The W1400 & 1800 coding denotes the rough weight of each dragline i.e. W1400 = 1,400 tons, W1800 = 1,800 tons. One Drag Line excavator named Sundew is very much part of local folklore having made ...
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA), Australia’s largest coal miner and exporter, was losing AUS $8,000 per hour in unrecoverable downtime, when cameras on its dragline excavators failed. In order ...