Opencast Coal Pictures

[IBH]

Shand's Demag H185, was the first delivered and worked at East Pit OCCS, in South Wales.

[clockworklozenge1]

These pics have being doing the rounds on the net- Ican trace them back to Alan Mubnross and SRB ,but they are prob scans from a book or brochure- lima 2400faceshovel with sound suppressed terex 45.....

[clockworklozenge1]

O&K ..NSM....

[Ian Fletcher1970]

Hi Chris,
The Shand Koehring is a 1266 if you zoom in. They did Icehouse OCCS in Ripley Derbyshire around 1981/82 and I'm sure it was a 1066 Backhoe they had there, also a Cat 245 Backhoe (picture on this thread) and a Cat 992 and Hymac Coaling excavators (picture on this thread) I also remember the Wabco Haulpak 170's coming past the house on a Sunday afternoon on low loaders en-route to Godkin OCCS.

Ian

[argie]

Great photos everyone!
Here are a couple of oldies from my collection......




Paul

[argie]

And a few more....




Paul

[Tracshovel]

Great pictures guys !!

Paul where was th R942 FK coal shovel ??? was it Keirsbeath ?

[Pblack]

:claphands: Nice collection of photos there Paul

Like the shot down the boom Ian.

Dose anybody know was Big John bigger than Oddball ?

Dave

Hi Dave
Oddball - 1150B bucket size 20-25 cu yds on 180-215ft boom
Big John - 1260W bucket size 32 cu yds on a 260ft boom
This is taken from the book 'Bucyrus Heavy Equipment' by Keith Haddock
All The Best - Ian

Great shots of Big John there Ian! Any more? I am in the process of making a 1:50 scale model of that exact machine, as I grew up in Ibstock & used to watch both Big John & Little John working along side each other I have a rather large soft spot for that dragline. I do have some pics of my own that I must get scanned in, relating to the lowering of the boom one sunny August day, & a few more when the machine was being cut up a few years later.

As regards to the specs of the 1260W draglines, as follows:

Ruston Bucyrus of lincoln made a total of six 1260's in the late 70's early 80's period. Four of these machines were put to work in the UK, while the other two were shipped to overseas customers. Of the two in Leicestershire that went to work in the coalfields farm site (later to be known as coalfield north after extensions), the Bucyrus Erie badged Little John was the first to be erected & put to work, this is the machine that is mentioned in Keith Haddock's book, this carried the 260ft boom, the Ruston Bucyrus badged Big John was the second machine to be put to work on this site, this was sporting a longer 285ft boom set at a 38deg angle. The idea was that these two worked along side each other, one re-handling the spoil from the first dragline!? (well it was taxpayers money at the time)...Little John was parked up towards the Ravenstone end of the site in the mid to late 80's, becoming no more than a doner machine for the other machines in the UK until being cut up.

The machine in Northumberland (Chevington Collier) was also badged as a B-E machine & sported a 260ft boom, while again, the Scottish 1260W was badged as a Ruston Bucyrus machine sporting the same 285ft length boom as Big John in Leicestershire.

[L.Kezz]

Here are a few pictures of Opencast Coaling, from UK Coal's Lodge House site. Believe me when I say there are plenty more where these come from because there is, I must have over 3000 pictures of the place! So feel free to ask to see some more.


















Enjoy!

Regards

L.Kezz.

[bigkit]

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