No hydraulics, just steel cables, gravity, and muscle!

[u/Bodzio1981]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnWnX-mAtWA

Get up close with a cable-operated mining excavator using a clamshell bucket to scoop up to 75 tons of coal in a single, smooth motion.

[u/springofdiscontent]

I wish it was zoomed in more, I could see too much of the whole machine in the background.

[u/rolandofeld19]

Draglines. These things eat mountains.

[u/BajaDivider]

and pulleys

[u/BlackClagger]

Don’t the cable spools use hydraulics?