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Re: Drag Line Crane for digging a pond is needed
[Re: B_Man]
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04/09/21 02:30 PM
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Dragline you ask? Here ya go...
Press for an AMERICAN.
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Re: Drag Line Crane for digging a pond is needed
[Re: B_Man]
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04/10/21 07:30 AM
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I doubt you can afford a true 'dragline' as these typically come with 20 yd buckets and cost several million dollars. I ran one for years in my mine operation so I have a pretty good feel for what it can do. You could probably get by with a long reach excavator however it sounds like its going to be very sloppy to haul the material and deepen the hole. Good luck. There are still quite a few small crawler style draglines out there (and I've actually seen them used a few times here in VZ county), but they are probably cost-prohibitive for what you're wanting to do/get done.
IMO the most cost effective way is going to be to breach the dam and drain it - dig it out - and go from there. The size you described is a little over an acre - so it's not some small hole in the ground that will be easy to do with even a long reach. https://hs.cranetrader.com/listings...&dlr=1&sortorder=8&SCF=Falsesure some of those are pretty thrashed on, but for the price and the amount of work they can do a lot of old draglines are pretty cheap compared to an excavator.......even an excavator that has also been thrashed on the real issue is hardly anyone knows how to run one efficiently (I sure would not), no one wants to fix one even if they have the ability, and you have to be insane to want to move one from place to place and the cost to do so would he high high high when you factor in breaking it down and putting it back together not to mention an old thrashed on excavator has a lot more uses besides digging (although I guess you could bash a lot of trees out of the ground with a dragline too especially if you were good with it).....or hook a ball to it and just keep swinging until the tree is busted to bits and then I guess drop the ball on the stump over and over until it is busted to bits or driven into the ground far enough
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Re: Drag Line Crane for digging a pond is needed
[Re: B_Man]
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04/10/21 12:52 PM
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Re: Drag Line Crane for digging a pond is needed
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04/10/21 02:48 PM
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The Link Belt I was talking about is a rubber tired that can drive down the highway, not a strip mine machine. Uses out riggers with a 1-2 yard drag bucket with a 30 ft boom and a good operator can move a lot of dirt with it. I watched some of those used to strip mine for coal in east Texas that probably cost 10- 20 million 40 years ago and the bucket could hold 20 pickups.They were electric powered that had cables that were dragged behind the crane that looked 8" in diameter and they put power lines in for the jobs.
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Re: Drag Line Crane for digging a pond is needed
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04/10/21 04:11 PM
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When I was a yute I saw a small drag line that was mounted on a WW2 Half track. Probably had about a 1 yd. bucket. Was cleaning out a small pond for my Uncle. I saw a couple of a little larger ones at different times at my Grandfathers farm at Marion cleaning out his ponds. Back then draglines were about the only way of doing the job. Especially like in Marion with nothing but black dirt and no rock.
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