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    obviously sped up footage - typical "cycle time" for a 3 cell unit like this is ~46 seconds. what you can't see in this footage is the positioner mechanism outside which is pushing those orecars through - the one I used to work on was a rack and pinion drive unit which had 1.1 MW of motive power, enough to tear through loaded ore cars if there was a hang-up or derailment.

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    Do the hitches swivel, or do they disconnect before turning them over?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post
    Do the hitches swivel, or do they disconnect before turning them over?
    2 major styles around here - both work on the principle of the coupler (hitch) swivelling...
    type 1 - all couplers can swivel, allowing every single ore care to turn independent of the adjacent car. - some firms have 3 cell dumpers, AND 2 cell dumpers. The 3 cell dumpers have each cell decoupled so it can run in single, forward 2 cell, rearward 2 cell, or triple cell mode to reflect maintenance status.
    type 2 - every second coupler can swivel, the alternate "coupler" is a dog-bone style solid link bar. This style means the cars are treated as "pairs", and go into 2 cell dumpers only. Rio Tinto use this style.

    The couplers are expensive, so the tradeoff is lower equipment cost (couplers) vs the flexibility of being able to treat and process each car as a separate entity at all phases of processing, maintenance, etc.



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