Mining pics

[Eric]

Hope these come through!

 

[637slayer]

cool pics, is that where you work? were those 797s? what you mining? i dont know how boring that would be digging such big holes one place for so long. but running the really big iron is cool, keep those pics coming please.

 

[Eric]

Thats our new 824H got it with less than 1 hour on it. Trucks are 789 b's 190 ton payload. The 23 shovel is a P&H 4100, the 20 shovel is a 2300, yeah this is where I work, and yeah it does get kinda boring sometimes but all in all pretty decent.

 

[637slayer]

i work at a small bentonite mine, we have good iron, i get to travel from pit to pit, the deepest we go is 100 foot take the top off with scrapers down to rock then the dozers take over. ive ben here for 3 years now,as bored as i get sometimes i stop and look how cool the scrapers look pushpulling or how big the new d11 is and think i got a pretty cool job. i was just wondring if after you work around those big shovels and trucks if it gets mondane or do you still marvel at the amound of dirt your moving, or does the equipment even seem that big anymore?

 

[DuraMaxMan66]

Nice new H, you should get us some pics from inside the cab of the number 23 P&H just wandering what it would look like to be up that high and loading a truck

 

[xcavate77]

does anyone know why the tracks are set up like that on the 23 with one side being different than the other?

 

[bobcat ron]

It keeps the drive motors and gear reductions up high and out of harm's way.

 

[alco]

does anyone know why the tracks are set up like that on the 23 with one side being different than the other?

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, the tracks are the same on both sides.

Brian

 

[Eric]

I've got some from the cab, they are on film so I gotta scan them in. Give me a day or two.

 

[Jeff D.]

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, the tracks are the same on both sides.

Brian

I can see what he means.

Not right/left, but rather front/rear.

On one end (the front?) the nose is high, and rear, low.:beatsme

 

[alco]

I can see what he means.

Not right/left, but rather front/rear.

On one end (the front?) the nose is high, and rear, low.:beatsme

OK, sorry, I was thinking side to side, not end to end...lol.

Like Bobcat Ron said, it keeps the drive motors up and the idlers down for more stability and less abuse and damage.

Brian

 

[385c JR]

Hello Eric.

What machine do you drive?
I'll do eanything to trye out one off those.

Give me more off that kinde off pics... :notworthy:notworthy:notworthy

 

[637slayer]

the monster cable shovel what does it run on? is that big line attached for electricity, i didnt see any smoke stacks.

 

[Eric]

It's electric, runs off 7800 volts. I got some video today I'll try to get loaded up. To answer the other question, I mostly run a dozer, blade, or excavator. havn't run a big shovel in a couple of months.

 

[Eric]

Hope it works!http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w109/ebeng5/?action=view&current=shovelvideo.flv

 

[637slayer]

i only got to see one scoop, i bet that guy was all the way loaded with two.

 

[Eric]

Yeah, my first video, kinda sucky but now I know what to do!! 2
1/2 dippers and she's way loaded!

 

[Steve Frazier]

Thanks for posting! I didn't think cable shovels were used much any more. How many yards is the bucket??

 

[Eric]

56 yard dipper on that bad boy. I think out of the three mines in the area, only 2 hydraulic shovels. Those 4100 P&H shovels are the main stay. At Morenci, that's the mothership, they are moving over 1,000,000 tons a DAY. That's muckin!!!

 

[Rockbreaker]

Great video

Hey Eric.

Great video,that bucket was huge.
What model is that dozer D10 or 11?