4/7/2023 0 Comments The captain shovelHeath Lange Kucks I thought the Marion 8050 at my mine was big but these things are massive monsters. Kevin Bridle Yes it would, we were told the Mine had 18 months left. The 5900 went to work in 1991 at Captain Galum Creek Operation! Kevin Bridle posted twenty photos with the comment: " These are more pictures of our 1996 trip to the Captain Mine, the 5900 stripping shovel was down for maintenance unfortunately however it did mean that we could walk around the lower works, apologies for the quality, it was early on and the mist and light where not at their best." Kevin Bridle It was a shame, when we got down to the 5900 it was still murky but an hour later it had burnt off. nothing like fog in the Pits, got so bad at times I had to walk and check my pumps couldn't see to drive Captain Mine 1996, One of my favourite pictures, plenty more to see when I get to scan them in. Just for Scale, here’s a Rendering of the Captain hoisting a BE 495-B Loading Shovel! Are they doing maintenance? And how did they dig out the notch in front of the shovel? Excavators were not big enough to do that job back then. What is the "yellow thing" next to the shovel? It doesn't have a bed big enough to be a haul truck. ĭennis DeBruler commented on Anthony's comment The mine was so big that it owned several "monsters:" 4 stripping shovels, 3 walking draglines, and 2 bucket wheels. In the following picture, you can see it is working the upper seam to its left. It would dump into the pit it had just moved from, which was on the opposite side of the upper seam it is clearing. Coal was removed from both seams so when it reached the end of the pit, it would move over to the recently removed lower seam for its trip back. This overburden is what was left after mining the upper seam because, as it walked, it would also remove the overburden on its side from the upper seam. It would move on the underside of the lower seam removing the overburden of the lower seam. The stripping shovel was so big because it was designed to strip two seams of coal in one pass with the upper seam being 50 feet above the lower one. The mine used to ship 6 million tons of coal by rail per year with access to both UP/MoPac and CN/GM&O. Marion 6360 Flickr photos: 1967 and Martin. The referenced link above has a lot of photos of the Captain Mine. All photos have been scanned in from their original photo, slide, or negative and restored. It employed the largest shovel in the world (the Marion 6360 "The Captain") and the largest Bucket Wheel Excavator in the world (Bucyrus Erie 5872-WX) among many other pieces of equipment. The Captain Mine was, at one time, the largest surface coal mine in the world.
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