83 mm Haggie Ried Double becket Dump Rope change out on a P&H 9020 Dragline

Comments: - - Wow. It's hard to imagine how large that bucket truly is until you see a D10 parked up against it on a ramp and the D10 looks small.

Interesting mate! I’m a mine boily and we look after 3 draglines and the way we do dump ropes it similar but a different to what’s in this video. Depends on weather it’s a broken dump rope or just replacing a worn one is to how low we have the sheaves. For a dump ropes that aren’t broken we set the sheaves about 5m of the ground to avoid tangles. All we use the oxy for is to cut out the retaining pins and to pull the becketed end out we use a 1 tonne sling fed up though the dump rope socket. We then pin the new dump rope at one end and then hook it up to the old one with a short chain and pull it though the sheaves. For broken ropes we lower the sheaves so we can get a 3tonne sling though and then feed the new ropes though that way. It’s interesting seeing how different sites go about there dragline rigging though

normally producers of ropes and chains have drawing benches (dont know, if this ist the right word!) , which are able to test the resilience before tearing. I would like to see this chain tearing!