Most days I drive truck, some days I operate. I jumped out of the Cat320 excavator I ran for 10 hrs. today and used my phone to shoot this video. I'm not sure why my phone won't auto rotate, next time I'll get it right(side up)...-:)
What I'm doing here is stripping all the sand and gravel off the bedrock.Next step will be to blast the bedrock into rock small enough to run through our crusher. We make gravel for roads , driveways etc. The top of the cliff I'm standing on is about 60' above the pit floor where you see the loader operating. That loader is a Cat 988G and weighs just over 100,000 lbs. It can load a full size dump truck with one scoop.
We have been mining this pit for 6 yrs. The final depth for this pit, after another 5-7 yrs., will be just over 120' deep.
