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EC:  DRAGLINE

Status: STD 2005/06/07
Code: 341

Concept definition: An <EXCAVATING_MACHINE> with a <LOAD_CABLE> and a bucket or grab, in which the <LOAD_CABLE> and the bucket or grab is cast onto material and is then drawn towards the machine; drag-line.
 
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Supplemental references: [APDS, "dragline"], [SOED, "drag-line excavator"]

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Figure 1

Narrative This public-domain image was taken from the cover of the Office of Surface Mining publication Guidelines for the use of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), version 1.06, on Mined Lands, Construction Sites and Reclaimed Lands, and further annotated. See also Wikimedia Commons.

Figure 2

Narrative A dragline in Yenikoy open-pit coal mining, Milas, Mugla, Turkey. Figure provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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