A ZQ-26 air loader is at work in an African customer’s underground mine, as shown in site footage shared for this HNYT update. The video follows one rail-mounted machine with an operator at its side controls, an air hose connected to the loader and rails extending along the wet mine floor. It provides a view of the equipment in its working environment, linking the model’s published specifications with conditions below ground.

The yellow machine is filmed from behind and to the side as the operator works the controls. Its worn paint, pneumatic connections and running gear are visible under the mine lighting. Overhead services, trailing hoses and the surrounding rock walls put the loader in context: underground equipment has to work within the space available around both the machine and its operator.

A closer look at the underground working arrangement

Across the roughly one-minute sequence, the loader is seen at different positions along the track while the operator remains beside the machine. The large connected hose runs toward the camera, and additional hoses and services follow the roadway. Reflections on the floor and rails show the wet conditions around the operating area.

These details are useful to a mine assessing how a rock loading machine will fit into its own workings. The railway establishes the travel path, while the supply hose has to reach the loading position. Space beside the loader matters as well as space above it, because the operator and the moving equipment share the same confined roadway.

The footage documents the machine in use, but the camera mainly shows its rear and side. It does not provide a clear, measured record of material entering the bucket or being discharged into a receiving car. The value of this update is the view of actual underground operation; hourly output and loading-cycle performance would require separate operating records.

Pneumatic loading matched to a mine railway

The ZQ-26 pneumatic rock loader is a compressed-air-powered model with a 0.26 m³ bucket. HNYT’s product page lists separate air motors rated at 11 kW for travel and 15 kW for lifting, a working-pressure range of 0.45–0.7 MPa, and rail-gauge options of 600, 762 and 900 mm. These are published model specifications, rather than measurements or confirmed settings for the machine in the video.

The same reference data gives overall dimensions of 2,440 × 1,380 × 1,500 mm, a tunnel width and height reference of at least 2.2 × 2.5 m, and an operating slope below 5 degrees. The distinction between body dimensions and working clearance matters: the loading movement, operator position and receiving equipment also need room. The mine’s actual layout must therefore be reviewed before confirming a configuration.

What this site view means for similar projects

For a mine considering pneumatic loading, the video makes several selection questions tangible. Can the loader travel on the existing rails? Is there room to operate it throughout the intended loading area? Can the compressed-air system support the machine at the point of use? HNYT’s guide to rock loader applications and selection explains how tunnel dimensions, power supply, material and receiving equipment influence the choice.

The air supply should be assessed as part of the installation, including pressure and available flow at the loader and the hose route to the working position. Track gauge, gradient, rock size, target output and receiving-car dimensions should be considered together. A matching bucket size alone does not establish that the complete loading and haulage arrangement will suit a particular mine.

This African site video adds an operating reference for buyers evaluating the ZQ-26. For a separate example of the model’s overseas deployment, HNYT has also reported on ZQ-26 loaders arriving at an overseas mining site. That earlier delivery report concerns a different update and is not presented as the shipment history of the machine shown here.

Planning a similar underground loading application? Send HNYT your required quantity and destination, tunnel width and height, rail gauge and gradient, rock size and target loading output, available air pressure and flow, and receiving-car dimensions. Request a ZQ-26 configuration review and quotation based on your mine’s operating conditions.