Page developed the first diesel engines exclusively for dragline application in 1924. The body was then pulled forward by chain on a roller track and then lowered again. These used legs operated by rack and pinion on a separate frame that lifted the crane. Page built its first crude walking dragline in 1923. By 1912, Page realized that building draglines was more lucrative than contracting, so he created the Page Engineering Company to build draglines. Page (as a partner of the firm Page & Schnable Contracting) for use in digging the Chicago Canal. The dragline was invented in 1904 by John W. A schematic of a large dragline bucket system is shown below. By skillful maneuver of the hoist and the dragropes the bucket is controlled for various operations. The dragrope is used to draw the bucket assembly horizontally. The hoist rope, powered by large diesel or electric motors, supports the bucket and hoist-coupler assembly from the boom. The bucket is maneuvered by means of a number of ropes and chains. The smallest and most common of the heavy type weigh around 8,000 tons while the largest built weighed around 13,000 tons.Ī dragline bucket system consists of a large bucket which is suspended from a boom (a large truss-like structure) with wire ropes. The largest heavy draglines are among the largest mobile land machines ever built. The much larger type which is built on site is commonly used in strip-mining operations to remove overburden above coal and more recently for oil sands mining. These types are built by crane manufacturers such as Link-Belt and Hyster. These are used for road, port construction, pond and canal dredging, and as pile driving rigs. Draglines used in civil engineering are almost always of this smaller, crane type. These units (like other cranes) are designed to be dismantled and transported over the road on flatbed trailers. Most crawler cranes, with an added winch drum on the front, can act as a dragline. dragline at Turkish Coal Association - Yenikoy Open Pit Coal Mine, MilasĪ dragline excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining.ĭraglines fall into two broad categories: those that are based on standard, lifting cranes, and the heavy units which have to be built on-site. For the album by Paw, see Dragline (album).
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