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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71 viewsTruck my G grandson made from legos
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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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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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Tonka Toys in Perspective26 viewsThis is a picture of a Lectra Haul being loaded by the P&H Shovel These Lectra Hauls were the first true Hybrids and were running full steam back in the 70's. Don't listen to anyone who says that Hybrids are new technology. These trucks ran on electricity and diesel engines...
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Wreck 1 View 139 viewsThis is the picture of the wreck just before I pulled it out from the retention ditch. The driver of this truck survived but he lost an eye and was never able to return to work...
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Wreck 1 View 419 viewsYet another angle of the truck before I pulled it from the retention ditch around the bottom of the pit...
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Wreck 1 View 520 viewsYet another angle of the truck after I pulled it from the retention ditch around the bottom of the pit...
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Wreck 1 View 648 viewsYet another picture of the truck after I had pulled it from the retention ditch around the bottom of the pit...
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