• Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page. We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy. Thank you!

Search results

  1. D

    Lady Marion on the move

    Mitch504 Yep, you got it. I have a long relationship with that place and the Maid Marion that they just moved there. I was the Marion erector on the Marion 8050 when it was Texasgulf at Aurora and I was the original erector on the Maid Marion (8200) when it was originally erected at New...
  2. D

    Tougher than a Pacific?

    Taylortractornu I've been part of the Kemper County Project since January 2012. My contract finished on 30th August 2013 and I have made 2 extra visits there since. My interests were mostly the new Liberty Mine project and the coal handling facility at the power plant. I actually represented the...
  3. D

    Tougher than a Pacific?

    Great pictures of a Pacific. The first time I saw a Pacific Tractor was in 1980 in South Africa. I was erecting a Marion Dragline in the Transvaal and parts were coming in through the port at Durbin. South African Railways were using these tractors to pull a Goldhoffer with the larger parts to...
  4. D

    Lady Marion on the move

    Another update on the old Maid Marion. She is nearly done and working in North Carolina. I understand that they installed some sort of super Drag case on her and that this case was designed and manufactured by P&H. Anyone have any information on this upgrade?
  5. D

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    Hi Nige You can see I seldom check the postings here. I am still in Gatorland, just a different town from before. Hope you are still getting on well. I just completed a contract in Mississippi, part of the contract was the oversight of the reassembly of the old Page/P&H 757 from England - The...
  6. D

    V-con bulldozer from 70's ????

    I remember when the Peerless company came onboard. I met some of their people once, down at plant 2 on a tour, right after they became part of us - just before we all became part of Dresser as I recall. I heard the story about pushing a D-10 backwards but also cannot verify it. Seems I remember...
  7. D

    link belt LS-98

    Buckethead, you're right It had 2 tubes in the cab, one to the front and one to the rear of the upper frame. There was a chain inside the tube and you let one or the other chain down. That dropped a pin with a small roller on it. There was a Y shapped lever sticking out from the lower frame...
  8. D

    link belt LS-98

    Hi gostr8r Haven't talked in a while. How did the old Link-Belts travel, was it on the swingers or did it use another set of frictions to travel? I'm ashamed to ask this because I have run 98s in (many) years gone by. I remember the 22-B where you had to shift a lever on the left to travel off...
  9. D

    500ton trucks...

    Maurice Did you ever read the story of RG LeTourneau's life? Quite a man. I think I got the book from the Historical Construction Equipment Association (been a member there for years). I moved a lot of dirt with an old "C" Pull in my mis-spent youth. Also used to be part of the KomDresco...
  10. D

    American Dragline Identification Help!

    NCK Rapier I was not aware that Rapier ever had a deal with Link-Belt. I remember operating an old NCK 405 at a British Steel Project in Scunthorp back in the late '70s and it was a carbon copy of the 405 Koerings that I have operated in the US. As a matter of fact I always thought the "K"...
  11. D

    Update for those interested in the old ACE OF SPADES, P&H 757 from Stobbswood

    AC/DC Change I saw another comment that nailed it - a hoosier. The boys from Evansville.
  12. D

    Update for those interested in the old ACE OF SPADES, P&H 757 from Stobbswood

    For anyone interested in the fate of the Ace Of Spades; As of 01 March 13 she is about 70% or so erected. The Boom and Mast are together except for some ladders and minor things. Truss is together but still being welded out. Ballast is in and all gearcases are on deck except propels and nothing...
  13. D

    Marion 204-M shovel

    204M Superfront Good pictures of the old beast. Is this the one that was orifinally in the US? I wonder if any of the ones we put into Siberia are still in one piece?
  14. D

    American Dragline Identification Help!

    Vinegar and Baby Powder I started on one of these 22Bs a lotta years ago. I remember using Fuller's Earth and/ or Carbon Tet before we found out these were hazardous to ones health. Sometimes I just threw a handful of dry cement into the swingers to clean out the grease. Mine had 318 Ct with...
  15. D

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    Ace of Spades Fans Just a qick update to let all the old Ace of Spades fans know what is happening to her. The Tub had an 18 inch skirt added to make it larger. The upper frame is assembled on supports on the Tub, except the 2 propel sections and the 2 outside rear sections - these will go on...
  16. D

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    Mighty Samson Glad to know someone who had so much experience on the old Orange Beast. I was with Marion when those 2 were erected alongside the two 2570s. I visited the job a few times but was not the erector. I was working on an 8050 down at Waubaman (sorry if I spelled that wrong) for Alberta...
  17. D

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    I be that old guy Nige, I am indeed that old guy. Are you the same NS that left Taylor Woodrow and went to Ransomes? (I'm sorry I missed your post so long ago, must have been out traveling somewhere that computers have not been invented yet)
  18. D

    Crane safety - anyone seen this video?

    Iyi Gunlar Abdullah Bey; Welcome to the formum. I didn't find an attached video?? I always like to see any videos related to safety and especially Crane safety. I teach safety as a business in addition to my consulting business. (I'm and MSHA, OSHA Construction and OSHA Maritime certified...
  19. D

    Doosan machines any one have one?

    G'day Hitachijames. I'm on a big project in the southern US. We have something like 65 cranes running around here from 15 tonners to 1200 tonner. More backhoes than I can count. One contractor had a smaller Doosan and recently replaced it with a 300. I spoke with the operator who loved it. We...
  20. D

    Manitowoc 31000

    Morning gostr8r You were pretty much right on about the Blue Monster. They had to spend 2 weeks @ 24 hour days driving piling to get a roadway stable enough for it to walk on. Really a scary machine and I watch it from way back. Couls have definately used the 31000 in my personal opinion. I...
Top