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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Pete-R-Bilt; WSGilcrest; glock rocks; SouthTexas; B4Ranch
It sure ain't my Daddy's D6 from the 40s. Don't the really big earth movers in mine quarries already use this technology...
7 posted on 06/12/2009 7:35:33 PM PDT by tubebender (Whom stole my tag line. Why! I ask, Why?)
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To: tubebender
Don't the really big earth movers in mine quarries already use this technology...

The dozers are conventional, but I know the large dumptrucks are electric wheels with diesel/electric generators under the "hood".

The largest cable shovels and draglines are all electric connected directly to the grid with a big flexible cable drug along by a dozer.

44 posted on 06/13/2009 8:59:17 AM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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