Minnkota Power Plant: (Satellite) Obviously, this is a mine mouth power plant. That seems to be what makes lignite coal economical.
West Coal Mine: (Satellite)
See "Moving Page 757 Draglines Across the Country" for more information on this dragline.
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| Jud Swanston posted a 0:54 video Nate Nowak: 757 model was the largest Page, then P&H bought them. This machine was the first one P&H built. Notice it doesn't have the old style Page walking mechanism. Jud Swanston: It was originally the ace of spades , then the liberty belle, in Mississippi now named Legacy in North Dakota. Randy Hollingsworth: It’s a Page with all of the upgrades that you could pretty much do to one a few years ago. It was converted to AC drive when it was erected in Mississippi, along with a larger diameter tub. Jud Swanston: Randy Hollingsworth we left the tub in Mississippi as we had just put a new tub under our original 757 , put that tub under it. Travis Hill: I've heard there are 300 years of work and reserves... Paul Pillau: It didn’t log many hours in Mississippi, the cut down crew must have had a clean job for once! [It was the Ace of Spades in Great Britain with 65cyd, the Liberty Bell in Mississippi with 87cy, and Legacy in ND with 83cy. The standard capacity for a 757 was 75cy, but the Ace was undersized. MS had softer dirt, and ND uses a better bucked design.] |
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| Jeremy Kelley commented on Jud's post I kept “the liberty belle” exercised here in kemper Mississippi until it was sold . Paul Brooks was an operator on it at kemper. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Jud's post I presume that this was from when it was being erected next to Big Jake, which was the oldest operating Page 757. The repair costs for Big Jake were estimated to be comparable to the $31m it took to move the newest Page 757. https://www.google.com/maps/@47.1083752,-101.3478779,281m/data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| 0:24 video "The electrically operated dragline stands 286 feet high, weighs 11 million pounds and required 214 trucks to deliver it from Mississippi to the mine outside of Center." [This video confirms that the west mine is also BNI because it had the two back-to-back draglines.] |
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| 0:17 video BNI paid $31m to replace their 45-year old Big Jake Page 757 with Legacy. Legacy is the newest and Big Jake was the oldest operating Page 757. The process of transporting it from Mississippi Power started in Apr 2021. "BNI has two other draglines -- Liberty, and a smaller machine named Big Sandy." |
I found the other two draglines, but I don't know which is which.
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| 1:42 video @ 0:21 It was commissioned in Aug 8, 2022, by breaking a bottle against the bucket. |
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| minnkota Legacy is equipped with state-of-the art AC motors with about 1,990 horsepower. (Minnkota/Michael Hoeft) [This article is not just another copy & paste of the commissioning press release.] |
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| Jud Swanston posted Well my friends the original ace of spades is back in the dirt again 🤗🤗 now called Legacy |
This is probably a different Ace of Spades, but it is also a P&H 757. I include it here because I could not find Stopswood. Based on the accents and a reference to largest dragline in "western Europe," I presume this was in the UK.
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| 3:04 video @ 2:38 P&H 757 when she was at Stopswood 90's |
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