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Hitachi EX5500 Shovel at work Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 87 seconds A Hitachi EX5500 hydraulic front shovel with a 35 CY bucket loads a 260-ton capacity Euclid R-260 haul truck at a surface coal mine in Indiana. A Cat 793 pulls up to wait to be loaded. Related: caterpillar, coal, euclid, hitachi, hydraulic, mine, shovel, surface |
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Walking Dragline - Digging Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 77 seconds Video of a Bucyrus Erie 2570W Walking Dragline operating. Boom is 335' long and bucket is 115 Cubic Yards, or about 173 tons of rock and dirt. Related: 2570, bucket, bucyrus, coal, dragline, mine, surface, walking |
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Walking Dragline - walking Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 65 seconds Close-up of a Bucyrus 2570W dragline during its walking sequence. This machine has a 335' long boom, and a 115 CY bucket. Related: bucket, bucyrus, coal, dragline, mine, surface, walking |
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Walking Dragline - Inside Cab Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 92 seconds Inside the cab of an operating Bucyrus 2570W Walking Dragline while the operations manager for the mine explains the difference between Marion and Bucyrus operating modes on the machine. This machine has a 335' boom and a 115 CY bucket. Related: 2570, bucket, bucyrus, coal, dragline, mine, surface, walking |
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Hitachi EX3500 Shovel working Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 75 seconds A Hitachi EX3500 hydraulic front shovel with a 23 CY bucket cleans off a coal seam and loads the rock overburden into a 100-ton capacity Caterpillar 777 haul truck at an Indiana surface mine. Related: 777, bucket, caterpillar, coal, ex3500, hitachi, hydraulic, indiana, mine, shovel, surface, truck |
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Old Glory - Bucyrus 2570 Dragline digging Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 127 seconds Video of "Old Glory", a Bucyrus Erie 2570W Walking Dragline operating. Boom is 335' long and bucket is 116 Cubic Yards, or about 174 tons of rock and dirt. The machine is digging overburden covering the coal on the right and then dumping into the spoil pile on the left. Related: 2570, bucket, bucyrus, coal, dragline, erie, mine, surface, walking |
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Big Kate - 2570 Dragline Digging Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 63 seconds Sorry no tripod on this one. This is "Big Kate", the first Bucyrus Erie 2570W walking dragline built. The machine has a 310' boom and a 100 CY bucket and was put to work in 1971. This video was taken at Black Beauty Coal Company's Somerville surface coal mine in May '06. Related: bucket, bucyrus, coal, dragline, mine, surface, walking |
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10B Bucyrus Shovel at work Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 80 seconds Belleview's restored 10B Bucyrus Erie shovel works at a show at the Vanderburgh County Fairgrounds from 6/10/2006. Related: antique, bucket, bucyrus, dipper, erie, loading, restored, shovel |
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Caterpillar 5230 - Inside Cab Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 29 seconds Inside the operator's cab of a Caterpillar 5230 hydraulic front shovel while it loads a Cat 785B haul truck. The 5230 has a 23 CY bucket, the 785 is a 150-ton capacity truck. Related: 5230, cat, caterpillar, coal, dump, hydraulic, mine, shovel, surface, truck |
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Walking Dragline - letting out old dump ropes Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 66 seconds Video of a Bucyrus Erie 2570W Walking Dragline lifting the bucket to let the freshly-cut dump ropes out of the sheaves at the start of the a job of putting new dump ropes on the bucket. This bucket is 115 CY in capacity. Related: 2570, bucket, bucyrus, coal, dragline, erie, mine, surface, walking |
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Lego Walking Dragline - Interior Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 27 seconds Interior of the Lego Walking dragline as it operates. You can see the Lego motors and gears driving the drag and hoist drums. Related: dragline, lego, motors, technic, walking |
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Blasting rock overburden at a coal mine. Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 30 seconds Setting off a shot at a surface coal mine. Related: anfo, blasting, coal, detonate, drilling, mine, shooting, surface |
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Detonating a blast at a surface coal mine Posted by: ahtaylor
Video duration: 17 seconds Explosives are detonated within drilled holes at a surface coal mine to blast the material. This "cast" shot breaks up the rock covering the coal as well as throws some of the material into the previous cut. Related: blasting, coal, detonating, drilling, mine, surface |
