Bucyrus-Erie 1570W Dragline

The Prairie Queen and the Badger Dragline

Prairie Queen Dragline

Bucyrus-Erie 1570-W- Called “The Prairie Queen”

63 Yard Bucket
Working weight over 7 million pounds.
325 ft long boom
58 ft Diameter Base
62 ft long shoe (foot)

Working below at the Klimax Mine owned by Manalta Coal, which was owned by the Mannix Family

“PRAIRIE QUEEN” DRAGLINE WORKING SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY, BETWEEN ESTEVAN AND BIENFAIT
PICTURE TAKEN JULY 98

Only “Big Lou” and the P&H9020 are bigger in this area, the very tip of Big Lou's boom is seen in left horizon
This dragline is stripping off the layer of ground from the top of the coal seam.
Smaller shovels load the coal into the haulers (2 in this picture but hard to see)

THE PICTURES BELOW WERE TAKEN JUNE 1999 BY ONE OF THE FIRST SONY DIGITAL CAMERAS

THE PRAIRIE QUEEN, BUCYRUS-ERIE 1570W
East of Hwy 39, near Shand

To visualize the size, notice the man walking in front of the machine!

SPECS
60 CUBIC YARD BUCKET
91 METRE LONG BOOM
WEIGHS 8 MILLION LBS
STANDS 19 STOREYS HIGH
OWNED BY LUSCAR LTD

Bienfait Badger

Bucyrus-Erie 1570-W- Called “Bienfait Badger”

“Bienfait Badger” Dragline- 1999

Located South of Bienfait and east of the Char Plant in 1999
This is a Bucyrus-Erie 1570W
70 Cubic Yard Bucket
320 ft boom, weighs 7.5 million pounds
66 foot rotating tub diameter
3 & 3/4 inch hoist and drag ropes
max load 353,000 lbs
6,000 horsepower

Owned by Estevan Coal Corporation, now part of the Luscar Group.

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