Coal Loader

On Tuesday I had a medical appointment in Newcastle and although I took my camera with me, I didn't have much opportunity to take photos.

I did manage to capture this photo of one of the coal loaders filling up a bulk carrier with coal though as we drove past at Kooragang Island. I was pretty lucky not to get any telegraph poles or cars in the picture.

[Diana]

Great capture of this amazing machine!

[Valerie Chesney]

Wow Babs! I have not seen this before/. A massive machine.

[eDorre]

That's quite a bit of machinery! Cheery color

[Lois]

Huge coal loader!

[Dawn]

Wow that is certainly big

[Annie D]

Soooo big

[Issi Bannerman]

Wow, never seen such a thing. That's impressive.

[Beryl Lloyd]

What a huge contraption! so huge!

[Nigel Rogers]

Wow, that's a big Meccano set!

[Joan Robillard]

Big piece of equipment

[Wylie]

It will be good to see the end of coal!

[Susan Wakely]

A massive piece of equipment.

[Dione Giorgio]

Beautiful piece of machinery. Imagine how hard it was for workers doing the job manually. Great capture.

[John Falconer]

Great shot. I worked in hard rock mining or a long time and loved the huge machines.

[Faye Turner]

Nicely captured

[Peter Dulis]

wow - quite the machine

[mittens (Marilyn)]

This is so interesting looking.

[Fisher Family]

That is an impressive piece of engineering!

Ian

[carol white]

Quite an impressive machine

[Korcsog Károly]

Monumental structure beautifully captured

[Pat Knowles]

You fitted the whole thing in…..does Australia have much coal? I wouldn’t think it was much used in the home!

[Carole Sandford]

That’s quite an impressive piece of equipment!

[haskar]

Nice industry shot.

[Annie-Sue]

really striking shot

[Helen Jane]

well it is a really good picture of this industrial machinery

[Babs]

@happypat Australia is one of the worlds largest suppliers of coal. 70% exported to Eastern Asia and 30% to power stations. Power stations are now moving away from coal though.
Australia is the largest exporter of metallurgical coal (used for making steel) and the second largest exporter of thermal coal ( for power stations).

[Babs]

@johnfalconer They are magnificent machines. A good friend of ours was in hard rock mining, living all over the world. He has a fabulous mineral collection. I don't think he likes coal mines. ha ha
Port Waratah Coal Services have tours here in Newcastle and fascinating to go on whatever your views on coal mining are. You may be interested. https://pwcs.com.au/community/site-tours

[Pyrrhula]

A great shot of this very impressing technic.

[Cliff McFarlane]

Now that is big

[Renee Salamon]

That’s one big machine

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Wow- that's quite a contraption!

[Shutterbug]

That is an interesting piece of equipment. Nice that you fit it all in.

[Milanie]

That's quite a piece of machinery

[Babs]

@ludwigsdiana @happysnaps @edorreandresen @loweygrace @Dawn @annied @jamibann @beryl @nigelrogers @joansmor @pusspup @wakelys @sangwann @fayefaye @pdulis @mittens @fishers @carolmw @kork @kork @carole_sandford @haskar @anniesue @helenhall @pyrrhula @clifford @rensala @olivetreeann @shutterbug49 Thanks. Definitely a big boys toy isn't it. I was lucky to get it all in one picture and no cars in the foreground considering we were travelling about 80 kph. I have to add that David was driving, not me ha ha

[Peter]

Wow an impressive piece of kit well captured Babs:)

[Linda Burgess]

A photo to be very proud of. It’s great and the size of the thing really comes across.

[Babs]

@keeptrying I was pretty lucky with this shot not to get any cars in the photo especially as David was driving about 80 kph

[Rick]

Interesting piece of equipment. Great shot.

[Kathy]

Such unique and probably single purpose equipment.

[Skip Tribby - ​🖖]

Wow that is a very impressive piece of equipment