I have watched videos of this machine hundreds of times, and of The Big Muskie dragline, and other machines over the years. I still do and they never cease to amaze and impress me. They all are engineering and manufacturing marvels. It is very sad that most are gone, now, torn down and scrapped.
The company I worked for supplied the gases to scrap this beautiful shovel. My brother and I was the last people to walk thru it only minutes before it was cut up. We had our cameras in case we got the opportunity . Sure glad we did! Got a lot of great pics that cold afternoon.
Que lástima de destino que tuvo esta maquinaria tan imponente, últimamente siempre que navego por internet me pongo a ver videos de ésta máquina tan asombrosa. Saludos :-)
This may be your best one yet. Still hard to believe she's gone, and we can't just drive down there and spend another weekend with her, as we did so many times. We had an invite to go down into the pit, but never managed to connect on it. Too late now... Thanks!!! Dave
The Spade had seen better days, here, but was still doing the job, digging, hoisting and relocating, a couple of hundred, or more tons of material, over and over, with ease. I can turn the volume down to almost nothing, and this will put me to sleep. To me, there is something calming about watching the smooth, deliberate motions of this super powerful, iconic, machine.
Pretty cool! I live in Kansas and went to visit Big Brutus last weekend. I'm grateful we have it to enjoy. The Silver Spade was tremendous and of course bigger, but sadly she's gone. 😢
I spent hours sitting on the front porch watching this awesome piece of machinery dig and creep along the mine, too bad consol had to get greedy and scrap it out!!!
@@tdv1985 There used to be a thing called the Social Contract and the public trust. Something that was eradicated by Reaganomics. And for what? To indulge the shareholder and usury class? Paying tithes to the false deity of trickle down economics. Once the social contract and public trust are lost, then collapse is inevitable. The coal companies scrapped irreplaceable symbols of American industrial might. Our children will inherit nothing.
I have watched videos of this machine hundreds of times, and of The Big Muskie dragline, and other machines over the years. I still do and they never cease to amaze and impress me. They all are engineering and manufacturing marvels. It is very sad that most are gone, now, torn down and scrapped.
The company I worked for supplied the gases to scrap this beautiful shovel. My brother and I was the last people to walk thru it only minutes before it was cut up. We had our cameras in case we got the opportunity . Sure glad we did! Got a lot of great pics that cold afternoon.
Que lástima de destino que tuvo esta maquinaria tan imponente, últimamente siempre que navego por internet me pongo a ver videos de ésta máquina tan asombrosa. Saludos :-)
This may be your best one yet.
Still hard to believe she's gone, and we can't just drive down there and spend another weekend with her, as we did so many times.
We had an invite to go down into the pit, but never managed to connect on it. Too late now...
Thanks!!!
Dave
The Spade had seen better days, here, but was still doing the job, digging, hoisting and relocating, a couple of hundred, or more tons of material, over and over, with ease. I can turn the volume down to almost nothing, and this will put me to sleep. To me, there is something calming about watching the smooth, deliberate motions of this super powerful, iconic, machine.
Pretty cool! I live in Kansas and went to visit Big Brutus last weekend. I'm grateful we have it to enjoy. The Silver Spade was tremendous and of course bigger, but sadly she's gone. 😢
I spent hours sitting on the front porch watching this awesome piece of machinery dig and creep along the mine, too bad consol had to get greedy and scrap it out!!!
Aint that what coal companies do? Even to the men, when you quit functioning they can you.
@@tdv1985 There used to be a thing called the Social Contract and the public trust. Something that was eradicated by Reaganomics. And for what? To indulge the shareholder and usury class? Paying tithes to the false deity of trickle down economics.
Once the social contract and public trust are lost, then collapse is inevitable. The coal companies scrapped irreplaceable symbols of American industrial might. Our children will inherit nothing.
Wonderful footage of a tremendous machine in action!
Thank you Walt.Have watched everything you have put up here so far.Its cool to watch this BE1950B dig.
love this machine
my mom remembers seing this and her sister shovel, the Egypt GEM working around Egypt Vally, Ohio.
Operator appears to be very vulnerable to a boulder smashing through that cab
You would think with the tremendous girth of this monster it could at least triple the pay load.
an amazing shovel, I just looked at another video showing it being "blown up". Makes you wonder....
wooo cool @@"
hi, the movies is excellent, thanks ★★★★★
I am Russian and I love Silver spade. I regret that it no longer exists
silver spade build in 1965 !
смотри ЭКГушки , их ижорский до сих пор стряпает , смотрю а всё отсюда передрано , никогда бы не подумал , я на них в восьмидесятых работал.
@signal44 It was around $800,000