Develop a winch-drawn dozer blade equipment system. Volume I. Development of a winch-drawn dozer blade system. Final report
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7073060
A new approach to reclaiming the spoil areas produced by area-type mining operations has been developed. This system uses a machine known as a winch-dozer consisting of a pair of large back-to-back, scraper-type blades which are drawn by a wire rope across spoil piles, moving back and forth between a tailblock anchor and a drawworks winch unit developed as an attachment to a large crawler tractor. The program described in this report has produced a feasibility prototype system that was evaluated in operating mines. Based on operating performance and economic assessments of the feasibility prototype, the required characteristics of a production winch-dozer system were defined. The production system is a more cost-effective and energy efficient reclamation system compared to conventional techniques. Volume I of this report describes only those areas of the contract dealing with the design, development and testing of the winch-dozer system. Volume II of the report describes only those areas of the contract dealing with the development of a spoil-plane for leveling surface mine spoils.
- Research Organization:
- Southwest Research Inst., San Antonio, TX (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC01-75ET12394
- OSTI ID:
- 7073060
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ET/12394-2-Vol.1; ON: DE82022260
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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