Hi, We live in the UK and yesterday went to visit the only remaining Bucyrus Erie walking dragline excavator left in Europe which is in a place called Leeds in the north of England. What a monster - not as big as Mr Tom in your excellent video but amazing nevertheless. It’s not been restored although it is being preserved in its dilapidated condition by a society called Friends of St Aidan’s, which is the name of the opencast/strip mine where it once worked and is now returned to nature. It is now a bird sanctuary managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and has become a beautiful place in what was once a heavy industrial mining landscape.
I remember seeing this thing before it was restored, sometime around 06 or 07 I think. My dad took me and my brother out there to look at it. The sheer size of this thing can't really be appreciated until you see it up close.
Thanks Tim for taking your time to bring this to us. The Harrell Drummond family is full of twists and turns.. my family had dealings with them in the 70's. I appreciate you bringing this to us in South Carolina who otherwise wouldn't have known about the move. You keep them straight down there!
We had a couple of those not far from here in Ohio. One was called the Silver Spade and one was Big Muskie. They moved one of them across I-70 in Ohio. The Silver Spade was scrapped in 2007. I remember thinking how gigantic it was when my parents would drive by it.
At one time there was three of these around Brookwood. this one sat off to the right on Hwy 216 before you got to the town. One sat on the left after leaving town, and the other sat out past #4 mine on county road 59.
The beam for the superstructure is filled with argon, so they can detect cracks before they become major. It’s an amazing machine to be on when it swings the house, like everything g is slow motion….you are right Tim, its a sight!
They mined phosphate right next to our property where I grew up and we used to explore all the equipment when it was not running. They used draglines and the whole line up of massive equipment. The operators knew us and would swing by and pick us up if they were working.
This is a very cool video Thanks for posting. I heard you say they walked it to the new location but didn't realize until the end that it actually does walk thats pretty neat
There was one of these right near us. Quite the site. They have scrapped it at this point. But the bucket is there as a memorial. The size of the bucket is uncanny. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muskie "During its 22 years of service, Big Muskie removed more than 608,000,000 cubic yards (465,000,000 m3) of overburden". Now that's a few dump truck loads....
Can't believe I haven't commented on this yet. The resto and move cost somewhere to the tune of 30 million. They actually had to walk it across another mining companies property. Once it was finished and moved to the destination, coal had declined again. It was never operated upon reaching its new resting place.
I used to work there in the 70's and early 80's working the scales. It was a monster. Drummond moved to south America to get away from the union and the EPA staying on them constantly. It's all about the dollar and nothing else. Corporations don't bleed they just bleed you. I remember when they moved this dragline.
There was a Lot of these up north in the coal mining country, hadn’t seen one though with a Page Bucket on it, Page buckets were easy to spot, they didn’t have a crown over the front of them.
cotontop3 It is on John's road closer to the Hwy 216 side. You can turn on rock house rd off of 216 and get to it also. The machine is right on the side of the road. They have a security guard sitting with it. I stayed along side of the road and admired it and he didn't say anything about it. The machine is right outside of the town of Lakeview
Welder Castleberry 1 Donald Ducks Digger is still rusting away over in Mt. Olive Alabama. There is another larger dragline in the same mine about half a mile away from it.
The coal mine company for Kemper power plant put one of those together for the mining of the coal for the power plant it's a monster just like that one Tim
Actually the machine at the Liberty Mine next to the Kemper County Power Plant is a 757 P&H machine. The model number 757 is an old Page model. Page had already sold that machine to the British Coal Boed when P&H bought Page. This is the last time that model number will be used. The 757 is abiut the same size as the 1570 in this video. They are all great machines no matter who makes them. Spent my life puttin Marion machines together at mi e sites.
Cool Story, Awesome machine! Like you I really enjoy watching machines working, especially by skilled operators. Question, as this giant is walking, one set of tracks appears to be completely off the ground. Does it balance itself on the other track? Does it have some type of outriggers for this purpose? Anna sure has grown since! Great videos, Congrats!
It sits down on the turn table and picks the feet up together. Then when the feet sit down it raises up and moves forward, then repeats the process. I hope this is helpful.
Funny, you hear the term thrown around about walking excavators and walking big cranes but this thing LITERALLY walks! Wonder why it wasn’t designed with a track system. How does it not tip over when one foot strokes forward?
Tim the part of Kentucky I'm from use to have one of the biggest drag lines in the world in that county I was from. look up Muhlenberg co. coal. it was a major way of living back in the 80's
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Maybe if politicians leave DC, coal will go back up. It burns pretty damn clean, contrary to what the climate change crazy people say. Go Trump! Gonna be some bored lobbyists soon...tired of my electric bill going up 20% every year for wind power. It hasn't stopped in 5 years. Coal is clean as hell.
Amazing. What man can build.
Hi, We live in the UK and yesterday went to visit the only remaining Bucyrus Erie walking dragline excavator left in Europe which is in a place called Leeds in the north of England. What a monster - not as big as Mr Tom in your excellent video but amazing nevertheless. It’s not been restored although it is being preserved in its dilapidated condition by a society called Friends of St Aidan’s, which is the name of the opencast/strip mine where it once worked and is now returned to nature. It is now a bird sanctuary managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and has become a beautiful place in what was once a heavy industrial mining landscape.
I remember seeing this thing before it was restored, sometime around 06 or 07 I think. My dad took me and my brother out there to look at it. The sheer size of this thing can't really be appreciated until you see it up close.
Thanks for taking the time to document such a rare event.
This came up in my recommended videos right after I watched the other one. Pretty neat Tim.
That was pretty cool getting to see it in person like that.
i live 10 minutes from where Tom was parked. I was the coolest thing to see something that big move.👍
Thanks Tim for taking your time to bring this to us. The Harrell Drummond family is full of twists and turns.. my family had dealings with them in the 70's. I appreciate you bringing this to us in South Carolina who otherwise wouldn't have known about the move. You keep them straight down there!
We had a couple of those not far from here in Ohio. One was called the Silver Spade and one was Big Muskie. They moved one of them across I-70 in Ohio. The Silver Spade was scrapped in 2007. I remember thinking how gigantic it was when my parents would drive by it.
Big Muskie weighed nearly 13,000 tons and it's bucket was 220 yards. I can't imagine the size of that thing.
At one time there was three of these around Brookwood. this one sat off to the right on Hwy 216 before you got to the town. One sat on the left after leaving town, and the other sat out past #4 mine on county road 59.
Big Toy's for little boy's. Thank You for doing this Tim.
Great throwback Tim. Hope y'all are doing well and staying healthy
The beam for the superstructure is filled with argon, so they can detect cracks before they become major. It’s an amazing machine to be on when it swings the house, like everything g is slow motion….you are right Tim, its a sight!
That’s pretty cool, thanks for taking the time to film it. Tim
They mined phosphate right next to our property where I grew up and we used to explore all the equipment when it was not running. They used draglines and the whole line up of massive equipment. The operators knew us and would swing by and pick us up if they were working.
I come back to watch this after we talked about it. Amazing piece of equipment.
Dang that is cool!! Glad you had got to video this. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
+Allegheny Mountain Living that was a very big machine.
thanks for all the time and thought you put into bringing us these cool videos, nice little change of scenery with this one! :-)
That is awesome Tim thanks for sharing
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This is a very cool video Thanks for posting. I heard you say they walked it to the new location but didn't realize until the end that it actually does walk thats pretty neat
Wow now that is something and I can only imagine being up close and seeing all this.
I felt like you would enjoy seeing this. I enjoy reading your comments!
Just an awesome sight. I would have enjoyed being there.
There was one of these right near us. Quite the site. They have scrapped it at this point. But the bucket is there as a memorial. The size of the bucket is uncanny.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muskie
"During its 22 years of service, Big Muskie removed more than 608,000,000 cubic yards (465,000,000 m3) of overburden". Now that's a few dump truck loads....
here in indiana. A few years ago the coal mine has done the same thing. It was pretty impressive.
Can't believe I haven't commented on this yet. The resto and move cost somewhere to the tune of 30 million. They actually had to walk it across another mining companies property. Once it was finished and moved to the destination, coal had declined again. It was never operated upon reaching its new resting place.
Yea I remember watching this when I first subscribed to you a few years backzthat thing is a hoss!
I couldve watched that for an hour lol. Not everyday you see that.
I used to work there in the 70's and early 80's working the scales. It was a monster. Drummond moved to south America to get away from the union and the EPA staying on them constantly. It's all about the dollar and nothing else. Corporations don't bleed they just bleed you. I remember when they moved this dragline.
There was a Lot of these up north in the coal mining country, hadn’t seen one though with a Page Bucket on it,
Page buckets were easy to spot, they didn’t have a crown over the front of them.
In my town Hazard Kentucky we had two of these lost Mountain mining and star fire coal
that's just awesome
love watching all your videos. I watch you and logger Wade all the time. thinking about putting some videos up do you have any advice for me
I got to see Mr. Tom today at Blue Creek mine. It is a magnificent machine to look at.
+Brandon West was it working or parked?
It was still parked unfortunately. It sits right next to the road. I've been looking for Mr. Tom for about a year now and I finally found it today.
+Brandon West which road is it near? Can u give me an intersection of 2 roads nearby so I can find it?
cotontop3 It is on John's road closer to the Hwy 216 side. You can turn on rock house rd off of 216 and get to it also. The machine is right on the side of the road. They have a security guard sitting with it. I stayed along side of the road and admired it and he didn't say anything about it. The machine is right outside of the town of Lakeview
It sits at John's rd and rock house Rd. At the Tuscaloosa and Jefferson county line
I would love to have seen that thing moving.
Kind of a shame it was brought back to its glory now it's just going to rust away again, cool video
+sean john Send a thank you letter to Obama for his war on coal. Thousands are out of work as a result.
I remember work in Al and seen one called the Donal duck digger it been sitting for years
Welder Castleberry 1 Donald Ducks Digger is still rusting away over in Mt. Olive Alabama. There is another larger dragline in the same mine about half a mile away from it.
Brandon West I built a school over there years ago . That's when I say it .
Welder Castleberry 1 I don't live very far from the machine. I went out to see it not long ago.
That is cool, not something you see everyday.
wow its huge
The coal mine company for Kemper power plant put one of those together for the mining of the coal for the power plant it's a monster just like that one Tim
I show the one you’re talking about in today’s video.
Actually the machine at the Liberty Mine next to the Kemper County Power Plant is a 757 P&H machine. The model number 757 is an old Page model. Page had already sold that machine to the British Coal Boed when P&H bought Page. This is the last time that model number will be used. The 757 is abiut the same size as the 1570 in this video. They are all great machines no matter who makes them. Spent my life puttin Marion machines together at mi e sites.
Would have been so cool if you would have had the drone to fly around mr tom
Cool Story, Awesome machine! Like you I really enjoy watching machines working, especially by skilled operators. Question, as this giant is walking, one set of tracks appears to be completely off the ground. Does it balance itself on the other track?
Does it have some type of outriggers for this purpose? Anna sure has grown since!
Great videos, Congrats!
It sits down on the turn table and picks the feet up together. Then when the feet sit down it raises up and moves forward, then repeats the process. I hope this is helpful.
I e been inside it while it was running an digging coal1 of those guys working on moving it is my dad Gaither Dodson sr
Funny, you hear the term thrown around about walking excavators and walking big cranes but this thing LITERALLY walks! Wonder why it wasn’t designed with a track system. How does it not tip over when one foot strokes forward?
Tim the part of Kentucky I'm from use to have one of the biggest drag lines in the world in that county I was from. look up Muhlenberg co. coal. it was a major way of living back in the 80's
+Justin 300csrt8 I enjoy seeing those large machines like that.
Yeah they r very very interesting
Brookwood is my home town
well hopefully the maket will pick back up.
+Jeremiah Thomas Depends on how you vote in November
Mr. Tim did it ever go back to work or is it still parked?
How long does it take for a dredge to cross the road lol.
I remember here in Ohio we had the big muskie they cut her up for scrap I did see the bucket though it's on display.
I have a video I filmed at the big Muskie bucket on here.
@@cotontop3 awsom you seen it also that big dragline tom I hope they end up putting it to work it's a nice machine now.
Moves 8 feet a walk that must b 24hour day to mobe 17 miles
прекрасная машина! всё понятно, у русских просто НЕТ НИЧЕГО СВОЕГО!
америка остаётся страной изобретения и новаторства! потому что была там, или еще вернётся туда, СВОБОДА!!!
Я❤️🇺🇲
Maybe if politicians leave DC, coal will go back up. It burns pretty damn clean, contrary to what the climate change crazy people say. Go Trump! Gonna be some bored lobbyists soon...tired of my electric bill going up 20% every year for wind power. It hasn't stopped in 5 years. Coal is clean as hell.
Nice video. Trump will put Mr. Tom back to work.
This guy has the weirdest accent