1940s Ruston Bucyrus 10-RB Dragline Excavator Working at the Southland Steam Engine Club in Brydone

Late 1940s Ruston Bucyrus 10-RB Dragline Excavator Working at the Southland Steam Engine Club's 2024 Steam Up in Brydone, in the Southland Region of New Zealand's South Island.
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[@Priest57man]

Fantastic video, thank you for sharing, great videography. Beautiful machine in just right condition. I would say this is a 1950s machine with it having the Ruston continental cab, with the driver door and an access door on the other side , originally fitted with Rustons 3VRH diesel engine. Good operator too, draglines I would say (personally) are the trickiest of the cable machines as you are mostly working with gravity and the weight of the bucket.

[@ScenicDriveProductions]

Thanks it rare to get a bit of appreciation. The guy operating operates an 80 ton machine normally I believe. Hopefully in a year or two I can upload a video of it restored. It would of been done but they needed to build another shed.

[@DOCTORDROTT]

nice machine , the 10's are great. I have one in my collection

[@ScenicDriveProductions]

I'm hoping when I return in a year or two this will be restored.