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I'm not sure this was zoomed in from the road with our camera. I'm thinking 5 to 7 cubic yards maybe.

Boy I completely forgot about this thread guess I better add more. That Michigan loader had probably be the largest I've ever run it must be pretty close in size to a Cat 988B.

I had to hang the bucket a little over the tailgate because I couldn't see the front of the truck box. It was however a nice loader to run I wouldn't mind spending days on end running it.

A limestone quarry stripping operation I worked on a few years ago. We could of used a much larger excavator and bigger rock trucks. The soil on top of the limestone formation was all glacial till so some places you'd have soft silt, clay, hard pan with big boulders in it which made it tough for the two excavator we had which were one Kobelco 260 and a Kobelco 250. The rock trucks were all 25 tonners, two Volvo's and two Caterpillars. The Cat's had good A/C and a softer ride but the Volvo's had far fewer break downs.

The view from the Kobelco SK260 a nice machine but a 750 or 800 size machine would of been more appropriate with about 6 40 ton Volvo rock trucks with how much material there was to remove. We already had a D8K managing the Overburden pile.

Some pictures of the equipment the crushing contractor had and the drilling contractor. The main loader that fed the plant was either a WA500 Komatsu or WA600 I could never clearly see the model number because of the dust and dirt that covered it. They had Cat 980's also working in there. But every time there was a blast they would have to shut down the plant and move everything. Other operations in the area would either use a larger loader to tram to the crusher or they would use rigid frame haul trucks to haul to the plant.

My pre-digital camera days, back in 2002 I came across Sureway Construction's EX1100 loading 35 ad 40 ton rock trucks in two passes or less.