3 Coal Mines In 3 Days | Electricity for 1 MILLION People | North American Coal
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This vlog hails all the way from beautiful Beulah, North Dakota where the crew and I followed along with North American Coal to visit 3 coal mines in 3 days.
First Site: “Coyote Creek” Mine - We visited the “Wile E. Coyote” dragline to see how it gets moved from point A to point B across the mine.
NOTE: It’s powered by a massive extension cable that is carried by a farming tractor so it doesn’t get run over when the dragline is being moved.
Second Site: The “Freedom” Mine - A very large mine that produces coal for a power plant, a gasification plant, and then another power plant down the road. (It’s been there since the ’70s..) This is a massive operation equipped with 123-yard dragline buckets that roll 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with three people running each dragline.
They also run two types of Kress Coal Haulers (the 200-ton and 300-ton). The craziest part is that a lot of these machines have more than 100,000 hours on them!
Third Site: The “Falkirk” Mine - About an hour north of Bismarck that feeds a power plant right next door that’s all lignite coal. (it’s also been around since the ’70s…) The coolest part was the indoor building where they park all of their haul trucks (789’s and 793’s) The facility is about the size of a football field, and the trucks are all loaded by shovels out.
They then take the coal out of the pit and drive it all the way down the haul road and dump everything into a hopper, which is then crushed to make the coal a little more consistent. Then it’s thrown into a silo that feeds the power plant the coal. This is turned into energy for 750,000 houses and over 1 million people!
To wrap it all up…
The Coal Mining Process (Explained): It comes in segments. At the front, you have scrapers, dozers, and a PC2000 with trucks taking the topsoil and subsoil off and moving it to where the reclamation is at.
Next, the first little bit of overburden is stripped off to prepare for the dragline.
Then, the dragline comes through and exposes the coal, flops the material onto where they’ve already mined it, then the coal is moved to the power plant where it’s turned into electricity!
If you want to learn more about North American Coal, check them out at www.nacoal.com/. #coal #mining #construction
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-VIDEO CHAPTERS-
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - The Dragline
2:31 - Coal Mining Process
3:53 - Day 2
4:46 - Freedom Mine
5:37 - Draglines
6:15 - Standing in a Bucket
6:51 - Working
7:30 - Day 3
8:04 - Haul Truck Cave
9:27 - Outro - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Love the video's, just wish you guys would stay on the equipment a bit longer...the cuts are too close together. Guys wanna watch this stuff run!
we're working on the longer stuff. This was filmed back in January. Newer stuff is getting longer
thats my biggest complaint too. all my favorite channels that do raw footage like Andrew Camarata are the best. just watching em turn and burn
I would watch the entire video if it were 30 to 45 minutes long
Yes I'm with ya just a a little longer on each machine you show would make a huge difference. Love the content and I agree I watch just the same if it was 40 min or even a hour.
@@h0llowmane369 Andrew is the best 😂
love the content! I only wish you spent more time talking to the people who run these kinds of equipment and what day to day working life is like for them. I highly doubt anyone would complain about a 20-30+ minute video. I especially would like to see just more in depth. Keep up the awesome work!
we're heading in that direction. It's a balance honestly. A lot of these places have never really been filmed before so we somewhat need to get everyone comfortable first
@@AaronWitt totally understandable, glad to hear its something you're working towards!
Ya he thinks people want to hear him talk, but we just want to watch the equipment.
@@DavidC1 no reason to be rude man, they are just trying to figure it out.
Would happily watch 20-30 minute videos like this. Keep up the great work!
absolutely!!
Man, I just discovered this channel. Very clean and no bs. Great shots, and uses real terms. I don’t do equipment work, but subscribed!
love it. Thanks for following along Peter
I just stumbled across your channel recently and I’m so glad I did. High Quality content all around. Well done and keep up the great work, can’t wait to see you hit a million subs and beyond!
thanks Noah we're glad you're here!
I'm so glad you take drone footage Aaron of those mines thanks a lot for another great video guy
This is really cool to see this, I used to work at the Falkirk Mine as a Dragline Maintenance Welder!
that's really neat
I am a Beulah native born and raised and was raised with parents both working in the coal industry. I work at the power plant that is fed by the mine and my father works as an operator at Coyote Creek mine. I wish more people would come and experience our area and what it has to offer. Our power plants keep your phone charged, lights on, and heat or AC running. Aside from nearly 70% of Beulah being employed at one of the local mines or plants and seeing them from town, you'd never know they exist. BTW, the Country Kettle is slept on by most tourists but its definitely worth a stop.
oh you know we ate at the Country Kettle when we were there. That's really cool to hear. Hopefully we cross paths one day
I had built and delivered a machine to the Falkirk mine in underwood SD some years back and set it up out in a field to crush fly ash. From 3 miles away I could see the shovel sticking up above everything so naturally when I finished I headed towards it and man was it massive.
That’s fantastic
Thank you Mr. Witt for the amazing video and the way you explained. NAM reclamation practices. I had the opportunity to visit all three mines several years back in 2014. I was blown away by the workforce and management attitude. I am super proud of NAC/NAM family and great full to be part of their Organization
It’s an amazing company!!
You need to get this out to everyone……to show people how this is done another stellar video
Loving the huge variety of construction videos! keep them coming
Glad I found this page so early, content is amazing you’re living the dream man. Amazing videos!!
thanks for watching!!
I just joined the channel, this place is where I want to be... The boot cleaner, we use a gas valve with the same setup. As seen in Norway. Cheers!
Eric Jumper's contribution was flawless. Blue Collar Photographer can't be stopped.
This is one of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam. Thank you!! I love seeing the mines
thank you! it only gets better from here!
Used to work on tear down and relocation of draglines for P&H, I'll never forget my first time on one. Wrapping your mind around how they tram on those 2 shoes and it's tub is strange until you see it happen. Excellent work on your channel 👍
That’s very neat. Thank you so much for watching
How exactly do you go about tearing down and rebuilding one? I'm fascinated by draglines. I currently build airplanes but giant equipment is so cool. I wish they would make another muskie or captain
@@bodybong Literally piece by piece. The process can take years and whatever needs replaced is sourced from another machine, refurbished, or purchased brand new. The longest distance of a relocation I've worked was from Texas to WV. Logistically it seems crazy, but with some of the best people in the business working it out, it gets done. I really miss it.
@@cerberus276 that's so cool. Do they have living spaces inside them? Or kitchens or something? Did you have any pictures or videos you can post on TH-cam?
It does seem impossible considering their size and weight. What a fantastic job. Thanks for replying!
I Love this I work out at Coteau i work for Dragline Maintenance and its awesome being on the draglines and shovels
Pretty cool stuff! Coyote Creek electrician right here and honestly didn’t even know you were out at the mine 😂. Must’ve been on night shift when you came in on day shift.
Neat to see a little bit of the other mines in the area. I used to be an operator at R.M. Heskett until they shut down this spring and am now at the Milton R Young station.
Very cool
this whole video is a tease, i demand longer form video.
we're working on it
Ever since I found you TikTok I’ve been absolutely binging your vids, love it keep it up
glad you're here
Love the videos but Id love to see alot more of the process for everything instead of just a few seconds. I just love heavy equipment and if I wasn't disabled I'd be on a doser somewhere stripping
Arch Coal, black thunder mine in Wyoming, largest dragline.
went there a few years ago. It's a neat spot
I live right outside of beulah, basically everyone I know works at the coal mine or the power plants near by! Such a small town beautiful town!
It beautiful to see the drag lines all lit up at night running 24/7
TH-cam, instagram, and tiktoks. All underrated. Love the videos and all the video shots. Keep it up brother🤘🏼!!
thank you for watching!
Been watching your vids a bit bud! Crazy to see you were in Beulah. I stop over there for Dairy Queen.
love me some dairy queen
I like how Wylie Coyote had a toaster in its break room.
Glad I found this channel.
Aaron! Its Tuber. Awesome videos youre putting out dude.
hahaha thanks dude!! It's been a bit
wouldn't mind a closer view of the bottom dump. some machine. Great video 👍
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What do you know about the coal mining process?
Whats the song at 7:34. Also amazing shot. Appreciate these videos and the work that goes into them.
Not much
Aggregate miner here.
But we have coal mines north east wy tho. I’m southeast wy
Need to come to northwest Arkansas and see the new Wal-Mart home office headquarters build. Pretty massive, especially for this area.
I know it’s being heavily regulated. In my opinion it needs to have less regulation. Power is to important and it’s not worth making these companies jump through hoops in order to do it.
With that said I know they have to take off the top soil and then they mine the coal with the drag line. Then it is loaded on trains and hauled to the power plants.
Work in strip mining coal 7 years , underground coal 1 year
Love the videos mate 🍺
Love the vids just wish I would show more of the process
Awesome video
You know it's a big machine when there is a whole kitchen with toaster and everything on board!
Need to come to northwest Arkansas and see the new Wal-Mart home office headquarters build. Pretty massive, especially for this area.
Awesome video stay safe
Its even got its own kitchen, with a Toaster, awesome video
That thing is like a star wars vehicle 😄 🤣
Awesome Video 👍
Thank you!!
This is a great trailer, but I'd really love to see more detail. A video about the dragline; 15mins. Kress haul trucks, etc.
Love the videos mate, really interesting too see how it's done in America. I'm mine engineer in Australia specialising in coal, let me know if your ever over this way. It would be great to catch up and share ideas, maybe get out to some pits.
thank you for watching! We'll be out that way soon
Dam great video 👍🏻
awesome video. the kress trucks look cool.
Thanks for watching
Love your videos!!
thanks for watching them!
Hi Aaron just curious my Grandfather lived in Zap North Dakota and he ran a dragline for a few years and I have pictures that look like the same kind of mining and I never knew or have forgotten what it was they were mining they called it strip mining is that one in the same or something different? Totally enjoy your videos.
That shop to park the trucks is wicked
Yeah it’s one of the wilder things I’ve seen
Hopefully the nice people who do this work are able to find new and better jobs soon
worked in a wash bay at a mine it was sooooooo much fun
I work in a mine in alabama but I run a D-11T cat dozer in the push, our largest trachoe on the job is a PC2000 and smaller 1800 trachoe that loads our 10 rock trucks, we're a small mine compared to the one in this video but we have several of the big draglines parked around different parts of the county that are still property of Drummond Coal Company, I would of loved to see one of them in action, but unfortunately they just sit there collecting dust and rust.
You should come see Bear Run near Dugger Indiana sometime if you already haven't
Kress Manufacturing is still in business....Peoria, IL.
Above ground coal mines in Illinois is just a memory.
Pretty new to the channel, curious how you got started and a bit of background.
Y’all need to go to west mineral Kansas for the holy grail of coal mining equipment
Big Brutus?
You need to come to Aurora, NC & let me show you around the Nutrient (former PCS Phosphate) mine!
We've still got 3 big drag lines in use. Lots of 10's, 11's, and all kinds of toys!
we tried to get in but COVID shut that one down quick... hopefully one of these days
@@AaronWitt fully operational, now. I work for Nutrien, not any of the contractors. I can get y'all in pretty quick, probably.
@@uhaveautism6192 let me know
That's cool I work in Alamo on the oil rigs
Need more video time of the equipment.. Why no video of the inside of the first drag line?
Im delivering wire rope to the freedom mine today. Judging by the size I would guess it's for one of the rope shovels but I could be wrong.
I was wrong its for one of the draglines they have here
So i just found an insanely under rated channel
welcome
What Oakley glasses are those? I have a pair of M frames and want a similar lens
not sure all I know is that they're the m frame safety glasses version. Stupid comfortable
Hi Aaron great insight into the mines! Just a question why do they have the 789's & 793's in that building?
Cheers
Keeps them warm so they don’t have to let them idle as much to warm before they go back to work
Keeps them warm so they don’t have to let them idle as much to warm before they go back to work
I think you should do a ride along with a Field service tech for a Dealer or a large earth moving company. Give some people a little insight as to what it takes to keep things going. 🤘🤘
That’s a great idea. We will see what we can do
Honestly, I think your videos should be more in the 20-30 minute range. Excellent content!
If you wanna see a bigger version (i think) of this drag line look up big muskie. Big ole drag line that ran here in ohio in the 80's and 90"s
Ram from 1969 to 1991 and scrapped in 1999
Impressive shit
making video kennecott utah copper mine!
Ya'll really need to start making longer videos. 20min at least pleaseee
we're working on it
What’s the name of the song on the begging of day 3
When I first moved to the village in Northumberland when I live now there was a coal mining operation and they were using the ace of spades I can't remember if I was told it was the biggest in the world or the biggest in Europe but the bucket that they used is still sat in the middle of the field left as a monument just type in ace of spades bucket on TH-cam and you will come across a video with a thumbnail of a bucket in the middle of a that's like 15 minutes walk from my house
How come bucket wheel excavators are not present in the USA?
more video mining eguipment man!!!
My brain has such a hard time grasping the size of these machines. Its one of those things I know video just doesn't do it justice. Around 2:43 I know those dump trucks are MASSIVE machines. and its so hard to understand until you see its got a ladder on it and a walkway meaning the driver is like 12 feet off the ground or something. Then you see the Pc2000 and trying to grasp its size is even harder. Then you see the drag line and I mentally can't grasp the size because I have never seen one in person.
You should do bloopers at the end.
How dare you.. lmao cool vid 🤟🏻
Would love to better understand the process of how this stuff works and a little more equipment in action. I do love the overall style but a few segments where’s its 3-4 minutes uninterrupted footage would be nice addition to what you already do.
Idk about you guys but I could watch a 20m maybe even a 30 minute video easily
we're trending in that direction
This content makes me want to go back to the mines. Although i’m glad where i’m at currently. I’ll never forget the memories… great times and even greater guys. Nothing else like it. I SUPPORT COAL!!!
I wonder how much coal is left?
WTF more footage of the machines working!
It amazes me the amount of great material that gets skipped right over. Your channel has so much potential but you skip over so much great material to film and talk about. I feel like I am missing out on so much knowledge that gets skipped over in every video you do. I know you can't cover everything but there is definitely some that you can cover more of
We're working on it. The purpose of most of these visits up until now weren't for video. The video was a bonus, but now we're getting more focused. You can't just go nuts on many of these sites too. It takes a bit of time to film places that have never been filmed before
@@AaronWitt you're on par with Mike Rowe and other people on Discovery channel type things like that very direct very informative keep it serious to the point touching base on things that people that don't know can get informed on quickly that's amazing showing that huge channel of coal and the way that you described it I can mentally understand scraping off so many layers to that solid black coal I know they did something similar with the rivers to get gold
why are they not using longwall equipment?
that's only effective in smaller seams in mountainous regions
Hello, my brother, the best TH-camr from America, I love Liebherr big excavators the most in this world, I mean, no one in this world can be as obsessed with Liebherr patients as I am. I wish I could tell you about big Liebherr excavators. Why don't you consider making more long-term videos and recordings? I wish Liebherr 9800. It would be better if you tried to shoot more long-term action movies with 996 excavators and record them in coal mines.
My brother was there not to long ago
The ground is destroyed after and big trees rarely take root.......I know first hand
Howls moving castle has gone electric.
Wait I thought that my electricity was made by wishing upon a star and magic pixie dust??
Yes it is
Instead of condensing 3 mines into 10 minutes, you should do a 10 minute video of each mine.
we're working on it. This was old footage we're finally getting around to editing.
Gotta charge those Teslas somehow..
Ditch the dark glasses ,like to see who’s talking to me
He would have to squint and you wouldn't see his eyes anyway. Then he would get eye strain.
Well done to the coal mining companies that do what they do. Their maintenance program is especially commendable and necessary.
Sad to say, America cannot manufacture these giant draglines any longer and many of the mining machines if our lives depended on it. Deindustrialization carries a terrifying price and we'd have to import a giant dragline if we needed a new one. Probably from China like everything else. Gotta get manufacturing costs down so the Top 1% can indulge themselves and not suffer one shekel less.
I love the videos but they are way too short.
Most our newer ones are longer
It’s sad how people get the wrong ideas on coal mines and coal energy!!!!
agreed
@@AaronWitt I’m new to yo channel and love the videos I’ve seen so far but In my opinion you should see if you could get a tour of a Coal fired power plant and educate people on the importance of it
I want to see a lot less pointing, and a lot more B-Reel footage
This mine is probably running in overtime due to the ban on Russian oil and natural gas!
Y olvidense del carbón africano o el de Colombia o Australia
Not even going to mention what I do for a living because compared to these guys it's embarrassing.
So thats were all the CO2 Emissions of the US come from.
The land they leave behind isn't safe to build on for decades. They'll tell you it is, but I know several homeowners with cracked houses who would say otherwise.
most everything in ND is farmland after
Are the foundations cracking from improper building standards or from setting land.
Here in the midwest we have the issue of sandy soil, if you dont build the foundation well enough or if you rush a build without time to settle your foundation will crack.