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Bucyrus pre-hydraulic excavator.
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7:45 source video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY35L154ufY
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...9096#post88652
When I was a younger we had a local contractor who had several cable rig dozers and even a few cable dump trailers.
Things get exciting fast when the cable on a dump trailer snaps and it is still full but almost all the way up.
My Dad assembled a Bucyrus shovel in 1938 for the Loskop Dam, in South Africa, wall excavation. Everything was delivered by rail to site in 4 huge packing crates. The manuals arrived a month before the machine so that he could study the assembly and not waste time on site when the machine arrived.