657G's in Victoria, Australia

[Stinger]

Here are some pictures of our 657G's working at a mineral sands operation in Victoria.
The material is very tightly packed and extremely abrasive. We use teeth on the cutting edges of the leading scraper in the push pull operation to ease the loading of the material into the bowl.
They are "poetry in motion" to watch and they sound awesome. We are operating 6 units of this model at this site.

[John Gaunt]

Great pictures, Gary, keep em coming !!
I was wondering what type of minerals are in the sand, and where in Victoria the operation is ?

[Neil D]

Gary,keep the pictures coming and thanks for sharing!!!!

Neil

[RichardJW~]

Thanks for posting

[OAKS8711]

Looks like the teeth apply to much force against the support as there is a big chunk missing.

[Stinger]

Here are a few more shots of the big girls in action.
Cheers.

[Rolyd8k]

thanks for posting Gary you must trust your drivers
not to spin the tyres as theres no white stripe across the wheels

[Gavin84w]

Roly, i have never seen white stripes across the planetaries on any scraper in Australia, it is a US thing and while i do agree with some of there methods getting aussie dirt bosses to do things that are done in the US can sometimes be a, well lets just leave it at that!!!

To me the white stripe is like putting a white x on a bolt head indicating it is done up, it,s a falacy and the stripe or the x does not mean the wheels can not be spun or the bolt is done up. Operating the machine correctly or tensioning the bolt is what is required not girlie stripes or texta marks!!!

[Mike d550]

Excellent photos stinger, some really sweet photos

Are there any dozers on site or is it all 2 scrapers push pulling ?

Regards

Mike D550

[Stinger]

Besides the fleet of 657G's we are also running a fleet of 651E's on this site that are being pushed by D11R's.
We have a couple of old 651B's as backup units & a Komatsu D475A is taking care of the ripping.
None of our scrapers run stripes on the hubs, we don't have a big issue with wheel-spin.
It all comes down to training and supervision.
Most of our scraper operators follow the machines from site to site and are very experienced.
We also have our own operator trainer who knows scrapers very well. He travels the sites mentoring and sharing his knowledge with our operators enabling our scraper jobs to be very productive.