Dragline for Sale!! | Waking it from the dead | Bucyrus Erie 25-B

[@gordonagent7037]

FYO, I once worked at a 120MW coal fired power station and we supplied power to a regional grid but also for use by 4 huge electric driven draglines in our region. Our boilers had extra big steam drums because of the load the draglines put on the system as they came on line. We were also connected via headsets with the dragline operators and we would speak to the different operator to coordinate them coming on line so that we could get the draglines at different phases of there operation to keep the system at frequency, this was particularly important after the Xmas shutdowns when all unit were off line. As we got more units online the drum level would come down from about 4” either side of normal level on all four boilers to just a thin line. The dragline operators did hot seat changeovers at shift change and very really ever got out of sync. When we were tied into the national grid the system was much larger and this wasn’t any longer necessary as we had the spinning reserve in the system to compensate. Just for reader information

[@MikeHarp-p6o]

It's always nice to have the older fellows around with all the wisdom experiences I love seeing it

[@Jim-d3t4c]

Thanks for posting videos of these old machines. I am 68 and when I was 8-10 my grandfather ran Bucyrus draglines from the 19B to the 30B. Many people ran the 19 and 20's in the marsh on mats repairing old rice field banks and digging canals. He had one slide off the mats before I was old enough to remember - but they rescued it. I remember playing on the 30B while he dug, climbing on the catwalks and counterweight. My other grandfather had a cute little Shield Bantam on a surplus 6x6 GMC army truck. He used it as a crane, dragline, and he had the cable back hoe attachment. I got to run that one a little. The tomato farmers here also had little Bantam crawlers on undercarriages widened to straddle irrigation and drainage ditches that they cleaned regularly. Good memories. Thanks for refreshing them. And I enjoy hearing you share your knowledge very much.

[@matthewcox1122]

What a sweet machine bit of start in a can and it kicked to life like she wanted to fight the scrap man

[@odc43054]

I always enjoy starting my Saturday morning with Sam! cool old machine. I hope someone saves it.

[@kcctradio5751]

I just knew that old girl would fire right up! I love seeing the old iron come back to life.

[@wvrockcrusher]

Nice! You were literally in my back yard Sam. That 25B is about 8 miles south of where I live, and I have been driving past it for years now wondering if anyone would ever take interest in it. I knew the guy who ran that machine at the powerplant. He was a knowledgeable operator and a pretty good dude in general. In the sandstone quarry I worked at in Garrett Co. MD, we had a 25B for cleaning wash ponds, but later sold it to Swenglish Brothers in Uniontown, PA who were going to fix it up. I don't know if they ever did or just scrapped it. We replaced that with a larger 1944 model Lorain drag that was manufactured by the Thew shovel Co. that I ran for several years until the quarry closed in 2018. This machine came from the same Albright area about 5 miles south from where you were from a coal prep plant. The machine is still sitting right where I left it, and they have been scrapping the plant out so I don't know what the plans are for the Lorain, but I'm sure it could be bought for scrap price. It has the old 6cyl. Cat engine in it, which I believe was the 13000 series that came in the D-8 if I remember right. The machine is all mechanical controls, no air, non-electric hand crank pony start. It ran like a sewing machine with plenty of torque and it had enough weight to make it a stable machine to operate. I would love to see it saved by some of you guys @Brownsville or just anyone for that matter. It is located @ 1075 White Rock Road Friendsville, MD if anyone wants to Google that address.

[@damageddial7749]

The Lorain dragline can be seen on Google Maps by the pond.

[@wvrockcrusher]

@@damageddial7749Probably right where I left it between the two wash ponds. That was towards the end of 2018.

[@donlunn792]

Love these old machines.Here in the UK I was a heavy plant fitter and worked on Ruston Bucyrus Draglines. We had two 22RBs and an NCK,forget its numbers. Was an ex coal board machine. But it was a pig to use. And not much better to work on. But the operator never complained,never moaned about it. He just got on with it. But the 22 RB’s were ok,sort of! to work on. Happy days.

[@bannzai]

I drove 22RB's in the Scottish Steelworks, they had dragline connected to large electro magnet. Love , health and respect from Scotland UK.

[@anaphylastiks]

It's very cool to be able to watch this from the other side of the world little ol NZ.

[@CaptianKaos]

Great find Sam. This would be a Great machine to dredge the channel to the Marina I work at. Old Iron is the Best. Not a lot of money and still does the work and easy to work on. I will run it up the flag pole and see what the owner thinks. Thanks for morning coffee. Cheers.

[@Randys_Relics]

Looks like the old machine has tons of potential yet, hopefully a talented hand can grab it up! "I don't need it, plain and simple" is a phrase I can definitely relate to.

[@r1mein54]

Good cold start Sam. Sounded just like an old Greyhound bus.

[@william6526]

That was my first thought, I drove for Greyhound and it sounds just like the old MC5 americruisers I used to drive .

[@2StrokeDriptroit]

Definitely a 4-71. The 3-71 sounds unique because of a 120 degree crank phasing is why-think a 2 stroke SAAB car (have one!) or a 3 cylinder snowmobile engine or a Suzuki GT-550-sane note. The 4-71 growls like ab 8V71because it has a square plane crank like the 8V71 which is 2 4-71’s at 90 degrees apart. Simply the greatest diesels in world history hands down. Clark cycle, based on an Elmore 2 stroke car engine from 1913, GM bought them out in 1914. All their cars were 2 stroke and were, because of this, ultra reliable! The proof is the Detroit diesel which is a diesel version of the uni-flow Elmore gas engine! I also watch Matt on Diesel Creek. I subbed to your channel because of that channel! I absolutely love all things 2 stroke, and Detroits, Cleveland Diesels, and EMD’s are at the top for me-the ultimate 2 stroke engines! Cheers Scrappy! Glad to be on board! 😋👍🏻👍🏻

[@dougbennett3265]

Very surprised to see that Matt let you go do this unsupervised!! Nice job on the video.

[@TheByard]

On leaving school my dad got me a job on a dairy farm, my father was a superintendent for a tunnel construction company that were back filling a valley on the farm with spoil from several rail tunnels being built beside existing 100 year old ones to speed up rail journeys from London to Scotland UK. The farmer ended up with a 10 RB. Ruston Bucyrus the UK version with Ruston engines and assembled in the UK. As a school kid I'd go in with dad on a Saturday morning and ride with the equipment drivers, so I knew what the leavers did and could sort out the tracking operation from the digging one. The farmer was amazed when I just jumped up on his machine and put it to work ditching around his field, the tractor drivers did not have a clue and so I earnt brownie points. But after 6 months of farming I quit and joined dad in construction where I spent most of my working life. The next RB machine was a 19RB used in crane work stacking and loading precast tunnel lining segments, for the experimental section of a London tube tunnel. This was the first time Tunnel Boring Machines had been used in the clay that London sits on. Two years later we were working on three sections of the Victoria Line Tube and had four TBMs, the spoil from which was carried to the surface by conveyor belt system and I loaded muck away trucks with a Matbro FE loader or Case W9. A 22RB was on standby to load using a drag line, now that was interesting loading from a spoil heap into an ali body of a 11 cubit yard truck body. That's when I came of age and went below to operate a TBM, the high wages then meant I could give mum lodge money, have a few beers and buy a brand new MINI COOPER each month. (That's another story) All of the machines were lever operated, no nancy air assistance. As tunnel work was not continues I'd drive lorry mounted Allen Grove machines for hire companies. I also drove RB tower cranes which was a tower fitted to a 22RB extended undercarriage. The jib, tower all folded down to make an artic trailer, rubber tyred wheel sets were inserted on stub axles between the tracks and so could be towed from site to site behind a suitable towing unit. It would take a day to fold down and another to rig it on a new site. It was operated using a control cord with two four way levers, as we built four story precast housing units could operate from the block for more precise operation. So over the years RB have played a big part in my life, seeing your video has brought back some great memories of those times. I retired in 2015 from my last world wide project the KL metro tube tunnels in Malaysia so full circle!! Now in my 79th year I still like to dabble with any excavator I see here in Vietnam. I wish you luck with the 25B project and will check in on progress, thanks a lot for posting stay safe.

[@matthiasgruber8399]

Thank you for sharing your memorys. Habe agreat time in Vietnam.

[@neilfoster814]

Yes, we had the 22-RB at work, built by Rustons of Lincoln. Our 22 ended up in a museum, and not far from me there's also a 10-RB.

[@TheByard]

@@neilfoster814 We also had Ruston engined locos pulling muck skips and tunnel segment trains on long open air sections of track.

[@donlunn792]

Great reading your comment. I worked on 22RB’s in an ECC,sand and gravel quarry.At Warmwell in Dorset. The old quarry is now a high end residential site. The old silt ponds were dredged into lakes. And the homes are now costing half a million plus.

[@kenburns4802]

Hello Sam thanks for taking us along great video hope we find someone for that old. Gal thank you ken

[@neilfoster814]

At my work we had the 22-B with a 60ft boom. We used it to lift a 1 ton drop hammer in a piling rig for driving in 1ft x 1ft x 20ft wooden piles. It always made me smile the way they hop/lurch on hard ground due to the wide track plates. As far as I know, ours was preserved for posterity.

[@davidcolesr.8628]

Good to See You Scrappy Ind. Sam, I do Admire the Efforts to Save on the Equipment that Built this Country

[@kevinschroeder3889]

I found the dragline on Google maps. The scrapers weren't there in the pictures. Thanks for taking us along.

[@brianrvd]

The street view is 11 years old.

[@jamessmith7691]

Nice tour, thanks for the ride along.

[@rosieone5670]

There are two important safety levers, Lever B and Lever Right ( Lever Right There). Great video.

[@ScrappyIndustries]

lol I like lever right there I never heard that one

[@brianelliot2719]

Thanks Sam, interesting video and an intriguing machine. It will keep someone busy tinkering with it for many years.

[@brianmckenna3440]

Great video Sam lovely old Machine

[@SteamCrane]

Really nice machine! So far, it looks like you'd be fixing a bunch of minor issues, no big ones. Hope somebody buys it.

[@jaybrooks2502]

Love listening to them Detroit sing!have sat for hours welding on them ! We even built up the sprockets and rollers

[@dennis4lyfe]

I love it save the old stuff It’s awesome

[@GHOOGLEMALE]

Schaefflers Complete Fuel System - Love it

[@williamcreen1698]

Good morning. Great to see you again. Hope to see you again soon

[@paulkandi]

Bit of a service and a repaint, lovely machine..😊

[@robertsimmons3556]

Good post Sam! You got it running and had a basic idea of what it would take to get home. Price is not always easy to come to an agreement on! Good video!!

[@debcamp2359]

Great video! Love revival videos.

[@poowg2657]

Great find, enjoyed this one much!

[@noelwarner1235]

I have driven by that hundreds of times.Albright is in Preston County about half an hour from the Garrett County Md line.

[@mischef18]

Looks like it has good bones bro so be a good doer upper for someone. Thanks for taking us along to check it out bro. Safe travels. Ken.

[@johnmccormick175]

Great video Sam ,thanks for sharing!

[@LorettaLeary-z9z]

You were in my neck of the woods. I used to work over that way. There's all kinds of equipment that sets around where I live. I watch all of your videos and diesel creek videos to. Hope to run into you all one day. God bless you all.

[@kenanderson3859]

Great video Sam.

[@karlalton3170]

First thing i ever worked on as a apprentice plant fitter in 76 Awesome 😁😁🤘🤘

[@needsaride15126]

Those Detroits, once you give them ether, they will always need ether.

[@grantmuddiman5981]

Great video enjoyed it 👍 watching it from Northampton England 🇬🇧

[@norfolknchance.500]

I'm in Norfolk UK, shame we don't find stuff here!

[@jailbreak852]

Lever b, enjoyed that with the old operator

[@jaygraham5407]

Lever A-lone

[@garymessina1609]

Great machine great video thanks Sam

[@tripod6406]

Tell me that mechanic loved working on this machine, without telling me he loved working on that machine, you can tell he had pride in his work!

[@zachthorn237]

I knew i recognized that thumbnail.. i live right near Albright in Kingwood WV and have driven by this place quite frequently.

[@frankharrod4464]

It’s a shame that a machine in that good of condition doesn’t come up for sale in Australia at that price!

[@whiskeyinthejar24]

There's a big old machine not far from me rusting away in a paddock. Big boom. Proper old school wooden house on it. My grandfather remembers a lot of the old machinery, he was an auto elec by trade. Started when there were only a few of them in Melbourne, the early 50s if I remember correctly. He's worked on everything from mining equipment to light aircraft.

[@Brad_The_Truckie]

I used to work for a scrap yard and used to destroy many old girls like this. Farmers think they have gold and especially if it still runs. Every one wants top dollar and if they can’t get it the gear sits in a paddock and rots.

[@40beretta1]

I like the dry vent line for the exhaust

[@larrymesneak1334]

After Mt. St. Helens blew tons and tons of volcanic ash came down the river and threatened to clog the intake of the water Treatment facility so we had to learn how to operate a dragline to keep it cleaned out enough to get water in. I had a blast learning to operate it.

[@larrymesneak1334]

We sold ours for $1!

[@RobJohn80]

This machine looks like it is in better shape than most of the other drag lines. The pnuematic controls make a big differance in the usability of the machine.

[@allensharlow7763]

Guess you can’t win them all Sam, oh well, maybe next time😎😎👍👍🍮🍮

[@Biokemist-o3k]

I would love to save that Cat earth mover but I do not have the room or the time to work on it at the moment....Great video guys!!....$7,000 is a little steep for all the work that is needed. It is a tough old girl though. Someone did a lot of work to it already but not enough....it it ever enough though...lol

[@HaroldBiondo]

There are six 22-B's at Brownsville but not one 25-B. Hopefully someone will change that, gotta complete the whole set.

[@rintin1874]

Great video Sam watching from Edinburgh Scotland UK 🇬🇧

[@norfolknchance.500]

Norfolk UK, shame we don't find stuff like that here!

[@Greg_Gatsby]

The backs of my hands are thin skinned like the gentleman there. I can draw blood without ever trying. 😂

[@williamprice3700]

Drag Line, Cool Hand Luke!😀

[@littlejason99]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@Greg_Gatsby]

Good content! I believe you did well to stay within your budget. 👍

[@lordcaptainvonthrust3rd]

Thanks for the video Sam 👍

[@lifeafterourloss]

I wish I could save a machine like that. Not too many of those in my neck of the woods out west. As always enjoyed the video! 😊

[@DieselCreek]

Someone save this horse…..

[@davidcolesr.8628]

I think Scrappy Sam’s Big Time KZbin Buddy 1202 Stream or Whatever 😂the Hell He Calls His Channel Sponsors a Recovery & Restoration Efforts 😅

[@kenvik6192]

​@@davidcolesr.862812 02 stream lol it took a second read then I got it😅

[@denismcardle9568]

It would be lovely to see Mat with that horse

[@codymccauly349]

Hi

[@stevenlatham4397]

You, Letsdig18, Peg, C&C, Scrappy, and Dirt Perfect should all buy it and donate it to Brownsville dedicatedly for the Public (aged 13+) to operate and keep history alive.

[@dev-debug]

Used to be some huge drag lines in SW Pa till about the end of the 70s or early 80s. Haven't seen one run in decades.

[@ScrappyIndustries]

For sure. A lot of ground around us was stripped with a big Marion and a couple of Pages

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

Sam, enjoyed this video, and though a great video, the price change was very disappointing, consider you would need a lot of stiff to get it running and everything working, plus the cost of getting back down there and then the cost of getting her home. Sadly do not think many are gonna go there to get this and she might just rot away sitting there. shame she can not be saved. but gave you a nice trip down before the fall and winter hits. God bless..

[@kenfrazier616]

alot of bones for the machine, I agree with you

[@budgieaiello3274]

My father had two Bucyrus25bs with a multitude of booms and attatchments

[@walter2990]

For you to have the guy who knows something about this particular machine..., is priceless! 12:22 "There will be blood" anytime you get around machinery! At least for me. I truly love the people of West Virginia, cause you can't get any closer to the genuine type of American people than them there folks! They'll give you the their best, as long as you don't insult their intelligence. They know a lot about a lot of things, that WE have never thought of, or have forgotten!

[@ScrappyIndustries]

No doubt

[@thomasr.miller5553]

😁🤔OOOH See if Deisel Creak MATT needs another man toy . great Video Thanks

[@trickstothetrades1801]

I’d buy but I think my wife would kill me! I’m just north of you Sam. If I had the time I would buy it just for the videos I could make. But I would have to have a collaboration with you and Matt on getting it hauled out of there. I love the Detroits and used to work on them so it’s right up my alley. I could always go the route of Matt and quit dirt work to save old machines 😂

[@zaccheus]

I'll be saving one someday. The time just isn't quite right yet.

[@NickManCuso59]

Sam I think you an Matt have the same affliction for machinery ! 😁

[@Andkep]

Love it sam

[@tracywubben3786]

Letsdig18 would love it.

[@KennethDuBord-bc2wo]

I appreciate the subject. I have been around the old B/E equipment. Too bad they wouldn’t want it to go to a good home.

[@PortCharmers]

I half expected you to turn on the radio and the Doors and Jefferson Airplane pouring out of it.

[@william6526]

It's too bad the owner wouldn't sell this for the quoted price of 4000 dollars. That machine is going to take days of work just to hope it will move. The sad part is if no one is willing to pay the 7000 dollars the owner now decided he wants this machine will most likely sit here and continue to deteriorate until it's cut up for scrap. The scrap value after you pay someone to cut this machine into manageable pieces plus the expenses of hauling the scrap to a scrap yard will probably cost the machines value. Scrapie could get this old machine running again and save it from the scrap yard. The owner needs to realize the limited amount of people who would be willing to invest the money and time to be able to move this machine to be able to load it and transport it. The location of this machine just adds more costs to anyone who may be interested in it. 4000 dollars is a lot better then what you could get by scraping this machine. I'm sure there's materials like asbestos that will add even more costs to scrapping this machine. If the owner is smart they should consider selling this old machine while it's still able to be repaired . 4000 is what scrapie is willing to pay ,but if you factor in the repairs ,time and money involved then add in the costs if someone has to hire a lowboy to haul this machine and the very limited amount of people willing to take on a project of this scale ,the owner would be wise to sell it for the 4000 dollars or end up with a machine no one wants.

[@ralf00001]

It"s only worth what someone is willing to pay!

[@MrPat-UK]

Farmcraft101, Another great project, John,come on down, just kidding,

[@williewombat1851]

What? Matt didn't want it?

[@terrywitt5543]

There’s a little flapper valve on the air intake on Detroit s to spray starter fluid

[@danielpullum1907]

Sammi, I don't want to buy the dragline, I just want to see some more of your shop and drool over your motor home. LOL Threeeeess to Ya Good Buddy. Ye Ole Caterpillar Cowboy

[@taffyjones57]

Hi, Scrappy Industries Diesel Creek has a dragline.

[@FlatThunder]

Nice machine! Too bad the price jumped up so much, It would be fun to watch you get it going and loaded. Hey someone buy it for the video! 😁

[@ScrappyIndustries]

We will wait em out if nothing else lol

[@heavymachinery2843]

Nice old scrapers

[@laserbeam002]

Really nice machine....BUT does the radio work???

[@Guds777]

No wonder why so many had to use a hearing aid in those days. I would not want to sit next to a screaming engine 8-12 hours a day 6 days a week...

[@Vwgls]

& smoking 2 packs of camels

[@barrysimmons5489]

Good 18:05 morning from beautiful Fort Mill, SC....

[@stevenhagebusch9561]

idk any thing about draag line except there extremely cool and i want one.....

[@ferdinandocappelletti6740]

beautiful machine

[@markbout257]

I would say this is a perfect project for Matt @ dieselcreek. He could do with a crane for his house project and then load up one of those scrapers too😂

[@johnbarham7718]

Long way from the UK.

[@skipmyers9753]

Good video!

[@Valenciaeye]

Great video as usaul

[@ronkennedy213]

it wasn't dead, it was just sleeping

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

Didn't know they made them with pneumatic controls! Of course my only exposure to these machines is KZbin!

[@rp1645]

Get the Book titled One Hundred Booming Years. Author George B. Anderson 😊 It's a history of Bucyrus-Erie Company 1880---1980 I own a 1978 Dynahoe-190 two wheel drive model. My engine is a (353) DD I bought it in 2003, and YES previous owner wanted more than it was worth I love those older BE cranes with those shorter AIR control ( lever)systems versus the long levers that went to the floor. 😊 Man just look at the operator SEAT, it still has padding on it, and the cover with the small wooden bowls for lumbar support When operating her. 😊❤ When have you ever seen the seats still in that good of shape. Look at how easy that Detroit Diesel started, when I kept my (353) plugged into the engine heater, my baby fired right 👍 up, with a good set of batteries (2-12V)

[@InmanFarmHeritageDays]

Enjoyed the video. Sorry it didn’t work out to buy it.

[@davidmorris7696]

Good 'ol WV!

[@williamdodd5113]

In 1986 I was doing banksman doing alot of concrete ,shutter forms, and the crane was a ruston bucyrus 22 RB and she was air ,that was wicklow ireland.

[@xxinsanitybomer4620]

That’s so cool love channels m8 & content

[@CarlosalbertoDreselopes]

EtA bucirus aerie good meu Deus 😢😢😢😢 25 b ❤❤

[@davet7231]

didn't matt do a drag line episode a few years back?

[@charlylucky7508]

16:02, 👌"mint"! Peg alert!

[@JayH237]

That late 60's to early 70's Ford AM/FM radio is worth a few hundred if it works