[AT] Silver Spade news?

[Larry D Goss]

Thanks for the update, Dave.  I presume you've been to the Big Brutus museum 
at Pittsburg, Kansas.  If not, it's well worth the trip.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Merchant" <nesys_com at ameritech.net>
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Silver Spade news?


> 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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> Dave Merchant
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