What a beast of a machine. Oh how I love working and building BIG. These machines make the ships engines I machined look like dinky toys, LOL.

Another great video showing us things we would not have ever seen otherwise. Thanks

This video would be meaningless without sound ! What a cool beast !

I use to watch these things"walk" around the strip mines at Dugger Indiana in the 70s. What a way to spend the afternoon.

@Frenchy3055

7 жыл бұрын

I was working at Peabody's Dugger Mine during the 70's. We had only one dragline, but it was the biggest in the world when it was erected in 1968. It was painted yellow and green. If you watched red a gray draglines, they belonged to Amax Coal Co. and my brother and father worked there.

@rippitallout149

2 жыл бұрын

Faster then watching the grass grow 🪴

@daniellapp7309

Жыл бұрын

I used to ride my motorcycle and climb the high walls in the Peabody strip mines when we we're growing up in Boonville Southern In

I wish I would've had the time to see these things back then. I remember all three working way out in the distance when going to Freeland the "back way".

Keep em coming Walt.

cool video, would like to see the electrical hook up, must be one hell of a drop cord. thanks for posting.👍👍

Shoes contractor Addidas: Just Dig It.

Hey boss...just a minute...I got a rock in one of my shoes.

Looks a bit like me learning to line dance.

@Slimdor It's because it really isnt that big compared to other draglines!! (but its big!!)

i like to move it move it we like to move it move it

Looked like it was getting a little too close to the edge of the drop off to suit me. I hope it was solid.

Has there ever been mishaps with those moving or "walking"? Like a foot completely stops, or the entire machine tipped?

Listen to it groan

The "Anthracite" king?

Einfach gewaltig! 😯

Wild looking dragline , a Page is it ?

@Frenchy3055

7 жыл бұрын

That's a Bucyrus Erie 1250.

@lozarok

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

Yeah, you would not want one of those pads to step on your foot...:) Sick ass physics and amazing feat moving all that weight!

@tharp78

8 жыл бұрын

+godbluffvdgg--- Amazing feat...feet...feat.. get it? Hardy har har!

@godbluffvdgg

8 жыл бұрын

Harlarious!

You should see when I make an “adjustment or movement”. 😂😂😂this big ole machine is nothing compared to that

Where is this machine located

@josephrichardson9662

3 жыл бұрын

It was and might still be near Hazleton, PA. I cant remember off hand if this machine was retired or not. I grew up watching it work and walk around.

@richardjoseph8683

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephrichardson9662 It's still sitting on Stockton Mountain just outside of Hazelton. It is not in operation

@josephrichardson9662

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardjoseph8683 thank you.

@rippitallout149

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephrichardson9662 Thanks as well!

So what happens if it gets stuck ? Say the dirt the shoes sit on sinks deeper than what the lift distance is ?

@gusm5128

3 жыл бұрын

Then you’re screwed

@dougaltolan3017

Жыл бұрын

Lift the shoe and shovel shit under it.

I always wondered why no one made a walking power shovel.

@Frenchy3055

9 жыл бұрын

pmc eightsixeighty Draglines are designed to dig from ground level down and shovels are designed to dig from ground level up. So shovels sit down in the pit and dig up where there isn't a lot of room for maneuvering, especially sideways. So the crawlers on a shovel turn independently from the swing deck and they have large hydraulic jacks built into them to keep the shovel level.

@TheMrPeteChannel

9 жыл бұрын

ahhhhh.

@ArchTeryx00

8 жыл бұрын

Draglines also could move quite a bit more earth then the power shovels, which mostly were good for very hard rock faces and other tough to get at seams. Of course, bucket wheel excavators pretty much trumped the truly big power shovels, which is why they're now an extinct breed.

@Frenchy3055

7 жыл бұрын

The good points of a dragline. They could put the dirt higher and farther away compared to a shovel. And for that reason, they could dig deeper and handle a lot of mud. The bad points of a dragline. You had to build road for a dragline, which resulted in re-handling material that resulted in time not stripping the dirt off the coal. You had to blast the rock better for a dragline. The good points of a shovel, you didn't have to build road for a shovel because it sat on the coal and you didn't have to blast as well. The bad points of a shovel. You couldn't dig as deep compared to a dragline because you couldn't get rid of the dirt and you couldn't handle much mud. As for a wheel excavator. A wheel excavator can't handle rock or mud.

@myselfremade

7 жыл бұрын

Additionally the long boom on a dragline is what makes the walking work, the weight causes them to tip forwards. Shovels tend to be taller, so tipping at all could be a big risk