Badger Dragline

"Bienfait Badger"
Bucyrus-Erie 1570W Dragline
photo ca- 1999

Located South of Bienfait
and east of the Char Plant in 1999

Bucyrus-Erie 1570W
70 Cubic Yard Bucket
320 ft boom, weighs 7.5 million pounds
66 foot rotating tub diameter
3 & 3/4 inch hoist and drag ropes
max load 353,000 lbs
6,000 horsepower

"Bienfait Badger"
Bucyrus-Erie 1570W Dragline
photo ca- 1999

Bienfait Badger close-up,
Owned by Estevan Coal Corporation,
now part of the Luscar Group.

Jan 1978
they were constructing a Bucyrus-Erie 70 yd dragline at the M&S mine.
It developed a 6ft hairline crack in the front girder of the deck.
Metallurgists were to examine the break.
I believe this was the Bienfait Badger Bucyrus-Erie 1570W

"Prairie Queen" Dragline,
which was used at the Klimax Mine,
is the same type of Dragline.