Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
Featuring the Komatsu PC 3000 Mining Shovel. Komatsu HD 785 100t Rigid hauler. Archive film of the Demag H241 & H485 Mining Shovels.
You will be given a guided tour of the Selar open cast coalsite in South Wales, where they are using the most modern fleet of heavy mining shovels and rigid dump trucks Celtic Energy win coal in the most environmentally sensitive way.
Mike Dunleavy the mine manager explains in detail how the mine is operated. Showing the geology as well as the technology that goes in to this most impressive production. Mining Shovels that weigh 240 tons with bucket capacities of 14 cum filling rigid dump trucks with 100 tons of overburden in four passes in around one minute. It is a massive earthmoving job using giant machines.
Derek Lister of Komatsu Mining Germany updates the story of how these latest mining monsters have been developed since Komatsu bought Demag. (A company that was renowned as a leader in the field of heavy mining shovels). This is big boys toys on a scale that very few people ever get the chance to see The superb filming by Ian Delisa brings the equipment jumping out of the screen at you, but above all the you will marvel at the skill of the men who operate these monsters, the ease with which they dig and slew with perfect precision load after load on to giant trucks that move around the site at speeds that are hard to comprehend. You will also experience the thrill of the longest haul road in Europe as you sit with the driver at speed, your all up weight over 150 tons.
The Demag H241 is featured in an archive film from 1982 operating on a wide range of jobs around the world at a time when it was one of the largest hydraulic excavators in the world. But that is capped by the Demag H485 a giant 500 ton mining shovel, you will see it transported from Germany to Scotland to work on an OCCS near Edinburgh.
Code No. 009571, $82.50