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Hybrid Bucket Chain Excavator, 1300T (Vanilla)

The ultimate end-all solution to automated ice strip mining!
Didn't want to reinvent the wheel again and create yet another Bucket Wheel Excavator, and a point was made that they're not that great for strip mining flat terrain (as they shouldn't be, they're for mounds primarily!). There was a niche that needed filling.

And therein comes in the Bucket CHAIN excavator. While unfortunately I wasn't able to make a real moving chain, I was able to recreate the rest of the operating principle of it with adjustable boom for various terrain angles and whatnot!

Built as a hybrid between a BWE and a BCE, this model gets the best of both worlds. Usually BCE run on tracks along the open quarry moving the overburden (soil on top of ore seams) and exposing the lignite for BWE to dig, but since those are unfeasible in SE this was placed on a tracked motor carriage that allows it to freely roam the ice fields and harvest massive amounts of ore from flat terrain. Also useful for terrain flattening! (To be perfectly honest though, I just wanted to build a frame in this shape but didn't feel like a third BWE was in order.)

Too big? Too boring? Want to save some PCU? Try the smaller version! Marginally less effective, but all the more cooler! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1677951177

FEATURES:
-Same automation rules apply as the previous machines, fully automatic in a true fire and forget. Will excavate and move on its own. Smart, if the system snags it will grind itself to a halt instead of continuing regardless of state.
-Variable geometry chain boom
-Resource processing and dumping out the back.

UPDATE #1
-Updated discharge boom to accommodate the new haul truck!

READ CAREFULLY!

To start, find flat enough terrain and paste it in.
Verify that handbrake is on, and hit 6. The machine will now begin autonomous operation on flat terrain!

If you don't want it to move forward, simply leave the handbrake off! Handy if you want to dig a trench around it.

There is also the projected measuring stick to check where the cut will land, button "5". Variable reeving length options in 1 and 2 to adjust the boom angle. Finetuning can be done using groups "Reeving Front" and "Reeving rear". Adding maximum extension to rear increases cut depth and less minimum for front lifts the boom up from the tip. Use only increments of 0.1 at a time, the tolerance for excess mass up front is very low.

When cutting deeper than default be sure to increase the amount of ejectors!!!!!! Despite the shallow cuts the machine moves a huge amount of earth and if not checked will get nose heavy and tilt over. Current setup should be safe to use on any surface

ATTENTION!
You can add more drills to extend the boom, but again be sure to add counterweight slabs (blast doors, default light grey if you want a colormatch) and more ejectors!!!! Otherwise it will tilt forward and die as drills fill with mass.