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The bulldozer in the background looks like it would fit in the bucket

Sounds like a board meeting going on behind him

That thing can move the dirt

14.5 million pounds is a lot of money.

I know it’s a medium voltage machine, but what is the voltage. The draglines I saw in the mine my Dad used to work at were 14,200.

MY FATHER worked on a sand and gravel site he did draglines a lot smaller than this monster and also drove dumpers and shovel loaders in the 60s and 70s but he worked bloody hard for long hours and enjoyed his job i think he spent a bit too much time working but he brought up 5 kids and was a wicked dad to us all he died aged 68 i am now 63 but i still miss him and my mother

It's just amazing how the dragline bucket scoops that many cupic meters of earth with ease and it gets swung over some football field length and places the load in its new spot!!! Be fun with a job like the operater handling the huge monster machine. And one full scoop or full bucket is over 200 tons, oh shit that's nearly half a million pounds per scoop, plus the empty scoop is over 50 tons itself!!!😳😳😳😲😲😲🤸🤸🤸🤸😜💪💪👍👍

Wonder what the hourly wage is to operate that

There is a plastic gear that is probably shredded take oil cap off and look inside

How much per hour does operating that thing pay? 100/hour or more?

I had the same issue with my JD 322. The throttle cable slipped just enough that it wouldn't throttle up. Adjusted the cable, and it works like new again.

The scale is SO deceiving. It looks like a normal sized machine, until you realize each of those chain links is the size of a small car.

How many Ounces is that?......

Too many people in the cab of this huge dragline. There is a lot of distraction for the operator. Follow the so called sterile cockpit procedures that commercial aircraft pilots use. In this situation it’s more about safeguarding the machine itself, that probably has a value of more than 20 million US dollars. This dragline could actually be valued at far more than what I stated. A single person in the cab, asking the occasional question to the operator is how I’d manage it.

Looks like just over one minute per scoop, or 300-400 scoops in a workday. I wonder if that gets old after a while.

Rather see them not destroying the planet and remove and stop the breeding of about 4 billion

it’s no big muskie it’ll getter done

So what is this accomplishing

I heard plans to rename North Dakota to North China

all that and still working for Asia hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

That dragline bucket moves with real grace and that is because the operator is superb at his job!

My grandfather operated big Kate for old Ben coal in southern Indiana back in the 80-90s it’s really awesome watching them work I got to go all over one after the mine closed down they just left it

the cabs on the right side anyway

Who were all the idiots yammering away in the back? Stfu for goodness sakes.

Ohh, my gosh, you got like good used from the mountains or whatever you're in or like that Mining thing. But offering up some good views on this video.

Ohh, my gosh, why do you still have that big clump a machinery in the basement?

I think he's making it look a lot easier than it is to be that smooth.

Again, don't know why but that is cool!!

The operator probably has a big Ego.

What did you to get that job? I bet there's a lot of guys that are unhappy and are pissed off .

Is that in North Dakota?

What the model Dragline machine 😮

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I used to run D11 dozer, like the one in the background, they used to play around and ive had that bucket fly overhead, but was cool to sit inside and observe. These are huge machines.

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221 ton scoops wow what a bad ass job💯

221 tons = 442,000lbs?!?!😳

I believe I was on that machine in the winter of 22 for repairs with dcs

Holy Jumping Up And Down Martha!

So smooth and buttery.

Does it feel like anything in the cab??

It's so hard to understand the scale in video like this. The size of the bus in the background gives a little hint. This thing is just massive!

To the EV folks; this is how they will get your lithium as well make no mistake

I really liked the part where they picked up dirt and put it down in a different spot.

I'm from S Illinois and there's a lot of strip pits here, fished a lot of them from Freeburg, New Athens, Marissa, Sparta, Pinckneyville and many more. Dad worked for ICRR and hauled coal out of a lot of them, he also would take me down to the mines sometimes on weekends, I got to see the Captain at the mine of the same name down in Pinckneyville IL when I was little and other smaller shovels. Dad took me to the Freeburg mine and we went to the maintenance shed and the guys were playing craps on these big thick pieces of plywood down on the floor because of the nasty grease and dirt from the massive trucks and such, I noticed one guy and he was wearing a dark blue suit but had his jacket off but still had his vest on and was rolling the dice a lot, of course I didn't understand craps back when I was 6-7 years old, I could play poker though, no problem, anyway this guy seemed to be losing from what I could tell, anyway after Dad and I left I asked who was that guy? Dad said his name is IRL Englehart, I didn't know it was spelled IRL until I applied for a machinist job years later and he was on the cover on a mining magazine that had articles about machining and mining, Dad said it didn't matter to him if he won or lost because if he won he'd just give to the guys in the shed to split.

i built the boom pipe on a dragline in the muskegan coal mine, and they had a dragline there called cleopatra and i was told it was one of the biggest in the world. i was told the put the whole muskeegan marching band in it in formation, and you could drive a pickup in it and turn it around without backing up...lol

14.5 million poundas / 2.2 lbs = 6 590 909 tonnes 🤔

220 tons Answer 440,000 pounds

How many people were in the cab?? Sounds like it was a proper tea party.. 😂

221 ton a scoop - Jesus!!