My late father and his brother both worked for British Steel and he was one of the operators of this great beast and as a youngster I was lucky enough to go on to the operating area of this machine!

My husband uncle was based there during the war,corby had four walking draglines. Three 1400 hundreds and one 1800 the 1800 worked at great oakley and worked its way to ward's Exeter estate,

Thanks for a great memory, I drove for Tarmac Corby from about 1974 - 1999, and seeing these every day never took much notice. aaaaaaagggGGHHH

@zarrow50

6 жыл бұрын

I remember going to see these Draglines

Just seen a programme on the Yesterday TV channel about a similar size dragline called "Oddball". So I thought I would look up "Sundew" which I saw as a ~10-year old kid walking its route across Rutland. Can you imagine how awesome it was that a lady who was a friend of my parents and had dealings with the quarry, arranged for me and my brother to visit Sundew, and we were allowed to go inside it, not when it was actually digging, but its electric generators and exciters were running! It was amazingly loud and hot inside and I remember walking through one enclosed corridor walkway that was incredibly drafty due to the cooling fans circulating air. That is one of my favourite childhood big-machinery moments. I remember being dumbstruck by the scale of it and thinking it seemed like some amazing mechanical cathedral inside. Alas we weren't taken into the cab, we had to make do with looking through the door/window! Thanks for the video Chris.

@Hanglands there is some parts available to see at east carlton park NR/Corby in Northamptonshire,there is a museum in the park dedicated to steel makeing in Corby

great vid i remember this walking i have seen big geordie and ace of spades huge huge huge huge machines the world will no longer see these fab and big machines interestingly a few workman got trapped in this dragline when it was being cut up all got out but seems like she didn't want the gas axe on her shame she is now gone

There are some of the shackles off the lines at RRM Sewell as the cab

wow stood in the bucket of this when I was a nipper .. thanks for the video

@markjohnson9920

4 жыл бұрын

My dad would take me to Corby quarry to watch it work, Amazing thing to be up close to.

Great Video

Which quarry ?? I used to play on that as a kid one was on wonder world the other was up stanion lane

@AJ-yw5zy

2 жыл бұрын

It spent some time at Priors Hall, I suppose it’s Londonshire now😂 I remember it working that quarry before it was laid up, across from Weldon tip.

Any idea what the route of the walk was? I've been through exton park quite a bit and have always wondered where Sundew worked.

@zarrow50

6 жыл бұрын

Follow the foot prints

@popperwellb6634

3 ай бұрын

It used to operate on the old Spanhoe aerodrome just outside Laxton