[AT] Silver Spade news?

Dave Merchant nesys_com at ameritech.net
Mon Dec 11 20:40:21 PST 2006


That "recent news" is from several years ago.

Since that time the Spade moved across 2 roads and past a high tension line,
worked another field, and was retired at 2 pm, April 9, 2006, when the 
swing circle
broke for the last time, and the decision was made not to repair it again,
since all it as doing was digging out of the hole to be retired up on top.
We were there taking pix at the time.

Most of the pix on my Silver Spade page were taken after the move,
while it was working in the new field. What it was doing was going over
an area that had already been mined, but it has a longer stick than the
shovel that worked there before (I suspect it was the GEM), and was
thus able to go down another seam or 2.

It went down so far that it hit old flooded underground mine tunnels,
at one point they almost lost it in the muck.

I don't have really recent info, there are either groups or a group working on
trying to make the museum happen, but not sure if it's a coordinated effort.

The coal company apparently would like to see it saved, and there are
some governmental people involved, so it may happen.

BTW, we had an interesting trip yesterday.
My son had gotten wind of several large draglines south of Youngstown,
working limestone operations, not stripping coal.

We found 4 of the 5 machines we had heard about, and spent some time
watching another one we knew about, a 7820, Brutus in West Pittsburgh PA,
the one that had slid in + flipped over a few years ago. Cost a lot to get 
it going again.

Dave


At 10:51 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote:
>http://www.stripmine.org/spdeup01.htm
>
>Dean Vinson wrote:
>
>>Hey Dave, saw your name on your NAA distributor post.  No idea about your
>>question, sorry, but I wondered if you've heard or seen anything recent on
>>the Spade?
>>
>>Dean Vinson
>>Dayton, Ohio
>>www.vinsonfarm.net
>>
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