The 3 Amigos66 viewsThis is me with my two best friends Ben and Kevin. We all started at about the same time and we were promoted through the equipment pretty much together. Ben was hired one day later than me so it cost him the ability to learn how to run the Front End Loaders and P&H shovels. Kevin and I got to learn it all...
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Ben & His Truck28 viewsThis is a picture of my good friend Ben. He was about 220 lbs all muscle yet he was a teddy bear at heart. He later became an ambulance driver in California after the mines shut down...
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Tonka Toys For Big Boys22 viewsGood indicator of the true size of this equipment...
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Caught!!!30 viewsThis is a picture of me trying to get out of a picture. I have never enjoyed having my picture taken...
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Nightrider on D9 Bulldozer42 viewsThis is a picture of running a Catepillar D9 bulldozer at the dump...
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Full Moon19 viewsThis is a picture of my friend Kevin mooning me as we wait for the shovel to be fixed...
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Start of the Day17 viewsThis is what greeted us every change of shift. All truck drivers went to their assigned truck number while the other equipment operators were either transported to their machine or they found it lined up in another area of the main yard...
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Waiting For A Load15 viewsThis picture was taken when the electric P&H shovel was broken down...
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Me Oiling The P&H Shovel Pully631 viewsI am on top of the P&H Shovel oiling the pulley during routine maintenance. Once I was done, the shovel was able to resume operating again...
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My Letourneau Loader38 viewsThis is me loading a 120 ton Lectra Haul with my Letourneau Front End Loader. I could load 120 tons on a truck in 6 scoops in about 5 minutes. I set the all time loading record in a 10 hour shift on numerous occassions including the night we were all laid off...
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International Huff Loader66 viewsThis was one of the loaders I ran. At the time, this was the largest front end loader in the world. Unlike the electric hybrid Letourneau loaders, this was completely diesel powered. Even though it could load a truck in 4-5 scoops, it wasn't nearly as good as the Letourneau loaders which took 6 good scoops to load a 120 ton Lectra Haul...
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P&H Shovel33 viewsHere, the P&H shovel is loading the truck on the left. It took 3 scoops to load a 120 Ton Truck. While the shovel is loading the truck on the left, another truck backs up on the right and prepares to be loaded. The shovel never had to stop and wait for a truck to backup...
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