Heyl & Patterson - Single Coal Rail Car Dumper - Santa Marta Colombia
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- This is the Single Rail Car Dumper that has been in operation over 15 years.
Drummond Coal purchased Heyl & Patterson Equipment, and are now building the the first Quad Car Coal Dumper at the Drummond Port in Santa Marta, Colombia. Drummond is a truly progressive company in the Coal Industry! Drummond Coal and Heyl & Patterson, Inc (a Pittsburgh based engineering firm) have a long history of success stories.
This unit was over 40 years old, we installed a double dumper and a quad dumper at this same location since this one went in over 40 years ago. That quad dumper moves some coal!!! It positions the cars very fast and without unhooking it dumps 4 cars at once and indexes the next four for dumping
I made these types of dumpers
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You can unload them faster by playing back at 2x speed.
You can reload them by playing in reverse
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks. Never saw this before, knew nothing.
(Sat 21 Aug 2021 17h50)
If you look closely you can see Fallout Boy standing in the background holding a sign.
Ok so I understand this is of an 'old system' now replaced with 4-car dumper/s. However, I wonder if there also has been a better way to completely empty these coal cars? If you notice there is a good deal of coal left in the bottom of the car, which, over may cars, can add up to quite a waste. So, do the newer dumpers have a vibrator, water spray or something that would cause most of the coal to fall out?
So, the water just washes off the one side or lip where the coal dumped over?
Wait, what happens to the couplings while the car rotates?!
They’re designed to rotate so the cars don’t have to be uncoupled.
At 2:00 you can “rotary end” written on the left rail car.
Is the water a way to put out accidental fires with the coal after all the static energy transmission from the dumping?
My job had me out at a power plant south of little Rock one night. They had a coal dumper real close to looking like this one. The main difference was the sound was tremendous! It was faster too. It seemed like it only took 3 seconds to turn and dump then 2 more seconds to return up right. It had a building around it so the sound probably was amplified by the metal walls and ceiling.
is this quad dumper still in operation? is there a video about it? thanks for info
How do the train cars separate and hook back up so fast? I don't know how the connectors work.
rotary couplers
+DeusXDebauchery They're called *couplers*. At one end of each car is a rotary coupler, meaning the car can rotate around it while it stays coupled to an adjacent car. Usually the cars have a colored band on the rotary end, and it is essential that one of these bands be located and each end of the car being dumped; normally, at the same end of each car in the string. I don't see any color-coding here, but this is Colombia, and they may do things differently.
I went back and watched the video again after reading your post. It says "Rotary End" on the side of the car and it looks like the rotary coupler is painted red.
We have the same type of rotary dumper at the plant I work at. The ends of the cars are painted red or green where the rotary coupling is. As long as all of the cars are pointed the same way, you can dump an entire train without having to uncouple any of the cars.
each coupling has a rotating joint eliminating the need..
Hi Chester, impressive video, just wondering what type of Wheel Gripper system they are using here? We manufacture our own version, but always good to see what is out there.
Amazing. 😯
I made these at Western Pennsylvania Steel Fabrication
Hi there! I am doing a video on how coal railroading works, and I am wondering if I could use clips form this video in mine, with credit given?
Why not belly dump cars? I dont understand the reason for tipping
That's also a possibility. But the cars in the video are gondola cars. They don't have openings at the bottom.
@@charlesgault3777 I read in wikipedia that these can carry a lot more coal than self-unloaders. Save money on shipping.
How does it couple and uncouple the cars?
rotary couplers
It doesn't couple and uncouple the cars. That's the genius of the thing. The dumper rotates *along the centerline of the couplers*. The couplers rotate, so they can stay together. Very efficient!
Mite be a dum question? How do the knuckles not break after that twist?
Must be rotary type coupler
Have you pdf documents on the wagon rocke
I designed the methods for Fabrication at western Pennsylvania Steel Fabrication. Me and Harry Brown best fitters helper I had we smoked weed and made them 2nd shift. I designed the Spill girders and Platinum
2 dudas! Como los desenganchan y enganchan de anterios y enganchan con el de adelante, pues no se ve a alguien hacoendolo y no he visto, que los trenes se formen empujando los vagones unos con otros, y la linea de aire? La otra, al voltear el vagon queda material compactado en las esquinas y a lo largo, al dumper le falta vibrador! He visto unos gringos que si lo traen y queda limpio el fondo.
no se desenganchan, los acoples son giratorios
What's with the spraying thing after unloading?
cleaning coal dust
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how does it decouple then recouple?
It doesnt, one of the couples is a rotary coupler. If you look when they move the airline is also hooked up the whole time. so they constantly connected.
Watch around 2:10 you can see only one of them are painted of the two indicating its different then the other coupler.
How does the machine dump each car without twisting and breaking the couplers off at the end of each car? The couplers are locked in and they are not some circular ball joint that can spin or stretch like rubber. I don't get it.
Rotary couplers! Super cool, huh?
So in this case the couplers actually can spin. They’re known as rotary couplers and they’re designed to let the car be turned while staying coupled to the other cars. This is also why the air hoses are longer so that they can stretch so far
How are the couplers handled ?
they break off
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Sadly, scenes like this will be seen less often as utility companies are installing more windmills and solar panels.
Sadly? I'm as much a train enthousiast as any, but installing renewable energy is not sad, it's completely the opposite.
This is cool, but dirty and polluting.
@@Feeshermon I started work in a coal power plant, then changed to program and commissioning windturbine prototypes around the world. Much more fun.
I'm such basic girl right now. This is such a fucking turn on though!
Behold, The Jew Dumper 9000/
What a depressing way to make electricity.
Why? Better than wind farms that only work when the wind blows and chop up endangered birds. Or nuclear plants with the radiation problem. Or solar plants that only work i the day time. Or Oil which is a mess if it spills, coal can just be swept up.
@@regould221 fucking idiot
Well live in the dark like most of these green energy jerks then,I wnt good old coal burning making my electricity, since worthless jim crow joe and Obama and other worthless pricks this country is going down hill faster then kids on sleds in wintertime
@@regould221 Don't forget to mention coal is plant based, so its suitable for vegetarians instead of oil that is pased on dead animals.
So, turn your computer off