Posted by oliverkid on September 19, 2019 at 16:49:07 from (166.216.159.183):
Kinda off topic but I’ve been on a random kick here lately reading up on the large stripping shovels and walking draglines that used to roam the coal fields of the nation. Unfortunately most of the super giants have long been scrapped. Big Muskie, The Captain, The GEM of Egypt, The Silver Spade all long gone. I watched the demo video of Big Muskie, curled my stomach to watch the boom and mast slam to the ground. The Captain was probably more tragic. That big boy got cut down in his prime by a grease fire that burned it beyond repair, still had a lot of life left in it before that happened. Then there’s the Spade, dogging it’s way out of its last cut with high hopes of being turned into a museum when something in the swing gear let loose dooming it to the torch as well. Luckily there are still a fair number of the large walking draglines still in operation. Near as I was able to gather The Anthracite King is still around. Sounds like all of the Stripping Shovels are out of commission however. Just a bunch of relics from the past when this country used to be able to monster machines with American engineering, American steel, and American components. And back when somebody said, I need you to build it bigger and badder and stronger than anything before it, and the answer was, I’ll get my tools. I got to see the dragline at the Bear Run mine in southern Indiana a few years ago. It was a monster even from the rim of the pit. Anybody ever get to see any of these things running back in their hay day?
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