Massive Earthmoving Machines Part 1, DVD by Keith Haddock, approx 70 minutes, now in stock at £15.95.
Filmed in 2007 at Belle Ayr mine, Gillette, Wyoming and Beener Coal, Barton, Maryland. Shows a wide range of exceptionally large machinery at work in these open-cast coalmines.
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. Belle Ayr mine, Gillette, Wyoming
Electric shovels
P&H 4100XPB, 82 cu yd dipper
Bucyrus 495HR, 82 cu yd dipper
Marion 301-M, 54 cu yd dipper
Bucyrus-Erie 295-B, 46 cu yd dipper
Haul trucks
Caterpillar 797B, 380 ton capacity
Terex/Unit Rig MT5500, 360 ton capacity
Caterpillar 793B, 240 ton capacity
Unit-Rig MT4000, 240 ton capacity
Other equipment
Caterpiller 24H motor grader
Caterpillar 854G rubber-tyred dozer
Caterpillar 5130 hydraulic backhoe
Unit-Rig MT3700 water tanker
Drilltech D55SP diesel-powered drill
Conveyors, silo and coal train.
2. Beener Coal, Barton, Maryland
Diesel shovel
Bucyrus-Erie 295B series II, 35 cu yd dipper
Haul trucks
Euclid R-120 and R-100, 120- and 100-ton capacities
Bulldozer
Komatsu D575A, 1,150 flywheel horsepower
Other equipment
Fiat-Allis 945-B wheel loader
Tri-axle trucks
Rock crushing and screening plant.
Saw something like this in the copper mines in AZ. They were so far down in the mines they looked like toy trucks. Then you see em pulling out and they're about 8 times the size of boom trucks and all i could say was...wow. cool. can i drive?
Posted by: Boom Trucks | 07/14/2010 at 10:37 PM