Up Close Digging Coal mine Caterpillar Dragline 8200 Bucket

Thank you for not putting a silly music track over the sound of the machine. The sound takes me back over 40 years to my childhood, falling asleep at night listening to the sounds of the dragline a few miles away at a small town coal operation. One might not think of metal scraping on stone, cables whining, the chug, chug as it swung to the spoil pile, metal clanging, then chugging back again as soothing. But for me that was a lullaby. Some people count sheep, I counted the swing of the bucket. Didn't hurt that the night shift operator was my favorite uncle. ❤

The economics of strip mining blow my mind. That is a huge amount of overburden to move.

Cat doesn’t make draglines…. They just paint a Marion yellow! Nice view of nice work from a good operator. Very efficient. Thanks for sharing.

No rope slap pretty smooth operator.

Swing an dump to the blind side an come back the same way an you can see wer to set the bucket for next drag

Bucyrus 8200 dragline.

Why does he swing back? Why not do the whole lap? It's faster as far as he has to drive to pick it up and unload it

Wind sound is terrible