What a monster!! I got the chance to work on a big project. Vost - Alpine contracted with LeTourneau to make a huge bucket wheel excavator and cross pit spreader for use up near Lone Star, TX. I inherited the spread sheet that was the Gant chart for the project. IIRC, the paint alone weighed 25 tons. I knew Lotus123 after that year was done.
I actually saw that as a kid..(early '70's?) somewhere in Ohio. Truly a massive thing. My Dad detoured like 100 miles on a family trip so we could see it .
Without looking first, that is the base/ring gear for some huge ass dirt moving machine. Either a giant crane or a scoop shovel of some kind. Now I'm gonna go look.
I got to tour the big muskie, twice in the early 80's, while it was in operation via the local farm bureau. Absolutely HUGE machine. Wish I'd have been old enough too really appreciate what I was seeing, but I was just a teenager. In 1969 the Morgan Highschool marching band posed in the bucket. https://www.hmdb.org/Photos/43/Photo43677o.jpg
I first ever patent drawings I ever prepared were for the owner of that company. The drawings were for custom stainless steel replaceable shoes for the drag chain links. Large shoes that fit over each chain link and were secured with large rubber insert pins. The owner told me it was far less expensive to replace the shoes every couple years than to replace the chains. I did the drawings in 1972.
Bagger 293 - largest bucket-wheel excavator (largest land-based machine ever) RK 5000 bucket chain excavator (recently abandoned walking excavator, but the videos of it walking are interesting)
I also like the Herrenknecht tunnel excavators
Humans can build some amazing stuff when we put our minds to it
What a monster!! I got the chance to work on a big project. Vost - Alpine contracted with LeTourneau to make a huge bucket wheel excavator and cross pit spreader for use up near Lone Star, TX. I inherited the spread sheet that was the Gant chart for the project. IIRC, the paint alone weighed 25 tons. I knew Lotus123 after that year was done.
ReplyDeleteI actually saw that as a kid..(early '70's?) somewhere in Ohio. Truly a massive thing. My Dad detoured like 100 miles on a family trip so we could see it .
ReplyDeleteWithout looking first, that is the base/ring gear for some huge ass dirt moving machine. Either a giant crane or a scoop shovel of some kind. Now I'm gonna go look.
ReplyDeleteWell, I was obviously right, what you didn't know is all I looked at was the top picture and then skipped straight to the comments.
ReplyDeleteI got to tour the big muskie, twice in the early 80's, while it was in operation via the local farm bureau.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely HUGE machine.
Wish I'd have been old enough too really appreciate what I was seeing, but I was just a teenager.
In 1969 the Morgan Highschool marching band posed in the bucket.
https://www.hmdb.org/Photos/43/Photo43677o.jpg
Right down the Pike, as I was growing up just outside Zanesville Ohio, where I still live. I'm 65 now
ReplyDeleteI first ever patent drawings I ever prepared were for the owner of that company. The drawings were for custom stainless steel replaceable shoes for the drag chain links. Large shoes that fit over each chain link and were secured with large rubber insert pins. The owner told me it was far less expensive to replace the shoes every couple years than to replace the chains. I did the drawings in 1972.
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ReplyDeleteBagger 293 - largest bucket-wheel excavator (largest land-based machine ever)
RK 5000 bucket chain excavator (recently abandoned walking excavator, but the videos of it walking are interesting)
I also like the Herrenknecht tunnel excavators
Humans can build some amazing stuff when we put our minds to it
Got to work on a P&H's load cell that told the operator how many tons he had scooped, don't remember where but it was a monster!
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