Riding on the Chief Ironsides, a massive 14.5 million pound Dragline.
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2023
- One of 2 large draglines operated at the Falkirk mine in Underwood North Dakota. Huge thanks to the awesome people at North American for giving us an incredible tour.
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I think he's making it look a lot easier than it is to be that smooth.
That dragline bucket moves with real grace and that is because the operator is superb at his job!
Well I would sure hope so being that he’s operating a 14.5 million pound piece of equipment!
I made all the parts for that bucket when I worked at Esco. Lips arches sides chains everything was a lot of fun enjoyed watching this video 👍
I installed your parts on a Terex and D11T/R … shank guards n ripper tips at K mine but also rode the 8750 watched 8200 and 2570
The amount of force required to move something that heavy on that long of a lever at that speed is just insane.
Better than sitting on a steel tractor seat, yanking on levers with a Detroit Diesel screaming 2 feet behind you.
Nothing beats the sound of a screaming Detroit 😊
Sound like your talking about our old 514 Unit crane lol nailed it
Idk but a diesel gettin down always sounded like an eargasmn
Nothing made me hate the sound of diesel like sitting in my machine everyday for 15 years 😂 sound reminds me of work when I’m not at work lol
Ah, c'mon!
I'm an old man and have wanted to see this view for a long time, as clear as being there, thanks for posting...each scoop the equivalent of four 30 yard roll offs, pretty amazing...over 1000 tons every 5 pulls...
It’s really cool to see all these comments from people with so much life experience in excavation and construction.
Wow, swinging over 200tons (just in dirt) all the way out there at speeds I can't guess we'll enough, but fast.
What a beast of a machine!
That's what I was thinking. Holy cow, the centrifugal force from swinging 221 tons that far out.
Great video and great hearing the explanation from the operator. Also, perspective to see actually how much dirt is moved in one pass. 221 tons per pass. Massive!
So where is the 14.5 million pound figure coming from?
@@hugolafhugolafguess it’s the weight of the machine itself
An average 18 wheeler hauling a load of 40 ton gives you a great perspective per scoop. Almost as heavy as yo mama
lol@@Trey4x4
A rock quarry my grandpa worked at had a small shovel I was so fascinated with it when I was younger they taught a 7yrold kid how to run a d8 and I became a heavy equipment operator at the family landfill and many job opportunities in my 50+ yrs working. I'm still fascinated by the shovels, our local quarry had one and at night I would go out and watch it. The quarry closed up and the shovels gone.👍🇺🇸👌
I bet there weren't many 7yo kids in your area that could doze a back yard flat if they got asked to! 😊😂😇🤪👍
Holy cow and that's what I need to get my hands on so I can bury my foes
I really like this operator. Smooth and precise.
One of my first memories is my father taking me to a site where an old timer was digging a canal with a dragline. He would cut a vertical trench, then he would lay the bucket at an angle and cut a 1:1 slope so the canal had sloped sides. As a union dozer and excavator operator having moved much dirt myself, looking back at that old man, I’m stunned at what an amazing talented operator he was. 🇺🇸🙏💪👊
I enjoyed watching this video and I loved hearing their conversation with the Dragline Operator
They need something like this in the middle of Seattle just slowly leveling that shit hole out
We worked on Marion 8750 and 8200 draglines in Alberta coal mines for noise control.
Very cool electric toys! Interesting sensations inside the equipment bay, which is like the size of a gymnasium, while sweeping or walking. No visual cues of exterior movement. Thanks for sharing.
What a smooth and quiet operating machine. Very impressive. Great view, also. Thank you.
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.
That's awesome! I was jealous when my buddy got to operate a d12 up here in Alaska for a mining company he worked for. He made them lots of money with that behemoth
Falkirk Mine near Underwood ND. My friends grandma actually won the naming contest for this dragline. Good ole chief ironsides!
That's a good operator, he doesn't beat his bucket and chains when he dumps .I a electric drag line before i retired. 😊
If you think the operator is good watching the video at normal speed, try watching at 2x and he is amazing.
Great video.
Thank you.
Great video-I am a big dragline fan and always wanted to get on one while it was operating but never did. This should be some fantastic memories for you.👍
I have probably watched this a dozen times. Granted the dirt is loose and easy to load, but still, it is some slick operation going on.
In worlds largest lignite mine in Germany, they do not use draglines for earthmoving but instead they a use crawler crane with a massive boom and a huge rotating wheel with buckets on it. While operating, the buckets empty their content on a kilometers long belt conveyor that transports the dirt or coal to the desired locations. The dirt is dumped and temporary stored somewhere, the coal is transported per belt to power stations nearby for combustion.
Bucket wheel excavators are great for moving lots of softer dirt and lose gravel but they cannot dig in rocky soil well.
Bagger 288
@@belacickekl7579 you can equip any form of bucket on it, and control the speed.
If it wasn't build as a crane, it would be able to dig trenches.
And besides, any machinery struggles and needs constant maintenance, when dealing with hard material. Rock, stone, steel, plastic
To add to the above..
Plastic and plastic-/rubber-like materials/substances is actually some very difficult stuff to destroy and reuse
@@mortenfrosthansen84 So if I'm understanding you right, you're saying that if you just attach the right bucket to a BWE like bagger 288, it'll do fine with the correct wheel speed? I'm not a mining engineer, but I don't think so. Hard, rocky soils like this will tear up conveyor belts, the wheel will lose cutting speed and stall out much easier, and your buckets will be wrecked faster as well. (BTW, trenchers are a completely different class of equipment; they have tungsten carbide teeth to cut into rock, and are not good at removing large volumes of material)
Pushed in a D11 to big Kate for a while and it’s insane how much material a drag line can move lol. Did the math once and it was right at 100 tractors to move the same tonnage the same distance in the same time… impressive
100 D11s?
So smooth and buttery.
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
Really neat video, thanks for sharing it.
All about rhythm & timing. Just music in motion
real smooth ..........great vidio
The camera angle and the pov looks unreal. I never knew this was that intense.
Thanks for the Cockpit view. I saw one operate at Syncrude decades ago. All Electric 'Walker'.
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!!!😳😳😳😲😲😲🤸🤸🤸🤸😜💪💪👍👍
There's a whole damn office in that thing 😮. I can here an accountant, receptionist, manager, sales...
...I swore i heard a birthday party for Phyllis in the break room
His agent is always in the same room.
thats so freaking cool!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing
Wow that's amazing my friend
They had great views of the mountain range off the cliff behind them.
Guess what? They're all powered by electricity, with a giant extension power cable. It's probably why they ran so quiet and smooth for such large machines. Love draglines!
So they’re green,lol!
@@HubertofLiege lol yeah, same for nuclear submarines 🤓😎
When I was in 4th grade, my dad owned one of these in a sand pit. We went on a field trip there and inside during operation! Way before MSHA was a thing!
Both my father and grandfather operated drag lines throughout the United States and on Johnson Island where the operated one of the biggest of that time. My dad worked day shift and my grandpa grave
appreciate this video. Very cool thing most people wouldn't ever see themselves
That young man is a very efficient operator. Most of the drag line guys and gals will spell cord a bit of dirt back into the cut this young man very very little lost great job.
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.
Lignite..that mine produces 7 million tons a year. Keeps Minnesota warm.
Sure does. And keeps the climate even warmer! Enjoy your tornados and hurricanes! Keep that coal burning!
@@tomrogers9467thank you, winters can get pretty cold.
really impressive to watch how he moves this gigant around. like a ballering. Awsome. Wish i could one in real life.
are you drunk?
@@stereolababy do you have a brainmalfunction?
Damn good operator smooth as it gets spreader bar never touch bucket once!! Hoist chains looked weld he had em so vertical good shit right there
Looks like just over one minute per scoop, or 300-400 scoops in a workday. I wonder if that gets old after a while.
I only ran small 1 and 1 1/2 yard machines 50 years ago digging ditch. I don’t think that was as boring as you are constantly challenged sloping and shaping ditch and often casting bucket to get extra reach. Now I do it for fun at power shows
As a retired heavy equipment operator this is a great video. But to me now, this would be so boring. I loaded up so many on and off road trucks over the years digging out retention ponds on big road jobs that I couldn't do it again out of boredom.
Agreed
I got bored watching after the second lift ...
@@bigj2419 Same here...I ran the big boys back in the day but now retired and yes, boredom to the max!
Whats the money like operating one of these big boys ?
@@ktmsports it depends on the location, but forget about joining in. The list is long, ahead of you. Unless you know someone on the inside.
221 ton scoops wow what a bad ass job💯
Each bucket is more than 2 railcars 😳
Nice...and I would have liked to have had some video of the operator actually controling it, and some external video of the machine. Thx
Fabricating those buckets, is no easy task.
lol an excavator with a conference room in the cab :0 so quiet and smooth i want to try.
Literally moving the earth.
my dad ran dragline on eastern ohio. right down the road from the big musky.
Just went to see Big Muskies bucket. It's awsome. Must see.
I wish the camera panned around the cab once but excellent video love the POV
Sounds like the whole office works in that machine
Wow that guy is good. I would. Love to do this wow that would be cool
Impressive.
Again, don't know why but that is cool!!
Is this one of the 3 draglines originally from N Missouri? My father worked 22yrs in that mine. Spent many nights sitting on an adjacent highwall watching them run. Full swing was always fun to watch no stopping just continous motion when they were clicking on all gears.
It's almost shocking how fast it moves
Over 200 tons pr scoop that's just insane..
How many people were in the cab??
Sounds like it was a proper tea party.. 😂
I'm just thinking of the motocross track building applications and possibilities. 😂
I cannot appreciate how big this thing is 😂.
I wish they would have focused on the background conversation. They were talking about the machine itself and giving a better explanation of the machine. How it's powered and so on. This is one huge machine.
That guy is good. How long is your shift?
I want one.
We have about ten of those mining coal just outside my small town. We ride dirtbikes on their 30+yr old spill pile sites. Some guys are even part of a small group of hill climbers that use custom jeeps and rock crawlers.
talk about one of the best jobs ever
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
I believe I was on that machine in the winter of 22 for repairs with dcs
How would you tell there are 7 of them
Holy Jumping Up And Down Martha!
Love operating heavy equipment, but I wonder if this would get old after a day. With a FEL, you're moving back and forth a great deal, which makes it fun. Being somewhat stationary, I'm not sure it would be the same.
one of the best jobs in the world
Does it feel like anything in the cab??
Next, I am going to watch some paint dry.
🙌🙌🙌
There are two of these massive machines in central Alberta, both of which are slated for explosive charge demolition next year. Sad.
Side dump hauling material now to rainbow energy just south of here pretty cool to see this video.
smooooth operator.
damn, i would love a lil seat on the yoke there above the bucket...
otherwise... i feel it would lose its charm after a brief half day... amazing but yeah. only for a while. then its just back and forth, back and forth...
What the model Dragline machine 😮
Таким экскаватором, можно легко выкопать море!!!
The bulldozer in the background looks like it would fit in the bucket
Does this dragline have a toaster in the breakroom?
221 ton a scoop - Jesus!!
Remember the song " He s A Smooth Operator "
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.
Sounds like a board meeting going on behind him
Do you get any large boulders in the dragline bucket? This machine would move any that were 221 tons or under without too much effort. Do they ever encounter layers of solid rock that are hidden underneath the dirt?
I went for a ride in one once, it was hauling boulders the size of cars, they looked like pebbles.
I really liked the part where they picked up dirt and put it down in a different spot.
Mom said if I didn't straighten up in school I wouldn't be nothing but a ditch digger. Heh.
That is what you call a large pick up Bucket.
How much per hour does operating that thing pay? 100/hour or more?
Size of a house dirt piles !
What size is the bucket? How many cubic yards.
125 yard³. 250 ton limit
Mega machinery
Its both big and small at the same time!
Wonder what the hourly wage is to operate that