Digging new landfill cell with fleet of Caterpillar scrapers (Part 1)
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- When you have a tight time frame and close to 4 million cubic yards to move you call in Peed Equipment Company to bring in some of their large fleet of CATERPILLAR 657 scrapers to get it done! Part 2 will be up shortly with even more action...
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Brought back memories! Found myself reaching for my advil! Those machines will beat you like you owe them money!
I was in one of those scrapers. You are not wrong. 5 years running one and I've aged 20
This isn't a parking meter maid job
@@X_anonymous_guest_X wiser now
Nah they ride better than a fat gal on a water bed
🤣🤣😭😭!!
I need back surgery just from watching this hats off to the operators. You feel every rock and bump take a toll on you after 35 years.
Grade the haul road, hurt my back too.
Ain't that the truth!
So romantic, the coupling of young 657"s together across a dirt scraped meadow.
I have never seen so many scrapers in one place, what a sight, most excellent video, chas, Birmingham, uk.
Lol reminds me of bones on star trek saying have you ever seen the like.
Что? Переведи?
All politicians need to do twelve months on a stiff hitch scraper to appreciate how operators make a living.
It's a young blokes game.
Thank you for a lovely video with no annoying and distracting music, just throttle and turbo.
Hats off to the mechanics that have to work on these machines! Ppl have no idea the maintenance that goes on to keep these machines running properly.
🤘🏼🤘🏼
Don't forget the oilers
@@reubeng2110 that's rite ✌🏽
And money which goes on these beasts
True those guys can make unbelievable repairs over night very impressive
@@reubeng2110 I bet those learn from the mechanic
This is so wonderfully satisfying. My dad owned a earth moving company, I grew up playing with big toys like those. Thanks for the video.
Which earth moving company?
Wow so many people actually showed up to work. Lol pretty impressive site awesome work
What an awesome sight! I have never seen that many push pulls on a job. Very cool that someone could handle the logistics to make this work out and move that much material in such a short time. 👍
whats next job for all those machines?
Really appreciate the team work in compacting boils and soft ground on the haul roads. Great vid and share !
Thanks for the vid. I worked the CAT plant where those 657's are built. I even got to drive one and others.
So front scraper fills first, pushed by the rear, then the rear fills getting pulled? Brilliant strategy.
Yes, they are twin engine too. A single blade is driven by eight wheels from 4 engines (combined ~2000hp) for a ~50t cut of dirt in a few seconds.
A full tank of fuel would be about ~$2000. Tires are around $7k-8k each.
How do they coordinate? By radio?
@@bighueso2428 Morse code
@@tomz5611 I thought so.
@@bighueso2428 Radio's could help, but you don't need them. You just lead/follow around with the same guy all day. Push/pull isn't easy, but once you've done it a million times it doesn't require communication. Occasionally, if something does require a quick chat one operator does a 180 and you just swing open your doors. Big straight forward jobs, like the one in this video, wouldn't require much of that.
That was impressive Working nicely together as a team. Well done and thanks for the video. Always like watching.
Thanks Scott
Holy cow! 4 millions?! Amazing project. Great shots. Stay healthy!
Thanks Benjamin, you stay healthy too
Advanced work ethic
Good morning,
Thank you for the video! It’s great seeing that amount of machinery working in unison and moving a mountain!! Anyway take care and stay safe 👍😎🇬🇧.
I actually was one of the operators at that job site I remember it well making that landfill
Where was it located
Payroll every week must cost a fortune and fuel and tires. I would assume most of these just go back to a yard and sit and wait for the next big job and some are probably rented. Big projects don't grow on trees.
@@kevincoleman9761 they're rentals. They all came in from different rental agencies. They get rented out to offer protects after these guys are done.
Dude me too! I was in the yellow one!
@@tjfecteau8001 douchebag said what
There's a team of six of those scrapers preparing the ground on an old golf course behind my house that will soon be a housing development. They are fascinating to watch as they move in and around the other heavy equipment.
I learned yesterday watching a heavy equipment documentary that this is called a push-pull setup. Can confirm the pushing and the pulling.
Michael Davis where’d you find a heavy equip documentary curiously?
Yep, right at 3:12 the second machine lowers it loop onto the hook of the first one. The first one fills up while the second helps by pushing. When the first is full the second starts filling and is helped by the first one pulling. Hence the term "push pulls". These are also " double barrels". The have an engine/tranny driving front axle and another in rear driving rear axle.
@@pjs5191 There was a vid in my recommended list just before this one titled How to operate a scraper.
Michael Davis out here in SoCal that is called a Scraper Spread. Sometimes they are used in a trio instead of a pair. It’s a beautiful dance to watch experienced operators
It is push /pull. Should have more then 2 at a time hooked up. I Used to run 627's we had 14 hooked up at once on a job. Kept going around hooking up & dumping & get back in line & hook up again
So freaking awesome!! All that cat diesel power!!! Love it!! I want to be one of the mechanics that works on them!
And I'm excited I got to spread 20 yds today in someone's backyard. Whole different world right here. Love it.
I'm a plumber so I don't know too much about this aspect of the job this part usually happens before I show up but to me it looks like the dozers rip the dirt up and loosen it and soften it and then the scrapers come through and pick it up and haul it out and that must be more efficient than using the loader and haul truck system, I'm guessing?
You are exactly right.
@@michaelharris1455 sweet
Way more efficient
Nice video glad to be out there on that job. Learned a lot about moving moving dirt on that 651 still hoping to get on that 657 for the push pull
Possitive Job Creation. Quite impressive. Thanks for sharing from shadyhills Florida, USA
How much time did you have to spend convincing the dealer you were serious when the phone call starts off "Hello, I need to order 30 657's."
At that point you set up business meeting
I'm listening, go ahead !
just a few seconds approved upon seeing project proposal and budget allocation.
Peed have over 50 in there fleet, only people they need to call are the transport companies to move em!
just imagine the oil cost and upkeep of such machine. each one has two engines and two transmissions
When you never outgrow your Tonka trucks...
Wow, fantastic quality drone footage!
Мой отец работал на таком в Казахстане на Чилисайском фосфоритном руднике при СССР 💪💪💪💪💪
Great video, massive project, had a ride in a Terex scraper in the 70,s my love of all diggers, continues to this day,
Thanks Scott, scrape on😎
Great video, I enjoyed watching this!
I wish it were mentioned where this took place in the description. Also, fuel cost & usage as well as total project cost. Thanks for the upload!
I can’t even imagine not only the fuel bill but the overhead for a project like this!
$1000 - 2000 a day in fuel. Sites we built were smaller 10 -20 acres and were roughly a million dollars to build. That includes everything.
Excavating site
Clay liner
Plastic liner
Another clay liner
Crushed stone layer
And leach-aid piping (they pump/remove liquids from landfill)
@@anthonythorp7291 the fuel bill was well over 2 grand a day on this job
@@lumberjaketreeservicellc4002 at this one job I worked at for building a geothermal pad at alpine valley in Nevada we burned no less than 800 gallons a day and we had 1 dozer, 2 scrapers, an excavator and a couple water trucks. I'd imagine these guys use 20 times that which would be roughly $45,000 a day in fuel
Anthony Thorp ya right if each machine burned 100 gallons a day x 30 machines x 3.00 a gallon your at least $9,000
Can’t speak on the overhead but fuel was at least 400-500 stegosaurus carcasses per day.
For every hundred 657s purchased you get a free D11
Quite a impressive orchestra. Enjoy the loading and unloading shots from above. Would love to see a time lapse of them cutting down the hill.
Another great video. Love the drone work and editing. I don’t know they ran as push me/pull you. Very cool! Thanks for sharing. Top shelf!
That system has been around since the '60s!
I built the 657's in Decatur, Il back in the 70's and 80's. Could do it from memory! Not the fabrication, but the assembly from the rear engine to marrying to the tractor.
You made the best bitches I ran
All we need now is the Blue Danube Waltz playing in the background.
I was thinking Ride of the Valkyries.
after I sow this video I think God Bless all people of EEUU!!!!... best regards from Santiago de Chile!!
Watching this video, I could only think about how much this project costs, to have so many CAT equipment working at the same time. This was definitely something huge.
One 627 scraper in Kansas with an operator is 250 an hour.
So 2500 bucks for a ten hour day.
The scrapers in vid are bigger so more expaepens prob 300 an hr
Love how they work in tandem.
Push pull scrapers "pans " when front loads rear pushes
This is probably the best video I've ever seen on TH-cam
I will never complain about the cost of dispossing of my waste ever again.
I think i counted 50+ pans out there.. i thought our site with 12 of them was a good job.. then i saw this. Awesome!
Beautifull Video thank you for making them sir
Thanks HMHM🤘🏻
I could watch that all day. Think I will watch it again
🤘🏻
Very impressive. Well coordinated, awesome
Got two small dumpers and a mini digger, just not the same!!, really good to see this, will watch part two when I find it and any others.
Nunca había visto tantas motoescrepas trabajando juntas. Me parece que es la mejor manera de cortar acarrear y compactar en tramos no muy largos. Saludos
Amazing video, a very efficient way of shifting so much dirt, gobsmacked at that fleet of machinery wow!!!
What an awesome video. I love watching scrapers in action. And I thought I was efficient at moving dirt.
Sure is beautiful...Thank you for that. Earthmovers heaven, I wish I could take a deep breath.
Imagine that fuel bill!
gas is free atm
@@simanova837 ya, but try the diesel bill. These puppies dont run on gas.
@@brandoncaldwell95 gas and diesel both come from oil so they usually both follow the same trends. Gas is down a dollar from what it was a year ago, diesel is down 70 cents. So it's still way cheaper now than it would have been a year ago when you're burning a couple thousand gallons a day.
Radio chatter “fuel tanker number 2 is delayed today. Let’s round trip the first driver.”
Imagine the pollution and carbon footprint.
Worked as a mechanic at a land fill in these for five years. An operator is judged on his productivity. Each machine has a load counter and you have to produce
The purpose of the load counter is to know the amount of yardage moved, using singles the push cat keeps score.
Incredible work and great view 👍🏽👏🏼
Thanks Neftalí
I'm just amazed how genius the idea of push/pull is
I used to prep these before they were painted man they were a pain in the ass
Pain to operate too. Of course the one I ran was build in 1971 and 20 yrs old at the time. Newer ones are far better but I still hate running them.
Brilliant video. Thank you for posting.
Had to get out of the way many times when these run at Sunshine. These Cats can run really fast even loaded. Good video !!
Great stuff! Keep up the videos. My construction management students love them!!
Best school is get on one unforgotten knowledge
One can only ponder which has more environmental damage the diesel exhaust made by the digginh and then ultimate burial of the trash or just simply incinerating the garbage. Let alone the ground water pollution?
Lovin every minute of it! Can only imagine how long it took to get all these scrapers (pans) to the site?! Great content, thanks!
You got that right guys don't call them cans
They run 46 miles per hour..?
Do they ever reach paydirt? lol
I can watch these videos for hours, thanks for taking the time to film/edit/upload them for us!
Thanks Adam
Yeah, work is fascinating, I could watch it all day long!
me too Love it!
Sometimes they get more production when they put a good looking gal in the fill area counting Loads
I’m on #518 out there in the herd....
Wow, what's it like driving those beasts?
Herd of cats, that's something to see😉
We can't see the numbers. Your name sounds like you operate heavy machinery. "Go get Wade, he'll do it" or something like that. 😉😂
It’s rewarding, fun, rough riding & a great career. In the video it’s looks like we are going slow but on the longer portion of the haul road (2.7miles round trip) we are topping out at 36mph, that’s when it can be fun!
How much fuel is one burning a day?
Just me or the more you look at them the more alien they look? I can't stop watching!
Great team work! Plenty of m3 shifted there each day! Glad I’m not paying the fuel bill, just goes to show there is money in rubbish 👍
Worked for a company that built cells. Ours were smaller, cost a million to make and held 7 million dollars in garbage. Course there is another half to 3/4 million to cap (cover up) the cell.
Great footage from every angle bud, Peed and Cat 657,s, a winning team!
The cost of trash is expensive. Earth is scraping by though. I mean earth is scraped by... Very impressive directness and getting at it. The tandem effort is mechanical music. The power effort, time and money needed to keep up with consuming is amazing.
Giving me goosebumps again, great video👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Scneiderexc
That’s how the big dogs do💪👊 on 100 all day!! Bet the boss man is liking this nice little drop n fuel price right now👍👍 diesel is averaging $2.55 here in southern indiana at the pump, I’m guessing we pay $2.00 bulk price probably more but when you burn fuel on y’all’s kind of scale any drop n fuel price is a gift from the big dog himself 🙏 I’m sure 🤣🤣 thanks for the bad ass vid much appreciated 🤙
Awesome video from a perspective rarely seen. Amazing how many tons that crew can move in a day I’m sure.
Retired out of local12 in so Cal and those operators are not getting paid enough for the amount of damage those Scrapers inflict on your body. Scrapers are definetly a young mans game!
Football coaches should run those for a while if they think they are tough
I'd kill to spend one day on a ride-a-long in a Scraper or Dozer on that project. All those machines - it's amazing!
Nice video looks like a fun play box
Nice to see a spread working and not having to turn wrenches on them 19 plus hours a day 7 days a week..lol. from the Cowboys operating them..lol job security..
excellent/ got to see similar in person some years ago when they were expanding Altamont Dump in california, we would go once a week or so and got to see the progress/ they had quite a few scrapers or "earth movers" as we referred to them as but not as many as here wow his is a lot of action!
Always enjoy a upload from you.
The first shot looked like they were setting to race lol.
Thank you stay safe.
Thanks again Scruffy, stay healthy
G'day Scruffy
@@Murphyslawfarm howdy Murphy.
@@scruffy6151 How are you mate
@@Murphyslawfarm doing good staying fat and lazy 🤣🤣.
How you doing.
Fantastic. Thanks for making and sharing.
Very nice and professional drone flyiing and filming!
My first day of running a large scraper I was tailgating one of the experienced drivers at full speed! He broke me of the habit by lowering the bucket, and giving me a dirt shower!
Driver ? Bucket ? Lost
@@tadldopp1 that was 45 years ago. Forgot that he was an operator and he dropped the pan!
This was a fun job. Kiefer Landfill in Sacramento California.
Terrific scraper action! That's good "scraper dirt", it loads quickly and heaps well. Push-pulls achieving average load time of 30 seconds to get about 88 heaped yards in the bowls. Nice to see that many scrapers on the run!! Wonder what the average hourly yardage is for that spread.
Democrats or Republicans
Idiots think they can control smart people
восхищаюсь инженерной мыслью I admire the engineering thought
What an escension of men and Equipment
That "buddy" idea is pretty slick.
I'm sitting here bout to run scrapers watching scrapers run on TH-cam I am addicted to big iron
Nice flying and compositions
That's some real hustle 👍 efficient operation from first glance
Drones! Is there anything can't do? Your videos are excellent examples of the remarkable views of large-scale projects that drones can provide.
Drones are noisy yet we can clearly hear the construction machinery without the sound of the drone. How do you do that?
Terrific video. This is diggers at their best. Wa all know however, that when around diggers, Never Relax !
That is just the coolest thing I have ever seen
Would be good if we got some notes on exactly what their orders are when dealing with such huge areas. Like where to scrape and where to drop it off and the before and after. Great vid no less👍
Hear the tubos there is some music note clarification
The owner of that equipment must have some awesome mechanics because all those pans are running lots grease and fuel A lot of air cleaners to blow out awesome operation love it
How satisfying! Drone footage really brings it all to life. Sadly, I suspect that the operation of these incredible machines will soon go autonomous.
Those things don’t play when they are belled together. 73 yard a machine, 146 a pair. That’s moving mountains! For scale. A standard on the road dump truck is 14 to 16 yards
Oh my god I miss the old days with 637 push pulls. I might even give up my fancy grader for a chance to do that again. Never seen an outfit as big but used to run with 25 buggies
STILL WONDERING, THIS LOOKS LIKE HARNEY LANE LANDFILL EAST OF LODI CALIFORNIA !
My Dad used to do blueprints for Cat. Retired as a Company Man with a Golden retirement plan back in the 80’s. No pensions like THAT anymore. (unless you’re a politician)
When I was a kid back in the seventies these scrapers used to have big paddles internet would dig the dirt and throw it up in the holding Bay but nowadays they just run a blade and force it in
what your thinking of are called paddle wheel scrapers and are mainly used for finishing work. Not hogging out large amounts of dirt like the ones in this video.☮😎
Hi, SoCalEarthmovers..
GREAT video. Thanks for sharing. Bet somebody is LUVVIN' the contract to keep fuel up to that fleet. LOL.
I'm playing with some older gear a bit North of you at the moment, a Cat 660A, a 637D, a D9T and JD 772CH blade, nothing like that scale but still good 'dirty' fun.
Just my 0.02. Thanks again.
You all have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
I love these videos, not a backhoe in sight!
The organized chaos involved having that much iron on one site takes experienced operator's & foreman for sure. Makes the diesel in my veins pump a little faster!