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"Tom Wait" wrote:

"John Husvar" wrote
Sounds like one make or other of a vertical turret lathe. Plant where I
used to work maintenance had one that would turn o.d. to 16 feet.
Big mutha!

I worked at Bucyrus-Erie for a winter in the 70's. I was a chip wheeler.You
wouldn't believe the size of the machines it takes to build a dragline that
scoops up 300 cubic yards in one bucket, or the size of the chips they
produce.

300 yard drag bucket, 8100 cubic feet? I've seen 30-yard buckets, even
IIRC one 50; never a 300 so far or didn't know it when I did. I'd like
to, though.

Gotcha!I grew up in strip mining country, Steubenville, OH and points
west towards Cadiz and Cambridge, south toward Nelsonville,
McConnelsville, etc. Beautiful park down that way that AEP donated to
the people of Ohio and still maintains.

So: Oh, yes, I would believe it!

Some of the chips were big enough for the plant's other shops to use for
stock?