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Satellite)
Joy Global also absorbed
LeTourneau Earth Moving Machines.
A history written to celebrate their 100th anniversary of manufacturing P&H shovels. (In 1930, P&H switched from riveting to welding in their manufacturing process.)
A more detailed history describes 135 years of P&H. (P&H started as a machine shop. When an overhead crane in their shop failed, they designed and built a better replacement. Other companies wanted that design so they got into the overhead crane business. Later they started making shovels because they were not as feast-or-famine as overhead cranes.)
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Peter Sjögren posted
Got a nice brochure today!
Jay Wilson: 5 built. 4 shovels, 1 barge mounted backhoe [shovel]. |
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Mark Bridle commented on Peter's post
This is my magazine when they dedicated Big Don.
[This was the P&H shovel at the Captain Mine.]
Martin Johnson: The original 5700 LR had a 90 foot boom and 60 foot stick. It was later converted to a "standard" shovel with a 62 foot boom and 41 foot stick.
["LR" must stand for "long reach."]
Don Perryman: It was a 50 yd machine that had a longer boom and sticks with a 25 yd bucket.
[Other comments indicate thta this was the biggest shovel built on two crawlers.] |
Karyl May provided two photos on Jay's comment with the comment: "Yes only 5 built over 13 years (1978-1991), and all are now scrap 😭 The Dredger ("Chicago") was actually either a shovel or clamshell arrangement."
Peter Sjögren: Last job Chicago did was job between Sweden and Denmark.
Karyl May: Peter Sjögren yes it sank during a storm.
This is their larges model currently made.
Here are the specs for the 4100XPC model in the video. It is their second largest shovel.
P&H also still makes walking draglines.
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