The Silver Spade - The Forever Behemoth
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Published 2023-08-31
#mining #silverspade #shovel #ohio
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I saw it with my own two eyes as a child. It was a September evening during the annual Stumptown Steam tractor show. Many of the folks who were members of Stumptown were also members of the coal park next door. Anyhow we were told to not go up on the hill since that was mine property. We were kids so whatever. We could see the light moving over the hillside, so we climbed up to see the Spade about a mile away. It was working, and even though it was so far away you could hear it and see it clearly. It was lit up like a city, and looked like some sort of mechanical monster eating away at the earth. It was an amazing machine.
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I am fortunate to be one of a few folks in the area to have been on all three machines that consol owned.the gem the spade and the mountaineer....my family worked on and around these machines for their living.truely amazing and as a young boy when i got to go on board i was scared yes but i wish i could turn back time
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I love these videos on the history of these truly amazing machines! Please keep them coming, and thank you for the time and effort you put into your content, its greatly appreciated!!
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A truly amazing machine! Such a shame it's not still around to be admired today.
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I saw it run in 1999 right before they scraped it.Awesome machine.👏👏👏
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Im involved with Harrison coal and reclamation Park and luckily they have the cab and part of the bucket
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Appreciate the video.
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As I understand from other videos, the final failure was in the slew bearings; the huge roller bearings that allow the upper part of the machine to rotate on the track frames.
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They literally worked this machine to death...
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Fix the audio