P&H 2800 Electric Rope Shovel

[TylerDSAudi]

I've inquired a scratch built half-finished project from someone I'm becoming good friends with. He hasn't had the time to work on it in over 10 years or more, so I offered to buy it and hopefully get it finished with a lot of work ahead of me. This machine was scratched built and it's absolutely gorgeous! The craftsmanship is unreal! This shovel is built to scale with all the proper measurements, gearing, ect.. off the real 2800 he had the chance to work out and build the model off.




My plan with this machine is to build a control board similar to what I want to do with my 8750 Dragline project where I bring in 110v household power into the board and convert it to 12v's for all the electronics. On this board will have the joysticks to run the machine, switches ect.. Im on the hunt again for parts for both projects like joysticks that I can use to run 4 positions and speed controllers.

I do have this set of real P&H joysticks, but I'm not huge on electrical and don't know if I'm able to use them.


So far my plan is to keep it simple is run a simple speed controller with a dial to control the speed of the motors and keep it set on the one speed as once you add the value of having 0-100 power on the joysticks your electronics get very complex and pricey too!

Hopefully, this will be a pretty active thread and any ideas or input are welcome!

[Bo Wallen]

Looking forward to seeing progress in this shovel build. Not many front shovels out there.

[frizzen]

Wow, that facing shovel looks wicked!

Your friend has a great eye for detail and tons of skill. I can't wait to see where this goes.

[modelman]

Those joysticks you have will work but I think it will be complicated. 9W may be able to walk you thru this since he has a real set of controls working his model dragline.

[modelman]

Tyler-Could you please post some close-up pictures of you dipper and door. I think I have some more build pictures of my shovel on a flash drive if I can find it.

[Stuff]

wow that has a ton of potential !!!

[TylerDSAudi]

Hey Tom, here is the pictures you were asking for:

[TylerDSAudi]

Originally Posted by frizzen

Wow, that facing shovel looks wicked!

Your friend has a great eye for detail and tons of skill. I can't wait to see where this goes.

Thank you, very interested in Electric Rope shovels and Draglines after I started on Oiling and operating on them. Im very excited to get both models up and swinging!

Originally Posted by Stuff

wow that has a ton of potential !!!

Thanks, look forward to updating the thread alot

[skeeter]

I LOVE them old school dipper machines!

[modelman]

Tyler-that looks great! Your dipper door looks like it is heavy enough to latch itself. The machine must have been made by someone who knows these shovels very well.

[TylerDSAudi]

Originally Posted by modelman

Tyler-that looks great! Your dipper door looks like it is heavy enough to latch itself. The machine must have been made by someone who knows these shovels very well.

Yeah from what I see it does latch it’s self with gravity so far. He use to work on these shovels daily, so he took all the measurements, specs and timing and such and built it to as close to scale as he could. It’s crazy if you compare parts of the 2800 to this model how much to scale and built to be the same function and look it actually is.