Draglines! Dragline Excavators are expensive. Big draglines Excavators are even more so expensive. Draglines, big and small, have been around since John W. Page invented one in 1904. The earlier draglines were small and used mostly to dig ditches and canals with some being used as dredging in fresh and salt water.

This photo offers a view of Catenary Coal Company's Samples mine, named for Eugene Samples, a company executive. Various stages of the mountaintop removal method are visible here, including the holes drilled for blasting, the valley fills in progress, and "Big John," a dragline with a 53-cubic yard scoop which loads rocks and mine spoil ...

Uses of Draglines A dragline. excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining. Coal mining Smaller draglines were also commonly used before hydraulic excavators came into common use, the smaller draglines are now rarely used other than on …

The operating radius of the 8000 range draglines is up to 88.08m while the maximum loading height and digging depth are 40.8m and 53.6m respectively. The 8000 draglines are equipped with two 1,230kW drag motors, two 1,230kW hoist motors, and two 477kW swing motors. The suspended load capacity of the dragline is up to 95,000kg. ESH 30.110

Page draglines in central Pennsylvania: Pages were the most prolific of the walking draglines that stripped coal in Clearfield and Centre counties. They outnumbered their two competitors, Marion and Bucyrus-Erie, combined, at least in part because of their lower initial cost (although in coal fields nationwide, Page was the minority builder ...

Abandoned dragline out in the middle of the woods near White Haven, Pa. It was used a LONG time ago to dig coal out of the stripping pits.Subscribe and clic...

At one time, there were between 10 and 15 of the Marion 111-M drag lines being used in Tuscarawas County for strip mining coal. A total of 370 of the machines were built by the company. Six are still in existence. "I know where all six are, and I'm in …

The 9.5 million-pound Liberty dragline at BNI coal will be trailered to a new location on the mine site. Draglines are normally "walked" to a new location, but the trailering method, only done ...

The remainder is handled by the draglines. The coal is also blasted before loading. The coaling fleet consists of five P&H 2800 electric mining shovels and one Marion 351-M. Coal haulage is carried out by a fleet of T-262 (218t-capacity) and 930E (290t) haul trucks, and the mine has had both T-282 (360t-capacity) and ...

Bucyrus-Erie 2560-W Dragline - Farmington, Illinois area. Clark Coal Handling Plant, Havana, Illinois Dogs Employed in Mines for Hauling Cars - McDonough County, Illinois Flooded Pits - Northern Illinois Coal Corporation, March 19, 1948 John E. Herron, Office and Teams, Chicago, Illinois Hoist Assembly - New Orient Mine No. 2, Franklin County, Illinois

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Browse 131 dragline stock photos and images available, or search for mining or drag line to find more great stock photos and pictures. Large American Flag flies 10 September 2002 from the top of the 220 foot long boom of a dragline excavator at the re-claimed strip mine in... The Queen Anne dragline operating at the Trapper Mine to supply coal ...

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Draglines remove dirt to expose coal and other minerals underneath. Some of the biggest machines can lift several hundred tons in a single scoop, and the bucket alone is about the size of a two-car garage. The machine house is 100 x 118 ft. with a 350 ft. boom and currently uses a 100 CY bucket. The P&H 9020 has only been in operation since ...

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The Captain was the first of the big draglines, built by Marion Power Shovel for the Captain Mine in Illinois. It was then rivalled by the Big Muskie, owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company.

We operate coal mines that serve our customers' unique needs, with a laser-like focus on success. North American Coal and its affiliated businesses operate more draglines than anyone else in the country, providing you the expertise to move your project forward.

The second largest operating dragline bucket is in Australia, measuring in at 143 cubic yards. "We knew we had the biggest operating dragline," …

FREEDOM® for Draglines. The FREEDOM for Draglines control system frees you to upgrade your draglines with higher-performance DC power systems, convert DC machines to AC, and integrate new third-party technologies, so you can achieve faster cycle times, increased availability, and …

No longer the world's largest, and replaced by drag lines, the famous shovel uncovered 80 million tons of coal in over two decades. The story explained how Peabody was going to bury it …

Page Draglines. At left, Elliot Coal Mining Co.'s Page 725, swinging a 10 cu.-yd. bucket, strips a hilltop at Coal Run, between Osceola Mills and Houtzdale, in 1971. The dragline dumps overburden to fill in an adjacent cut, as the dozer helps to level the working area. Elliot purchased the 725 new in 1960, although the boom is a 1969 ...

Big Muskie. Big Muskie was a legend among machines while in operation. Also called Muskie and Ol Musky, the machine was a model 4250-W Bucryus-Erie dragline. It was the only model ever built, and took two years and some 200,000 hours to construct. When Muskie was built in 1969, it cost $25 million dollars. That's approximately $171 million today!

The present work is a field oriented exhaustive research work on the swing time element of the draglines in some major opencast coal mines of our country. Five large capacity draglines were chosen ...

For example, removing soil and rock from the surface above the coal seam. This overburden is repurposed, in some cases set aside to refill the open pit when the resources are exhausted. Dragline excavators fall into two major categories: …

The Marion Power Shovel Company (established in 1880) built its first walking dragline with a simple single-crank mechanism in 1939. Its largest dragline was the 8950 sold to Amax Coal Company in 1973. It featured a 150-cubic yard bucket on a 310-foot boom and weighed 7,300 tons. Marion was acquired by Bucyrus in 1997.

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At one time, there were between 10 and 15 of the Marion 111-M drag lines being used in Tuscarawas County for strip mining coal. A total of 370 of the …

The Friends of St Aidans care for 'Oddball', a Bucyrus Erie BE 1150 Walking Dragline Excavator, which was used in opencast/surface coal mining. This giant machine is preserved on the site where it last worked at Swillington, Leeds. Public Open Days throughout the year.

Having sat unused since 1995, Mr. Tom, one of the biggest coal mine draglines in the country, had turned into a rusting hulk, seen only occasionally by a handful of dirt bike and motorcycle ...

Surface mining is used when a coal seam is relatively close to the surface, usually within 200 feet. The ˜rst step in surface mining is to remove and store the soil and rock covering the coal, called the overburden. Workers use a variety of equipment—drag-lines, power shovels, bulldozers, and front-end loaders—to expose the coal seam for ...

Solid Fuels Administration For War. (04/19/1943 - 06/30/1947) Here, Harry Fain is loading coal that has just been shot from the face of the mine. Taken September 1946, Inland Steel Company, Wheelwright #1 & 2 Mines, Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky. 17. Miners line up to bring in …

The difficulty is cycling the draglines properly as they are supposed to handle nearly all of the over and interburden," said Hawbaker. The Mining Process Long before it can begin moving the overburden to mine the coal, Sabine has to clear the land of brush and trees and preserve and protect the top 4.5 feet of oxidized soil.

Draglines in Powder River Basin coal mines are among the world's biggest machines, handling up to 100 cubic yards of earth at a time. Their job is to excavate the dirt and rock overlying the coal ...

Dragline excavation systems are heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining. In civil engineering the smaller types were used for road and port construction. The larger types are used in strip-mining operations to move overburden above coal, and for tar-sand mining. Mining Draglines are amongst the largest mobile equipment (not water-borne), and can weigh in the vicinity of ...

In this photo from an advertisement in the Coal Age Magazine, the 3850-B at Sinclair Mine shortly after going to work. The shovel began moving 115 yd. bites at Peabody Coal's Sinclair Mine in late 1962 and was the largest in the world at the time. The Mine was located east of Drakesboro, KY. and fed coal to the Paradise Power Plant.

"NA Coal has experience in Page, Bucyrus and Marion draglines, and this Page machine will be able to mine the whole coal reserve." He also noted that the mine plan always had assumed that a dragline, particularly a pre-owned and rebuilt unit, would be at the heart of its operations.

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