Massive Earthmoving Machines Part 2, DVD by Keith Haddock, approx 70 minutes, now in stock at £15.95.
Filmed in 2007 at Black Thunder mine, Gillette, Wyoming and Garzweiler, Germany. Shows a wide range of exceptionally large machinery at work in these open-cast coalmines. Photographs from Garzweiler are in the post of 20 October 2007.
The detailed narration is scripted by Keith Haddock, retired mining engineer and author of many books and articles about earthmoving equipment.
The following is a list of the main machines which appear. The machines are not in running order.
1. Black Thunder mine, Gillette, Wyoming
Walking dragline
Bucyrus-Erie 2570-WS "Ursa Major", 164 cu yd bucket
Electric shovels
Bucyrus 495HR, 82 cu yd dipper
P&H 2800, 65 cu yd bucket
Haul trucks
Liebherr T282 diesel-electric, 400 ton capacity
Komatsu 930E diesel-electric, 320 ton capacity
Caterpillar 793D mechanical drive, 240 ton capacity
Other equipment
Caterpillar 24H motor grader
Caterpillar 657E twin-engined motor scraper
Le Tourneau L-1800 diesel-electric wheel loader, 33 cu yd capacity
Caterpillar D11R bulldozer
2. RWE, Garzweiler, Germany
Bucketwheel excavators
No. 288, 12,500 cu m per hour
No. 284, 10,400 cu m per hour
Other equipment
Spreader 760
Bucketwheel coal loader
Caterpillar D8R crawler dozer
Caterpillar 824H wheeled dozer
Conveyors, control room, coal train
That's no bunch of toy trucks. Those are real men's toys!
Posted by: Boom Trucks | 07/14/2010 at 10:34 PM
Gonna watch this pretty soon. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: renamer | 11/29/2010 at 01:08 PM