The wooden mats are to keep the shovel from sinking into soft or unstable soil. Friend Adolph, Picture on reverse side was taken about a month ago, but have just lately gotten the materials. This gives you a real good idea of what it takes to support and move a BIG shovel. This view clearly shows the upper seam of coal being stripped along side the captain, as well as the seam it's walking on. As the machine progressed, the overburden was placed in the pit left by the previous pass. After making a pass, and the coal had been removed from both seams, the captain moved over and stripped the bench left from the upper seam down to the level of it's tracks. As all shovels do, it walked directly upon the coal and stripped the seam in front of it, but this machine also stripped the upper seam at it's side ( the upper seam was nearly level with the operators cab). Marion engineers went to work on the problem, and the captain was the result. Iron Profile: Marion 6360 Shovel 'The Captain' At the time of its creation in 1965 for the Southwestern Illinois Coal Corporation, the Marion 6360 was the world's largest mobile land machine with ballast it weighed 28 million pounds. The upper seam was about 50 feet above the lower one, And a machine was needed that could handle the job. at it's "Captain Mine" (hence the name) where itwas given the unique job of stripping two seams of coal simultaneously. The Captain began it's working life in 1965 for Southwestern Illinois Coal Corp. Power shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the. so it wouldn't have to turn around when it reached the end of the pit, and a host of others. While pacing the wheelhouse, he watched with curiosity and. Its sole function was to remove the earth.
Manufactured by Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the model 1950-B was one of two of this model built, the other being the GEM of Egypt. Thew whiled away many hours as men laboriously unloaded his iron ore cargo onto the wooden docks. 105 cubic yards (80.3 m 3) or 28.35 short tons (25.72 t) The Silver Spade was a giant power shovel used for strip mining in southeastern Ohio. Thew lay tied to a wharf on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in northeast Ohio, Capt. Features like being designed to strip two seams of coal simultaneously, or having enough clearance below it to allow loaders and haul truck to pass under it in safety (while it was operating.), or having two trailing cable reels, mounted on opposite sides of the machine. Sometime in 1894, while his Great Lakes steamer W P. Besides being the largest mobil land machine ever built ( at that time)28 million pounds., and having the largest dipper capacity (180 CY), Many other features made this Marion shovel stand out. The Captain was a unique machine in many ways. Cover of the Arch of Illinois Feb/March 1985 newsletter
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