Gibraltar Bucyrus Erie 1450W
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Published 2018-08-23
All Comments (21)
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Amazing, I have always worked big and always will. I would be a very happy camper working there. Never a dull day working around BIG !
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Back in the 90's I loved fishing all the old pits that machine left behind. I remember seeing it in action from miles and miles away. The good ole days
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Having seen Big Muskie up close way back when this move was a true bit of great engineering..They figured the draft on the first barge right so when the boom was dropped on the second barge the house barge would rise..Amazing..Then the guys enjoying the ride without life jackets was classic.Glad I had plenty of beer and snacks to make my day..
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Man I miss those yrs...coal was booming and work was plentiful...thanks for sharin
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It’s truly baffling to watch that enormous machine walk onto that barge,which is so low to the waterline, and yet it doesn’t sink down hardly at all. That’s some serious floatation!! 😳
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Nice big machine and that was a really big job to move that machine on such a small barge!!!! I did not know that there was another Gibraltar in the world I thought that there was only one Gibraltar in the Mediterranean!!!!!!
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There was a 1250 or 1270 that ran at Hawthorne Mine in Indiana. My dad worked there. Also had the big 8900 which was my favorite to watch swing
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We always used to go fishing out there at Gibraltar all through the 90's and riding dirt bikes. Those couple dollars for the permit was well worth all that fun. I haven't been out there for more than 10 years now.
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My grandfather was the one lowering the boom down
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You really see the scale of that monster when those dozers pull up beside it and look like toys
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They loaded that monstrosity onto a barge? If I hadn't seen it for myself in the video, I'd have said you'd been sh*tting me. Amazing thing to watch.
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Cool video.
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I cant believe how small the barge was. Geesh water must me heavy...
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Would have taken some serious planning to make sure the last step was central on the barge
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first time on to barge must have been spooky. Barge grounded flooded then when crane on deck it is refloated?
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Filmed in historic full Potato Vision.
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Is this the machine that buried the Big Hog 3850b. Ive seen some pictures of a dragline burying that behemoth.
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Focus, focus, focus.......
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Interesting to note Caterpillar bought BE for 8 Billion dollars!
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ビュサイラス・エリー (Bucyrus-Erie) 今では見かけないと思ったら、キャタピラー社に買収されたのですね。
