The biggest walking excavator

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

The largest walking excavator in Russia with one hundred and twenty electric motors and weighing four thousand tons began to mine coal in the Irkutsk region. Its weight in the state moving along the coal mine is supported by the so-called skis, or support shoes, and when stationary, it lies on the ground with its main plate, which, if necessary, lifts, displaces and sets to a new place. For this, skis are used, which, at the command of the mechanic, rise, move, fall to the ground and take on the weight of the machine. Then the cycle repeats again.

In this regard, it would be appropriate to explain that a new coal mine is being opened in the Irkutsk region - Mugun, which is planned to be exploited for the next four hundred years, since the deposits discovered in it are estimated in billions of tons. That is why other walking excavators, previously operated in already unpromising areas, are also being actively transferred here.

New walkerthe excavator was produced by the Ural machine builders, its cost reaches about four hundred million rubles, so it is not known whether someone else will order another copy of such a miracle technique. He may be the only heavyweight in the industry for a long time to come.

It's technical characteristics are excellent because, compared to its predecessors, its hundred-meter working boom is twenty to thirty meters longer and ends with a bucket holding forty tons of ore, suspended from a chain made up of links weighing one hundred kilograms each. Today, being still at the stage of running-in and lapping of units, this walking excavator is already extracting thirty thousand cubic meters of coal in one day. It is more powerful than its predecessors released ten or twenty years ago.

Although comparing it with other models is not entirely correct. The new walking excavator is a completely different opportunity, at least in terms of ground movement, reaching two hundred meters, which is sixty meters further than the most advanced machine before.

To maintain this giant, reminiscent of the inside of a production shop, a team of only seven people is needed, because it is controlled from a computer console. Electronic diagnostics protects the walking excavator from breakdowns, fires, and malfunctions. Moreover, the entire control process fits into two small joysticks, which are used to play computer games.

Mechanic Victor was invited to lead his managementTovpik, who has been dealing with walking excavators for more than thirty years. His impressions were remarkable, which was noted by both correspondents and foreign guests present at the presentation. Victor said that he was at first amazed by the size of the new machine, but when he tried to drive it, he was even more impressed by its obedience and ease of operation.

Already in its run-in period, this walking excavator increased coal production by more than 50% while significantly reducing costs. What will happen when the machine reaches full working capacity?