Bucyrus-Erie 60-S swing shovel

This is an interesting post and covers different types of excavators, so let's take them one at a time? First let's discuss the most interesting design? In my opinion they are the machines like the Hydromac in your second post in this thread. It is basically a crawler dozer/loader undercarriage with a rotating upperstructure resembling a loader, but with articulated arms so it can sit in one spot to dig and load. It

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