Just reading an old book and came across the figures for plant used on the Indus Basin Scheme in Pakistan in the early 60 's
90 D9G
72 D8H
25 D7E
9 D4C
10 631B & 630B Scrapers
22 491B & 463F towed scrapers
46 No.14 Graders
All to move 700 million cubic yards in six and half years, would have been one hell of a line up!!!!!
Sorry no photos!!!!!!!!!!!
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90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: 90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting makes me wonder what the Number of modern machines would be using D11 / D575 etc in place of old models as they were probably the top machines at that time to move same amount of muck today
Any body car to hazzard a guestimate among the bulk muck shifters ?
Dave
(ps I have no Idea of production rates)
Any body car to hazzard a guestimate among the bulk muck shifters ?
Dave
(ps I have no Idea of production rates)
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Re: 90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John,
Just doing a ROUGH estimate based on Fos-y-Frans m3 that doesn't sound right
They estimate 46million m3 in 15 years by a minimum of 5x 15m3 excavators and 28x 100t trucks working 16hrs a day 5.5 days a week!
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Just doing a ROUGH estimate based on Fos-y-Frans m3 that doesn't sound right
They estimate 46million m3 in 15 years by a minimum of 5x 15m3 excavators and 28x 100t trucks working 16hrs a day 5.5 days a week!
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Hi Paul, its an old book!!!!!!!!!!! But it does say a rate of 9 million cube a month
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Re: 90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Indus basin project featured in the magazines of the time, and was indeed the biggest muckshift going. Construction news had articles on it.
From the photographs I saw of it it looked like good muck, little rock for the most part. But maybe they didn't show the bad bits!
Because of the funding of the project much, if not all, of the machines were supplied through the UK, and I seem to remember it was Bowmaker plant who shipped the Cats. It was their biggest ever order.
Dave S.
From the photographs I saw of it it looked like good muck, little rock for the most part. But maybe they didn't show the bad bits!
Because of the funding of the project much, if not all, of the machines were supplied through the UK, and I seem to remember it was Bowmaker plant who shipped the Cats. It was their biggest ever order.
Dave S.
Re: 90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not quite of the same magnitude as the Indus however, I worked on the W A C Bennett dam in British Columbia (800 miles north of Vancouver) in 1966 / 1967. We ran 30 D9Gs on a 3 x 8 hour shift system 7 days a week. Total volume of fill was 100 million tons over a 5 year period.
This was a massively impressive operation in the way of servicing, accommodation etc etc. heavily unionised and, very well paid. Joining the then Union of Operating Engineers could take years, all hiring was carried out through the union hall.
I can say that Canadian plant operators are as good as I have seen anywhere in the world. I operated one of the D9Gs for 2 years.
I have photo's which I will endeavour to upload at some time.
This was a massively impressive operation in the way of servicing, accommodation etc etc. heavily unionised and, very well paid. Joining the then Union of Operating Engineers could take years, all hiring was carried out through the union hall.
I can say that Canadian plant operators are as good as I have seen anywhere in the world. I operated one of the D9Gs for 2 years.
I have photo's which I will endeavour to upload at some time.
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DaveS wrote:The Indus basin project featured in the magazines of the time, and was indeed the biggest muckshift going. Construction news had articles on it.
From the photographs I saw of it it looked like good muck, little rock for the most part. But maybe they didn't show the bad bits!
Because of the funding of the project much, if not all, of the machines were supplied through the UK, and I seem to remember it was Bowmaker plant who shipped the Cats. It was their biggest ever order.
Dave S.
Think that you will find that Bowmaker only had the servicing contract and that the bulk of the equipment was supplied by US dealer Petersens. The main contractors being US companies Guy F Atkinson and Morrison Knudsen.
The building of the Mangla dam that formed part of the project was a 354million dollar contract. The whole project involving a three hundred million yard muck shift!
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Very interesting reading indeed. Pics would be good and yes Jim mega bucks for the fuel, but not as expensive in today's money i wouldn't of thought
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Here are some pics that I borrowed from one of the boards five or six years back.
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