90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post #1 by taurus MK1 » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:39 pm

:) 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!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbs_up:


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Re: 90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post #2 by BulldozerD11 » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:07 pm

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 ?

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(ps I have no Idea of production rates)
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Re: 90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post #3 by argie » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:23 pm

John,
Just doing a ROUGH estimate based on Fos-y-Frans m3 that doesn't sound right :dizzy:
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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Post #4 by taurus MK1 » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:34 pm

:D 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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post #5 by DaveS » Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:19 pm

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! :lol:

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.

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Post #6 by Forster » Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:29 pm

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.

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Post #7 by modelman093 » Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:29 pm

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! :lol:

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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Post #8 by JimInOz » Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:20 am

Imagine...the fuel bill..!

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Post #9 by Jim M » Wed Aug 28, 2013 9:42 pm

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 :wtf:

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Re: 90 D9G 's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post #10 by Glum » Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:28 am

Here are some pics that I borrowed from one of the boards five or six years back.
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