I really appreciate this video - not just for the subject, but for the camera work and quality footage. Thank you for getting on board the steam shovel - great angles. Last of all, thank you for not overlaying music so we could hear the equipment operate! A+
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Mike. A marvellous machine and well operated by Phillip Hayes!
@tootired76
Жыл бұрын
I like how the photographer showed the inner workings being worked!
@ricke451
10 ай бұрын
Wonderful piece of history! Thankful for the upkeep of the machinery and great documentation.
@10minutesusa
Жыл бұрын
Best video of a skilled man doing what he loves, Running that steam powered monster! I love it!
@asteamyaffair9993
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ken SO much for posting this. All of a sudden a visit to a Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally has moved higher up my bucket list!
@Chantel.Elisabeth
3 ай бұрын
Being from Lincoln (Boultham Park Road) and not far from the foundry down Coulson Road. I used to see the hundreds of guys on bicycles going in to work for 7.00 am and Home again at 17.00am. It used to take an hour for all the bikes to pass two or three abreast. They made all sorts from trains, diesel shovels, to these steam shovels. The origional Triton 1st WW tanks were made here too.
@SMGJohn
Жыл бұрын
Truly you had to feel like a proper man commanding a machine like this, ever lever and leaver had to be moved with manpower and feeling the entire clunky Steam machine moving, God what a feeling it is, I only driven a steam tractor but that in itself was an experience I never forget, nowadays machinery is not like the past ones, its just like driving a Toyota Corolla.
@skunkjobb
Жыл бұрын
First time I see the operator's view, very nice.
@user-lz1hw6bi4j
Жыл бұрын
Мое уважение тем кто сохранил эту технику в рабочем состоянии.
@cnote4461
2 ай бұрын
That is a beautiful machine!
@caroleast9636
5 ай бұрын
Superb machine and, in the right hands, still capable of doing heavy work. Great video camera work, particularly of the works in action. That’s the best part and I would be happy to see more.
@rand49er
Жыл бұрын
The books my mom read to me back in the early '50s usually had steam shovels in them. I still call them that, not excavators.
@ricksadler797
Жыл бұрын
Great video thank you. Very nice shovel there. Great preservation work ❤👍
@chrismoody1342
8 ай бұрын
And this is how the Panama Canal was dug. Steam.
@vsvnrg3263
2 ай бұрын
and there is footage of it on yt, some of it colourised.
@Davidjeng049
2 жыл бұрын
Another great video, Ken, of years gone by.
@kentate435
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you David, I’m putting together the steam powered VW video now!
@mikegreco8451
Жыл бұрын
Very cool machine. Thank you for sharing that
@peteacher52
2 жыл бұрын
A dinosaur? By our standards, yes. But think how it eased the lot of labourers on road, rail, mining and agricultural projects in the day. It reminds me of those dreadful problems we had to solve at school about how long it would take so many men with shovels to do an hour's work of one steam navvy!
@kentate435
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Colin, I agree, what a marvellous machine and still able to work but by modern standards it does look primitive. Like a puppet driven by a puppeteer who pulls the strings to make it work!
@fx-studio
Жыл бұрын
@@kentate435 Its primitive, but its rate of working is quite impressive. Aside from the start up time it doesn't look that much slower that modern machinery for the same tonnage. But the break-out force may be different, a hydraulic system can slowly build force without stalling the engine.
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman
4 ай бұрын
*AMAZING.*
@adroen
Жыл бұрын
Wonderfull , respect to the owner !
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
The shovel is owned and maintained by the club and here operated by Phillip Hayes
@seeker1015
Жыл бұрын
After watching a bunch of hand held videos where the camera didn't linger any longer than a few seconds, this video is cinema quality in comparison. Congratulations. What a wonderful piece of engineering and smoothly operated by Philip too?
@ray8304
2 ай бұрын
AMAZING 👍🤩
@fridtjovruden5225
Жыл бұрын
Awesome. Regards from Norway
@fw6797
Жыл бұрын
Zo mooi deze machine ❤
@mykelbaurle5758
8 ай бұрын
How many steam engines does it, 4? One on the boom, one for rotating, one for turning the cable drums and one for the tracts?
@justt_a_catt2519
Жыл бұрын
i love old machinery
@A3Kr0n
4 ай бұрын
I wonder how many operators got scalded by that steam line breaking next to them?
@SteamCrane
Жыл бұрын
Good operator!
@paulsheahan1092
2 жыл бұрын
Impressive!
@kentate435
2 жыл бұрын
Wouldn’t you love one!
@alexshields1520
Жыл бұрын
So often the videos of these old machines are shown with unskilled operators and the movements are jerky and out of sync. This particular operator did a great job, despite all the numerous lever that had to be moved to complete a task his movements were smooth and his cycle rates were good for a non hydraulic unit such as this one.
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
Phillip handles the machine very skilfully
@jirihamersky6152
Жыл бұрын
A well made video. What is the volume of the excavator spoon, I was surprised how big it is. Thanks.
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I believe that bucket holds 4.5 cubic yards or approx 3.5 cubic meters.
@jirihamersky6152
Жыл бұрын
@@kentate435 Thank you.
@John-ff6pn
5 ай бұрын
Megacool 😊
@dirtycraneoperator
7 ай бұрын
I want this
@RJ1999x
Жыл бұрын
Fred Dibnah would approve
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
Yes and what a character he was! Loved the steam side of him but was very anxious seeing him climb up chimneys with no safety gear!
@RJ1999x
Жыл бұрын
@@kentate435 didn't seem to bother him
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
@@RJ1999x I know and don’t understand it! I would be terrified!
@RJ1999x
Жыл бұрын
@@kentate435 you wouldn't catch me doing it
@ronaldrussell5481
4 ай бұрын
Assuming something similar used in construction of Panama Canal.
@kentate435
4 ай бұрын
I’m about to put a video on the bucyrus steam powered face shovel at lake goldsmith. Bigger ones of these were used there
@isaacwatanabe9599
Жыл бұрын
Rustons have some very unique designs compared to marion or bucyrus shovels
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
Amazing old machine
@marceloacosta1742
Жыл бұрын
@@kentate435 Estos bichos los solía ver mucho en caricaturas antiguas y al fin los veo funcionando en la vida real😍
@jonathonrossebo1783
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if those machines had much of a risk of explosion since they're steam powered.
@skunkjobb
Жыл бұрын
In the early years of steam power, explosions did occur now and then. I'm a Swede and don't know how it was in the US but safety standards and inspections of steam boilers began here in the 1890's. Since the machine we see here is from the 1920's I think it was quite safely built. At least when it was new, I would not like to take a 100 years old boiler up to max pressure.
@jonathonrossebo1783
Жыл бұрын
@@skunkjobb all the more reasons why pressure relief valves are important for safety. Without them boilers are essentially a bomb💣.
@SMGJohn
Жыл бұрын
@@jonathonrossebo1783 If its proper built and proper utilised it wont explode, most boiler explosions happened and still happen because of neglect and ignorance in its working, no sane engineer would put the boiler at max pressure even if its brand new, they ran mostly at 80 to 90% pressure depending on the load, some boilers were designed with 60% pressure in mind, flash boilers are magnitude safer as they only produce super heated steam when needed but came too late to change much, the diesel engine and electric motors had already surpassed Steam power when flash boilers were a thing.
@samanli-tw3id
5 ай бұрын
Well, we rode steam powered ships across oceans.
@reedplayer1981
Жыл бұрын
What’s that huge red steam shovel on the railroad tracks?
@kentate435
Жыл бұрын
The red machine is a Bucyrus face shovel. Larger versions built the Panamax canal.Again it was thought that it would never operate again as the boom and bucket were missing. These were rebuilt from original drawings by members. I will do a video of it later,
@kentate435
6 ай бұрын
I’m about to do a video of it operating
@dirtycraneoperator
7 ай бұрын
Where can I find this relic?
@kentate435
6 ай бұрын
Its at Lake Goldsmith in central Victoria Australia, just south of Beaufort
@paradiselost9946
Жыл бұрын
big girl... just begs to be put to actual paying work. damn i would love to see one of these poking away next to the old roller a local company uses...
@spravodlivy
Ай бұрын
Bery nice to see it. But ten hours schift must be funny...
@sharkusvelarde
Жыл бұрын
Well you're definitely not going to work hung over operating that! If you wanna live.
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