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Greetings, We found an old cable operated shovel in the Nevada desert nearly all intact. We're looking of information that might point to the year this beauty was manufactured and was in service. It has a Caterpillar diesel and it was in a Bucyrus-Erie. Only found casting numbers on the engine with the block numbers being 7B4607. I'll try to post pictures. Thanks for the help! Paul

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Sun, Oct 20, 2019 8:16 PM

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Sun, Oct 20, 2019 8:22 PM

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If you go back, look for a series of letters cast into the block. Caterpillar foundry cast in a date so it looks like a date, just is coded in letters. The key is NUMERALCOD the letters correspond to 0123456789

I once spent the better part of a week under a similar looking Bucyrus Erie. It was a 22b dragline from the 1940's or 1950's. The sprockets that mesh with the tracks had become so badly worn it would no longer move itself and had to be fixed in place.

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Sun, Oct 20, 2019 8:56 PM

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If you go back, look for a series of letters cast into the block. Caterpillar foundry cast in a date so it looks like a date, just is coded in letters. The key is NUMERALCOD the letters correspond to 0123456789

I once spent the better part of a week under a similar looking Bucyrus Erie. It was a 22b dragline from the 1940's or 1950's. The sprockets that mesh with the tracks had become so badly worn it would no longer move itself and had to be fixed in place.

My sleuth work indicates it would be a D13000 engine with 7B4607 block casting number which equates to a 7B4619 part number similar to that used in the 1H6852 to 9350 1Hxxxx series D8 built in 1940 -41.
Should be a s/n tag on the left hand side rear of the block.

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Sun, Oct 20, 2019 10:43 PM

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My sleuth work indicates it would be a D13000 engine with 7B4607 block casting number which equates to a 7B4619 part number similar to that used in the 1H6852 to 9350 1Hxxxx series D8 built in 1940 -41.
Should be a s/n tag on the left hand side rear of the block.

The data plate with the model number/ serial number on most of the BE machines can be found along the inner frame work.

Sitting in the seat, drop your left arm and just above the floor toward the back of house is where it probably is located. May have several inches or feet of mud and grease.

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Mon, Oct 21, 2019 2:13 AM

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My sleuth work indicates it would be a D13000 engine with 7B4607 block casting number which equates to a 7B4619 part number similar to that used in the 1H6852 to 9350 1Hxxxx series D8 built in 1940 -41.
Should be a s/n tag on the left hand side rear of the block.

AMAZING!! Thanks guys! I'm not a member here and I just stumbled upon the site looking for information on this old jewel. It actually looks like it was running when it was parked and the big pinion pines have grown up around it. I live in Southern Utah but I'm an old (life long) Nevada desert rat with rat friends that roam far and wide...lol. It was revealed to me from a great friend that got intel from another old timer. Guess that's how it goes huh? It is REALLY out in boonieville. and so close to the border of Area 51 that we tripped sensors and we had the goons upon us within 30 minutes...lol We looked harmless and no lives were lost. Pretty cool that this unmolested stuff still exists with NO BULLET HOLES!! Not even sure what the original owners were looking for but they sure dug a shirt load of test holes.
THANKS AGAIN.
PS...The pony still had compression when you turned it over..

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Mon, Oct 21, 2019 2:26 AM

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AMAZING!! Thanks guys! I'm not a member here and I just stumbled upon the site looking for information on this old jewel. It actually looks like it was running when it was parked and the big pinion pines have grown up around it. I live in Southern Utah but I'm an old (life long) Nevada desert rat with rat friends that roam far and wide...lol. It was revealed to me from a great friend that got intel from another old timer. Guess that's how it goes huh? It is REALLY out in boonieville. and so close to the border of Area 51 that we tripped sensors and we had the goons upon us within 30 minutes...lol We looked harmless and no lives were lost. Pretty cool that this unmolested stuff still exists with NO BULLET HOLES!! Not even sure what the original owners were looking for but they sure dug a shirt load of test holes.
THANKS AGAIN.
PS...The pony still had compression when you turned it over..

BE 30B ?? Front Shovel

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Mon, Oct 21, 2019 3:05 AM

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BE 30B ?? Front Shovel

Be 29-b
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Mon, Oct 21, 2019 3:46 AM

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Be 29-b
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That's in amazingly good shape.....needs rescuing!!!!

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Mon, Oct 21, 2019 4:03 AM

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That's in amazingly good shape.....needs rescuing!!!!

Change the Oil, fill the radiator, pour some fresh fuels in it. START IT! Drive it out of there! :cool2:

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Mon, Oct 21, 2019 6:47 AM

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Change the Oil, fill the radiator, pour some fresh fuels in it. START IT! Drive it out of there! :cool2:

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