Manitowoc 4600 Dredging Sand and Gravel in Illinois

Fully rebuilt Manitowoc 4600. We bought it last year, already rebuilt. It had Tier 3 computer controlled Cat engines installed during the rebuild. It has a C-15 for drag/hoist, and a C-9 for swing and travel. The man that built it spared no expense in the rebuild. Everything was brought to new spec, except of course the engines, they were brand new from Caterpillar. According to the man that built it, it was quite a challenge setting it up with these engines, since it had never been done before! I have to give serious props to him, because the fit and finish is awesome, and it looks like a factory setup. It retains the VICON torque converter and air throttle setup. It burns 12 gallon of fuel per hour, which is about 1/5 of what I've been told the old single engine 379 Cat powered 4600's burn. It burns less than 1/2 of the fuel of the most efficient engines that were installed in 4600's, old twin Detroits or Cummins. You have to remember that when these were built in the 70's, most people didn't worry about the price of fuel because it was so cheap. It has 140' of boom, and swings a 6.5 cubic yard bucket. It will handle a 8 yard bucket with a 120' boom. It weighs 430,000 pounds. When you sit in the seat, the operators eye level is 13 feet off the ground.

We bought it to mine sand and gravel in IL. It works great in our application. The only problem is finding someone that can operate it. It takes some time in the seat to get productive with one. Once you start to get the hang of it, there is nothing that compares. Being able to reach so far out there (120+ feet) and to be able to dig so deep (60+ feet), and throwing 450-500 tons per hour, show me an excavator that can do that!

No one makes a machine that is this size anymore that can handle the duty cycle work of a dragline. If they did, it would be cost prohibitive for a small operation like ours anyway. A new machine like this would have to cost 4 mil or more.

Thanks for looking at our machine! We are pretty proud of it!

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