Who was the biggest dragline until I came along? The DRE37 having a rest (look at the cars and vans in comparison to see how big it is)

The draglines are impressive pieces of machinery; each of the standard draglines is fitted with a 50 cubic metre bucket. However, those ones look like matchbox toys compared to Bucyrus DRE37 – the largest working dragline in the world, currently fitted with the largest bucket in the southern hemisphere with a capacity of 121 cubic metres! This beast weighs 7000 tonnes, but unbelievably only requires 2 people to operate it. Typically, when we went on our tour, the dragline was having a 10 week maintenance break so we didn’t get to see it in action. To look at this monster of a machine and then hear that it actually walks to where it needs to be is just unbelievable.