Coshocton C: Peabody Broken Arrow Mine and Marion 8700

(Satellite, note the tattoos of a big strip mine)

I saw a lot of comments claiming that this was the Coal Chief. But I also saw comments claiming that the Marion 5760 in the Peabody Simco Mine was the Coal Chief. Arnie's comment below cleared up the confusion. It is the Simco Mine that had the Coal Chief. One old timer that remembered Coal Chief being at Simco thinks this dragline never got a name.

If you grew up in Coshocton County, Ohio then you remember. posted
Peabody Coal Co. Broken Arrow Surface Mine located west of Coshocton, Ohio just off State Route 541 West. Dragline Shovel, notice the little water truck in front of the dragline.
[According to some comments: dragline in Kentucky went off its steel plates and sunk into a swamp. This dragline went there to replace it.]
Arnie Davis: This was not the Coal Chief.. Coal Chief was a shovel not a drag..Coal Chief had never crossed St Rt 16. [And it was used in the Simco Coal Mine.]
Brenda Jarvis Hanson: That's a power cable truck, (that's a reel not a tank) not a water truck.
Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park shared
Paul Curry: Wound up at Gibraltar central city Ky then scrap
Hajrrison Coal & Reclamation Hisjtorical Park shared

Mining Photography Archive posted

Peabody Coal Company Marion 8700 [Broken Arrow Mine]

This is a really unique machine in that it was shipped down to Kentucky from Ohio and had a boom replacement along with a Gantry rebuild. This machine was cut up for scrap after it finished.

Credit: David Hope

Alex Taylor: It's got Bucyrus style fairleads on the front.
Mining Photography Archive: That's correct. It lacks the "Marion Tower" on the front.

 

Michael Cairati commented on a post
Broken Arrow, poor old girl didn't get a name.
Scott Whitmer: 8700 is what dad called her.
Michael Cairati: We lived out there, seen it all the time.....Dad took me up in it when I was a boy....remember we had to climb on when it stopped its swing cause the operator wasn't aloud to stop working.

Blinda Whitmer Hughes commented on Michael's comment

 

Randy McKee commented on Michael's comment

Ron Dunlap posted three photos with the comment: "I found these pictures when I went through my Dad's stuff. I believe they were taken around 1975. I'm pretty sure the guys in the picture are Joe Roahrig, on the left, and Larry 'Ace' Carroll, on the right."

George Brownie Leach: That's the dragline they dismantled after Broken Arrow shut down and sent to Muhlenberg county Kentucky to replace the one that tipped over in the Pond River bottoms...... I started working at Broken Arrow mine March 1968.

Jay G. Heiser: George Brownie Leach When did the mine shut down? I was just in that part of Woodbury a couple weeks ago—there’s a lot of silent history in those hills.

Belinda Whitmer Hughes: Jay G. Heiser early 80s. My dad got to stay on a bit to work on the reclamation but I remember it changed my plans for college pretty dramatically. In the end I got there anyway so it worked out.

Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park shared

Peabody's Marion 8700 at the Broken Arrow Mine near Coshocton Ohio.

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Belinjda Whitmer Hughes posted
This is the Peabody 8700 drag line that was out off of 541 in the 70s.
Susan Shaw Gordon: I remember it well - I worked at Broken Aro in the supply warehouse and then the front office. One of the hardest things I ever had to do was process those guys I'd worked with for nearly 10 years when the mine shut down. This 8700 ended up in the Mississippi River when they were loading it onto a barge and it didn't make it (that according to Jeff Larr).
Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park shared

Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park posted two photos with the comment: "Marion 8700 at the Brocken Arrow mine in Coshocton County Ohio."

Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park shared

James Stine: The post says 1978, she looks pretty good. It started working shortly after Dec. 9, 1963. If the date is correct in the post, the machine is 15 years old in this photo. Wow!

Brandon K. Casebier: This one was moved to Gibraltar in 85’.

Alex Taylor: Is this the largest Marion dragline built with traditional fairleads instead of the Marion fairlead 'tower' typically used on their large draglines?

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Ricky Cates commented on the above post
This is it when it was at Gibraltar.
James Stine: Ricky Cates , how long was the boom after the upgrade at Gibralter? It was 225 ft. at Broken Arrow with a 70 yd bucket.
Ricky Cates: James Stine I’m not sure of the length but I know that my Dad said it had an 80 yard bucket when it was at Gibraltar.

Michael Davis commented on the above post\Such a unique machine…This was the same 8700 at work In Muhlenberg County around 1990.
Alex Taylor: Michael Davis newer style boom and upgraded gantry.
Assuming the booms are the same width at the base on both machines, the house on the Peabody machine is wider. Maybe the tub is wider and the frame is wider to space the walking cams out farther.

Nate Nowak commented on the above post
Interesting how this one does not have the usual style Marion "over and under" fairlead.