A dragline excavator is a heavy-duty excavator used in civil engineering and surface mining. It was invented in 1904, and presented an immediate challenge...
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the largest form ever, the dragline excavator, eliminated the dipper in favor of a line and winch. The modern excavator's house sits atop an undercarriage...
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The term walking excavator may apply to two different forms of heavy equipment, the historic walking power shovel or dragline excavator that began to appear...
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Great Bear) at Black Thunder Coal Mine, Wyoming, is the largest dragline excavator currently in use in North America and the third largest ever built...
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Big Muskie (category Draglines)
Big Muskie was a dragline excavator built by Bucyrus-Erie and owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power),...
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Sundew was a large electrically powered dragline excavator used in mining operations in Rutland and Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. It was the...
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St Aidan's (redirect from Oddball (dragline excavator))
The group Friends of St Aidan's BE1150 Dragline claims that it is the largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe. The group holds open...
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Walking vehicle (section Walking dragline excavators)
binary-configuration limbs with much greater dexterity.[citation needed] Dragline excavators are extremely large and heavy machines used in mining and civil engineering...
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Bucket (machine part) (redirect from Bucket (excavator))
at the end of the arm of an excavating machine, to the wires of a dragline excavator, to the arms of a power shovel or a tractor equipped with a backhoe...
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Landship (section Dragline excavators)
Extremely large power shovels – The Captain rivaled bucket-wheel excavators and dragline excavators in sheer size. Spreaders are incredibly large ground vehicles...
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Odd Ball (comic strip), a British comic strip Oddball (dragline excavator), a dragline excavator in St Aidan's, West Yorkshire, England Oddball (film)...
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material. Bucket wheel excavators and bucket chain excavators take jobs that were previously accomplished by rope shovels and draglines. They have been replaced...
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Wyoming's total coal production. Black Thunder's dragline excavator Ursa Major is the biggest working dragline in North America and the third largest ever...
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first dragline excavator. In 1960s the plant designed and manufactured draglines with booms 90–100 m long. Now[when?] more than 200 walking draglines are...
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Wrench Gang as they plan the destruction the world's largest walking dragline excavator (giant earth mover, also called GEM or Goliath, used for surface mining)...
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000 lb) Nevertheless, bucket chain excavators are usually smaller than bucket wheel excavators, dragline excavators or conveyor bridges due to the limitations...
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American Deputy Dawg cartoons Big Muskie, an enormous coal-mining dragline excavator used in Ohio, U.S. Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), American politician...
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remove the overburden. Next, large machines, such as dragline excavators or bucket-wheel excavators, extract the mineral. Advantages of surface mining include...
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Ruston-Bucyrus dragline excavator and a Euclid dump truck as used in local quarry systems. The cab of the massive Ransomes & Rapier dragline excavator Sundew...
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The bridge in detail". F60. "Bagger 288 – a giant among bucket wheel excavators". thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions product information page. thyssenkrupp...
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They produced the range of agricultural equipment, skimmers, excavators, cranes and draglines that were renowned for high quality and long life, typically...
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cranes and excavators. Continuous-track crawler systems moved the machines off rail platforms, allowing them to move freely. Dragline excavators expanded...
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and sold steam shovels, power shovels, blast hole drills, excavators, and dragline excavators for use in the construction and mining industries. The company...
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Grader Excavator Amphibious excavator Compact excavator Dragline excavator Dredger Bucket-wheel excavator Excavator (digger) Long reach excavator Power...
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via hoses. When the pile driver is connected to a dragline excavator, it is powered by the excavator's diesel engine. Vibratory pile drivers are often chosen...
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Grader Excavator Amphibious excavator Compact excavator Dragline excavator Dredger Bucket-wheel excavator Excavator (digger) Long reach excavator Power...
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largest land vehicles ever built, exceeded only by some dragline and bucket-wheel excavators. The shovel originally started work with Southwestern Illinois...
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International Dragline Excavator Marion Power Shovel Steam shovel Hulett Extreme Mining Machines - Stripping shovels and walking draglines, by Keith Haddock...
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