Nice short vid of remote control D11N at Ok Tedi.

That remote operator is so dark he better wear an orange cone on his head so don't run himself over. lol

Well the point was, in the video, the RC D11N’s are busy and it was nice to see a vid close up instead of the usual half-mile away on zoom lense. In the span of the 2-minute vid those three 93’s have dropped approximately 600+ odd tons of wet heavy overburden on the dump deck for them to shove over. If they kept the arrivals up constantly, that’s 18,000 tons an hour + for the dump Cats to process. I thought it was pretty good the way that guy was operating the radio-controlled 11N, keeping the floor clean and up-sloped for the rear dumps, getting the loads over the dump face pretty smartly and keeping the berm up on what appears to be a slumping face.

Hi, OZPHIL2.
That slumping face was one of the reasons they went to RC dozers, or so I was told by a man who claimed to have worked there for a couple of years. The other reason was that pioneering new areas was something of a 'challenge' due to steep slopes and wet ground.

just my 0.02. Thanks for the link.

Hi, OZPHIL2.
That slumping face was one of the reasons they went to RC dozers, or so I was told by a man who claimed to have worked there for a couple of years. The other reason was that pioneering new areas was something of a 'challenge' due to steep slopes and wet ground.

just my 0.02. Thanks for the link.

[quote="Deas Plant."]Hi, OZPHIL2.
That slumping face was one of the reasons they went to RC dozers, or so I was told by a man who claimed to have worked there for a couple of years. The other reason was that pioneering new areas was something of a 'challenge' due to steep slopes and wet ground.

just my 0.02. Thanks for the link.[/quote]


Deas, Phil,

What are they mining here that requires the wet overburden to be stripped? How deep is the overburden and what are they using to load the trucks? Are the crews mostly abos?

Curious minds want to know!

JanM