Bucyrus-Erie 50-B Steam Shovel - Part 1 of 4 - Sept. 2000
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- This is the 50-B that is now at Rollag.
The shovel had been thoroughly overhauled by its previous owner, but then the old operator retired. None of the younger operators wanted to mess with it, so it sat for many years until Belleview Sand & Gravel bought it and brought it back to life.
Contrary to the title on the video, this was apparently not the first operation.
Also seen is Belleview's rare Linn halftrack dump truck.
The first half of Part 1 is shot from the ground, the second half is onboard. It's a brutal machine.
Part 2 is entirely onboard, Part 3 is a mix of outside and onboard, and Part 4 is tramming it back to the shop.
Controls are more or less to Bucyrus-Erie standard. Swing on the left, pulled or pushed in the direction of swing, crowd in the center. You can see the linkage to the crowd engine on the boom. Hoist is from the ceiling, and is a 4-way lever. Forward is hoist, back lowers the bucket on air compression, ie a Jake Brake. Moving the lever to the side declutches the hoist for fast gravity lowering.
At 14:58 and following, this is the main hoist. The big bull gear is driven by the hoist engine. There are 2 frictions next to the bull gear. The one closest to the gear is the hoist clutch, the one further away is the brake. Note that most of the time, the clutch is kept engaged for power lowering.
It travels on the hoist. Since compressing air is useless for propulsion, there is a secondary control lever that allows powering in either direction. Steering is done by a ground man levering dog clutches on the sprocket shafts in and out.
Controls appear to be very light, as all levers are just throttles controlling the 3 independent motion engines. Thus it shouldn't be too tiring to run, except for the vibration.
This was an open house, not an HCEA convention, as that was held in Seward, Nebraska in 2000. We were at the great 1994 convention at Belleview, and probably have some Hi-8 video from it.
My recollection is that at the 1994 HCEA convention, this 50-B was a static display near the shop, with the bucket chained in the air. Great to see that they got it going.
This video was shot with a Sony Handycam in Digital 8. This format used 2 hour Hi-8 analog videotapes, running at 2x speed, to produce high quality 1 hour digital video. It was a revolutionary format at the time, and was used extensively by news media for field news gathering, such as in Iraq. A bit of image quality is lost in the MS moviemaker editor, losing some of the striking immediacy of the format. Note that it is interlaced, and sized for broadcast televisions of the time.
This is the first video from a large box full of 75(!) of these 1 hour tapes, that WurliTzer153Duplex is gradually converting via FireWire. These were shot by both of us, with several cameras, and it's interesting to figure out who did what.
There is some cool stuff in there.
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Belleview Sand & Gravel,
Petersburg, Ky
September 2000
Sony Handycam Digital 8
20000923d 50 B Part1
The Half-track dump truck is so badass!!
Way too cool.
I love seeing old machines restored and put to use.
Beautiful picture of old machine still working
Magnificent machinery in action! I guarantee when the modern equipment has reached the age that this machine has, they will no longer function as efficiently as this old shovel does! I'll have to show this to my friend that's got CNC capabilities, & see if perhaps we can replicate this machine as an RC model!
What a wonderful hissing, grinding, clanking beast! The glory of steam power, it's almost alive.
One of the best steam shovel operators I’ve seen 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 that dump truck is AWSOME to
thanks for the excellent video and description. hardly ever see steam in operation anymore. very enjoyable to watch.
This is glorious!
Dear Santa, I really want on of these!
Fantastic machine and I also love the half-track!
badass half-track too
молодцы сохранили историю большого монстра ! необычное видео лайк!
In California, the Roots of Motive Power, Willits Ca also has an operating Bucyrus-Erie 50-B shovel.
DO I LOVE THAT TRUCK...
Semi controlled mayhem! I love it .
Simply beautiful, almost magic. Only sad part is its so short, and all the photographer had was super 8.
Parts 2 + 3 are now up, 1 more to go.
There are now 4 parts up.
She has been in the World 🚜🚜🚜🚧🚧🚧
Great machine!
Cool as hell!
fire-resisting & rotative house
incalzire cu lemne , deseuri din constructii , poate fi folosit la escavatii , facut drumuri prin padure pe terenuri private , poate fi pus pe sine de calea ferata , poate fi folosit ca macara pt pus sine si traverse de calea ferata . Cu mici adapdari isi poate taia si marunti singura lemnul dar necesita multa apa .. In absenta apei caldura din arderea lemnului ar putea fi convertite in energie electrica de pile peltier ca la navetele spatiale care au acumulatori cu uraniu ..
Casa rotativa se poate orienta dupa soare , sa intre lumina la maxim sau cu geamul spre nord cand se foloseste leptop etc ..
treptat se pot inlocui cazanul si exterioriorul cu inox si se poate lasa mostenire
Ignifug - in afara de carbuni , scaun , aproape tot este facut sau se poate face din metal . Nu are amvelope care sa ia foc la ca camioanele uriase din ziua de azi .
Isso é muito legal é fascinante👏👏👏👏👏
Great video.great operator. I guess it's just me I don't see either of those two pieces as antiques or non useful. I see both of them the shovel and the half track the original off-road dump truck as equipment and should be generating revenue there's all sorts of different fuels you can run in that shovel yes you have to pay for an extra person it's a two-man crew. but either of those are very useful still to this day.
what is the make of the half track?, that is an awesome bit of gear!
found it
Linn Tractor
Antiguidades parabens...
IS THE CRANE OIL FIRED OR COAL FIRED?? SOME TIMES IT HAS A CLEAN STACK!!
Bituminous coal. A good fireman can keep the stack clean most of the time, but you need to pay attention. Railroads used to send out smoke watchers and fine careless firemen, mostly to save coal.
You want to breathe? you can't breathe, I'm paying you to work.
Lovely is it in uk and where
National Pike Show
Brownsville PA USA
Believed to be the largest digging show in the world.
Awesome excavator!
Почему у парового эксковатора звук дизеля?
How long does it take to get the boiler up to temperature to start digging in the morning?
What was the Cat (D7) with rubber tires? What a great show that was.
Search for "Cat DW6". It is a DW6, apparently converted by a CAT dealer in Florida for work in the sugar cane fields. Some had railroad couplers, and pulled trains of cane cars from the fields. From the ACMOC boards: "The USSC on the side of the tractor stands for United States Sugar Corp. They are located in Clewiston, FL The number is their company number. USSC was the original folks to start the DW-6 along with Clewiston Motor Co.(now KellyTractor Co.) the S. Florida Cat dealer. Over 150 units were built down there."
They were built from 9U's and 44A's. Note that they are skid steers. I can see this working out for the dealer, as they would end up with a lot of brand new spare tracks and undercarriage parts, which are always in demand.
What type of engine dose the truck have?
floodedcar123 It is a Cummins 6 cylinder.
now i feel guilty for whining about a/c lol
Must be a government job , dig one side of the pile and dump on the other. Lol
2023, is she still operational?
Yes sir. The truck is still in Petersburg Kentucky and the steam shovel has been donated to Western Minnesota steam threshers reunion. You can find it if you look up Rollag 50 B Bucyrus Erie steam shovel or WMSTR steam shovel.
Forget about the shovel. I've seen many of those. How about that half-track?
У них и тиски в машинном отделении - что-нибудь подремонтировать на месте.
Gees! better change the fuel filters in that shovel engine! And all that crankcase vapor,my!
Please be joking. This is a steam shovel.
В эксковаторе баня топится?!
он на паровом двигателе
Это к бане стрелу и ковш проделали.
Оператор фактически не волокёт!
Что надо снимать и как это делается. Общий вид получился. Нахера он в него залез?
What is the half trak?
Its a Linn tractor have seen them with later mixed cabs
Ai người Việt Nam yêu xe châm cái
Quero deser desa coisa!!!
У нас -бы уже все в чермет сдали.................
Analogic computers
Один работает, а остальные деньги зарабатывают?
Тю- каменный век
педально!!!