The W1400 & 1800 coding denotes the rough weight of each dragline i.e. W1400 = 1,400 tons, W1800 = 1,800 tons. One Drag Line excavator named Sundew is very much part of local folklore having made ...

Randy Lewis: It's called dragline silk, and it's the silk that they use to make the framework of the web and the radii, but they also, the reason it's called dragline is that whenever they walk ...