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Need Info, Gardner-Denver crawler

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wolf_lungs

06-22-2005 09:50:37

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Hi Campers, cool site, I am looking to find information on an old crawler. Name on the radiator is Gardner-Denver, it is at a mine site out in the back of beyond. I have some digitals, tho they are poor with too much brush in the way. give me a yell if this rings a bell.
thanks from Alaska

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Hard Rock Bob

06-26-2005 07:54:04

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Re: Need Info, Gardner-Denver crawler in reply to wolf_lungs, 06-22-2005 09:50:37

Hey Pard . . .
Sounds like you got some good skinny on the Gardner rigs. Gardner Denver was an early pioneer in the Drilling equipment line. If I remember right they go back to around 1870. For a number of years they were one of the "better" pieces of Drilling equipment. In the early days most of this was done by hand (star-bit and a hammer with a spoon to remove the cuttings) but then electric and air powered machines came onto the scene. Jackhammers, Jacklegs and that sort of stuff was the main course. Then someone came up with the idea of hookin' a Jackhammer onto a movabale carraige. Some of my first drilling jobs were done with Jackhammers and what were called "Wagon Drills". From there they improved to the track crawler machines and as was stated in one of the other followup's - they eventually became selfcontained and even had enclosed cabs for the driller. I think other companues came along with better ideas and Gardner Denver sort of slid out of favor - especially in the last 20 years or so. I broke my teeth on the old Wagin-Drills and 123's and they were always special to me . . but time marches on and few are around now. Hope you have learned something from all of this.
Hard Rock Bob

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Deas Plant

06-25-2005 18:43:13

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Re: Need Info, Gardner-Denver crawler in reply to wolf_lungs, 06-22-2005 09:50:37

Hi, Wolf-lungs. Rob in Yukon is right, Gardner-Denver did make crawler-based drill rigs. In the 1940"s to 1970"s, they made crawler carriers for the drill gear only and the compressor was towed behind by a drawbar with compressed air being fed to the carrier by a bull-hose. At the work site, the compressor could be un-hitched and the drill rig moved around on its own trailing the air hose back to the compressor.

Later on they made fully self-contained rigs with compressor and drill rig mounted on the one crawler base and even later with the operator station on the rig instead of having to stand beside the drill.

I think they are now out of the manufacture of these hard-rock drill rigs as I couldn"t see any mention of drills on their product list. Whether or not spares are still available, I have no idea.

Hope this helps.

You have a wonderful day.
Best wishes. Deas Plant.

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Rob in Yukon

06-23-2005 21:14:28

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Re: Need Info, Gardner-Denver crawler in reply to wolf_lungs, 06-22-2005 09:50:37

Hi guy, I don't know much about this except that the only Gardner-Denver crawlers I have ever seen was a carrier for airtrack drills and diamond drills working underground. These had air driven track motors and were as noisy as all get out. Plugs inside of muffs made it just bearable.

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wolf_lungs

06-24-2005 12:30:55

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Re: Need Info, Gardner-Denver crawler in reply to Rob in Yukon, 06-23-2005 21:14:28

Awesome this is just the stuff I needed, this is at an OLD hardrock mine, and this piece of equipment was parked a good ways off from the two abandon IH crawlers (they are pretty much identical). So your observation makes perfect sense. Do you have a Date of production on this equipment?

Any one else with information on Gardner Denver Crawler rigs?

Thanks again

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Declan

11-29-2005 22:10:04

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Re: Need Info, Gardner-Denver crawler in reply to wolf_lungs, 06-24-2005 12:30:55

There are quite a few of these rigs still operational in Australia. They are used for those special hard to get at places, particularly for civil construction. Last time I had anything to do with a GD was in '96. We were drilling anchor holes for pre-cast foundation for a gas plant on an island 200km off the coast of WA.

You still see the odd one in underground mines, although they have largely been superceded by more productive modern rigs.

Cheers

Declan

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