Saturday, March 28, 2026

Big Machine

 


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  1. How many yard in that bucket? 50, more?

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    1. It looks like it's just over 62 cubic yards.
      Wow.

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  2. I'd be pooped by the time I got done climbing those stairs to reach the cab.

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    1. Gets to top: “Dang, forgot the key”

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    2. There's an elevator on the back side - ADA

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  3. Actually, the excavator is normal size. That's a photo of the All Cameroon Pygmy Miniature excavator crew. They are only two feet tall. Steve_in_Ottawa

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  4. I’ve seen them in Florida, used for mining Phosphate, big machines for sure.

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  5. That's a big machine. Imagine how big the machine is that made that BUCKET!!!

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    1. The bucket looks like it's fabricated out of steel plate, but the lip, teeth, and wear shrouds would be castings.

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  6. i wonder how much hydraulic fluid it holds?

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  7. That's for digging back yard swimming pools with just one scoop.

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  8. Ran a 988 loader performing clean up and other tasks around one, they never shut one down completely, even if there is no work, they hook it up to 19,000 kvg lines, so it remains fully functional, got a 24-7 maintenance team who stay on all the time the shovel, they mostly are used in the surface coal mining, comes in behind a drag-line, getting what the drag can't scrape up.

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    1. Cat 988s are still the preferred machines for unloading log trucks at sawmills and have been for 50 years. I've got a picture of my truck being unloaded by one in 1977. It was a 988B model.

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  9. Obviously had to be assembled on site.

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