on the floor because of the nasty grease and dirt from the massive trucks and such, I noticed one guy and he was wearing a dark blue suit but had his jacket off but still had his vest on and was rolling the dice a lot, of course I didn't understand craps back when I was 6-7 years old, I could play poker though, no problem, anyway this guy seemed to be losing from what I could tell, anyway after Dad and I left I asked who was that guy? Dad said his name is IRL Englehart, I didn't know it was spelled IRL until I applied for a machinist job years later and he was on the cover on a mining magazine that had articles about machining and mining, Dad said it didn't matter to him if he won or lost because if he won he'd just give to the guys in the shed to split.

As a retired heavy equipment operator this is a great video. But to me now, this would be so boring. I loaded up so many on and off road trucks over the years digging out retention ponds on big road jobs that I couldn't do it again out of boredom.

@bigj2419

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@johnlatham7092

Жыл бұрын

I got bored watching after the second lift ...

@marqy007

Жыл бұрын

@@bigj2419 Same here...I ran the big boys back in the day but now retired and yes, boredom to the max!

@ktmsports

Жыл бұрын

Whats the money like operating one of these big boys ?

@bigj2419

Жыл бұрын

@@ktmsports it depends on the location, but forget about joining in. The list is long, ahead of you. Unless you know someone on the inside.

Guess what? They're all powered by electricity, with a giant extension power cable. It's probably why they ran so quiet and smooth for such large machines. Love draglines!

@HubertofLiege

Жыл бұрын

So they’re green,lol!

@carl8790

Жыл бұрын

@@HubertofLiege lol yeah, same for nuclear submarines 🤓😎

The camera angle and the pov looks unreal. I never knew this was that intense.

Both my father and grandfather operated drag lines throughout the United States and on Johnson Island where the operated one of the biggest of that time. My dad worked day shift and my grandpa grave

221 ton scoops wow what a bad ass job💯

Thanks for the Cockpit view. I saw one operate at Syncrude decades ago. All Electric 'Walker'.

Wow that's amazing my friend

They had great views of the mountain range off the cliff behind them.

thats so freaking cool!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing

When I was in 4th grade, my dad owned one of these in a sand pit. We went on a field trip there and inside during operation! Way before MSHA was a thing!

Each bucket is more than 2 railcars 😳

really impressive to watch how he moves this gigant around. like a ballering. Awsome. Wish i could one in real life.

@stereolababy

Жыл бұрын

are you drunk?

@johanalin2294

Жыл бұрын

@@stereolababy do you have a brainmalfunction?

How many people were in the cab?? Sounds like it was a proper tea party.. 😂

Wow that guy is good. I would. Love to do this wow that would be cool

appreciate this video. Very cool thing most people wouldn't ever see themselves

Damn good operator smooth as it gets spreader bar never touch bucket once!! Hoist chains looked weld he had em so vertical good shit right there

Sounds like the whole office works in that machine

My grandfather operated big Kate for old Ben coal in southern Indiana back in the 80-90s it’s really awesome watching them work I got to go all over one after the mine closed down they just left it

I only ran small 1 and 1 1/2 yard machines 50 years ago digging ditch. I don’t think that was as boring as you are constantly challenged sloping and shaping ditch and often casting bucket to get extra reach. Now I do it for fun at power shows

Nice...and I would have liked to have had some video of the operator actually controling it, and some external video of the machine. Thx

Is this one of the 3 draglines originally from N Missouri? My father worked 22yrs in that mine. Spent many nights sitting on an adjacent highwall watching them run. Full swing was always fun to watch no stopping just continous motion when they were clicking on all gears.

Over 200 tons pr scoop that's just insane..

lol an excavator with a conference room in the cab :0 so quiet and smooth i want to try.

my dad ran dragline on eastern ohio. right down the road from the big musky.

@timrankin8737

Жыл бұрын

Just went to see Big Muskies bucket. It's awsome. Must see.

Does it feel like anything in the cab??

Fabricating those buckets, is no easy task.

I believe I was on that machine in the winter of 22 for repairs with dcs

@deannelson9565

Ай бұрын

How would you tell there are 7 of them

Literally moving the earth.

Again, don't know why but that is cool!!

I wish the camera panned around the cab once but excellent video love the POV

We have about ten of those mining coal just outside my small town. We ride dirtbikes on their 30+yr old spill pile sites. Some guys are even part of a small group of hill climbers that use custom jeeps and rock crawlers.

221 tons = 442,000lbs?!?!😳

Sounds like a board meeting going on behind him

Impressive.

Next, I am going to watch some paint dry.

I wish they would have focused on the background conversation. They were talking about the machine itself and giving a better explanation of the machine. How it's powered and so on. This is one huge machine.

I cannot appreciate how big this thing is 😂.

Do you get any large boulders in the dragline bucket? This machine would move any that were 221 tons or under without too much effort. Do they ever encounter layers of solid rock that are hidden underneath the dirt?

@alexjohnward

Жыл бұрын

I went for a ride in one once, it was hauling boulders the size of cars, they looked like pebbles.

I know it’s a medium voltage machine, but what is the voltage. The draglines I saw in the mine my Dad used to work at were 14,200.

That guy is good. How long is your shift?

Love operating heavy equipment, but I wonder if this would get old after a day. With a FEL, you're moving back and forth a great deal, which makes it fun. Being somewhat stationary, I'm not sure it would be the same.

I want one.

There are two of these massive machines in central Alberta, both of which are slated for explosive charge demolition next year. Sad.

Holy Jumping Up And Down Martha!

221 ton a scoop - Jesus!!

smooooth operator. damn, i would love a lil seat on the yoke there above the bucket... otherwise... i feel it would lose its charm after a brief half day... amazing but yeah. only for a while. then its just back and forth, back and forth...

Does this dragline have a toaster in the breakroom?

one of the best jobs in the world

🙌🙌🙌

Side dump hauling material now to rainbow energy just south of here pretty cool to see this video.

How much per hour does operating that thing pay? 100/hour or more?

What size is the bucket? How many cubic yards.

@keithjurena9319

Жыл бұрын

125 yard³. 250 ton limit

How much can that grab ?

I really liked the part where they picked up dirt and put it down in a different spot.

What machine is this? What's your type?

Wonder what the hourly wage is to operate that

Remember the song " He s A Smooth Operator "

Looks like pretty funny but I could see this getting boring quick hahaha. Looks awesome as hell tho

Mega machinery

Таким экскаватором, можно легко выкопать море!!!

How many Ounces is that?......

The operator probably has a big Ego.

👍

It's so hard to understand the scale in video like this. The size of the bus in the background gives a little hint. This thing is just massive!

Mom said if I didn't straighten up in school I wouldn't be nothing but a ditch digger. Heh.