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Re: Big shovels (was: CAT 797 Mining Truck Pictures.)
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Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:31:53 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Thomas Avery writes:
> In lugnet.technic, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > The largest land machine ever to move under its own power? Heavens,
> > no; not by a longshot:
> > http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/crawler.html
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> The largest earthmoving machines (and possibly the largest moving machines
> on land) are the bucket wheel excavators (BWE) used in Germany. The biggest
> one is the Orenstein & Koppel 292, which weighs in at 14,877 tons (short
> tons- 2000 lb).
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> Holger Matthes modelled one of these things recently for the ISCC:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9483
> If you look at the bottom of his gallery, there are pictures of the real thing.
In fact, a Bucyrus Erie 5872-WX cross-pit bucket excavator (the largest at
the time) worked in the same pit as the "Captain".
> The Marion 6360, aka "the Captain", was the largest stripping shovel ever
> made and weighed 14,000 tons. It had a 180 cu. yd. bucket with an average
> 270 ton load rating. It was scrapped in 1991.
It's operating weight was around 15,000 tons. Some other factoids:
It was the only shovel to have 2 doors on the bucket, each one weighed 15 tons
Each crawler shoe (of which there were 336) weighed aroun 3.25 tons
It was moved by 4 crawlers (each with 2 tracks), each 45ft long, 30ft wide,
16ft high, driven by 4 200hp AC motors
The 20 DC motors powering the hoist, crowd, rotate motion totalled 15,000hp
> The largest single-bucket wielding machine was the Bucyrus-Erie 4250-W, aka
> "Big Muskie". This machine, a walking dragline, weighed 13,500 tons. It had
> a 220 cu. yd. bucket with a load rating of 320 tons. Big Muskie was parked
> in 1991 and recently scrapped.
13,500 was it's design weight. It's final working weight (with
modifications) isn't known, but is estimated at 14,500 tons.
> As another matter of interest, Marion was bought by Bucyrus-Erie sometime in
> the last few years. At present, B-E doesn't produce any machines nearly as
> large as the Big Muskie or The Captain.
Bucyrus International Inc. purchased Marion Power Shovel Company in 1997.
ROSCO
Info from "Extreme Mining Machines", Keith Haddock, 2001
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0760309183/qid=1016932331/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-1688302-4617726
(may have to copy&paste that link)
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