Even the largest rock faces in the world should fear this huge rope shovel
Rope shovels are the heavy-duty attackers of the mining industry – and none eat away the earth faster than the P&H 4100XPC. This is the supercharged high-performance pinnacle of the rope shovel world!
A rope shovel is used for digging out surfaces such as vertical coal faces. They consist of a rotating deck where the driver cabin lies, along with the engine and a heavy counterweight. To the front of the deck a boom is attached, which carries a swing arm and a bucket.
The bucket is controlled by a series of ropes. When facing a surface to be excavated, the wire ropes are dug into the surface using a crowd arm, then pulled up through fi lling it with material. Once raised
clear, it swings to one side and can be released into a dumper truck. P&H has cut seconds from this entire cycle with its ultra shovel. How? Through speeding up the hoist cycle by extending the shovel’s speed range.
This has come at no penalty to capacity or payload, though. The nominal payload is 115 tons, and it can cut up to 16.8m high, through a radius of 23.9m. This is why the operator sits a full ten metres off the ground; the rope shovel itself is 14.7m high, and 15m long. The wire hoist rope alone is 73mm thick!
There are two hoist motors, rated at a peak 3,990hp, three swing motors, two propel motors and a single crowd motor. The operator controls it via an armrest-mounted pistol-grip joystick.
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