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LIEBHERR HS843 HD dragline Manufacturer: CONRAD Scale: 1:50
This model is a beauty and a big one at that, look how it towers the man below
The cab is just like the real thing with the correct levers and controls
Close up of the rotating drag pull reel
Fully erected (without additional bought boom sections) boom reacheds almost 19 inches tall!
Close up of the upper pully system
Close up of the drag bucket
When the top cable is lifted and the lower cable is realeased the bucket is forced to dump
When the upper cable is released slowly and the lower cable is brought in the bucket drags along the ground towards crane
Close up of the rear boom lift/lower pully system
Rear counter weight
Right side showing off the cranes tracks and the three pully handles (the front one's for the lower dragline cable, the middle ones for the upper lifting cable, the rear ones for booms lift/lower cable)
Another view of the front section
The left side
Showing off how with the correct releasing of cables the bucket is thrown out
...then dragged in
...brought up
...turned
...and then dumped
...all in a days work!
Photo to show how low boom is capable of going
The following pics are sequence of photos to show the rear pully bar and how it's brought up
...then boom sections are laid out
...then connected
...boom pully is unattached to be cabled
...cables are connected
... and laid into place
...and then finally the buckets broght in and connected
It's a big bucket alright
It takes a whole crew of trucks to move this baby
Action pic #1 of the HS843 HD at work clearing out this rock riverbed
Action pic #2 of the LIEBHERR drag busily working
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