Dragline you ask? Here ya go...

https://hs.cranetrader.com/listings...&dlr=1&sortorder=8&SCF=False

sure 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

u need a mud bucket

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.

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.