There was, at least one other shovel, The Chief, I think it was, that was this size. It was just equipped with a higher capacity bucket, but with a shorter boom, if I remember correctly. The Silver Spade, to me, is the poster machine, for shovels, as far as I am concerned, because there appear to be more videos presented of it. Anyway, I consider The Spade, and The Big Muskie dragline, to have been two of the mechanical engineering, and manufacturing, Wonders of the World. Not like losing a family member, but it is still a little heart breaking that they were scrapped, even though I never saw either in real life.

You can not realize the SIZE until you see people right next to the machine⚠️🔝

Damn it broke the sound barrier

Worked in mining years ago shovel operator would have loved to seen spade and looked around inside

I"m Russian man and I love Silver Spade))

Perfect video!

Full speed ahead get there next year lol

Such a sin. They should’ve made it a museum.

...its a beast....

Frozen roller after 7:25

Either the track pins were badly worn, or the tracks needed tightening. the pins were catching at the very end of the drive sprocket teeth. The great machine had definitely seen better days here. Sad.

it reminds me of a long neck dinosaur or a giraffe

7:51 looks like one of the rollers jammed and the axle cut through,poor spade was not in really good shape

Biiggg

What happened to the side of the spade it’s like burnt

It's to bad they scraped her :( BUT CAT said they mite macke more in 2017 but bigger and more horse power and a 145 cb yard buckit !!!!!!

Full speed doing what ?