walking dragline


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walking dragline

n
(Mining & Quarrying) a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks. See dragline2
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Tenders are invited for supply of grease lubrication system and oil lubrication system for walking dragline, supervision of erection and commissioning, testing and sucessful demonstration of performance guarantee at our customer site.
Supply Of Grease Lubrication System And Oil Lubrication System For Walking Dragline, Supervision Of Erection And Commissioning, Testing And Sucessful Demonstration Of Performance Guarantee At Our Customer Site
A 1300W Bucyrus-Erie Walking Dragline, nicknamed "Ace-in-the-Hole" by Healy school children, removes the bulk of the overburden, while dozers move overburden short distances or from locations difficult for the dragline to access.
Water Management at Alaska's Operating Mines: Process water, groundwater, and runoff all managed with care
Industrial auctioneers IronPlanet has beaten its sales record for the most expensive machine, by selling a Marion 7820 Walking Dragline for $3m.
IronPlanet\ s $3m dragline record sale
Mr Marvell, 72, read our story about the birth of Britain's biggest walking dragline excavator and the team of shipyard specialists who made the platform on which it stood.
Digging up our working history
The Ace in the Hole is a 1300W Bucyrus-Erie walking dragline that Usibelli purchased in 1977.
Elephant-load trucks: the machines that mine Alaska
for example, 'Oddball'--a B-E 1150 walking dragline dating from 1948--has been saved from scrapping by volunteer work and National Lottery funding.
Walking with Giants: Europe's Massive Earthmovers
The Bucyrus Erie 1550-W walking dragline excavator was dubbed Big Geordie at Radar Opencast site in Widdrington, near Morpeth, where it worked from 1968 until Butterwell Opencast Site nearby was opened a few years later and eventually moved to Stobswood Opencast, where it ended its working days in 1993.
Worker puts Big Geordie in the picture
A new P&H model 9020, 5,170 t walking dragline - which will be one of the largest in Australia - is to join a P&H model 4100 electric mining shovel in overburden digging operations at Bulga Coal Management Ltd's Bulga and Saxonvale opencast coal mines in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.
Bulga Coal's giant new dragline
The Bucyrus-Erie 1300W walking dragline was named by local school children when it began operations at Poker Flats Mine.
Big dozer, little dozer: Alaska miners rely on heavy equipment
Over the next three months, the 3,000-tonne walking dragline excavator will be stripped and cut up.
Big Geordie
Construction began on Big Muskie, the world's largest walking dragline with a 220-[yd.
Cleaning up the act
Big Geordie is officially known as a BE 1550W ( a walking dragline excavator.
Biggest & Best
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