Sep. 30—SCAMMON, Kan. — A walking dragline idled in Cherokee County for decades is one step closer to becoming a roadside attraction in Southeast Kansas. Workers with Tilton and Sons House ...

And to answer the question “why do they walk,” we must briefly go back to the early 20th century. Back then, dragline excavators—crane-like machines popular with moving very large quantities ...

The "walking" dragline was the fourth ... Beauty Coal Co. is moving the machine about 13 miles to a mine southeast of Farmersburg in Sullivan County.The mining dragline\'s steel-framed crane, ...

"Big Muskie"was a 27-million-pound Bucyrus-Erie 4250W that moved 483 million tons of earth for the Central Ohio Coal Company ...

The Pottsville-based Reading Anthracite Co. moved one of its walking Marion 7800 model electric dragline shovels in a “hike” that took more than 10 hours, lasting into Friday morning, from its ...

Dragline movement takes place by “walking” on pontoons which are repositioned for each step, tilting the machine house forward and placing stress on the structure as well as on the crane itself.

Derrek Tilton, with Tilton & Sons House Movers, works to wash down the Page Walking Dragline in Cherokee County, Kansas. Tilton and his company are getting started on the two- to three-month ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Kan. — A really big Southeast Kansas project is officially on the move. Tilton & Sons Housemoving began the task of moving the 500,000 pound “Page 618” walking dragline from ...

SCAMMON, Kan. — A walking dragline idled in Cherokee County for decades is one step closer to becoming a roadside attraction in Southeast Kansas. Workers with Tilton and Sons House Moving, of ...

Dragline movement takes place by “walking” on pontoons which are repositioned for each step, tilting the machine house forward and placing stress on the structure as well as on the crane itself.

A contract won by Witbank company GTB Industrial Services will see Condra manufacturing a technically complex crane to service an Mpumalanga colliery’s dragline excavator. Condra will deliver the ...

A contract won by Witbank company GTB Industrial Services will see Condra manufacturing a technically complex crane to service an Mpumalanga colliery’s dragline excavator. Condra will deliver ...