History Of P&H Mining Equipment

From the video that I saw yesterday, I want retell about a history of P&H Mining Equipment.

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P&H mining equipment began as a small mechine and pattern shop of the first day of December in 1884. It was a partnership between Chicago born industrialpattern maker Alonzo Pauling and German immigrant and machinist Henry Harnish voguer. Although they were relatively young industrial artisans Alonzo was 27, while Henry was 29. The machine and pattern shop partners were otherwise smart and steady manufacturing veterans in the bustling industrial town of Milwaukee. At the first the little Pauling and Harnish burger shop specialized in making parts and machines for major industrial firm in Old Milwaukee steam engine poppet velves, for example steamship steering gears and beer kegs sealing machines.

In 1887 Pauling and Harnish Hager rebuilt a damaged bridge crane for the Edward P Allis manufacturing company. They made the workings more rugged and easy to operate maintain soon after hauling and Harnish began building more such trains for railroad repair shops and factories. Suddenly Alonso and Hanry had a product of their own. They began to expand their business to meet the growing demand for bridge cranes. Around this time growing numbers of repeat customers began referring to Pauling and Harnish maker a simply P&H. They were impressed with the exceptional quality and service. They obtained from the small machine and pattern shop. Soon even Alonso and Henry began referring to their business as P&H. It was convenient and far easier to pronounce more important. The initial P&H had become symbolic of exceptional quality and service value for industrial material handling equipment. The year 1893 was important for Pauling and Harnish, when the Westinghouse Electric Company bought their rival the Gibbs Electric Company, Pauling and Harnish voguer were able to acquire all of Gibbs machinery for making motors and controls that enabled P&H to begin designing and building their own rugged line of AC and DC motors and controls matced to the demands placed upon their industrial cranes customers. P&H insisted on the very best product design and manufacturing process control. This was important priority that would result in even greater value for P&H customers going forwarded.

1893 was also a pivotal year because of a bank panic. That caused a man to fall for P&H cranes Alonso and Henry realized their product line might be too narrow to sustain cash flow and growth through the ups and downs of the business cycle. They began to look at digging machines as path toward better balance and business groeth. The very first earth altering P&H machines was the P&H T1 cutter tamper. It featured a ram action pavement cutter and also a tamper plate for pressing loose material back into place or pipeline installation projects. Among the first P&H earth moving machines were trenchers for installing water pipelines. These were powerful and productive machines and they were just the start of an effort that would continue to again strength and deliver great value for contruction and mining operations. In 1920 the firm rolled out a Power Shovel called P&H model 206. This was a gem of a digging machine powered by the customers choice of a Waukesha gasoline engine a Buda diesel engine or a P&H electric motor. The P&H 206 had a dipper capacity of just ½ cubic yard. It is payload was all of 500 pounds. It was a rugged well-built easy to operate and easy to maintain digging mechine demand for P&H 206 shovels soared as P&H estabilished the national and later a global distribution and service support network by the middle of roaring 20s P&H 206 were being shipped to faraway Bombay India. P&H factory was humming with activity and P&H engineering was busy designing even more advanced digging and lifting. Machines P&H model 300 convertibles appeared in 1927.

They featured a common lower works crawler system upon which the customer could choose from several option including Power Sshovel dragline clamshell piledriver construction crane and skim scoop hauling in Harnish Vaguer knew their ability to succeed required applying only the very best people materials manufacturing methods and process control. You buy a shovel or crane for one purpose and that is to handle materials at the lowest possible cost. They declared in a product brochure in the final analysis the purchase of a shovel or crane is unimportant but the cost every yard important. They insisted P&H customers saw the logic and the great value in that position their P&H shovels and crane performed far better than similar machines built by other firms the value of the P&H brand was growing ever stronger P&H machines were a riveted steel plate design until the early 1930s that is when P&H transformed the entire product line to an all welded design advantages were clear compelling all walded machines were lighter and tougher for greater pay loads making possible far lower cost every tonne performance. Some of the first all walded P&H shovels went to work for works progress administration construction project during the great depression years of the 1930s it was alsoduring the 1930s that P&H began to apply Ward Lennard DC drive systems to its shovels for faster digging and less fatigue for the shovel operator great strength and endurance and sore mescles and fatigue had been a normal part of the job of the shovel crane operator as large levers needed to be pushed and pulled to operate the machine. Ward Lennard drive system changed all that and made possible greater tonnage every hour for the mine and contruction site with the outbreak of world war 2 in 1939.

The P&H  factory slowly returned to full production once again following the difficult depression era decade. P&H employees concentrated on building crane and welding machines for industry and electric shovel for the mining industry. By 1942 the factory was at full strength and shipping large volumes of equipment for the war effort P&H contruction equipment helped build port and runways and battle damaged bridges during the conflict that ended in 1945. During the 1950s P&H continued to refine its shovels for greater productivity and reliability performance. In 1968 P&H introduced what would become one of its finest  ever electric mining shovels. The first three P&H 2800 went to work for a metallurgical coal mine in Western Canada. Their durability and productivity was such that they were still moving large volumes of material for that mine over 20 years later. P&H began making crawler mounted drag lines back in 1920. In fact P&H is belived to have introduced the first gas engine powered drag line. However credit for the first walking type drag line belongs to John W pages founder of the page engineering company based in Chicago in 1903. P&H in 1988 purchased the page engineering walking dragline product line to broaden its equipment solutions for the mining industry. P&H engineer and manufacturing specialist soon applied voice of customer inputs to developed an all-new 60 meter class P&H 90 20 walking dragline. Soon after the first 90 20 went into service  of 1996 several more were deployed to coal mines in Australia in Canada, thanks to the exceptional productivity and ease of maintenance value they provide. In 1991 P&H acquired the drilling rig product line of gardner-denver to further increase the range of valuable cost reducing solutions  from P&H for surface mining operations as they did with walking draglines, P&H engineers and manufacturing personnel  began combining voice of customer suggestions  with P&H know how to develop increasingly valuable drilling  rigs for hard rock mining operations. The P&H 320 X PC is the latest example of this process, it is one of the standout drilling machines available today in iron ore copper and matallurgical coal operations, also in 1991 P&H responded to the arrival a new generation of high-capacity haul trucks by introducing the P&H 4100 X PC electric shovel built P&H tough for the demanding mining operations the P&H 4100 also features time-saving maintenance friendly systems or lower cost mining operations. By the year 2009 and the 125th anniversary of P&H mining equipment P&H 4100 class shovel placements were fast closing in on the record placement of P&H 2800 class shovels AC Drive and P&H 4100 C Boss and 4100 X PC shovels are now the next generations loading tools of choice for high performance mining operations also on the near horizon are the P&H in pit crushing conveying systems that can provide many minds with an attractive alternative to truck based mature handling at the heart of the P&H crush convey system is a mobile mining crusher matched to a P&H shovel and designed for optimized production and maintenance management.

P&H Mining Equipment is proud to have evolved and excelled over the course of 125 years since our founding in 1884, our co-founders Alonzo Pawling and Henry Harnischfeger set us on a course for success, thanks to their focus on crafstmanship. They also had a tenacious purpose to provide our customers with the best quality and service, their high standards attracted not only legions of devoted customers for P&H equipment but also thousands of great employees over the course of our history through the good time and the challenging times, our employees have found ways to maneuver to overcome adversity and to create highly valuable solutions for our P&H customers that focus on excellence.  Continues to this day, we look back with pride on the P&H journey across 125 years and we look forward with exciment as we strive for ever higher quality and service performance behalf of our custom.