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Brian C wrote:Great photos from AIMEX Chris53...thanks very much for sharing with us!!
I notice that they decided not to make the 8750 boom and it's support structure black as per the photoshopped images on the website and brochures!!
Maybe the actual draglines will not be painted like that model.
It will be interesting to see if TWH continue to produce their ex-Bucyrus models for CAT.What will happen to the BYMO models that now fall under the CAT brand?
Cheers
Brian C I doubt we'll ever see an actual 8750 dragline in Cat colors.  Any mining company that purchases one will probably want it in their own company colors and not Cat. -Alex
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Great photos Chris, thanks for sharing! I'm impressed with the 8750, looks better than I expected in the yellow. Rowan.
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I can gaurantee you that is not the first Cat branded former Bucyrus/TEREX/O & K excavator in the dirt, the first yellow one yes but a 6060 went to work in Australia about a month ago.
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Gavin, That is very interesting to learn!!! You certainly know how to keep secrets then, don't you!!! Now that you have told us- please can you elaborate on where it is and post a pic if at all possible? If this 6060 is not yellow, my next guess is white with black u/carriage, cylinders, cab and rails along with CAT markings and model designation? The suspense is killing me...LOL
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The first Cat 6060 in australia is coloured white and is working for john holland issac plains mine near moranbah queensland. 
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Great picture Rhino! Thanks for posting! Rowan.
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Any pics of transport or being put together? What's the operating weight of this one?
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Its body is exactly the same as a Bucyrus/Terex RH340 so about 600T
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Thanks for the photo of the first 565 tonne CAT 6060!!Looks weird being white with black cab, yellow rails and Cat decals.... it's like a hybrid between a Terex O&K and a Cat!!! A year ago nobody would have expected to see such an excavator in real life!! Cheers Brian C
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It may look kind of funny in white with a black cab, but it sure looks better than the white and maroon that Bucyrus was painting them in.
Why anyone would paint a machine white though is beyond me, they get dirty and dull looking so fast.
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i like the look of it in mining white ... very sharp ... regards, larry 
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What's beyond me is why Cat didn't stick with the O&K model numbers for the hydraulic shovels. This "6018, 6030, 6060..." is the most retarded numbering I have ever heard of laurent o.e.987 wrote:i like the look of it in mining white ... very sharp ... regards, larry When it's clean, yeah
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JustinE wrote:What's beyond me is why Cat didn't stick with the O&K model numbers for the hydraulic shovels. This "6018, 6030, 6060..." is the most retarded numbering I have ever heard of
Perhaps, but do you understand what the former nomenclature reflected and have you bothered to research the logic of the Cat numbering to understand it? RH stood for "Roller Hydraulic" and if you dropped a 0 off the end of there model number this would give you the bucket size in cubic metres. Now if anyone knows these machines as time went on they all weilded different size buckets due to the material they would be digging and there model numbers became less relevant to anything. Cats philosophy even with the 5000 series was not about what size the bucket was but what payload the machine could swing, remember trucks carrying measurement is in tons/tonnes not cubes. So Cats numbering system reflects the payload the machine can swing regardless of bucket size which is ultimately determined by the material density. 6018, 18 tons/pass, 6030, 30 tons/pass, 6060, 60 tons/pass. 6000 lettering would just be convenient and distance them enough from the previous 5000 series and also show a bit of superiority to the 5000,s by going upwards in numbering, just like version 2 is better than version 1 if you know what i mean.
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Gavin84w wrote:JustinE wrote:What's beyond me is why Cat didn't stick with the O&K model numbers for the hydraulic shovels. This "6018, 6030, 6060..." is the most retarded numbering I have ever heard of
Perhaps, but do you understand what the former nomenclature reflected and have you bothered to research the logic of the Cat numbering to understand it? RH stood for "Roller Hydraulic" and if you dropped a 0 off the end of there model number this would give you the bucket size in cubic metres. Now if anyone knows these machines as time went on they all weilded different size buckets due to the material they would be digging and there model numbers became less relevant to anything. Cats philosophy even with the 5000 series was not about what size the bucket was but what payload the machine could swing, remember trucks carrying measurement is in tons/tonnes not cubes. So Cats numbering system reflects the payload the machine can swing regardless of bucket size which is ultimately determined by the material density. 6018, 18 tons/pass, 6030, 30 tons/pass, 6060, 60 tons/pass. 6000 lettering would just be convenient and distance them enough from the previous 5000 series and also show a bit of superiority to the 5000,s by going upwards in numbering, just like version 2 is better than version 1 if you know what i mean. Thanks Gav. I understand what it means, same as 5000 series, but I still think it sounds ridiculous
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Gavin84w wrote:JustinE wrote:What's beyond me is why Cat didn't stick with the O&K model numbers for the hydraulic shovels. This "6018, 6030, 6060..." is the most retarded numbering I have ever heard of
Perhaps, but do you understand what the former nomenclature reflected and have you bothered to research the logic of the Cat numbering to understand it? RH stood for "Roller Hydraulic" and if you dropped a 0 off the end of there model number this would give you the bucket size in cubic metres. Now if anyone knows these machines as time went on they all weilded different size buckets due to the material they would be digging and there model numbers became less relevant to anything. Cats philosophy even with the 5000 series was not about what size the bucket was but what payload the machine could swing, remember trucks carrying measurement is in tons/tonnes not cubes. So Cats numbering system reflects the payload the machine can swing regardless of bucket size which is ultimately determined by the material density. 6018, 18 tons/pass, 6030, 30 tons/pass, 6060, 60 tons/pass. 6000 lettering would just be convenient and distance them enough from the previous 5000 series and also show a bit of superiority to the 5000,s by going upwards in numbering, just like version 2 is better than version 1 if you know what i mean. There are still a few forum members that you can learn a lot from. Thanks Gav! Thanks! Colter ddbcustommodels.com
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Gavin84w wrote:RH stood for "Roller Hydraulic" Actually Gav, the RH stood for "Raupenbagger Hydraulik" which literally translates to hydraulic crawler excavator as I understand it.
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Greasemonkey wrote:Gavin84w wrote:RH stood for "Roller Hydraulic" Actually Gav, the RH stood for "Raupenbagger Hydraulik" which literally translates to hydraulic crawler excavator as I understand it. You're close, it's "Raupen-Hydraulikbagger". Raupen is Deutsche for caterpillar (the insect). Anyway, here are some RH120/6030 photos I've found since returning home. This photo is from Cleveland Brothers (Pennsylvania Caterpillar dealer) Facebook;  There are more photos here. This photo is from Zeppelin. Perhaps this is the unit featured in the International Mining magazine article? I could not direct link this because it was too large. You can see the full 1800 X 1346 image here
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I was so happy to see a new Cat 6030 land a job here in PA, and relatively close to home too.  These machines look awesome in Cat colors!
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not gonna lie, those look really good in CAT colors!
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