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McCook: (Satellite?)
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Joy Global also absorbed LeTourneau Earth Moving Machines.
"In 2022, Komatsu opened a $285 million manufacturing campus covering 58 acres in Milwaukee's Harbor District. Its 430,000-square-foot factory produces major components for electric rope shovels, hybrid shovels, draglines and blasthole drills." [Mining #Shorts post]
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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.)
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."
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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.
[Additional comments indicate that it is still under water.]
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| John Alms commented on a comment on Peter's post Big Don about 1990 |
I did not know that McCook built draglines. I have not been able to find the location of this plant.
Lost Illinois Manufacturing added four photos.
Steve OConnor shared with the comment: "Page Engineering in McCook, Illinois made some of the largest mining machines used in strip mining. Does anyone have a photo of these in any Illinois strip mine?"
Nick Stork: Just another tidbit of information. To my knowledge there was never a 847 actually manufactured. I believe this is a sales slip for the upgraded version of a 747. This is very cool. The only 800 series I know to have been produced is a couple of 852 that are in Florida. They are a modified 752 with a raised fairlead for phosphate mining.
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| Nick Stork commented on Steve's share 747 in Kentucky [Nick provided four more photos of Page draglines in operation.] |
Carl ODell posted two photos of interest with the comment: "Anybody know what kind of dragline this is? It is at Allegheny Mineral near Harrisville Pa."
Matthew Thompson: 736 just changed the propel out on it.
[A comment indicates that the Page 757 was the predecessor to the P&H 9020.
Other comments offer bucket size numbers of 22 and 23 yards. That makes me better appreciate the 220 cubic yard bucket size of Big Muskie! Bucket size varies a lot depending on material. The 757 moved to North Dakota will use a 86 yard bucket.]
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This is their largest model currently made.
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Here are the specs for the 4100XPC model in the video. It is their second largest shovel.
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Daniel Foged posted eight images with the comment: "P&H 2300XP-A brochure from my collection."
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21 images of the P&H 5700 rope shovel brochure
Daniel also posted in the Historical Surface Strip Mining Archive group.
Daniel also posted in the Historical Surface Strip Mining Archive group.
21 images of the P&H 5700 rope shovel brochure
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| Gavin Handley commented on the second link 1 pass loading 85T 777 |
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To access this link, you will need to join the Historical Surface Strip Mining Archive group.
Daniel Foged posted four images with the comment: "Here the P&H 5700XPA brochure."
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This video also shows operation and manufacturing scenes. Here it is walking. (Draglines move backwards.) At 21:30, it says the factory was in McCook, IL.
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| 21:53 video @ 18:16, cropped, circa 1982 |
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| 0:47 video @ 0:36 via Komatsu-draglines |
1982 documentary 21:53 video
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