Label
Concept definition
An <EXCAVATING_MACHINE> with a <LOAD_CABLE> by which a bucket or grab is drawn towards the <EXCAVATING_MACHINE>; drag-line [SOED, "drag-line excavator"].
Narrative
This public-domain image was taken from the cover of the Office of Surface Mining publication Guidelines for the use of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), version 1.06, on Mined Lands, Construction Sites and Reclaimed Lands, and further annotated. See also Wikimedia Commons.
Narrative
A dragline in Yenikoy open-pit coal mining, Milas, Mugla, Turkey. Figure provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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