I know, I love hearing the older equipment run. The sound of an older big diesel running is unbeatable.

Your welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

I always am looking for older mining equipment to show on film! My philosophy is, once the old iron is gone, you will never be able to watch/hear it work again...which is something a picture can never do. Thanks!

Thanks; I will!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy them as much as I enjoy making them!

Yes sure. All that jazz sounds good. Got proof of seat time?

Thanks; glad you enjoy them! Lot's more big stuff coming up in the future!

I think all coal mines are booming now. Thanks!

+Mark McCormick Thanks. This was a cool one to shoot! And yes that is a 20yd bucket.

Cessna 182a Thanks for the compliment; I am a mining engineer.

Don't let him fool ya, he changes toilet paper in the outhouse when he isn't filming!!!! Just giving ya a hard time Justin. Need to come out and see all our new stuff. Since the demag was retired

You bet it does. One key to surface mining is positioning excavated materials in places where you don't ever have to load them a second time. Normally, all the clay is dumped above the rock dump. So when it's time to reclaim, the D11's will push the clay over the rock, which will then be limed and seeded.

No, that's a custom livery. Unless specified otherwise by the customer, Demag excavators were painted in corporate colors which were orange, blue and white. Thanks

Daniel Sestina That really depends on what phase of mine life the job is in. A new mine starting a first cut will normally put the first clay layer of the surge piled for use on final reclamation. A mine in the middle of it's life (as seen here) will be continually using the clay as part of reclamation as the pit advances

PAmining I grew up in Eastern Ohio in coal country. Never worked the mines, I always worked in the construction field; however, I was always fascinated by both mineral extraction and the tools used to extract it. Nicely done, and thanks for the info.

+CAT POWER (ALLDAY) That would be a Cummins KTA50C that's powering the big girl!

Sweet thanks for the reply bud!

+HighlandWinterWolf Experience on equipment and filling out a job application.

+PAmining what is the operators rate? are you guys union or non union?

jockellis There's a lot that do. Penn State (my alma mater), West Virginia University, Virginia Tech, Missouri S&T, Colorado School of Mines, South Dakota School of Mines, Montana.

The entire state, and also in Ohio

***** Oh trust me you will. I film a lot in Ohio and have a great relationship with some of the big coal companies in that state.

***** Yes, I deal with and film a lot at Oxford. I usually visit their operations for a full week in August.

***** You bet I do! That's one of my stomping grounds lol. I actually almost went to work for Oxford but with the way the coal market is that fell through.

+Robert Jackson That would be to power the light generator for additional working lights on the machine

Thank you as always great video

That was a generator used for the enormous block heaters on the engine. These cold Ohio Winters are hard on these engines so we set that engine there to run it's block heaters over night and on weekends. Then in events when we couldn't get out haulers 785c trucks out to our generator we had extra plugs and could nose up against the back of the Demag and drop them to the trucks and keep all the engines close and sheilded from the weather and plugged in keeping warm.

+Lewie McNeely No Terex on that job, you mean the Euc!

10/4, the Eucrex!!

+PAmining is he terex as solid as he cat trucks. their new wheeled back hoes aren't as good as their old one from 13 down. i know their site dumpers are good but not sure about their other kit

What I can see is the newer stuff has it's pros and cons but more computerised means more complicated. Electric over hydraulic works fine till you get a short. Pilot valve setup was pretty well bullet proof. Straight power shift was iron clad. Sometimes the easier it gets the worse it'll become. Nothing wrong with a little exercise.

Lewie McNeely it seems like everything is going electric in farming all the small tractors now don't have a manual transmission. its all this dyna vt bollox where you have to turn dials to get it into gear and in the terex wheeled backhoe to change gears you twist the lever that puts it in forwards neutral and reverse. it seems the newer it is the more buttons and dials in the cab. one day mechanics will be made redundant and replaced my electricians

Haha, close to it. Once a better setup was developed by the dozers, he moved through it pretty quickly.

Ron Krzaczyk FUCKIN A! I live in South western Pennsylvania and there are 2 new mine's opening within 15 miles of my home!