Liebherr's 800-Ton Mining Excavator Explained
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This video outlines my history with the Liebherr 9800, one of the world's largest hydraulic excavators.
We start in Colmar, France, the birthplace of each Liebherr Mining excavator. Liebherr was nice enough to have us for a tour years ago, my first glimpse at one of these monster machines.
But then, to see one at work, we had to travel down under to Australia, where nearly every 9800 made lives.
We take you through operations with Pembroke, Thiess, National Group, MacKellar, and Bravus, visiting five different 9800s working on three sites. Yes, I know I'm spoiled!!
To learn more about the machine, you can check out Liebherr's website at the link below:
www.liebherr.c...
Another killer video. Thank you, Aaron. I love different videos of equipment working. Thanks for the hard work you and your crew do to get us these different machinery. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!!
Hey Aaron, it would be cool if you could dedicate a video properly explaining double benching, single benching and top loading. A lot of people probably don't understand. For diggers in Australia, these are the only three methods used for digging dirt.
I'll second this comment. I am sitting here trying to work out just how that 9800 will work it's way from right to left along the bench when it keeps on digging out in front of itself? If I am puzzled then I am pretty sure that there are plenty of other viewers who are in the same position. 😊
We had a big excavator for the bulk earthworks of our two storey underground car park at work, it could fill a tipper and dog trailer in three passes each (from memory)
but the 9800 would make it look like a toy.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
noted!!
As you're diggin in front of you and loading out, you leave enough material in front to continue the bench or road the machines is sitting on, reach everything you can without having to load to much out 90⁰ of swing until you've reached the end of cut, then go back loading out the bench or road you've built to sit on until the beginning of your cut, then repeat. Of course there are instances that make you operate out of maximum efficiency parameters, but like anything, adapt and overcome with what you've got to work with
Sure would! I've worked in several surface copper mines in Arizona and they load ore almost exclusively with electric rope shovels (plus a couple of 994 loaders). The Australian preference for giant hydraulic excavators is interesting - I guess they've got more flexibility in not needing to manage cable routing, pole bridges, and in-pit power lines and switchgear. I've only worked at one mine that employed top loading; it was in horrible alluvial ground and nearly lost an excavator when the bench collapsed under it. MSHA was involved and it was a bad situation all around.
@@AaronWitt please make them!
I play around at work with the smallest excavators that exist, I would love to try one of these.
I hauled an Excavator Bucket for a 9?00 to Trapper Mining, Craig Co.
13' 6" wide x 63,000# from Port of Galveston, TX, had to go the long way around via Wyoming and back into CO., with pilot car.
Deer were roaming the streets in town, at 14 degrees below F.❤
that's awesome
When I was a kid, our mom bought us one of those for our sand box.
why did they put the boom cylinders up side down? for dust and debris. that is a great idea!
Well if it had a hyd thumb I’d be interested in one but it’s not versatile enough for my acreage lol
How often do they need to have the oil changed and I assume the air filters get blowed out every day
F'n awesome!!
Dont think I've ever seen em' without the hard hat. I think I prefer the hat if I'm honest...
You really should have learned to correctly pronounce Liebherr by now. Lieb, momentary pause then herr.
I really appreciate you giving us the technical data like that!
Also the overall quality of this video was top notch, keep it up👌🏼
thank you very much!!
I'd hate to be the first one that uses the rear of the counterweight as a dozer blade. Excavator operators know what im talking about. Some companies will can you if you do. 😂 EDIT.... no matter the size of the machine.... sitting and doing nothing but loading trucks gets very boring after awhile. Especially when you do it for years. Im very impressed with mans capability to build such big machines and the power of hydraulics.
Let alone the embarrassment from doing it.
Yup. Dig with the bucket bro.😂 Seen heaps of cowboys claiming they're the best until you see the counter weight, or digging over the sprockets.😂
When u think about it I guess hydraulics are just man’s enhancements of the human arm. I guess a hydraulic excavator was made “ hey my arms getting tired and not moving enough dirt” let’s make an extension more powerful. Hydraulics are man’s extension of the power arm. 😂
@@airlogiclol only a fuckhead with no idea is worried about digging over the sprockets
It's incredible to see the sheer size and power of the Liebherr 9800 in action! The engineering behind these machines is truly impressive... 💪
Liebherr: "How big should the new excevator be?"
Mining company: "Yes."
😁😁😁😁😁😁
they probably threw money at them and said build us one thats as big as you can make it with this money
Aaron - Greetings from Texas. I love watching your videos. I appreciate all that you do to travel to all these different places and produce this stuff! As an old dude, I love seeing young dudes, like you, willing to jump in, take some risks (like not knowing all of the tech specs) and just do it!
I feel like a kid when I see all of the giant machines and projects that you present in your videos. Keep 'em coming!
thanks for watching!!
One scoop from that 9800 would probably double my lifetime total for digging and hauling. The scale of these machines is unbelievable!
No one bitches when the power is on. A lot of people bitch about diesel being dirty. The question becomes: do the means support the end? If so, stop bitching. If not, turn the power off.
Absolutely incredible! It must be funny driving that dozer in the background, D10 or D11 looking like a smart car. 😂
Thanks @AaronWitt, I get to operate that digger 65 from the video 7 days a fortnight. What a machine it is. The biggest and best I've ever worked. Great to be able to show my kids the actual machine I operate. Cheers
This is truely one of the most impressive machines ever made, gave me a humbling experience building it in Lego
Awesome video mate we getting a few 9400, 9600 and 9800 over the next couple years at the coal mine I work at in the Hunter valley, I'm currently operating a cat 6060 and when these liebherrs are built at work I can't wait to give them a swing keep up the good work
I hear nothing but good things about all these new ones
Hmmm sounds like you maybe at rav
PLEASE!!!! PLEASE......Make the same video about the CATERPILLAR 6090!!!!!
!!!!!
The grease glob falling while you were in the bucket shot is hilarious. Splat and all. @7:52.
Awesome Aaron.
When you going to feature graders bro. 24 M would be cool.
Love what you do mate, especially aussie videos , you should come to yancoals Mt thorley in the huntervalley Australia, it has everything for 9800's,9600's Hitachi 5600, p&H shovels, 3 draglings many different trucks, drills and more ,Anyway apprentice what you do and keep up the 5 star content. 🇦🇺🇦🇺⛏️⛏️👨🏽🏭
hopefully one day -- I'd love to see the Hunter Valley
Mistake! Soviet excavator is the largest...
He said is the largest the company has ever made.
Thanks for this video, awesome machine, maybe in the end of the year we will see new king-Komatsu PC9000, i think this machine will be larger
we're working on it now
@@AaronWitt After the Caterpillar 6090 ceased production, the new Komatsu will become king, I can’t wait to see the first photos, I’m sure this machine will turn out to be very impressive
@UnknowableAbsolute dunno about that, might be the biggest but if it's anything like the pc7000s or 8s, the 9800 will still move more dirt. Big yellow slugs
@@UnknowableAbsolute big yellow slugs the big Komatsus, 9800 will still eat it alive .
@@claytonnicholson830 I like Komatsu excavators, they are quite reliable and durable, and Liebherr’s digging speed is probably better, you’re right, but Liebherr’s price is much higher + we don’t yet know what this new model will be like to draw conclusions
AWSOME. ARON. WITT. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Australia is a huge country with huge mineral deposits that require huge machines... add Aussies with huge balls that consider it just another day on the job...
Outstanding video 👏🏻👏🏻😍😍 I love diggers! Your sooo lucky to have been up close and personal with these massive machines.... you can die happy now 😂😂 I just wondering why little or none in the 🇺🇸 ??
most US mines run electric rope shovels -- our operations usually aren't as remote, so power is easier to get right to the mine
I hope you make a Vidio version of liebherr R9600
THANK YOU. LIEBHERR. AUSTRALIA. 👍👍
Delivered parts to one working at Christmas Creek in the Pilbara a few times.
Until you're standing next to one you don't realize how big they actually are.
Like anything though, when you're operating one shift after shift it does get pretty monotonous.
i’d love to see how they get the machines to these remote job sites and piece it all back together
LETS. GO. 🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖
I like the $100 car stereo head unit in an $11 million machine.
Thought I was on top of the world on a 40 ton. 😅
Cat 6090 still much bigger and is the biggest
Out of curiosity but how much hydronic oil do they take?
Big diggers usually around 10,000L
Can you ( just for fun ) Imagine. That thing digging like giant swimming pools here in the states!!!!????
Fascinating machine. I have one of these in LEGO form, along with a D11 Dozer. Just need LEGO to do a Cat 797 to round it out.
if only I could afford those models
@@AaronWitt Yeah, they weren't cheap. $600 & $800 AUD.. I also have the 6x6 Volvo Articulated Hauler..
That would be so FUN running that MONSTER digging somthing here in the states!!!!.
It would be interesting to see how they get those giant machines from the factory to the digging site.
So, how many parts does it get broken down into for transport? You're not putting 800 tons on a trailer...
Howdy from New Zealand, love your content bro! cheers!
I glad you pointed out the efficiency. The in cab shots did seem to show just how efficient the loading process was and I'm sure the macro work of pulling the slope down and moving the cut along (and then back) is just the same. Nice.
Great videos! So what if some info isn't 100% correct. Your enthusiasm is 120% which makes these videos worth watching. There will always be know-it-alls complaining but I have worked a lot around great operaters and none of them needs to yapp about there greatness. They let digging do the talking
So a 9800's bucket is equal a small size bedroom. Got it 👍
PEACE. WHANAU. 🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖🌖😑
Awesome video awesome commentary don't worry about people saying that you don't know what you're talking about. Keep it up. I wish someone would give commentary on aggregates material, i like quarry work seeing gravel being crushed.
Stop with the automation of these machines !! I know its coming and its the future but it sucks because i am a excavator Operator and proud of my skill and i make good money doing it. Oh well what can ya do
Aaron, if possible could you do a little segment or a video compilation of engines in these machines? I never knew about the CAT 3500 and 3600s until I started working for CAT. I’m sure some other engine nerds like me would love to see the massive 3500 and Cummins QSKs
Alberta Canada will have 900 tons Komatsu excavators in a couple months. currently komatsu has 800 tons excavators.
The Cat 6090 is the biggest. I have heard Komatsu will have an PC9000 which will be bigger but I don’t think they have made one yet…
awesome vid.. you say they run 24 hours, would be really cool to get a vid on maintenance schedules, down time etc. this thing i think would need alot of maintenance?
hopefully we'll do something like that in the future -- all of these machines are on a very tight maintenance schedule
@@AaronWitt I can give you info on this, as I work on them. 250hrs (about every 10-12 days) and they get an oil change (oil only, no filters, generally done at refuelling time) then 250hrs later (so 500hr interval) is a minor service, generally down for one shift, and is oil+filter change, inspection, minor defect repair. Another 250hr service after that, and then next is the 1000hr service, down for 1.5, maybe 2 shifts, depending on what needs to be done in terms of defect repairs. Each thousand hour service gets more intense in terms of what oils get changed, what work gets done etc.
The 9800 I service is pushing 80k hours, and most of the 996s are well over 100k hours and still going.
you're a legend thank you
@@shut_your_legs thanks heaps for the info!!!
Have you seen anything about this trolley system that was to have been developed out of Sweden? A friend of mine is trying to get hired on with a Metallurgical Coal mine in British Columbia, and apparently, the mine has purchased a number of Trolley adapted trucks from Cat.
yeah I believe it's Copper Mountain in BC. Or maybe there are multiple now. Trolley works well in the right applications. It's also the only way battery trucks can ever even be possible at scale
trolley systems are fucking incredible, i think a lot of mines have them now but they really should be in more, every major haul truck manufacturer produces them now, and for good reason
they work incredible with diesel electric haul trucks(i dont know why cat even makes mechanical diesel anymore), you connect to the lines when going uphill loaded and the diesel generator drops to idle, using 90% less fuel, while the truck hauls ass up the roads at 40km/h(twice the speed youd be going running off the generator), because the trolley line is providing enough power to make the motors output some 5000hp, nearly twice what the diesel generator does
@@vincentgrinn2665 Wow! Actually Wow doesn't seem impressed enough! 😊
They make one Hell of a dragline also I was an Operator on one of the 8200 in Okeechobee fl. I even got to meet one of the engineers and a few others.
the bucket is a studio apartment
$5000 a month in NYC
How are these things transported? Seems like even if you take it apart, there’s still some massive pieces to be transported
They get dismantled and trucked away. Australian heavy haulage is another industry we take very seriously!
There are a number of good channels that cover heavy haulage in Western Australia and they regularly move large mining equipment from Perth to the mines in the Pilbara.
Just for fun measure the distance out and then transfer the same distance to the USA or Europe!
We have a 9350, and when I stand next to it, it looks huge. Man, I can't imagine how big the 9800 must be then.
Wow very good 🎉 I also have a video to share about the machine🎉
Shame that there aren't any in the oil sands would have seen one and compare with a ex8000
The 9800 makes the Cat 992 I operate look small!!😂
Digger fitter!!
Just a quick reminder that the same company that makes this huge amazing beast and other giant heavy machinery, also makes f* REFRIGERATORS.
I built the 9800 Lego Technic model of this beast. It is the pit shovel version. Fully functional, 4400 pieces and took me 6 months to build.
I would love to run a 9800. We run Hitachi 5500, 5600 and a cat 6060
Honoured to be featured as a comment in your video. This video was a real change of pace, it was nice. Except for the audio levels which are so wonky for the transition commentary.
Just a math involved in figuring out how much hydraulic flow and all of that kind of stuff you need for something this size this is where maintenance will absolutely extend the service life of the machines oil changes air filters. Wonder if they wrapped a run a special air filter out there.
Just by this video I would say that it needs wider tracks.
It’s so big it has what sounds like a ship horn! 😮😂
They should really stop installing that beeping sound on construction site machines. No one listens to it anymore, except to be annoyed by it.
Looks like a buddy of Optimus Prime 😉
I work on these all week to come home to just watch a video about these…
i love seeing people visit German companies - the German companies know how to treat their customers. everytime i get invited, they treat me like royality - show everything. serious training, then fun dinners - i fly home as a free marketing tool for them. they impress you, and then without them even needing to tell you - you tell everyone about how great they are. customer days, invites, taking care of your agents. always impressed. maybe this is normal in other european countries or maybe some asian ones because of tradition - but i have never felt so welcome.
I know one thing and that is my ford ranger can pull it
Dammmm back in Australia again ahy. I live in Australia. Great content. About time . Seems as tho we have more dirt in ground work and mine everything stupidly. Makes sense I come to Australia
Ok Hewitt, $ cost for the 980???. Which is now owned by CAT I think.
$3,000, with an extra shovel attachment.
Great video! I learned so much.
thanks for watching
Nice video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Those things are awesome keep up the good work,maybe a video with some Cat 973 track loaders
Great Vid and the dry humor 🎯🎯👍👍👍👍👍👍
The electric shovels we use in ft McMurray Alberta lift well over 100 tons each bucket.
Cubic meter is written m3 not cm, which is centimeter
I just discovered your videos and enjoy them. Subscribed.
Glad you’re here thanks for watching
Smashing video thank you.
thanks for watching
pity we make ZILCH here in Au
When you get in the cab of the machine at the start at 2:40 there is just me going wait what's that playing in the background listening for another ten seconds then just knowing its Europe the final countdown.
Now that's big a Goliath. Imagine the size of the lorry to move that!!!
Great video! 👍 I learned so much.
All that and they use john deere controls lol
this video is pure filth..... love it 🤣👍
I wonder what the daily rental rate would be for one of these units? Plus delivery of course!
Seems the bucket never full.
Its pretty cool watching this video and seeing the machines and mine site i used to work on
How is there anything left in the earth with huge machines constantly hacking at it.
There's a low-boy to transport this monster ?? :-)
Hell Yeah Brother!!!
Crap music not necessary. 😅