Page Engineering Company; Dragline production and operation in 1982

Wonderful video! Shows the reasons for design features that aren't obvious from looking at the machine.

The Page 757 machine that is shown in the introduction and as well in the closing is the machine I spent 27 years doing maintenance on. It is still in service at the same mine, Spring Creek Coal. Not exactly sure of the date, but believe it has been going since 1979 or 80. It is truly amazing how well they designed some components on this machine and yet missed the mark so badly on other areas. All in all a very good and reliable dragline. The boom was excellent in overall design. Probably the worst culprit maintenance wise had to do with how they terminated the spade plates in the upper and lower main boom chords. This was a constant source of cracking and was finally eliminated when all of these areas were blend ground and cleaned up. The spade plates were what tied the lacing to the chord. Without a doubt, the biggest source of welding failures and cracking was the result of a lack of blend grinding and not providing a radius in the corners of structural members all throughout the machine. I just don't think they recognized fatigue cracking from undercut and square corners. I could write a short book on all that we did to that machine over the years. It was and still is a very good machine. Thanks for the video memories.

Really good stuff! I would love to see a better quality version of this video if it exists. Love Page draglines! Thank you!!

Who in the PR team had the genius idea to apply this awesome soundtrack to this advertising film instead of cheap Synthesizer commercial muzak? I'm impressed!!

Thank you so much for posting this!!

I OPERATED THE PAGE 757 ( ACE OF SPADES ) FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AT IMC , CLEAR SPRINGS MINE IN BARTOW FLORIDA , IT HAD 333 FT. BOOM AND A 65 YD. BUCKET ! IT IS PICTURED IN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES OF THIS VIDEO AT 00:43

Good

1:51 shake hands with danger

Guys that built that..cream of the crop i say