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Dirtman2007
08-11-2009, 10:35 PM
Check out the worlds largest Excavator!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Frk2H-g3CQ
bobcat_ron
08-11-2009, 11:14 PM
"une cabriolet" that's damn funny!
NateV
08-11-2009, 11:17 PM
wow..so accoriding to the comments on the video thats 42 tons of water in the bucket..wow.

that should dredge the ponds out faster for ya huh Chris? lol
tnmtn
08-12-2009, 12:56 PM
i have an old chevy dump truck with a split rear end. do you think with it being in the right gear i would be able to tow the excavator being discussed. also my trailer is electric brakes ( but their real good ones) do you think there would be any trouble stopping it. may have to upgrade and get a cdl though.
WillieWonka1850
08-12-2009, 01:12 PM
Check out the worlds largest Excavator!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Frk2H-g3CQ
Dirtman's next excavator! :laugh:
greenred
08-12-2009, 07:59 PM
i have an old chevy dump truck with a split rear end. do you think with it being in the right gear i would be able to tow the excavator being discussed. also my trailer is electric brakes ( but their real good ones) do you think there would be any trouble stopping it. may have to upgrade and get a cdl though.

as long as you strap it down properly
NateV
08-12-2009, 10:05 PM
Chirs, If i remember right didnt you post a tv commercial for your company one time and in the middle of it a big excavator like the one in this video was there for a split second??
DiyDave
08-12-2009, 10:39 PM
I guess that jerk won't block the road anymore!:laugh::laugh: Actually I have seen a few of the old walking electric coal shovels, on Modern Marvels or a similar show, that had buckets that they had parked several vehicles, plus a marching band, etc. They are no longer in use, buteach one had its own name, like silver shovel, or something unique, like that. I'm sure you could find them with google!
WillieWonka1850
08-12-2009, 10:45 PM
I guess that jerk won't block the road anymore!:laugh::laugh: Actually I have seen a few of the old walking electric coal shovels, on Modern Marvels or a similar show, that had buckets that they had parked several vehicles, plus a marching band, etc. They are no longer in use, buteach one had its own name, like silver shovel, or something unique, like that. I'm sure you could find them with google!
Big Muskie and the Captain ;)

That was good episode :cool2:
Dirtman2007
08-12-2009, 11:03 PM
I guess that jerk won't block the road anymore!:laugh::laugh: Actually I have seen a few of the old walking electric coal shovels, on Modern Marvels or a similar show, that had buckets that they had parked several vehicles, plus a marching band, etc. They are no longer in use, buteach one had its own name, like silver shovel, or something unique, like that. I'm sure you could find them with google!

It was the Silver Spade. Machine was lost when it had a electrical fire and destroyed the machine... wow I watch too much tv lol



Nate:

Yes we had a ad and somehow that machine got put into it:dizzy:

for that mass excavating we do:laugh:
NateV
08-12-2009, 11:30 PM
Nate:

Yes we had a ad and somehow that machine got put into it:dizzy:

for that mass excavating we do:laugh:

lol ok i thought so...

i guess they figured the 36" bucket on the yanmar was enough for the mass excavating so they threw that in the ad lol.
lifetree
08-12-2009, 11:30 PM
That's an impressive machine, to say the least !!
1993lx172
08-13-2009, 12:30 AM
"It was the Silver Spade. Machine was lost when it had a electrical fire and destroyed the machine... wow I watch too much tv lol "

No, the Captain was lost in a fire. The "Spade" was scrapped in 05 just after it finished it's last job. From what I had heard on a site about archiving and preserving the old diggers, a historical group was putting money to gather to buy and preserve it but the company that owned it pulled out of the deal at the last second. There's a Youtube video of them making one last pass with it, dropping the boom for the last time and cutting the cables.
pylnrcr
08-13-2009, 04:08 AM
Here's a youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPFOywXReU&feature=related showing the SS crossing a road - it gives some good perspective on the size of the thing.

I grew up in Eastern Ohio near Cadiz and remember taking trips with my father to see it working. If it was close to a road people would just park and watch it work. At night it was lit up like Vegas - kinda eerie to see a huge, well lit shovel working so quietly (electric power I think) in an immense pit in the middle of someones farm.
Dirtman2007
08-13-2009, 07:35 AM
"It was the Silver Spade. Machine was lost when it had a electrical fire and destroyed the machine... wow I watch too much tv lol "

No, the Captain was lost in a fire. The "Spade" was scrapped in 05 just after it finished it's last job. From what I had heard on a site about archiving and preserving the old diggers, a historical group was putting money to gather to buy and preserve it but the company that owned it pulled out of the deal at the last second. There's a Youtube video of them making one last pass with it, dropping the boom for the last time and cutting the cables.

whoops lol, your right. I tried:laugh:
bobcat_ron
08-13-2009, 11:27 AM
Wasn't there one of those big shovels that flipped over after it crossed a soft spot?
1993lx172
08-13-2009, 11:52 AM
Wasn't there one of those big shovels that flipped over after it crossed a soft spot?

Yes, the Peabody shovel I think. I have that show DVR'd so I'll double check.

Here's a vid of them cutting the cables during the Spade's scrapping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEzdZa-qm4U&feature=related
*WARNING THIS CLIP MAY BE FOUND OFFENSIVE TO ANY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS/ENTHUSIASTS*