5. Bucket Wheel Machine
Bucket wheel machines are used to put coal out to the stockpile and reclaim coal from the stockpile. A bucket wheel machine can move approximately 3,000 tonnes of coal in an hour.
Pauline says...
The wheel is 9 metres in diameter and has nine buckets. One schoolchild once told us that she thought it looked like a giant sunflower, what do you think it looks like?
