Man they keep the old girl looking good. Inside and out. Draglines are way cool. Makes those little 3/4 yard machines I used to operate look very insignificant. Thanks Aaron for doing what you do. For an old gear head it's fun to watch. Cheers
I have made the cages housing the brake rotors you see in 7:29 and it's cnc milled then welded together and bolted to the hub. Also the rotors are 2m in diameter and weigh just under 100kg.
Awesome video. As a retired heavy equipment operator i don't think i would last long doing that unless the pay was real good. After running a excavator for years loading on and off road trucks this would make my brain rot fast .The boredom is hard to overcome. And the machine actually runs on coal , because without coal .... theres no electricity.
I know a couple people that have run the big haul trucks in the Kennecott copper mine and they say it's awesome for about the first week then it's just mind numbing repetition.
I find it therapeutic, I’m only 19 and I can shut my brain off and haul earth, granted I’m allowed to listen to music or podcast so that makes it easier.
@@ryanc8188I live right under Kennecott, run equipment doing dirt work and developments, it gets old quick no matter how big they are. And I grew up running equipment
Indeed, I quit cnc operations for same reason. Most boring job ever just watching it work all day twiddling my thumbs and looking at clock every 15 min hoping an hour had passed.
1:54 That machine is 106 days short of operating 10,000 days. The most custom piece besides the bucket is the drive gear. I wonder how many individual sections it was cast in and if any of the sections of drive gear have been replaced.
@@tristenklein225 not sure about the dragline. I’ve built rope shovels it takes about 3 months to finish a Bucyrus 495HR2 rope shovel. So I’ll assume the dragline might be 6 months or more depending with the location where you build it.
Two years ago they replaced the tub on this exact dragline I believe. If not this one it was one of the other two at this same mine. ruclips.net/video/ACrTGwEqxHQ/видео.htmlsi=4TofasCwqrvmAsyQ
These draglines are absolute beasts! 🦖 It's wild to see how they move so much earth with just one scoop. How much weight can they actually lift at once? I’d love to know more about their mechanics! 🤔
Big Muskie should never have been cut up for scrap because it was a true one off never to be built again, sounds sad but watching the videos of it being cut up was upsetting because the world will never see another one.
@@theunemployedtrucker I'm the same way. I have only seen videos of the machine, but when they blasted the A-frame off of it, and the boom fell to the ground, ruined, it was a might saddening to me. I have loved machinery like it, since I was a toddler. Some might consider me a nut, but that's the way I am.
@@wmden1 I was able to visit the resting place of the Big Muskies bucket…defies description! Can you tell me if the Big Muskie was larger than this machine? If so, by how much. Thanks.
@@WDFJR16345 I believe the narrator said the bucket of this machine holds 104 cubic yards. From what I have seen and heard on videos of it, The Big Muskie bucket held 225 cubic yards. That is over twice the capacity of this machine here. I believe the Big Muskie was said to weigh 26 million pounds total, and was significantly larger than this dragline. That's about all I can tell you and be pretty sure about it.
This is such a cool video. I worked for a heavy engineering company in Australia in the 70's called Perry Engineering. I operated a Skoda horizontal floor borer that machined the gear boxes and swing shafts for draglines.
Former coal mine electrician here in Texas, , had 3 8200 and 1 8750, before going to work for Drives and Control Services,doing the electrical systems/ troubleshooting call-outs for over 6 years: they are the most awesome, unique machines ever I'm blessed to have worked on them for 13 years. Sure do miss it! Wonderful video and thank you!!!!
I was lucky enough to not only get to see one of these in person but the guy knew the driver so he stopped the machine and let us onboard. The sensation of being in the cab while its swinging around and throwing its bucket is wild. So much weight
Awesome video brought back alot of good memories i got to run a drag line half that size at a limestone quarry in central Illinois that my dad worked at when i was a freshman in highschool it was an awesome experience
Great Video!... My Grandfather on my Daddy's Side of the Family worked for a Company here in Pennsylvania called Highway Equipment... Before he passed away back in the late 1970's, He worked on Big Bucyrus Erie Machinery... He also had a Weld Shop... The sheer size of some of those Old Shovels and Draglines is just totally overwhelming!... This Kid does a good Job with these Videos... I enjoy watching this stuff... I've been in Heavy Equipment Business my entire life... Over 32 years, I'm pushing 50 now... And I learn something new every day about this type of stuff.... Like I said, Great Video!...
My father ran a drainage earth moving business and operated draglines, not like the size of this beauty of course. A dragline was one of the most difficult earth moving machines I've ever had to learn how to operate, my father could make a dragline sing, they were an awesome machine in there day and still have there uses even today. Cheers for the great reel.
Well you sort of got one thing wrong. I guess they didn't tell you, that if you were standing on the very end of the boom, when its swinging you'd be travelling between 60 - 80 miles per hour !!! Thats pretty damn fast for an earth moving machine!
@@joshkuhn3974 oh yes that would be right. I'm Canadian and it's 60-80 km/hr. They tested the ones up at Syncrude back when they had them. It's still pretty darn fast!
One stupid question but what exactly does the machine in this case do? It just looks to me that it moves material (coal?) from a to b, with b not being a dump truck or plant or so..
They create a moving trench … ahead is ground with coal under it, the trench is dug to expose the coal so it can be mined, and they use what they dig to fill in behind them where the ground is graded and the land restored.
Hello i'm from the biggest production indonesian coal mining " berau coal ". I always watch your videos and fantastic experience about coal mining in the europe one day i would like to works there are
I run a power plant and monitor our 3 wind farms. Yeah the wind doesn’t blow all the time. Especially on the coldest of nights. No wind no power. I’m grateful for the coal and natural gas power generation! My hats off to those who work in that cold up north.
@@titaniummechanism3214 Yeah... I think the OP may be tilting at windmills. (Almost literally: they kinda teed that up, eh?) Energy is energy, and, sure, there is the intermittancy issue with wind, but there are solutions like pumped hydro, etc for that. Installed wind power is already less expensive than any source other than, in some marginal situations, natural gas or coal- and the gap is closing fast! (It would already be closed except for the absurdly massive fossil fuel incentives, favroable interest rates, tax breaks, and immunity for the environmental damage they cause, etc, etc.)
Back in the late '60's we were fishing near the open pit coal mines around Wilmington IL. There was an immense dragline there, and we were invited to tour the machine. My father drove our Plymouth station wagon into the scoop of the dragline and there was enough room for another station wagon next to our car.
It doesn't matter how many times I watch videos like this on massive mining machines I'm still totally gob smacked and amazed by these huge masterpieces, and huge amounts of respect to America and the guy's who operates these giants because America is never out done when it comes to massive mining machines ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I often do maintenance shutdowns on 1350 and 8750 draglines in the Australian Bowen Basin. As amazing as they are to see and experience first hand, once you experience pulling them apart and fixing them, they get old very fast 😂 Edit: To further explain your explanation on how the machine swings, the motors you mentioned in the front of the machine sit on a vertical axis and connect to the swing shaft (think of a driveshaft in your car), on the bottom of the swing shaft is a cassette (a big cog) and the cassette rotates along what is called the slew ring which is a very large gear ring. To put it simply, the swing shafts spin the cassettes along the slew ring which in turn rotates the dragline. The size of the dragline also dictates how many swing shafts the machine has. For example the one in the video would have 4, a larger machine might have 7. The Machine in the video is also just a little baby dragline.
This old retired "sparky" helped rewire a few draglines in the Bowen Basin in the early 2000's. Dust , grease and noisy for sure ,but the money was good and a great bunch of workmates. With a few notable exceptions.😉🇦🇺
Called 23 kv Cable. Actually 22,900 volts. Portable substation hooked to 69,000 high line. Goes into dragline to 4160 volt transformers which feed 4-3000 hp motors which drive a bunch of dc generators which feed the dc motors.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Bucyrus-Erie the very first to design engineer and manufacture drag lines in the world starting in the late 1800’s? How often do they have to change out the cables due to fatigue and stress and do they have to be certified and inspected by OSHA like cables on large cranes?
Its hard to say. Page Engineering (John Page) were the first to make draglines. Both Bucyrus-Erie (now a part of CAT) and Harnischfeger (aka Pawling & Harnischfeger, later P&H Mining -> Joy Global -> Komatsu Mining) got into the dragline business in the early 1900s both operating out of Milwaukee. Neither were the first to make them, and those two companies went head to head for many years in the business, and pretty much bought out all the other smaller firms (for instance Page Engineering was bought by P&H in the 1980s). Nowadays most draglines are just maintained, and new ones haven't been built for quite some time since its easier and cheaper to maintain existing ones and replace them with rope shovels if they are no longer suited for an application. I work for one of those companies and can't say exactly how often cables are replaced especially since its heavily dependent on the work that the dragline is doing and where, however I can say pretty much everything that goes onto a mine site is inspected by MSHA at least once per year. MSHA is the mine specific version of OSHA. MSHA controls mining and quarrying exclusively, while OSHA controls pretty much anything else, including things like maintenance and repair shops that might be on mine sites.
Wow that’s impressive 53 year old from the Uk here, when I was a kid my surrounding areas were open cast mining for coal up to mid 90’s Can remember going to watch a drag line going across a road from one site to another ( Marion I think it was called) We have non now and last last coal powered station has just closed We the uk are nuts Keep up the good work
Well thank you for this video. For many years my Company (Monitek) performed vibration analysis on these machines in coal mines throughout Australia, the purpose being to detect the early warning signs of wear (defects) in the many large bearings and gears driving them, thus allowing corrective maintenance to be performed before a catastrophic and very expensive failure occured. One of our employees later emigrated to the USA and set up a sister company in Wyoming to service the coal mines in the region. Never thought I would see this sort of detail on RUclips.
son unas máquinas fantásticas, y más en sus mantenimientos, en el balde, cambios de cables y pines, en el boom y ni se diga en las partes internas, revolfren y Center pin, en los zapatos, toda una locura realizar trabajos de soldadura en esa areas.
I got to see that exact machine operate a few years back when doing maintenance at their mine. I still see it once in awhile when traveling through there
What a remarkable machine! Its crazy that at the make of this video this machine had 237,446 hours..... to put that into perspective that is 27 years. Mind blowing...
Thanks for the video. Interesting! Three other questions: 1) Do the booms move? 2) how much does this machine weigh? 3) How much does this machine cost?
yeah there are more than two for each machine. Typically 4-5 total per machine. I think each crew technically works on average about half the year. It's a good gig
I remember back in the 1980’s Daddy took us to see a drag line on a strip job in Bell County, Kentucky. I remember being scared of it because it was so monstrous huge! It looked bigger than the mountain it was sitting on top of. My husband’s Dad was a mechanic on the strip job at the time and he got to actually go inside of it and got to see the cab. He even walked a little ways up the boom. He said at 12 yrs old he just couldn’t make himself go up too far, it was so far off the ground!
Cool and big machine. But what i dont understand.. why is the bucket so small compared to the size of the machine? Could the bucket not be alot bigger?
A bucket load of dirt weighs over 600,000 lbs. The boom is 300 ft long. If you figure in the forces it takes to lift that and how fast the dragline does it.. no it couldn’t be a lot bigger. Also the machine is moving over 500 loads in a 12 hour shift.
@@pupupupu448 Yes, but the question is how many times? Remember this machine is cycling over 1000 loads a day. The boom and other structure are still only rated for a certain amount, and steel fatigues with use. Every year there are cracks repaired and welded on the boom and frame structure.
A mate of mine who is a welder told me that when the drag lines moved position in Mt Isa Australia, the entire town's electrical supply would 'brown out' as it did so.....
Thank God for all the corrections in the inserted text. I assume it is a heck of a lot easier than actually knowing what you are talking about before shooting the video.
Man they keep the old girl looking good. Inside and out. Draglines are way cool. Makes those little 3/4 yard machines I used to operate look very insignificant. Thanks Aaron for doing what you do. For an old gear head it's fun to watch. Cheers
They have a world class maintenance program!
Would love to see a big tracked digger with a slew motor on the arm i used to operate one back in the early 2000s @@AaronWitt
I can speak for the quality of work done at Coteau by good workers.
Protecting their investment,- bravo
What impresses me the most are the engineers who designed this monster and also created machines to make the parts for this.
I have made the cages housing the brake rotors you see in 7:29 and it's cnc milled then welded together and bolted to the hub. Also the rotors are 2m in diameter and weigh just under 100kg.
@@PBST_RAIDZ how in the world do they make those huge gears?
@@minkymott Where I work we don't make the gears but I'd imagine they'd be forged then cnc milled down so the teeth align with one and other.
@@PBST_RAIDZ thank you for taking the time to reply. :) I wondered how they do that.
Bucyrus Erie in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gears by Falk Corporation in Milwaukee.
Awesome video. As a retired heavy equipment operator i don't think i would last long doing that unless the pay was real good. After running a excavator for years loading on and off road trucks this would make my brain rot fast .The boredom is hard to overcome. And the machine actually runs on coal , because without coal .... theres no electricity.
I know a couple people that have run the big haul trucks in the Kennecott copper mine and they say it's awesome for about the first week then it's just mind numbing repetition.
I find it therapeutic, I’m only 19 and I can shut my brain off and haul earth, granted I’m allowed to listen to music or podcast so that makes it easier.
@@ryanc8188I live right under Kennecott, run equipment doing dirt work and developments, it gets old quick no matter how big they are. And I grew up running equipment
at 21 ur going to want to labor again. @@Jsnure1913
Indeed, I quit cnc operations for same reason. Most boring job ever just watching it work all day twiddling my thumbs and looking at clock every 15 min hoping an hour had passed.
1:54 That machine is 106 days short of operating 10,000 days.
The most custom piece besides the bucket is the drive gear. I wonder how many individual sections it was cast in and if any of the sections of drive gear have been replaced.
Great question 👍! I wonder how long it took the mechanics to build the machine onsite after the pieces are brought in by train?
@@tristenklein225 not sure about the dragline. I’ve built rope shovels it takes about 3 months to finish a Bucyrus 495HR2 rope shovel. So I’ll assume the dragline might be 6 months or more depending with the location where you build it.
Two years ago they replaced the tub on this exact dragline I believe. If not this one it was one of the other two at this same mine.
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@@gunstuff5273 Awesome video, cheers for sharing, Guns.
Do you mean 10.000 hours
These draglines are absolute beasts! 🦖 It's wild to see how they move so much earth with just one scoop. How much weight can they actually lift at once? I’d love to know more about their mechanics! 🤔
I was fortunate enough to work 7 shifts of Big Muskie only 4 months before she was decommissioned. A true behemoth!
I call my old ford super duty big Muskie! Hats off
Big Muskie should never have been cut up for scrap because it was a true one off never to be built again, sounds sad but watching the videos of it being cut up was upsetting because the world will never see another one.
@@theunemployedtrucker I'm the same way. I have only seen videos of the machine, but when they blasted the A-frame off of it, and the boom fell to the ground, ruined, it was a might saddening to me. I have loved machinery like it, since I was a toddler. Some might consider me a nut, but that's the way I am.
@@wmden1 I was able to visit the resting place of the Big Muskies bucket…defies description! Can you tell me if the Big Muskie was larger than this machine? If so, by how much. Thanks.
@@WDFJR16345 I believe the narrator said the bucket of this machine holds 104 cubic yards. From what I have seen and heard on videos of it, The Big Muskie bucket held 225 cubic yards. That is over twice the capacity of this machine here. I believe the Big Muskie was said to weigh 26 million pounds total, and was significantly larger than this dragline. That's about all I can tell you and be pretty sure about it.
re reference, the machine hours indicates that one particular machine has been running for 28 years of its 40 year life span. WOW
Nothing quite like the intertwining of man & machine feels so natural. The perfect bond
Maybe up in the driver's seat you'd feel that but certainly not back in the machine house where it was very noisy, dirty and potentially dangerous.
This is such a cool video. I worked for a heavy engineering company in Australia in the 70's called Perry Engineering. I operated a Skoda horizontal floor borer that machined the gear boxes and swing shafts for draglines.
The bucket and the amount of dirt it holds is tiny compared to the size of the machine. Just shows how difficult it is to move the earth
Everybody gangsta until the drag line starts WALKING...
The closest we will ever get to a Warhammer 40K Titan. 🤣
Former coal mine electrician here in Texas, , had 3 8200 and 1 8750, before going to work for Drives and Control Services,doing the electrical systems/ troubleshooting call-outs for over 6 years: they are the most awesome, unique machines ever I'm blessed to have worked on them for 13 years.
Sure do miss it! Wonderful video and thank you!!!!
the efficiency of these machines is so cool
I was lucky enough to not only get to see one of these in person but the guy knew the driver so he stopped the machine and let us onboard. The sensation of being in the cab while its swinging around and throwing its bucket is wild. So much weight
Awesome video, impressive point of view. 👌
Awesome video brought back alot of good memories i got to run a drag line half that size at a limestone quarry in central Illinois that my dad worked at when i was a freshman in highschool it was an awesome experience
Great Video!... My Grandfather on my Daddy's Side of the Family worked for a Company here in Pennsylvania called Highway Equipment... Before he passed away back in the late 1970's, He worked on Big Bucyrus Erie Machinery... He also had a Weld Shop... The sheer size of some of those Old Shovels and Draglines is just totally overwhelming!... This Kid does a good Job with these Videos... I enjoy watching this stuff... I've been in Heavy Equipment Business my entire life... Over 32 years, I'm pushing 50 now... And I learn something new every day about this type of stuff.... Like I said, Great Video!...
amazing!!
this is actually epic i would love to have your job aaron 👍great vids love the content keep it up
My father ran a drainage earth moving business and operated draglines, not like the size of this beauty of course. A dragline was one of the most difficult earth moving machines I've ever had to learn how to operate, my father could make a dragline sing, they were an awesome machine in there day and still have there uses even today. Cheers for the great reel.
It’s like moving a whole factory around.
Hey man. My name is Matt. I was the Project Manager for rebuilding the boom on this 10 years ago. Have some cool photos and videos of it.
Do you have them posted anywhere?
@@minkymott
Not publicly.
@@Matt-mp7qu too bad, they seem interesting.
GREAT STUFF AND POWERFUL CREATING 😊😊😊😊😊
Awesome video... thanks for sharing 🇲🇨🚜🚛❤️🌼👍👍
Well you sort of got one thing wrong. I guess they didn't tell you, that if you were standing on the very end of the boom, when its swinging you'd be travelling between 60 - 80 miles per hour !!! Thats pretty damn fast for an earth moving machine!
Not true actually. I have tested and calculated it. It is about 37 mph.
@@joshkuhn3974 oh yes that would be right. I'm Canadian and it's 60-80 km/hr. They tested the ones up at Syncrude back when they had them. It's still pretty darn fast!
One stupid question but what exactly does the machine in this case do? It just looks to me that it moves material (coal?) from a to b, with b not being a dump truck or plant or so..
It strips overburden to reach the coal
I had the same question because it looked like both from where it was digging and dumping to be the same hight
They create a moving trench … ahead is ground with coal under it, the trench is dug to expose the coal so it can be mined, and they use what they dig to fill in behind them where the ground is graded and the land restored.
Next time your up at Coteau, ask to see the coal handling facility and ask to maybe tag along with the dragline maintenance guys.
Great video, thx🎉🎉🎉
my dad made the main spool drive gears (amongst other parts) for drag lines like these back in the 80's and they're still out there running today!
Did he work in Pocatello?
nup he worked at vickers machine works in melbourne australia@@ileenmcminn2062
Good show, Aaron. We had one on the last job that I was on. Nothing as big as that one. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!!
Best video yet I wish you could just do videos of draglines and large excavators
Great video aaron❤️
Great video
Hello i'm from the biggest production indonesian coal mining " berau coal ".
I always watch your videos and fantastic experience about coal mining in the europe one day i would like to works there are
You must be a lucky guy to be in one 👍👍👍
Your best video to date 🎉
Thanks mate
Really gotta give these guys credit. No wind power machine could make it possible to live 24/7 the way we do. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Why wouldn't wind power work? Or for that matter any other form of energy? Electricity is all the same, no matter how it's generated.
I run a power plant and monitor our 3 wind farms. Yeah the wind doesn’t blow all the time. Especially on the coldest of nights. No wind no power. I’m grateful for the coal and natural gas power generation! My hats off to those who work in that cold up north.
@@titaniummechanism3214
Yeah... I think the OP may be tilting at windmills. (Almost literally: they kinda teed that up, eh?)
Energy is energy, and, sure, there is the intermittancy issue with wind, but there are solutions like pumped hydro, etc for that. Installed wind power is already less expensive than any source other than, in some marginal situations, natural gas or coal- and the gap is closing fast! (It would already be closed except for the absurdly massive fossil fuel incentives, favroable interest rates, tax breaks, and immunity for the environmental damage they cause, etc, etc.)
Uncledad hates the wind, he says if anything is gonna blow him it'll be
Well
I can't finish that story in polite company, but it's a funny 'n
@@tomarmadiyer2698
I could magine! (And wish I didn't).
Cheers!
It's a shame not many of these machines of this size exist anymore.
Aaron, that is absolutely cool! Got to see more of the "guts" of a dragline like this with you than elsewhere, thanks!
Love ur videos bro keep it up 💯
Thanks for watching
Wish I could give 10k thumbs up for this one!!! AWESOME VIDEO, THANK YOU!
By far, this is the best giant dragline tour I've seen. AWSOME video!!!
Thank you! I always had a strange fascination with all the big machines with rooms inside of them!
Worked around 2 diff ones here in eastern Ky…ones in the coal mining in Appalachia vid and the other I think went to Florida yrs ago
Started Peabody Coal 1978 had 8800 Marion 100Yd Homestead Mine Western KY . 1050BE shovel really cool for 18 year old .
Honestly, this is my dream job.
my inner kid would love the holes this bad boy can dig!
Great narration & info thank you for the content 😎
The reliability of that machine is the most amazing part. To operate for 40 years is just NUTS!!
This is just so incredible .. Thank you for showing this to us.
Back in the late '60's we were fishing near the open pit coal mines around Wilmington IL. There was an immense dragline there, and we were invited to tour the machine. My father drove our Plymouth station wagon into the scoop of the dragline and there was enough room for another station wagon next to our car.
That's really nice they Gave you tour and a great one at that great team to do that thanks crew pritty amazing men to go above beyond
Awesome video. I love watching them work. Mahalo.
This can be called a building. 凄い！😱
It doesn't matter how many times I watch videos like this on massive mining machines I'm still totally gob smacked and amazed by these huge masterpieces, and huge amounts of respect to America and the guy's who operates these giants because America is never out done when it comes to massive mining machines ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Amazing machine
This might be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I REALLY wanna see those gears moving during the walking and turning
Awesome video, such a cool machine.
I often do maintenance shutdowns on 1350 and 8750 draglines in the Australian Bowen Basin. As amazing as they are to see and experience first hand, once you experience pulling them apart and fixing them, they get old very fast 😂
Edit: To further explain your explanation on how the machine swings, the motors you mentioned in the front of the machine sit on a vertical axis and connect to the swing shaft (think of a driveshaft in your car), on the bottom of the swing shaft is a cassette (a big cog) and the cassette rotates along what is called the slew ring which is a very large gear ring. To put it simply, the swing shafts spin the cassettes along the slew ring which in turn rotates the dragline. The size of the dragline also dictates how many swing shafts the machine has. For example the one in the video would have 4, a larger machine might have 7. The Machine in the video is also just a little baby dragline.
This old retired "sparky" helped rewire a few draglines in the Bowen Basin in the early 2000's. Dust , grease and noisy for sure ,but the money was good and a great bunch of workmates. With a few notable exceptions.😉🇦🇺
Worked at bucyrus, when we had to make repair parts for these it was an experience in itself. Just massive
Whoever design, engineer and build these machines. Salut to you all!
Big toy for big boy are very impressive machine to watch, thanks for the video.
thanks for watching
I wonder what the voltage on the power cable across the ground is. 13KV? We all know that is not 480V.
23KV running through that cable.
Called 23 kv Cable. Actually 22,900 volts. Portable substation hooked to 69,000 high line. Goes into dragline to 4160 volt transformers which feed 4-3000 hp motors which drive a bunch of dc generators which feed the dc motors.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Bucyrus-Erie the very first to design engineer and manufacture drag lines in the world starting in the late 1800’s?
How often do they have to change out the cables due to fatigue and stress and do they have to be certified and inspected by OSHA like cables on large cranes?
Its hard to say. Page Engineering (John Page) were the first to make draglines. Both Bucyrus-Erie (now a part of CAT) and Harnischfeger (aka Pawling & Harnischfeger, later P&H Mining -> Joy Global -> Komatsu Mining) got into the dragline business in the early 1900s both operating out of Milwaukee. Neither were the first to make them, and those two companies went head to head for many years in the business, and pretty much bought out all the other smaller firms (for instance Page Engineering was bought by P&H in the 1980s). Nowadays most draglines are just maintained, and new ones haven't been built for quite some time since its easier and cheaper to maintain existing ones and replace them with rope shovels if they are no longer suited for an application.
I work for one of those companies and can't say exactly how often cables are replaced especially since its heavily dependent on the work that the dragline is doing and where, however I can say pretty much everything that goes onto a mine site is inspected by MSHA at least once per year. MSHA is the mine specific version of OSHA. MSHA controls mining and quarrying exclusively, while OSHA controls pretty much anything else, including things like maintenance and repair shops that might be on mine sites.
@@helloitsjasonThanks for the insight and history 👍
Wow that’s impressive
53 year old from the Uk here, when I was a kid my surrounding areas were open cast mining for coal up to mid 90’s
Can remember going to watch a drag line going across a road from one site to another ( Marion I think it was called)
We have non now and last last coal powered station has just closed
We the uk are nuts
Keep up the good work
I operated draglines for almost twenty years best job I ever had 💪
I love drag lines
Really enjoyed that video Aaron.bit differant to the volvo ecr25 I run in the uk
Well thank you for this video. For many years my Company (Monitek) performed vibration analysis on these machines in coal mines throughout Australia, the purpose being to detect the early warning signs of wear (defects) in the many large bearings and gears driving them, thus allowing corrective maintenance to be performed before a catastrophic and very expensive failure occured. One of our employees later emigrated to the USA and set up a sister company in Wyoming to service the coal mines in the region. Never thought I would see this sort of detail on RUclips.
son unas máquinas fantásticas, y más en sus mantenimientos, en el balde, cambios de cables y pines, en el boom y ni se diga en las partes internas, revolfren y Center pin, en los zapatos, toda una locura realizar trabajos de soldadura en esa areas.
I've worked around 9800 diggers, 930 haul trucks and all the rest but these things are Goliath's!
I got to see that exact machine operate a few years back when doing maintenance at their mine. I still see it once in awhile when traveling through there
Serious machine. Really enjoyed it.
Its crazy that this machine is pretty much like a building that moves. These machines are insane feats of engineering
Great video thanks for sharing 👍
3:07 insane, it's so close to the edge like that?
Shame they don't make 'em as big as Big Muskie anymore.
Bellissimo video complimenti 👍👍👍👍
Very interesting machine ,thank you for showing us the work of those important people.
Matt from Diesel Creek should buy this.
Working on a floating (3m^3) grab dredge everyting seemed big to me on my machine... and then I see this ;)
What a remarkable machine! Its crazy that at the make of this video this machine had 237,446 hours..... to put that into perspective that is 27 years. Mind blowing...
I could watch that machine walks around all day
Thanks for the video. Interesting! Three other questions: 1) Do the booms move? 2) how much does this machine weigh? 3) How much does this machine cost?
With out the crane how world you change the lines out? Or anything ? Tug boats have cranes inside ER
The sound it makes when "walking" is awesome, like out of a transformer movie
What kind of steel do they use to plate the bucket?
How many crews are there to rotate through the twelve hour shifts? I have to assume that it is more than two crews.
yeah there are more than two for each machine. Typically 4-5 total per machine. I think each crew technically works on average about half the year. It's a good gig
@@AaronWitt Sounds good, thank you.
Wow. Incredible
Thanks again buildwitt. What a incredable machine.
I remember back in the 1980’s Daddy took us to see a drag line on a strip job in Bell County, Kentucky. I remember being scared of it because it was so monstrous huge! It looked bigger than the mountain it was sitting on top of. My husband’s Dad was a mechanic on the strip job at the time and he got to actually go inside of it and got to see the cab. He even walked a little ways up the boom. He said at 12 yrs old he just couldn’t make himself go up too far, it was so far off the ground!
It's like a warehouse with extra functions. When you're a piece of equipment has a kitchen in it you know it's big
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Man that's a hell of a machine 😮😢😮
Cool and big machine. But what i dont understand.. why is the bucket so small compared to the size of the machine? Could the bucket not be alot bigger?
A bucket load of dirt weighs over 600,000 lbs. The boom is 300 ft long. If you figure in the forces it takes to lift that and how fast the dragline does it.. no it couldn’t be a lot bigger. Also the machine is moving over 500 loads in a 12 hour shift.
@@joshkuhn3974 hmm okay.. and what with more horsepower? Then it would be possible to lift it 🤔
@@pupupupu448 Yes, but the question is how many times? Remember this machine is cycling over 1000 loads a day. The boom and other structure are still only rated for a certain amount, and steel fatigues with use. Every year there are cracks repaired and welded on the boom and frame structure.
Woww.... Amazing
Thanks! That's Cool..
I bought one of those last week to dig my pond. Enjoying the comfort of the cab.
Honestly with how big they are, i teally did expect the bucket to be bigger.
Not many? Gotta be more than 50 in australia i think. Thats heaps.
A mate of mine who is a welder told me that when the drag lines moved position in Mt Isa Australia, the entire town's electrical supply would 'brown out' as it did so.....
Thank God for all the corrections in the inserted text. I assume it is a heck of a lot easier than actually knowing what you are talking about before shooting the video.
I cant fathom how big that machine is 😊