My gramp had an old bucyrus erie cable shovel in the gravel pit when I was a kid, first machine I learned to operate and work on, it’s actually still there on the tree line, we got it running and moving a couple years ago, aside from needing new cables I believe it could be put back into use
I’ve been obsessed with steam shovels ever since Captain Kangaroo read "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel" on his morning show when I was a kid! Hooked for life!
i saw a erie steam excavator working a build site in my small town. i was beyond shocked to see the old wood shed on top still and the old behemoth still working
These achievements remind us of the incredible resourcefulness of earlier civilizations. Without the convenience of modern tools and technology, they laid the foundations of engineering that inspire and guide us to this day. The lessons they left behind still resonate in modern projects, showing that creativity and determination can overcome any obstacle.
I was the oiler, fireman and watertender on a Whiley Wirley driving piles for a large pier in Baltimore back in the early 1970s. I feel blessed to have got to see and be part of an older way of doing work with steam. I also worked on steamships for 7 years while in the SIU and the MEBA
Not so long ago, for me, I'm 79, it was like yesterday. I'm in the process of writing my memoirs for my Kids, my Grandkids and my Great Grandcildren..I was born on the cusp of the Silent Generation and the Boomers. While working on the Whiley Wirley, I saw the worst industrial accident in my life, I saw a man lose his legs, and his father was the forman for driving the piles. The dad almost had a heart attack, The kid lost both his legs, I was told he went through therapy, got prosthetic limbs, and the Iron Workers Union paid for his College tuition. He received a very large settlement. I know he would rather have his legs.
One can see working steam shovels each year at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion at Rollag, Minnesota every Labor Day weekend! You briefly showed one there in this video!
I can remember big cable excavators when I was a kid, in the early 60s. Working in quarries though by about the mid 60s most were hydraulic which was faster amd more efficient. Was around those, scrapers, dozers, loaders and excavators in sand pits as well as quarries. I have seen old steam excavators on You Tube still working and not as a demonstration either. Plenty of those too
Friend of mine down the road has a Bucyrus Erie 10-B drag line with a Chevy in line 6, it was a runner some years ago, all in all it could pretty easily be working again.
my grandfather had a Cletrac tractor. it stopped working he used his horse team to pull it into the shed and called the mechanic when he arrived he told granddad it was out of petrol.
Interesting video, glad you mentioned the Hooley Ruston steam navvie as I'd seen a video elsewhere on YT about it's recovery and had wondered what had happened to it.
Is this AI generated? Most things are correct, but the video is a bit repetitive (especially for Bucyrus) and inconsistent, sometimes referring to specific models and other times just "the dragline"
AI is an infection. BTW would any commenters happen to know why these old cable machines had the bucket facing away from the house, whereas the contemporary machines face the bucket towards the house?
@@calrob300 Yes, having the bucket facing away is more efficient for digging into hills and quarries which were many of the early excavators most economical jobs. As machines got more nimble and hydraulics came along, they were able to be used for more purposes without switching the dipper and bucket between digging down or digging "up". Still, many of the worlds biggest excavators work in quarries and have the bucket facing forward to dig into rock walls better.
here were i live theres is a dragline escavator, it is a marion 7800, she is on display after it got replaced by modern ones, i think it was made in ohio and traveled all the way down to south brazil to be used in the shale extraction by petrobras.
We need to keep this machines running, not only as a historical piece of equipment preservation, but also as a practical mean during transition periods of 2050-2070. During 2050's the last drop of oils will be extracted and conventional equipments will come to halt in mass. So, lack of infrastructure machine will be heightened for many decade until transition to new solution and mode of EVs made available.
Much of your footage was from Rollag Minnesota where the Wester Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion is held. Give credit where it is due. Many of these machines are operated there every Labor Day.
There are similar machines in the Western Australia Goldfield, one at Laverton WA has a plate on it stating it was made in USA. There is a similar machine near Maldon Victoria Australia - also a goldfield. Neither are functioning but remain there as sentinels of the past.
I'm guessing you've never actually worked in any industry or manufacturing, or you'd know that's complete nonsense. We've got plenty of industry today.
Kind of weird saying that this isn’t „modern”. I mean I supposed it depends what standards you use, but this is modern history thus I would consider it modern
its because of the way the winches work, hydraulic systems can push and pull. winches can only pull and have to freewheel to reverse. hope this makes sense!
@@gretschcorvette73 Yeah, the good old days when "A man a million" was the rule of thumb in large construction projects i.e. expecting at least one jobsite fatality for every million dollars spent. When there were no pesky regulations against the use of benzene and asbestos, where mining jobs came with complementary black lung or silicosis. Yeah, much better back then.
Such a soft and sickly sugar coated description. How about a bit more truth and grit about these amazing machines. You are not only talking to children. there are a lot of mature intelligent adults out here .
Would any commenters happen to know why these old cable machines had the bucket facing away from the house, whereas the contemporary hydraulic machines face the bucket towards the house?
its because of the way the winches work, hydraulic systems can push and pull. winches can only pull and have to freewheel to reverse. hope this makes sense!
@@rtv8055 The video demonstrates that some of these old machines had buckets facing the driver and in particular the drag line versions. Modern hydraulic excavators are used both push and pull unless they are specifically designed for face work.
Wonderful machines, all built by engineers doing honest hard graphed with out computers, sophisticated machinery and all that rubbish, marvels of there time and marvels know, and if we had to build them know like they were then we would throw are arms in the air and say it cannot be done, the Victorians had a can do attitude that we have lost, we would not have our modern age with out them, ok, the belshing smoke would make greta Thunberg wet herself, SO WHAT!!!!!
Of course let's not forget the preceding invention that made all of these possible - the slide rule! All the complicated calculations for steam pressure, flow, heat transfer etc would have been impossible just using paper and pen (especially the long division sums). But the slide rule made it easy and quick. Every engineer had one, I learnt how to use one at school in the early 1970's and still have it! Mind you, you could equally argue for Napier's inventions of logarithms, the mathematical "trick" that made the slide rule possible. Marion (hey, that used to be another big manufacturer of steam shovels that didn't get a mention! I want a vote for Marion Power Shovels, they made even bigger machines than Bucyrus).
Well it is somewhat interesting video You're a title is clickbait cuz you said ancient machinery 100 100 120 years ago is not ancient machinery it's not ancient ancient is old thousand years more so so that's it at least get a title that's honest you know it's not really fast sincerely David Raphael AKA Bob the blind bedroom guitarist
What has a very old Mr trump, a 7 x bankrupt, multi convicted sex offender and traitor who can't stop lying got to do with antique machinery that actually works?
I can't stand these UA-cam videos when the content creator does not actually do any filming just hijacks other material off the internet and voice over is it
My gramp had an old bucyrus erie cable shovel in the gravel pit when I was a kid, first machine I learned to operate and work on, it’s actually still there on the tree line, we got it running and moving a couple years ago, aside from needing new cables I believe it could be put back into use
I’ve been obsessed with steam shovels ever since Captain Kangaroo read "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel" on his morning show when I was a kid! Hooked for life!
I was thinking about that book as I watched this. That was one of my favorite books as a kid.
Me too. Mary Anne was the shovel, right? What a great kids book!
i saw a erie steam excavator working a build site in my small town. i was beyond shocked to see the old wood shed on top still and the old behemoth still working
This was an awesome video, thanks for showing it.
Absolutely fascinating and so interesting. To think what this machine did for society and it's development.
Who recalls Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel?
These achievements remind us of the incredible resourcefulness of earlier civilizations. Without the convenience of modern tools and technology, they laid the foundations of engineering that inspire and guide us to this day. The lessons they left behind still resonate in modern projects, showing that creativity and determination can overcome any obstacle.
AI generated comments on AI generated videos.....
@@1marcelfilms bit of a shame the video is AI generated tbh. Makes it a lot harder to enjoy IMO
I was the oiler, fireman and watertender on a Whiley Wirley driving piles for a large pier in Baltimore back in the early 1970s. I feel blessed to have got to see and be part of an older way of doing work with steam. I also worked on steamships for 7 years while in the SIU and the MEBA
so 50 years ago
Not so long ago, for me, I'm 79, it was like yesterday. I'm in the process of writing my memoirs for my Kids, my Grandkids and my Great Grandcildren..I was born on the cusp of the Silent Generation and the Boomers. While working on the Whiley Wirley, I saw the worst industrial accident in my life, I saw a man lose his legs, and his father was the forman for driving the piles. The dad almost had a heart attack, The kid lost both his legs, I was told he went through therapy, got prosthetic limbs, and the Iron Workers Union paid for his College tuition. He received a very large settlement. I know he would rather have his legs.
Thanks for sharing your story Lance!
This is a fascinating video.
Very enjoyable, Thanks.
Thanks. Very interesting 😊
I loved this video! Can you please give some more specific years in the next video? It's a nice context to have. Thank you!
Well done!
One can see working steam shovels each year at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion at Rollag, Minnesota every Labor Day weekend! You briefly showed one there in this video!
Really Cool Footage of Awesome Antique Machines!...
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Fred Flintstone was the first crane operator.
Ha ha sure
Good1
Dinosaur power, far cleaner than steam
@@ldnwholesale8552 Have you seen how much poop dinosaurs make? :D
Love watching this kind of video
cool footage thanks
That steam shovel has a literal house on it
I can remember big cable excavators when I was a kid, in the early 60s. Working in quarries though by about the mid 60s most were hydraulic which was faster amd more efficient. Was around those, scrapers, dozers, loaders and excavators in sand pits as well as quarries.
I have seen old steam excavators on You Tube still working and not as a demonstration either. Plenty of those too
Interesting , Thank You
Спасибо за историческую экскурсию 😊
Super cool man
Friend of mine down the road has a Bucyrus Erie 10-B drag line with a Chevy in line 6, it was a runner some years ago, all in all it could pretty easily be working again.
I can remember these pre-hydrolic machines when I was a kid. I was fasinated watching the operator moving those levers
Yes thanks for. The video.
my grandfather had a Cletrac tractor. it stopped working he used his horse team to pull it into the shed and called the mechanic when he arrived he told granddad it was out of petrol.
Remember watching the walking beam drag line shovels around Grand Rapids, MI as an youngster as we sailed in my Dad's sailing dingy.
Interesting video, glad you mentioned the Hooley Ruston steam navvie as I'd seen a video elsewhere on YT about it's recovery and had wondered what had happened to it.
its at Threlkeld quarry near Penrith UK
Btw the Panama Canal opened in 1913, not 1930.
Is this AI generated? Most things are correct, but the video is a bit repetitive (especially for Bucyrus) and inconsistent, sometimes referring to specific models and other times just "the dragline"
Has to be with the constant repetition
AI is an infection.
BTW would any commenters happen to know why these old cable machines had the bucket facing away from the house, whereas the contemporary machines face the bucket towards the house?
@@calrob300 Yes, having the bucket facing away is more efficient for digging into hills and quarries which were many of the early excavators most economical jobs. As machines got more nimble and hydraulics came along, they were able to be used for more purposes without switching the dipper and bucket between digging down or digging "up". Still, many of the worlds biggest excavators work in quarries and have the bucket facing forward to dig into rock walls better.
@@kotten9534 Super answer. I've wondered about that for years. Thanks!
And the extensive use of superlatives.
I have a picture of my g-grandfather & crew running a steam shovel. They built lots of irrigation canals near here. My dad ran the 'HOPTO'
Dragline excavator is the very first non combat mech that humans invented. A machine that is capable of walking almost similar to modern day robots...
steam iron giants that became pillars of our civilization
A lot of steam machines are still working in India and Indonesia( sugar factory...) and also a lot of old diesel motors (pumps etc..)
The steam donkeys of the America west coast timber industry would be a fascinating video.
A beautiful Southern Pacific railroad steam crane can be seen at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon. It's a monster!
here were i live theres is a dragline escavator, it is a marion 7800, she is on display after it got replaced by modern ones, i think it was made in ohio and traveled all the way down to south brazil to be used in the shale extraction by petrobras.
Was hoping to hear the sounds these machines make.
Thank you for a look back in Heavy Machinery of yesteryear......
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Its Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
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@@MT-ek9te yay! I still have that book!
Erie Pennsylvania is where I live
I would have small kitchen and bunk in back of the big house shovels.
It's simple - all of these things, were made - Without The Concept of [Planned Obsolescence] and [Bureaucracy].
We need to keep this machines running, not only as a historical piece of equipment preservation, but also as a practical mean during transition periods of 2050-2070. During 2050's the last drop of oils will be extracted and conventional equipments will come to halt in mass. So, lack of infrastructure machine will be heightened for many decade until transition to new solution and mode of EVs made available.
Last drops of oil? Read something not printed in the 1970s.
What about the Saginaw walking dredge
May want to check and see if Page actually didn't put the first " walking dragline " in service. Page was a bit ahead of B.E. in some categories.
Much of your footage was from Rollag Minnesota where the Wester Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion is held. Give credit where it is due. Many of these machines are operated there every Labor Day.
There are similar machines in the Western Australia Goldfield, one at Laverton WA has a plate on it stating it was made in USA. There is a similar machine near Maldon Victoria Australia - also a goldfield. Neither are functioning but remain there as sentinels of the past.
They're like the machines from the "Mortal engines" series by Phillip Reeve.
Epa shut all our industry down. We couldn't hope to achieve this level of American industry today
I'm guessing you've never actually worked in any industry or manufacturing, or you'd know that's complete nonsense. We've got plenty of industry today.
Your another Trumper dummy before you run your mouth how bout doing a little research first dunce
Corporations sent the business and labor to China and pollute there, so they could sell cheaper at Walmart.
The canal opened in 1940 not 1930.
Kind of weird saying that this isn’t „modern”. I mean I supposed it depends what standards you use, but this is modern history thus I would consider it modern
Why do all the AI robots have British accents?
The AIs received private school edumacation in England. ;-)
@@keithad6485Along with actors in early sound movies.
Reverse engineering buy making an RC walking dragline? Awesome!
3:03 lake erie 🌅
Ya, I would have small crib in back if I was operator.
This isn't ten machines. This is a drag line video. Call it what it is.
Pretty voice
new drinking game, drink when he says Bucyrus
Need to get somebody with clear speech for the voice over
Explosives were used
The video part is satisfactory but the audio is very hard to hear with the rise in volume on every new sentence.
its because of the way the winches work, hydraulic systems can push and pull. winches can only pull and have to freewheel to reverse. hope this makes sense!
No diesel an no hydraulik and it worked as well.
It was much easier back then before we had OH&S.
@@gretschcorvette73 Yeah, the good old days when "A man a million" was the rule of thumb in large construction projects i.e. expecting at least one jobsite fatality for every million dollars spent. When there were no pesky regulations against the use of benzene and asbestos, where mining jobs came with complementary black lung or silicosis. Yeah, much better back then.
It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I could build a little house up there.
We've done nothing but gotten lazier.....
Yup
Such a soft and sickly sugar coated description. How about a bit more truth and grit about these amazing machines. You are not only talking to children. there are a lot of mature intelligent adults out here .
Look up the definition of 'shallow'.
This sounds like it was written by AI.
Would any commenters happen to know why these old cable machines had the bucket facing away from the house, whereas the contemporary hydraulic machines face the bucket towards the house?
Probably because they are less complicated to achieve high capacity. Their buckets usually discharge from the rear of the bucket without hydraulics.
its because of the way the winches work, hydraulic systems can push and pull. winches can only pull and have to freewheel to reverse. hope this makes sense!
@@rtv8055 The video demonstrates that some of these old machines had buckets facing the driver and in particular the drag line versions.
Modern hydraulic excavators are used both push and pull unless they are specifically designed for face work.
@@rtv8055 Thanks!
@@adrianchetwynd1334 Thanks.
Did you use a 148 year old microphone?
Marion, where are you maid Marion?
Lame AI narration
Wooden model is pimp action
I was watching but all the annoying sound effects prompted me to click off.
Wonderful machines, all built by engineers doing honest hard graphed with out computers, sophisticated machinery and all that rubbish, marvels of there time and marvels know, and if we had to build them know like they were then we would throw are arms in the air and say it cannot be done, the Victorians had a can do attitude that we have lost, we would not have our modern age with out them, ok, the belshing smoke would make greta Thunberg wet herself, SO WHAT!!!!!
Of course let's not forget the preceding invention that made all of these possible - the slide rule! All the complicated calculations for steam pressure, flow, heat transfer etc would have been impossible just using paper and pen (especially the long division sums). But the slide rule made it easy and quick. Every engineer had one, I learnt how to use one at school in the early 1970's and still have it!
Mind you, you could equally argue for Napier's inventions of logarithms, the mathematical "trick" that made the slide rule possible.
Marion (hey, that used to be another big manufacturer of steam shovels that didn't get a mention! I want a vote for Marion Power Shovels, they made even bigger machines than Bucyrus).
Your audio is to deep in bass. Can barley make out the words.
why does this announcer shout, then quiet down till you can barely hear him,, very poor...
Well it is somewhat interesting video You're a title is clickbait cuz you said ancient machinery 100 100 120 years ago is not ancient machinery it's not ancient ancient is old thousand years more so so that's it at least get a title that's honest you know it's not really fast sincerely David Raphael AKA Bob the blind bedroom guitarist
Uhh body counts
Stop using this voice..use jhon deer video one
A chain of clichés
AI generated text. :-(
mix is bad. I had to quit. almost unitelligble
These iron monsters built America 🇺🇸 go Trump
What has a very old Mr trump, a 7 x bankrupt, multi convicted sex offender and traitor who can't stop lying got to do with antique machinery that actually works?
Trump 2024
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@@user-g9e1b There is a big 2 cylinder Page engine from a shovel or a drag line at Mt Pleasant Iowa Show. ref Page 4days ago.
🔥🔥🔥 no Trump,,,
I can't stand these UA-cam videos when the content creator does not actually do any filming just hijacks other material off the internet and voice over is it