The one and only P&H 4100XPC in europe working in the aitik mine in northern sweden. He loads Caterpillar CAT 793 trucks.

Wow! Electric rope shovel instead of hydraulic - it is a surprise for me as in my ignorance in the area I was expecting only hydraulic. More P&H please! :D There're just amazing machines! The biggest shovel I've ever seen was russian EKG-10 with 10 cubic metres bucket and I was amazed - what a huge machine. But that device is a real king.  Its fascinating these shovels were invented in the early to mid 1800s and the design is basically the same. Yes they are much much bigger and no longer steam driven but those were some smart cookies long ago.  These outfits are old school but man there break out numbers are off the charts plus durability and high hour reliability, insane, soooo impressive.  I’m surprised the power supply cable doesn’t blow up on these things working in this harsh environment. I’m guessing it would be armoured cable but my experience as an electrician I’m thinking it would have to be swapped out regularly.  I would like to see a Diesel powered version of one of these. I wonder how much horsepower it would take 5,000+ maybe. Cruise line and locomotive Diesels could handle that easily.  If I had seen a video like this...   I would have spent the rest of my life doing everything possible to become a driver of a an awesome beast machine like that shovel.  It is flat-out disgusting how incredibly huge and badass and cool that machine is I just cannot wrap my head around how massive that bucket is and how much Earth it can move and the power needed to move that much earth..it just does it so effortlessly this thing is one cool customer!!