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Oddball at dawn

            A 5 shot merge of 'Oddball' a Bucyrus Erie BE 1150 Walking Dragline Excavator,

initially identified as B-E No. 47858 the machine left the factory in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 30th December 1948 and started work in 1949 for the company A E Dick Construction at Phillipi, West Virginia, where it worked for four years before coming to Britain. It worked first at Tirpentwys opencast site near Pontypool from 1954 until 1963. Unlike the other three BE 1150-Bs working on opencast sites in Britain this one had electrical equipment built by General Electric (others in the UK had electrical equipment by Westinghouse) and was consequently known as “Oddball”. 

In 1963 Oddball was dismantled at Tirpentwys and transferred to the Poplars site near Cannock, Staffordshire, where it worked from 1964 to 1972. It was dismantled and moved again to start work in 1974 at its final site at St Aidans where it worked until the site became inundated by the flood of March 1988. she was handed over to the St Aidans Trust in 2020. The Friends of St. Aidans BE 1150 Walking Dragline have cared for and attended to her since 1997.

Taken on: March 25, 2022

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Camera: Nikon D750, f/9.0, 1/640 sec, 26mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D750
Lens:	24.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-4.5
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	26mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Not Defined
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 23.2 (Macintosh)
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