I think he's making it look a lot easier than it is to be that smooth.

That dragline bucket moves with real grace and that is because the operator is superb at his job!

The amount of force required to move something that heavy on that long of a lever at that speed is just insane.

Better than sitting on a steel tractor seat, yanking on levers with a Detroit Diesel screaming 2 feet behind you.

I made all the parts for that bucket when I worked at Esco. Lips arches sides chains everything was a lot of fun enjoyed watching this video 👍

It’s really cool to see all these comments from people with so much life experience in excavation and construction.

A rock quarry my grandpa worked at had a small shovel I was so fascinated with it when I was younger they taught a 7yrold kid how to run a d8 and I became a heavy equipment operator at the family landfill and many job opportunities in my 50+ yrs working. I'm still fascinated by the shovels, our local quarry had one and at night I would go out and watch it. The quarry closed up and the shovels gone.👍🇺🇸👌

Great video and great hearing the explanation from the operator. Also, perspective to see actually how much dirt is moved in one pass. 221 tons per pass. Massive!

One of my first memories is my father taking me to a site where an old timer was digging a canal with a dragline. He would cut a vertical trench, then he would lay the bucket at an angle and cut a 1:1 slope so the canal had sloped sides. As a union dozer and excavator operator having moved much dirt myself, looking back at that old man, I’m stunned at what an amazing talented operator he was. 🇺🇸🙏💪👊

Wow, swinging over 200tons (just in dirt) all the way out there at speeds I can't guess we'll enough, but fast. What a beast of a machine!

Falkirk Mine near Underwood ND. My friends grandma actually won the naming contest for this dragline. Good ole chief ironsides!

I'm an old man and have wanted to see this view for a long time, as clear as being there, thanks for posting...each scoop the equivalent of four 30 yard roll offs, pretty amazing...over 1000 tons every 5 pulls...

I really like this operator. Smooth and precise.

We worked on Marion 8750 and 8200 draglines in Alberta coal mines for noise control. Very cool electric toys! Interesting sensations inside the equipment bay, which is like the size of a gymnasium, while sweeping or walking. No visual cues of exterior movement. Thanks for sharing.

They need something like this in the middle of Seattle just slowly leveling that shit hole out

I used to run D11 dozer, like the one in the background, they used to play around and ive had that bucket fly overhead, but was cool to sit inside and observe. These are huge machines.

What a smooth and quiet operating machine. Very impressive. Great view, also. Thank you.

I enjoyed watching this video and I loved hearing their conversation with the Dragline Operator

In worlds largest lignite mine in Germany, they do not use draglines for earthmoving but instead they a use crawler crane with a massive boom and a huge rotating wheel with buckets on it. While operating, the buckets empty their content on a kilometers long belt conveyor that transports the dirt or coal to the desired locations. The dirt is dumped and temporary stored somewhere, the coal is transported per belt to power stations nearby for combustion.

That's a good operator, he doesn't beat his bucket and chains when he dumps .I a electric drag line before i retired. 😊

Pushed in a D11 to big Kate for a while and it’s insane how much material a drag line can move lol. Did the math once and it was right at 100 tractors to move the same tonnage the same distance in the same time… impressive

I have probably watched this a dozen times. Granted the dirt is loose and easy to load, but still, it is some slick operation going on.

Digging holes and filling them in again. What a job.

Great video-I am a big dragline fan and always wanted to get on one while it was operating but never did. This should be some fantastic memories for you.👍

If you think the operator is good watching the video at normal speed, try watching at 2x and he is amazing. Great video. Thank you.

The camera angle and the pov looks unreal. I never knew this was that intense.

So smooth and buttery.

Thanks for the Cockpit view. I saw one operate at Syncrude decades ago. All Electric 'Walker'.

Really neat video, thanks for sharing it.

There's a whole damn office in that thing 😮. I can here an accountant, receptionist, manager, sales...

Both my father and grandfather operated drag lines throughout the United States and on Johnson Island where the operated one of the biggest of that time. My dad worked day shift and my grandpa grave

When I was in 4th grade, my dad owned one of these in a sand pit. We went on a field trip there and inside during operation! Way before MSHA was a thing!

Guess what? They're all powered by electricity, with a giant extension power cable. It's probably why they ran so quiet and smooth for such large machines. Love draglines!

Lignite..that mine produces 7 million tons a year. Keeps Minnesota warm.

I'm from S Illinois and there's a lot of strip pits here, fished a lot of them from Freeburg, New Athens, Marissa, Sparta, Pinckneyville and many more. Dad worked for ICRR and hauled coal out of a lot of them, he also would take me down to the mines sometimes on weekends, I got to see the Captain at the mine of the same name down in Pinckneyville IL when I was little and other smaller shovels. Dad took me to the Freeburg mine and we went to the maintenance shed and the guys were playing craps on these big thick pieces of plywood down on the floor because of the nasty grease and dirt from the massive trucks and such, I noticed one guy and he was wearing a dark blue suit but had his jacket off but still had his vest on and was rolling the dice a lot, of course I didn't understand craps back when I was 6-7 years old, I could play poker though, no problem, anyway this guy seemed to be losing from what I could tell, anyway after Dad and I left I asked who was that guy? Dad said his name is IRL Englehart, I didn't know it was spelled IRL until I applied for a machinist job years later and he was on the cover on a mining magazine that had articles about machining and mining, Dad said it didn't matter to him if he won or lost because if he won he'd just give to the guys in the shed to split.

real smooth ..........great vidio

All about rhythm & timing. Just music in motion

thats so freaking cool!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing

Nice...and I would have liked to have had some video of the operator actually controling it, and some external video of the machine. Thx

That young man is a very efficient operator. Most of the drag line guys and gals will spell cord a bit of dirt back into the cut this young man very very little lost great job.

They had great views of the mountain range off the cliff behind them.

appreciate this video. Very cool thing most people wouldn't ever see themselves

Wow that's amazing my friend

really impressive to watch how he moves this gigant around. like a ballering. Awsome. Wish i could one in real life.

I only ran small 1 and 1 1/2 yard machines 50 years ago digging ditch. I don’t think that was as boring as you are constantly challenged sloping and shaping ditch and often casting bucket to get extra reach. Now I do it for fun at power shows

I wish the camera panned around the cab once but excellent video love the POV

How many people were in the cab?? Sounds like it was a proper tea party.. 😂

As a retired heavy equipment operator this is a great video. But to me now, this would be so boring. I loaded up so many on and off road trucks over the years digging out retention ponds on big road jobs that I couldn't do it again out of boredom.

Looks like just over one minute per scoop, or 300-400 scoops in a workday. I wonder if that gets old after a while.

lol an excavator with a conference room in the cab :0 so quiet and smooth i want to try.

221 ton scoops wow what a bad ass job💯

Is this one of the 3 draglines originally from N Missouri? My father worked 22yrs in that mine. Spent many nights sitting on an adjacent highwall watching them run. Full swing was always fun to watch no stopping just continous motion when they were clicking on all gears.

Each bucket is more than 2 railcars 😳

Sounds like the whole office works in that machine

Fabricating those buckets, is no easy task.

I wish they would have focused on the background conversation. They were talking about the machine itself and giving a better explanation of the machine. How it's powered and so on. This is one huge machine.

Wow that guy is good. I would. Love to do this wow that would be cool

my dad ran dragline on eastern ohio. right down the road from the big musky.

That guy is good. How long is your shift?

Literally moving the earth.

Damn good operator smooth as it gets spreader bar never touch bucket once!! Hoist chains looked weld he had em so vertical good shit right there

I cannot appreciate how big this thing is 😂.

Does this dragline have a toaster in the breakroom?

Impressive.

Again, don't know why but that is cool!!

What machine is this? What's your type?

Over 200 tons pr scoop that's just insane..

We have about ten of those mining coal just outside my small town. We ride dirtbikes on their 30+yr old spill pile sites. Some guys are even part of a small group of hill climbers that use custom jeeps and rock crawlers.

I believe I was on that machine in the winter of 22 for repairs with dcs

There are two of these massive machines in central Alberta, both of which are slated for explosive charge demolition next year. Sad.

Love operating heavy equipment, but I wonder if this would get old after a day. With a FEL, you're moving back and forth a great deal, which makes it fun. Being somewhat stationary, I'm not sure it would be the same.

Does it feel like anything in the cab??

Do you get any large boulders in the dragline bucket? This machine would move any that were 221 tons or under without too much effort. Do they ever encounter layers of solid rock that are hidden underneath the dirt?

smooooth operator. damn, i would love a lil seat on the yoke there above the bucket... otherwise... i feel it would lose its charm after a brief half day... amazing but yeah. only for a while. then its just back and forth, back and forth...

Next, I am going to watch some paint dry.

My grandfather operated big Kate for old Ben coal in southern Indiana back in the 80-90s it’s really awesome watching them work I got to go all over one after the mine closed down they just left it

Holy Jumping Up And Down Martha!

221 tons per pass?? hollyyyy makes are 45 ton haul trucks look small.

221 ton a scoop - Jesus!!

What the model Dragline machine 😮

What is the purpose of moving that dirt like that what r u digging for thx lov the show

How much per hour does operating that thing pay? 100/hour or more?

Side dump hauling material now to rainbow energy just south of here pretty cool to see this video.

🙌🙌🙌

What size is the bucket? How many cubic yards.

Mom said if I didn't straighten up in school I wouldn't be nothing but a ditch digger. Heh.

one of the best jobs in the world

I really liked the part where they picked up dirt and put it down in a different spot.

I want one.

Its both big and small at the same time!

Wonder what the hourly wage is to operate that

Remember the song " He s A Smooth Operator "

221 tons = 442,000lbs?!?!😳

How much can that grab ?

5 1/2 truck loads at 80k of dirt in one scoop not bad

Таким экскаватором, можно легко выкопать море!!!

pretty soon some one will wright.. My grandpa was the last Drag liner to ever work on the big shovel now an AI chip sits in his place.

Still didn’t understand what they were doing: moving dirt to create a “bench”?

What is the drag achieving?

Mega machinery