1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by scalecranes

Thats interesting how it has the sheave trunion mounted. I guess you have to worry about side loading alot more in a drag line than you do in a crane. Your machining skills are excellent. I'd love to see this thing in person sometime.

Check out some a Walter Bennetts videos on you tube
http://www.youtube.com/user/bennettshovel
I talked him into putting his mining videos on youtube a couple years ago. Watch one of his more recent ones with the Marion 7820. That operator is already swinging just before he pulls the bucket out of the cut. The bucket is practically behind the boom tip most of the time. That machine has I think, a 300' boom on it with a 40cy bucket installed. This is why you want the point to swivel.