I love watching these machines go! I went to a diesel mechanics school in Nashville Tennessee in the mid 70s and eventually got a job at the local Cat dealer. I had to move back to Florida and transferred to a dealer in Tampa. I worked the repair floor and machine shop but the 88 mile round trip to work got too much. Family situation got in the way and had to leave Cat behind. I got to operate every machine on the lot including "other color" trade-ins. I came close to operating heavy equipment in the service but it didn't happen. Instead I had a parallel path in machine shop work and it has served me well. I'm 63 now and fully disabled so I get to relive the days I got to run these magnificent machines. Cheers Terry
I was heavy Equipment operator 35 years , operating Engineering Local #3, I ran 657 , 641 and 637 pus pull scrapers for few years , most did dozer, motor graders and Excavator work, retired now.
Great video. This is the first one I ever saw where the scrapers push & pull each other to get loaded. Great idea as it frees up the crawler tractors to do other jobs. I grew up farming and have ran all kinds of machinery, but the one thing I have always wanted to do, even for just a few minutes, is to drive one of these scrapers. I have always been told, though the biggest drawbacks to driving them is that they will beat you to death over time. Maybe these newer ones are not like that.
@@GAMMA_AF fuck they are run a blade through a mine field of rock a clods of shit at 30 mile an hour or anything else with small tires and u will break ur back or neck doing it twice 27s and smaller are bouncy as hell but 37s on up are not a horrible ride u haven't run enough iron obviously
I love watching these! CEE an Australian repair youtube has some videos repairing the bail arms including 1 released last night "Repair Bail Arm BROKEN Into 3 Pieces". It's great seeing these machines running after seeing how they break!
When you get hooked up along a slope or a ledge once the front scraper is loaded he has to over compensate and stay over farther or he pull his partner off not good
When I first got into heavy construction in 1968 there were 657s on site building the sea wall up, they were awesome bits of kit then and still are. Thanks C A BLACKWELL for introducing me to them.
When I was a kid in the 1960's we lost our farm to interstate 79. We had to walk a mile to our bus stop. I remember these scrapers or pans as they were called at the time coming down off the top of a hill fully loaded with yellow clay and they would deposit in what was our cornfield.They were Green Euclid brand.
At one time, we were running 19 of those 657 Scrappers. The guys ran in Pairs and once they were loaded or after they Dumped, it was "Off to the Races", they didn't screw around.
@@dennisholst4322 I did a couple of jobs with Lumsdain before I became an Owner/Operator in 1989. I always worked in rental as a slopeboard hand just like my father was. I never worked for ACI but I see Bob Tally once in a while.
@@CanyonRunVideos Bob tally and Troy Ward were the boss es Chuck Masterson at Chino hills Herman Schroeder how is Steve I loved his dad Bob Fulton they are the best
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Yeah, earth moving and excavating is tough to just watch it at normal speed. Time lapse is the way to go, and just have some cut scenes to regular speed spliced in and it makes it a lot more satisfying to watch.
The contractor probably has a fuel cost adjustment clause in the contract. Also, the contractor, given his huge fuel consumption, can likely negotiate a fixed cost for a particular contract and include that as part of the bid. Either way, or some other way, the contractor will protect himself from fuel price spikes.
Hmm.. 8 to 10 yards in each scraper. maybe 5 to 7 minutes a round trip times 60 then times 8 hours a day. Times that by 15 to 20 scrapers.. So that's about "mind blowing" as it gets or almost 1000 yards per machine x 15\20. I'd hate to pay their fuel bill.
Que bueno encontrarme con este video de motortradillas de este tipo de serie 657 y el rendimiento que producen estos equipos,se pueden cargar entre si en cadenas
Can you imagine walking into a Cat dealership and saying "Yeah, I'll take 50 of the 657s - and throw in a couple of D10s as well thanks. We've got a big job coming up!".
I was on a job site in so cal in your Belinda Calif a pain stwart designed golf course in 1995 they had 2 piggy backed scrappers with a Dozer pushing them I have never seen that much dirt moved that fast it was on a oil field property I had to go in with a backhoe and get the flow line pipes so they didn't get. Cought up in the scrappers PAIN STEWART'S PLANE WENT DOWN ABOUT THAT TIME
I’d can just imagine the daily fuel costs for those group of scrapers and few dozers doing the ripping as well as trimming them sidewalls down, as well as the loaders pulling them little scraper boxes behind them. Ouch!
Be nice to have some 657s over here, unfortunately there a little heavy for our ground conditions, 637s are pretty much it on a gud day, 627s 623s and 613s rule the roost the rest of the time
Fuel is insane just for one large machine per day....a 349f excavator will eat easily 100+ gallons per day at only filling 150 super 10 dump trucks per day. If used non stop it is much higher. I don't know how much grease scrapers take, but a big excavator sucks it up quick and smaller equipment can have many grease points. Imagine how much grease a service truck goes through each day and then how much fuel the fuel trucks will go through. Don't forget diesel exhaust fluid. We used 2 55 gallon drums for loading 4200 dump trucks with dirt over 8 weeks and running a little d6 finish dozer and a work truck. This is a massive scale compared to the jobs I work on. It is a lot to wrap your head around, but all their numbers are bigger.
Crazy to think all this for a new road that leads to new homes with our water shortage. Oh wait just open the water gates a little more at the Delta. Oh shit did I say that out loud.
A grader blade attached to the dozer that's novel we just get up on the dozer shape the batter 2_1 at most or get a 16 grader in to do it very innovative like it
Where the heck is CalTrans allowing a new road to be built in SoCal these days? Well. San Clemente is is deepest. darkest South County OC, so the county is going to approve.
last time I walked outside, the 60 solar panels on our roof were covering our electric bill but they don't do anything for my diesel pickup to haul small equipment and my mail says California (should be komnifornia) not state of liberal utopia. Yeah, I live in the real world and their solutions only cover a small fraction of our real world needs.
The best dirt shifting video yet - all noise (no distraction music) and mega power - transmission whirling. The power of diesels 😊
Those 8 speed transmission did something
Where is our Engineering now bunch of wire heads they were launching rockets to the moon before the 8 speed tranny was put into production
We are coming through whether you like it or not
Ur a nerd
The level of precision these heavy equipment machines display while performing massive tasks is beyond impressive.
These guys work together unlike our congress
It's steeper than you think otherwise they would be hooked up
No weigh scales either
@@dennisholst4322They are hooked up
I love watching these machines go! I went to a diesel mechanics school in Nashville Tennessee in the mid 70s and eventually got a job at the local Cat dealer. I had to move back to Florida and transferred to a dealer in Tampa. I worked the repair floor and machine shop but the 88 mile round trip to work got too much. Family situation got in the way and had to leave Cat behind. I got to operate every machine on the lot including "other color" trade-ins.
I came close to operating heavy equipment in the service but it didn't happen. Instead I had a parallel path in machine shop work and it has served me well.
I'm 63 now and fully disabled so I get to relive the days I got to run these magnificent machines.
Cheers
Terry
Wonderful experience my friend Terry. Greetings from Huacho, Peru.
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Life is an expression running big iron you never forget
We can getcha in the seat bet you can still get a load
Nice video! I worked in an Iron Foundry in Illinois for 38 years. We made castings for CAT the entire time I worked there. I was their Core Room Supt.
Mapleton foundry.
40 yr CAT man myself.
international sales.....Canaada, Europe, Asia.
super great company,
You have a lot of experience on this
@@misiclover1658 M brother lives in Mapleton at Lake Camelot. He handles the tackle sale they have there in February every year.
I was heavy Equipment operator 35 years , operating Engineering Local #3, I ran 657 , 641 and 637 pus pull scrapers for few years , most did dozer, motor graders and Excavator work, retired now.
love how the machines work together for more power and traction , push and pulling !
Great video. This is the first one I ever saw where the scrapers push & pull each other to get loaded. Great idea as it frees up the crawler tractors to do other jobs.
I grew up farming and have ran all kinds of machinery, but the one thing I have always wanted to do, even for just a few minutes, is to drive one of these scrapers.
I have always been told, though the biggest drawbacks to driving them is that they will beat you to death over time. Maybe these newer ones are not like that.
They don't beat u to death they just are high production iron told to go like a bat out of hell
@@huvvyThey do beat the piss out of you. It's one of the roughest pieces of equipment out there.
@@GAMMA_AF fuck they are run a blade through a mine field of rock a clods of shit at 30 mile an hour or anything else with small tires and u will break ur back or neck doing it twice 27s and smaller are bouncy as hell but 37s on up are not a horrible ride u haven't run enough iron obviously
I'd have a lounge chair some refreshments and just watch mesmerized at all this
I love watching these! CEE an Australian repair youtube has some videos repairing the bail arms including 1 released last night "Repair Bail Arm BROKEN Into 3 Pieces". It's great seeing these machines running after seeing how they break!
Good welders can fix just don't them
I operated 657s in the Australian mines 20 years ago . A great machine. One needs a good experienced partner when hooking up the two machines
You bet
When you get hooked up along a slope or a ledge once the front scraper is loaded he has to over compensate and stay over farther or he pull his partner off not good
The scrapers are impressive! Let us not forget the cat 9t ripping for them to keep going! The lone ranger to speak of . Its a team effort ! 👏 Go team!
I love moving dirt I don't need an allegiance the people I worked with and for have given me.the experience that isn't going to be put in the library
God has his best crew and no body will be better
Appreciate this magnificent accomplishment
Ripper cats are directional
🧡 Much scraper action - I love it! 🧡
Cool finally a video with a couple tidy boards ,lots of tire spinning but hey keep it floored ,the 11 looked lonely he needs to b invited too
Wow some amazing use of weight and momentum and crazy power wow literal mountains being moved, impressive to say the least
When I first got into heavy construction in 1968 there were 657s on site building the sea wall up, they were awesome bits of kit then and still are. Thanks C A BLACKWELL for introducing me to them.
Did not think they were anywhere near that old. I used to skin 627s in the 80s.
Bits of kit?
When I was a kid in the 1960's we lost our farm to interstate 79. We had to walk a mile to our bus stop. I remember these scrapers or pans as they were called at the time coming down off the top of a hill fully loaded with yellow clay and they would deposit in what was our cornfield.They were Green Euclid brand.
was the clay helpful for the cornfield?
These guys scared the scarecrow away
Powered with screaming Detroits
These Cat Skinners are serious! God bless them.
At one time, we were running 19 of those 657 Scrappers. The guys ran in Pairs and once they were loaded or after they Dumped, it was "Off to the Races", they didn't screw around.
That is some beautiful country and them guys are doing some awesome work the fuel the oil the labor that would be unreal for a day
Dear Lord scraper Paradise nothing but raw CAT Power!!!!!!!!!
The kid who’d have various on-going excavation projects around our house, I didn’t follow that path, but still love this stuff!
I worked with Sukut Construction for many years as an Owner/Operator and Sukut is number one in my book. Kent Elliott
Did he work for ACI or lumsdain
Who are you talking about in your comment?
@@dennisholst4322 I did a couple of jobs with Lumsdain before I became an Owner/Operator in 1989. I always worked in rental as a slopeboard hand just like my father was. I never worked for ACI but I see Bob Tally once in a while.
@@CanyonRunVideos Bob tally and Troy Ward were the boss es Chuck Masterson at Chino hills Herman Schroeder how is Steve I loved his dad Bob Fulton they are the best
@@CanyonRunVideos how is Jimmy Jenkins
Great video. Great scrapers and operators
Like grasshoppers in unison...what an awesome visual of industry going at it.....
Great video, always good to see a bunch of scrapers in action
Load make the boss some money he will keep you
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Loved seeing the board dressing the slope as a little bonus.
Hands down, BEST HEAVY EQUIPMENT and GRADING CONTENT on TH-cam.
Thank you!
Greatest show on Earth
Those are the guys that can put a shine on dirt
Pulling up hill is more like government style
The guys I worked with new better
Eating those hills up like a bunch of hungry, well, caterpillars!
They aren't a Amish
@@dennisholst4322 Putting down big horsepower either way.
Beautiful video i love scrapers my friends driving the whole life heavy equipment
Excellent job and great video!!! Congratulations 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Looks like a whole bunch of fun
hello friend, good job with heavy machinery🇰🇷🙋👍
Left CA for AZ 2 years ago but man do I miss the coastal clouds to keep the temps down. No such luck in PHX Thanks for the great video content.
ive been to Phenix and its hot AF !! in the summer
i have relatives there and in Scottsdale
Maybe it's global you have solar power available to run your air conditioner.send it up North in winter
Sand fleas wear head bands and deorderant
Phoenix a great place to be FROM
That yellow iron working its magic !!!
I get what scrapers do, but this job definitely needs a before and after photo to understand the job as a whole.
It ain't scribbling
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it would be nice to see a time-lapse from like 1 week of recording, so we can see how the mountains disappear on video :D
I was thinking the same thing.. but even with just one days worth.
Yeah, earth moving and excavating is tough to just watch it at normal speed. Time lapse is the way to go, and just have some cut scenes to regular speed spliced in and it makes it a lot more satisfying to watch.
Without photography u have a different relm
@@dcos5 some of these guys have pretty fat wives us guys weren't so fortunate
Dumb guys are more intruvuretive it is a place Educated people don't know
Un sueño hecho realidad, trabajar en un mega proyecto cortando con los raspadores❤
I can watch this all day.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
A great video. I love it when these earth moving machines roll a little coal.
I love these electric cars doing all this work!!!
Maybe Chevy Chase could wire it
Just remember, electric power is only a horses ass compared to diesel.
Comparings oranges to suitcases are we?
@@ryanyoung7433 Your question is obviously a non sequitur.
@@brianzybura8633 its adorable you're trying out new words. Doesn't quite work in this example though, but you'll get it someday =}
That is a crazy amount of machines! Love it!
They were meant to do it better than anyone
love seeing video like this i miss being on the field
Man, the guy in the 2nd scraper’s got it made 😂
Went to school with one of the Sukuts back in the 70s.
Lord have mercy on the man who pays the fuel bill. That can't be cheap.
You should see the labor bill...
@@michaelmccarthy4615 what’s labor?
@@arym1108 The organic computers that control those machines and make them profitable.
The contractor probably has a fuel cost adjustment clause in the contract. Also, the contractor, given his huge fuel consumption, can likely negotiate a fixed cost for a particular contract and include that as part of the bid. Either way, or some other way, the contractor will protect himself from fuel price spikes.
That’s your tax dollars at work right there! YOU are the man paying the bills!
Hello SoCalEarthMovers:
AWESOME!!!
These guys know how to move some dirt in a hurry.
4:38
Filling 44 yds. in under 25 seconds.
Double double
LOVE THESE VIDEOS!!! Can anyone on here approximate how much dirt this team relocates in an 8 hour shift? It's got to be mind blowing!!!!
They used to work tens
Hmm.. 8 to 10 yards in each scraper. maybe 5 to 7 minutes a round trip times 60 then times 8 hours a day. Times that by 15 to 20 scrapers.. So that's about "mind blowing" as it gets or almost 1000 yards per machine x 15\20. I'd hate to pay their fuel bill.
@@Mywhtjp load limit on 57 is 104000 t hat is more than 8 or 10 yards
@@dennisholst4322 I found this: Heaped Capacity 44yd3 or Rated Payload
104058lb
12000 to 15000 BCM ( bank cubic metres)
That's the first time I have seen them working in tandem.
Que bueno encontrarme con este video de motortradillas de este tipo de serie 657 y el rendimiento que producen estos equipos,se pueden cargar entre si en cadenas
I’d like to see how the go electric crowd would power this fleet
Long extension cords and solar panel trailers attached to the backs with windmill props on the fronts like planes
That would largely be the same crowd that does not want to see roads built....
Stick a wire there up there they wouldn't get much more done
Power shift on a cloudy day
@@bigiron3304 and a helmet with a twirrley thing mounted on it that would probably get down the haul road
Wow huge heavy equipment
Can you imagine walking into a Cat dealership and saying "Yeah, I'll take 50 of the 657s - and throw in a couple of D10s as well thanks. We've got a big job coming up!".
Sukut good company in so cal 👍
No worries about "Gov't Juice" on this job.
Where is this, and what exactly are you guys building?
I see this as one city coming up.Your right the fuel bill 150 to 200 gallon of fuel per tractor. And there are a lot stuff on this site.
Wow good work freind
I was on a job site in so cal in your Belinda Calif a pain stwart designed golf course in 1995 they had 2 piggy backed scrappers with a Dozer pushing them I have never seen that much dirt moved that fast it was on a oil field property I had to go in with a backhoe and get the flow line pipes so they didn't get. Cought up in the scrappers PAIN STEWART'S PLANE WENT DOWN ABOUT THAT TIME
Great teamwork 👍
já trabailhei com 637 aqui no Brasil, hoje estou aposentado conheço bem essas máquinas.
Hope you Guy's are Rockin' A/C in those 57's cabs.
I’d can just imagine the daily fuel costs for those group of scrapers and few dozers doing the ripping as well as trimming them sidewalls down, as well as the loaders pulling them little scraper boxes behind them. Ouch!
Symbol of greatness
Nice to see "SEABEES" doing a great job
I've did this work it was so much fun
I like this video 🚜🥰🥰🇰🇭
Be nice to have some 657s over here, unfortunately there a little heavy for our ground conditions, 637s are pretty much it on a gud day, 627s 623s and 613s rule the roost the rest of the time
Just think of the operating costs per day on that job.
Fuel is insane just for one large machine per day....a 349f excavator will eat easily 100+ gallons per day at only filling 150 super 10 dump trucks per day. If used non stop it is much higher. I don't know how much grease scrapers take, but a big excavator sucks it up quick and smaller equipment can have many grease points. Imagine how much grease a service truck goes through each day and then how much fuel the fuel trucks will go through. Don't forget diesel exhaust fluid. We used 2 55 gallon drums for loading 4200 dump trucks with dirt over 8 weeks and running a little d6 finish dozer and a work truck. This is a massive scale compared to the jobs I work on. It is a lot to wrap your head around, but all their numbers are bigger.
Damn that’s a lot of scrapers
A lot of good operators
Caterpillar get them stickers on there.😊
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Where are those Benjamin Holt Tourna-pulls moving all that terra?
57-36 spin those tires...maybe operator related to tire salesman.
Great Video
Crazy to think all this for a new road that leads to new homes with our water shortage. Oh wait just open the water gates a little more at the Delta. Oh shit did I say that out loud.
Ponzi schemes all require new blood.
A grader blade attached to the dozer that's novel we just get up on the dozer shape the batter 2_1 at most or get a 16 grader in to do it very innovative like it
Would love to see a Timelapse of how much these move in a day
So what site prep is needed before a scraper starts shifting sand by the seashore? And is this the 241 or a local development road?
How many letters a day would one of these use ? Great to watch
Apparently those white lines painted on the planetaries are for show they sure weren't back in the day at ames
I'd liked to have seen the end product.
We run a fleet of 23 of them. Always put a 2 foot spill board on the tub. Move way more dirt in the east coast.
Making hole for landfill?
I worked on a site like that and if you spun the tires you were fired on the spot
What are they preparing the ground for, housing development?
Where the heck is CalTrans allowing a new road to be built in SoCal these days?
Well. San Clemente is is deepest. darkest South County OC, so the county is going to approve.
Fogs in there once in a while
They always sound like big vacuum cleaners to me, hoovering up all the dirt.
Wonder if they kept Boink
where does the dirt get moved to ? i see it being scooped up, but not where its being deposited.
Amazing mega machinery power moving soil
Curious where this is and what is being developed?
Where the heck is CalTrans allowing a new road to be built in SoCal these days?
Maybe I'm jumping the gun but when do motor graders come in? And could you drive a compactor down that grade?
Is the side blade on the dozer for doing slope cuts? Don't see them in indiana
Paul Lloyd said these are pulls. You actually can pull more than you can push
hay traduccion ?en los comentarios?
some colorful language will be going on in some of those cabs
Im surprised those pans aren’t solar powered..being out there in Cali.
last time I walked outside, the 60 solar panels on our roof were covering our electric bill but they don't do anything for my diesel pickup to haul small equipment and my mail says California (should be komnifornia) not state of liberal utopia. Yeah, I live in the real world and their solutions only cover a small fraction of our real world needs.
I heard that old scraper operators would piss blood from bouncing so much. Is this an old wives tale?
They just wanted to see the nurse they make it feel better
Before cat invented cushion hitch , scrapers were designed to stuff your back.
Cushion hitch and good air ride seats saved many a spine.
The old guys were tough and didn't come plain getting five to ten an hour they moved the dirt
ya gotta wonder how many gallons per min is being burned from all those dozers and scrapers lol