Ruston Bucyrus 54RB Dragline Working

Recently restored Ruston Bucyrus 54-RB dragline working at one of the Vintage Excavator Trust's working weekends at Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum
#dragline #rustonbucyrus #bucyrus

[@BigAmp]

Beautiful machine and the operator is silky smooth, totally in control. Nice.

[@Dinoxt12]

A Drag-Line can't be beat when it comes to digging out a Peat-Bog to hard bottom .

[@rp1645]

Likes how he stops at bucket fill
Then slacks off just a bit, to roll the material back into fill the bucket. Then the perfect dump. Very skilled operator. Thank you for showing this, how it's done
The cable control he has is such a Art form.

[@Project_Cummins]

Interesting to see how it was done

[@NapierNimbus]

Wonderful machine

[@brazucaoperandomaquinasnaa574]

Nice

[@ferdinandocappelletti6740]

Very beautiful repair work.
I love the Bucyrus machines.
What engine has, Paxman or Ruston engine ?

[@rustybycyclebragg9258]

paxman v6

[@ferdinandocappelletti6740]

Thank you
Ferdinando Cappelletti

Wow. Old school

[@jm9toys931]

S3mngat kawan💪

[@floodedcar123]

What engine dose it have?

[@rustybycyclebragg9258]

paxman v6

[@edwardstevens4775]

Twin turbo 2jz

[@wideslammer]

Why do the operators of these machines have gray hair?

[@rustybycyclebragg9258]

i dont

[@edwardstevens4775]

Old very old

[@davidh266]

have they a face shovel

[@rustybycyclebragg9258]

yes we have a 54 face shovel with the 5 cyl ruston air start motor

[@davidh266]

@@rustybycyclebragg9258 cool, main reason for asking was because my grandfather used to operate a 38rb face shove. so i wanted to see how efficient they were

[@rustybycyclebragg9258]

@@davidh266 we have a 38 face shovel too bring him along

[@edwardstevens4775]

live there literally like 100 meters away

[@kerrinmcgaughey4893]

Extremely painful

[@AwesomeEarthmovers]

What do you mean?

[@kerrinmcgaughey4893]

Casting it out and pulling it in great to see old kit still getting used

[@valerieleclerc2583]

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