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Began operations at Consol - November, 1965 |
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Speed - 1/4 mile per hour |
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Weight - 14, 000, 000 pounds (7,000 tons). More than 100 big jet airliners. |
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Height - 200 feet - taller than a 12-story building. About the height
of the Astrodome in Houston, Texas |
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Bucket - 105 cubic yards |
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Boom length - 200 feet |
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Height to boom point - 220 feet |
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Height of crawlers - 8 feet |
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Length of crawlers - 34 feet |
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Maximum dumping height - 139 feet |
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Maximum dumping radius - 195 feet |
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Rating on A.C. motors - 13,500 horsepower (at peak). |
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Entire operation of the shovel is controlled by two hand levers and a
pair of foot pedals. |
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Digs 315,000 pounds of earth in a single bite, swings 180 degrees and
deposits the load 390 feet away from the digging point at a height up
to 140 feet |
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Machine's four 2 5/8" diameter hoist ropes total 3,000 feet in length |
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Fourteen main digging cycle motors are capable of developing a
combined peak of 13, 500 hp at peak load. |
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Automatically leveled through four 54-inch diameter hydraulic jacks. |
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Swings a 105-cubic yard dipper from a 200-foot boom and a 122"
dipper handle |
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The "GEM" (Consol's other large shovel no longer in
existence) has similar statistics concerning size and weight, etc.
The primary difference is the bucket and boom. The GEM is a 130
cubic-yard bucket and 170-foot boom while the Spade has a 105 cubic-yard
bucket and 200 foot boom. |