urgh urgh urgh urgh- anybody intrested in big stuff? here is a picture of an old dragline I took about 10yrs ago way back in the Mississipi River delta when I was working in the oilfield in central Louisiana.
It is abandoned in a field near the river levee it built. Locals say it's been there since the early 40's anyway. The intresting thing about it, it doesn't crawl on tracks, it 'walks' on the cam operated leg and foot on each side. When the cam comes down, it picks the whole thing up and pushes it forward about 4 ft, judged by the sie of the offsset on the cam. There is a cam & leg on each side. This thing is huge, the upper front window is about 6' X 8'. Powered by big diesel elec DC generator. Motor has exposed windings and armature. When the foot is raised, the crane body sits down on its flat bottom and water has to be pumped thru ppipes in the bottom to break suction in the mud when they wanted to move it fwd or bkwards. The bucket is not shown in this photo, but is about 12 ft x 5 ft. 2" cables.
Just thought some might be interested. There is many hundreds of $ in scrap iron there.
