Stripping overburden with a Marion 8200 Dragline

Marion 8200 Dragline with 80 cyd bucket stripping overburden to reach lignite seam

[@wmden1]

I agree with the other commenters. This is the best video I remember watching of a dragline stripping overburden. First of all, it is a great looking, well maintained, machine. Then the operator, and probably the other shift operators, do a great, precise job with the machine. The panoramic view of the dragline and the neat work it has done, is impressive and looks good to me. The view of the layout of the mine and the work the dragline has left to do is obvious and is impressively educational, at just a glance. No explanation needed. I would love to have watched this in real life. Thank you SoCalEarthMovers.

[@andrewh5988]

Great video, I operated a 8750 for 28yrs in Alberta

[@terrywedhorn]

Where at Genesse?

[@HaraldFinster]

As already stated: one of the best videos showing a dragline in operation I have seen so far. I often asked myself how a dragline can be used to remove overburden. This video finally solves the mystery. Thank you!

[@edsonvazquez9901]

That’s the way they build artificial lakes!!! Interesting!!!

[@terrywedhorn]

I live across the road from Genesse mine in Alberta home of the largest operating dragline in the world. I stop and watch it all the time

[@BeastMachinesWorld-24k]

That’s amazing! Must be incredible to see such a massive machine in action every day. I’d probably stop and watch it all the time too!

[@richardgarcia8019]

See it everyday, it’s about 10 miles from my house in Cross Tx.

[@johnsheridan6452]

You get an idea of how big this thing is with the shot with the Dozer behind it. I saw a dragline in operation in FL as a teenager, the drag bucket was so big, you could drive a rock truck into it. The amount of materiel it moved in an 8 hr shift was mind boggling.

[@cmrd_hdcrb]

And then comes a moment when you realize, that bucket wheel and bucket chain excavators of smaller size easily move double that while using less electrical power...

[@motoxhead16]

So awesome. Probably the best video on you tube of a working drag line. Thank you sharing and keep up the great work!

[@SoCalEarthMovers]

Thank you PushinDirt!!

[@Gavin84w]

My buddy does it again!! The principal of a dragline is just like scrapers, once the cutting edge (or in this case teeth) hit the dirt it never againstops until dumped at its final destination, just like a scraper!

[@gliderider7077]

You produce some of the very best videos on YT! Great job 👏

[@SoCalEarthMovers]

Thank you Gliderider!!

[@JohnnyFruehauf]

The moans and creaks it makes as it works makes it sound like a living creature!

[@rmatt24]

😮😨

[@annafraley5388]

Excellent video of making the Key cut, and main cut. !!! ✅

[@vlfreak]

my old man swung one of these for years here in aus., used to go with him to work on school hols sometimes as a kid.. huge eye opener then, still is now.. pity the machine sits dormant these days, fresh off a multi million $ overhaul, then parked up 5 or 6 yr ago now :/ built back in ~1985 or so

[@OldFella547]

Hi Joel I think there is either 3 or 4 of these 8200 in Australia I also did a lot of maintenance on one of these ours was White with a Red Stripe & was parked up about the time you mention. If you are who I think you are I worked with your dad.

[@bogged2theeyeballs695]

@@OldFella547 My late Father used to make parts to repair these draglines in Australia. I remember as a young boy sometimes going in on a weekend to look in awe at the huge gears and other pieces. This was at Vickers Ruwolt in Richmond, Victoria.

[@ProudPapaw88]

Worked on at a coal mine that had one of those. Thanks for sharing.

[@callmewheels4806]

Another great video. Never seen a dragline video on the channel and have to say this is the BEST perspective of a dragline in operation I’ve ever seen. The sound of him slinging the material is also so well done. Lived in SoCal my Entire life and this aint’ Nowhere close! Where is this?

[@firedude5135]

Texas, from the flag on the dragline

[@donalfinn4205]

Nice vid! I like close ups of the bucket in action though!👍☘️

[@craigalchin272]

Beautiful machine and awesome video!

[@parkfarm233]

Great video. The 8200 is a good machine. Beautiful cream digging there, hardly a rock in sight. Just what a dragline operator dreams of.

[@tjvega5675]

That dragline leaves so much rock behind lol this machine has to stop for the dozer to rip the rock. The other dragline on this location doesn’t need that much help. When cleaning the cut

[@parkfarm233]

@@tjvega5675 sounds a bit like a "my dragline is better than your dragline"story to me😁

[@bethanyhaskiell9116]

​@@tjvega5675what is the other dragline at this mine

[@lozarok]

Nice strip ratio and strike length - Marions forever !!!

[@honestspirit56]

Outstanding video of a legendary machine.

[@burtbrooks7731]

Man what a video👍👍👍👍 listen to that ol girl talkin!! Love listening to it work

[@watchthe1369]

Nice wide view to see what they are actually doing. On the Tan side of the screen you can see where they are removing the topsoil and subsoil, a 10-20 foot lift? I assume to place over the top of the dug out pit as part of regular operations. Then the drag line goes the rest of the way down to the coal in one massive trench. It dumps the spoil in the neighboring trench on the Grey side, which I expect is continuously leveled to receive the stripped topsoil? I wonder how much longer the seam is going to last and how big the depression is going to be.

[@ypebanbung-michael8865]

that is a very calming video

[@justind3190]

Really cool video. Love the sound,

[@cullenosbourn3304]

I love the sound it makes.

[@robfraley4210]

Very familiar with That Scene… I ran a Bucyrus Erie dragline in a coal strip mine in the Last century, actually it was in the Last Millennium !!!

[@dennisryan7487]

Great Video! Keep them Coming...

[@TL64329]

Great dragline video. Not many of these monsters left. So sad.

[@paulthesoundguy1]

Thousands left…used in strip mining all over the world. Because of EPA regulations strip mining techniques and regulations have been improved There is a RESURGENCE of the use of these machines

[@tbonemc2118]

The video does the machine no justice at all. I had some downtime due to blasting and was invited on one of these (although I've got no idea of a model number) for about half and hour while it was working. Everything about them boggles the mind and yet that little glassed in bit on the front right is the operators cab which is smaller than a typical bathroom. Draglines have been getting bigger over the years mainly because they want to increase the depth they can dig to because the miners of old had already taken all the shallow easy to get to seams. It used to bottom out at about 100m but I guess they've increased that. The one I got onto had a crew of 5 to operate it. One operated a bulldozer preparing the ground for the draglines route. Another in a bulldozer was in charge of the power cable feed to the machine. There was an operator and relief operator so the thing never stopped and I can't remember what the last guy did. Back in the day one of these machines took about 2 years to assemble on site but still they were an incredibly efficient tool for removing over burden. That's a new machine at least to me they are using to load the trucks. Used to be the coal seams were ripped with dozers and then massive loaders loaded the trucks. Thanks for the video.

[@2xKTfc]

Is 100+ meters close to what a dragline can do economically? Here they have to dig down over 400 meters (1300+ feet) for lignite, but no draglines - they use bucket wheel excavators, and do it in multiple cuts to get down to depth, rather than in one giant bite. The bucketwheel excavators have a crew of three, and some technicians in the mine who work on the whole fleet, so don't really count as crew for a particular one.

[@ke6gwf]

The 5th guy is probably the Oiler, keeping the machine happy!

[@blauer2551]

I go to a pit for work and from the distance all you can see is the tips booms moving like dinosaurs. When you get to the edge and see how deep the pit is and realize how massive the drag links are it puts things into perspective. I wonder if they will ever leave the hole they’ve created.

[@johnsheridan6452]

We hit lignite in our subex jobs and the boss would lose his shit. We’d have to chase the seam and dig it all out and replace it with good materiel as it doesn’t mix well with water or compact and would cause us to fail the soil compaction test.

[@keitharnett2647]

Did repair work on 7500 rebuilt tub , bucket etc great machine

[@1Eyko]

Is the dragline still working? How old is it? Do you know when this video was filmed. Greetings from Switzerland🇨🇭to🇺🇸

[@TOPTECH-r3r]

Excellent video

[@chrismetz1388]

Very cool in the beginning..can’t imagine it 12’s a day…everyday

[@djverb1200]

Are the ones opperating at the coal mines in Bienfait Saskatchewan, the same or similar?

[@pmtips4482]

Great audio! Not easy with drone footage. Thanks!

[@jesstrueblood2317]

I don't see a power cable running to the dragline, am I just not seeing it or is it have its own power source

[@alanzyoutube]

It looks and sounds like mining on the Moon or Mars!

[@ronaldmolinasandoval1849]

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[@warrenjones744]

I would love to swing one of those for a few hours. It's been many years since I ran a friction crane set up as a dragline. The largest bucket I think was a 3/4 yard or maybe 5/8 the crane was a Bucyrus 22B with about 40 or maybe 50 feet of boom I cannot remember now. I wonder how many cycles it would take with that 22B to fill the bucket we see here to capacity. Thanks

[@lordofhowell7158]

New subscriber. Brilliant video 💪🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@amphib0410]

I'd like to see more of the machines that are at about 6:00 - some kind of a loader and a double trailer hauler.

[@davebrock6618]

Wirtgen surface miner looks like.

[@davidanalyst671]

@@davebrock6618 they use surface miners like that? I thought they just anfo'ed up the coal and scooped it into a truck or train

[@davebrock6618]

@@davidanalyst671 some mines use the surface miners because it produces a consistent size material without crushing and other processing downstream.

[@2xKTfc]

Amazing machine. And shallow coal! Here they have to dig down over 1300 feet for lignite... open pit. That is a lot of grey dirt to move. And no draglines here either, very nice to see some quality footage of one, it's always interesting how differently the same things have to be done in different places. Thank you for the upload! :) Any chance for a long-ish in-cab video with the operator?

[@ChainsawFPV]

Nice job with the audio.

[@scruffy6151]

Walking drag line in action sweet.

[@COOLWHALE1012]

I can't tell if that is the same size of the bucket Wheel

[@kyleperry3734]

I run a late 70's Manitowoc 4600. 7yd bucket and 140ft boom. That's a baby compared to this!

[@arym1108]

making D10s / D11s look like toys!!!

[@kenwelch6984]

Hey guys thus maybe a silly question...but is that drag line electric!!!! Or diesel? Because I don't see an electrical cord I don't see any exhaust...

[@dhewitt2514]

It is electric- the cable is difficult to see but runs out to the left of the machine when looking from the rear

[@kenwelch6984]

@@dhewitt2514 ok thank you sir...

[@RomeKG471]

Sad the BE 4250W [Big Muskie] wasn't saved and put back to work, would have done twice the work of this machine.

[@Rimrock300]

If there was an econmical advantage to it in the big picture, possible it would still be working.

[@NakedDave100]

Is this Model 8200 a Super???

[@moegreen77]

The big reveal at 2:34 reminds me of the scene in The Shining when Wendy discovers what Jack has been writing all this time.

[@Ivansgarage]

Would love to see a walk through on that Bigass Dragline...

[@MrDriftspirit]

Very intetesting acoustics!!! Eary and weird... a bit like a ghost castle in a foggy moor...

[@muzza566]

Is there only one seam of coal where I worked at Curragh coal mine in Qld Australia there was 5 seams of coal

[@cherylsmith4826]

Do they shive cables much?

[@rickkearn7100]

Great post, great production quality. QUESTION: Is the sound "designed" or actual? And where were the mics? On the drone? Thanks.

[@brianw8963]

That sound is the electric motors whining.

[@thunderstormzlightning]

Awesome 👍

[@djverb1200]

or are they bigger? They say you can drive one of the coal haulers in the bucket.

[@annafraley5388]

That was in Texas I presume.. 🤷🏻‍♂️😎

[@meisters8785]

Model Dragline , Marion or CAT ?

[@richardmyers137]

It's singing!!!😮 You can here it!!!! WOW what a monster

[@DieselFuelOnly]

You don't realize how massive this thing is till you see the motor grader in the bottom left of the screen at 2:35 and it looks like an ant crawling along.

[@starship3095]

Excellent!

[@jameskelley8839]

Where is this?

[@pmtips4482]

It would be awesome to operate this machine!

[@robwar2288]

How big is the Dozer running behind the drag?

[@davidanalyst671]

the biggest

[@generationll]

Must be somewhere west of the Mississippi

[@erbewayne6868]

A few big ones still here in s w pa

[@dumptruckaction8001]

awesome idea, use Gig and long reach Crane truck instead of Excavators and dump trucks..

[@jdsharp1366]

I'm from S IL and we have a lot of strip pits, love to fish New Athens(River King Mine) the last open pit mine in IL to not be reclaimed, Marissa(Red Barrel) years ago, you'll get busted now, it was open to public until Waste Management bought up a big chunk, Pyramid State park the original park is really old mines, another 19,000 acres of pits was acquired back about 12 years ago.

[@Glitch-nr9ct]

Ok, so what exactly are we doing here again? Something about striping burdens or something? What are we trying to get to underneath?

[@andrewrees8749]

Remove overburden to get at the coal seem below it

[@АлександрМайер-ф5у]

Ковш размером с бульдозер!❤

[@stevealber9779]

I wonder how much fuel it burns an hour?

[@Bowiiihowdy]

None. It's electric

[@stevealber9779]

@@Bowiiihowdy no shit

[@stevealber9779]

@@Bowiiihowdy it must use a bunch of juice then that thing is huge

[@arborist460]

@@stevealber9779 25,000volts ran the one I worked around in hazard Ky…one on another job addigton 17 west was parked up time I got there…

[@stevealber9779]

@@arborist460 that's bad ass

[@cullenosbourn3304]

I thought they didn’t mine coal in California ? This is very interesting though, I am enjoying watching this.

[@pdxflyguy]

What is the Capacity of the drag line bucket?

[@davidanalyst671]

half the planet

[@bethanyhaskiell9116]

Anywhere from 70 to 90 cubic yards

[@DieselandIron]

I see the Texas flag up there, is this up in East Texas?

[@CAR-AUDIO-PRO]

Where is this dragline located?

[@leeross38]

How many yards in a 10 shift should that machine move

[@bethanyhaskiell9116]

Probably around 50,000 cubic yards in a 10 hour shift

[@cnote4461]

I'm curious... How did that Dragline get there in the first place... Did it walk or was it assembled there?

[@keithgutshall9559]

More likely assembly on site do to the size of the machine.

[@zaxisontherun]

Sometimes they use special trailers,just like in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5_UlGubiLuNf7c

[@randyneil6161]

Where can I get a crane operators job ?

[@79noel]

Looks like Central Texas

[@IronWarrior95]

Jesus Christ, this thing sounds like a bunch off dinosaurs in rage!

[@Dinoxt12]

Nice Rigg... Boring job, it'll make you crazy after awhile. You'll get up in the morning or what ever shift you have and go, oh no another day drag after drag. Paycheck $$$ is real good.

[@jeffreyc6508]

How do you eat an elephant 🐘?

[@johnmccartan939]

With a knife & fork of course .

[@terrellscaife2411]

So what kind of operation is this

[@zaxisontherun]

Digging overburden

[@terrellscaife2411]

Okey-dokey

[@dozerboy67]

Y'all should put a go pro on the bucket, give us a whole different POV

[@AndrejGavriluk]

Для чего это нужно ?

[@KD-ss7rf]

One cannot grasp the enormity of these machines until they are actually on them or next to them

[@golfy808]

Alot of time and effort for one seam

[@cjyoung7372]

Scoop the dirt throw the dirt

[@crazygn0me67]

how many yards of material does one scoop move?

[@arborist460]

I’m guessing 75 to 100yrds….I worked around a 84yrd 8250…look up coal mining in Appalachian and you’ll see the job and drag….at the end there’s 12 or 13 d11s all workin the same spot…

[@welshlyn9097]

Is it coal?…

[@watchthe1369]

The only thing that can move more material is a bucketwheel and those require ALL the infrastructure and cost multiples more.

[@floodedcar123]

What kind of engine dose it have

[@brianw8963]

It does not have an engine, these big machines are all have several electric motors fed by a single massive power line .

[@apinkcranedude017liebherrb5]

Stripping overburden with a Marion 8200 Dragline Soaked Clamshell

[@Rimrock300]

At first look quite strange that a larger bucket is not used, looks 'microscopic' in relation to the whole machine. On the other hand it likely is totally 'maxed' concerning size

[@noahater5785]

This machine is already a pretty big monstrosity, but Caterpillar manufactures a few bigger models, the largest of which is an 8750 dragline that can scoop up to 152 cubic yards

[@noahater5785]

I can imagine if you placed a regular excavator next to this monster, the regular excavator would probably get dwarfed!

[@2xKTfc]

Caterpillar includes the Marion brand. Marion Power Shovel sold to Dresser, who spun it off again before it was subsequently bought by Bucyrus-Erie in 1997 (they also bought Terex, in 2010). Bucyrus, in turn, was acquired by Cat in 2011. The Cat 8750 is their largest dragline, matching the Bucyrus 8750.

[@LeoAlmeidaBRASIL]

video excelent

[@jeffjames1743]

It doesn't look like California there, I didn't think they allowed machines like that in California anymore. My guess is a southern state. Pretty green for California.

[@Will-tm5bj]

California is a really big state. Folks have a lot of opinions while knowing nothing

[@The-Digger]

y the stripping what are they after

[@UrsulavonB]

Lignite

[@robertpalmer3166]

They aren't looking for the video description. But you should.