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  1. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

    The 7495HF has a 80 yard bucket. The P&H 5700 we had I was told by the engineer on site had a 90 yard bucket. Now I cannot back that up, I never measured it, I just believed what I was told?
  2. Ironbark

    Cat 992 loading rear end dump Cat 789.

    We had an operator fall asleep after a 12 and a 1/2 hour night shift go through a berm, roll and the truck landed on its cab and onto to load which virtually remained in the body. Luckily for him it was on the haul road, just meters from the ROM stockpile and the drop was only abot 15 feet
  3. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    I wont ask. Info like that is given volentarily or not. Depends on family. I know of a man who died in a truck over the wall. Left a wife and two small children. Very sad.
  4. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    What can one say? Many things lead up to tragic accidents like this. Its hardly ever just one thing. A combination of excessively Long shifts, (12+ hours), no or low berm, not familiar with haul roads in a particular cut, mechanical failure.
  5. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    Praise God forever more! He survived. Cheers, Ironbark.
  6. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    G'day Nige. Your correct. Like I said in post 3, he was traveling south along the edge when the earth opened up on his left, and awa it all went, him included.
  7. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    No one was injured here. This Cat D9 slid of the float because it was not chained down and the float operator took the sweep around the corner a little too fast! There it is another shot!
  8. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    One can better see how the rops cab was crushed but not enough to injure the operator. The wall slumped just to the right side of the knoll. The dozer rolled on the way down, landed on the cab and flipped over on to its tracks.
  9. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    I have more, I will find them and put them up. Cheers, Ironbark.
  10. Ironbark

    Cat D 11 over wall.

    G'day "grandpa" and ohter respondents. When I said we put the jumper leads on him and he was back at work in not time/ what I said was actually true. Both drag line operators in the cut where this incident occured, on seeing what had happened immediatly shut down the dragline, grabbed a box...
  11. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

    Thats it, scary stuff. Shovel dropped as many rocks off the teeth as she got into the 777 she had to get down so low. And they were large because they were saving on explosives and drilling the shot holes one hundred yards apart. And when trucks broke down, they would have used wheel barrows if...
  12. Ironbark

    Cat 992 loading rear end dump Cat 789.

    Mate, I dont know why the owner had those bull bars added? He may have been worried about the radiators getting damaged? I agree, I loved operating that loader. She was a real work horse. I later transfered to a huge open cut mine in the Valley and I spent about three years operating a...
  13. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

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  14. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

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  15. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

    Originally Posted by Ross . Bet an XPC would be blowing the horn before this shovel could even drop the second pass. G'day Ross. Get this. The company purchased a few Cat 789's carried two buckets ok. If one broke down they send send over a couple of Cat. 777's to take their place?? Yep...
  16. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

    Sorry double post.
  17. Ironbark

    Bucyrus Erie Hydraulic excavator info

    G'day mate. The mining company's always doing that. The more we improved the load count the more they wanted. They even started cutting back on explosives at one time when coal prices were a lot lower than they are today, to save money making it harder to dig some sections. I think they were...
  18. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

    Bogged! A week or two of heavy rain doesnt help production? D 10 moving cable so the rear dump can reverse out of the slurry.
  19. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

    In fact she was that good that the company, when they were released, invested in a brand new fleet of Cat 789's, and still the PH 5700 waited? and waited, and waited some more? Crosswords were a time filler if the dump was a little far away?? Cheers, Ironbark.
  20. Ironbark

    PH 5700. My early days.

    Memories, what a machine. They dont build them like this any more? Electricity plus steel ropes = more than any hydrolic excavator can do these days? I know, I'm getting old. Check out the old Terex!!! Two passes , I mean one and a bit???? and was running over!!!! Whah, hooo, Cheers, Ironbark.
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