In 1973 Green Construction Co. had a fleet of triple sixes building the Saylorvill Dam near Des Moines, Iowa. We triple pushed them with D-9's. I was eighteen and a green weeney just starting out. Talk about a crash course...
I worked three years on "The Redwood's Bypass" north coast California. Triple Six's and TS24s. I watched Many Millions of $s SPENT! I was on sloapboard . The load from those Sixes spread about 50-60 ft wide when their speed was up😊
sometime in mid 80s, in Santa Clarita CA, C. A. Rasmussen had a few maybe 4 or 5 tripple 6 spreads. One of the jobs was 23,000,000 yds. that one was about 3 years with maybe 30 scrapers and 10 foremans. When we finished they sent those foremans out to check where the cops were and we roaded those 666s about 5 miles in santa clarita in traffic. crazy stuff.
Hi BuckWheat,I worked for Rasmussen for over 5 years and I was on that Santa Clarita job. At that time there were at least 12 triple six's, 15 657's and so many 651's you couldn't count them all! There wasn't a mountain safe in that town while we were there! Santa Clarita is flat now, it used to be all hill's ! I really miss big scraper spreads and this one was big. At one heading there was over 75-80 Cats in the lube line! I used to work with a Clyde Wheat back then,you guy's related? We had a lot of fun back then! Worked real hard, played even harder!
@Skip Tiburon probably became yeager or sukut or something like that. i know 1 think those 666s could walk up a 2:1 (50%) slope, a fill slope at that, it'd get to the top and the front wheels would come off the ground, cutting edge was tooblocked 2 or 3 ft off the ground, it was nerve wracking. they can turn around on practically 2 1/2:1. company called mc coy had some that had 2 bowls, 1 operator. just with one bowl dumping a foot and half hauling ass takes 1/2 football field to do it. loaded on high speed haul road the cutting edge flexes at least a foot through solid mounted draught arms. they were beast'.
Buck wheat those were the good old days 👍. I started with Rasmussen in the late 80s. Right out of high school. My dad David. Worked for Rasmussen for 30 years. They took really good care of him tell he passed away in 2004. Great company. They are still alive and running strong in southern California. 💪👍
Operated 666 for s j groves &sons in New York back in 1970 was great machine, seems like a few years ago still rember lots of cuts and fills on the job,
Back in the 80s-mid 90s customer had a bunch of them minus rear power unit. I remember when Cat took the asbestos out of the D346 head gaskets we had to go back and re-torque every one of them customer had installed on Cats dime!
nice to see the video. I was the one who brought the 666 to Snowville. Tractor on a 16 tire Murray & the rear axle up on 16 tire Murray basket dolly with 4 tire booster axle. After a short time we started using a acper jeep w/ the front axle up on the gooseneck. We're Performance Transport now. I talked to you once @ an auction. What we you 12 or 13 when you drove the 666 from Snowville. Check out Murray trailers website forum under showtime & others like basket dollys for some great photos
Also I read about some roading scrapers lol. I roaded them without brakes! The boss always said why you need brakes? You have the worlds largest brake behind you. In fact we roaded them from KC Kansas to Tulsa Ok. That was back in my younger and crazier days! Thank God that was back in the day before cell phones! We popped a hill just before Tulsa and there was a red light at the bottom of the hill. I had never been that far away from home. I had to use the worlds largest brake in front of popos
Thanks for posting this video. I had never seen a triple 6. But I had spent several moons on a 660. They were awesome if you got into the right dirt you could help the push cat a lil and if you feathered the throttle just right the front end would come up off the ground making it a 4 wheel scraper. It was totally awesome.... raw power! I also had ran and cut my teeth on an SS40 Euclid. Same setup as the 660. I had a 4 speed manual tranny and when it shifted oh my! I do miss the good ol days!
Amazing! I haven't looked in a while because I thought no one would ever upload any video of these brutes, but here I am watching some great video of a super machine! I have always been a scraper fan, but have only come to appreciate the 666's since I got my Classic Construction Models piece. The video really shows well the size of these beasts. I would like to see how these were moved over the road. Too bad they're nearly all gone now. Thanks for posting this.
I guess so. Well I must acknowledge on how the US is becoming a military state against its own citizens more everyday, but that is for another discussion on another day. You're lucky you didn't get shot down over driving an old scraper. The ignorance of people down there blows me away and I really am trying hard not to paint the subject with too wide of a brush....
Yeah, after I commented on this video, I found the other one with the pictures. They were really small on my screen , but I think I got an idea of how it was done. I'd like to see that whole video. I also really liked the video showing the loaded lowboys and how they were connected to the Jeeps. The one thing I like more than BIG scraper videos, is seeing BIG scrapers being loaded, transported, and unloaded. Thanks again for posting these.
Well Mr. J, you did it again. That was a sweet rig and had the beef to prove it. Bet it rode good too; better that a 4-wheel without the floating gooseneck (bang,bang,bang. Rock instead of bounce. I was around 830's and 290 Clark's in the army but was always on something else. Another good one, as always. (me)
@@4321grp I have yet to see a Clark running except on You Tube. All I ever saw were in the shop and all I ever fooled with were 830's. Strong old things.
@@lewiemcneely9143 I saw them in Vietnam, they're both huge machines, but I think the 290M is a little bigger than the 830. I never had the pleasure of working on either one, I was a mechanic working on large Rugged terrain forklifts, I worked for an Army contractor company, Vinnell Corporation which did repair and rebuild work on Army equipment at their huge shop building at Cam Ranh Bay.
@@4321grp I saw the Clarks in the shop at Ft. Riley Ks and the 830's in the 34th Engineers in the delta that I used for stockpiling along with a D7.. I learned to run the crane with a clam bucket there charging the asphalt plant and then was transferred to the 1st Cav and tran a 6K R/T lift doing a little of everything. Then Ft. Story Va and a 5-ton and lowboy and a D7E and the out in 71 with a 3 month drop because I had a job waiting on me and I still like making diesel fumes.
@@lewiemcneely9143 it's hard to get that diesel out of our blood, I always loved the sound of a diesel engine running, and unlike most people I loved the smell of diesel exhaust.
Those scrappers were a beast. I remember that if you had 3D9s back there pushing on you, you could cut some real thick slabs. Push cat operator's didnt appreate that but what the heck.
Thanks for the upload. This looks pretty large when seen alongside order things like fences and normal vehicles. What was happening, was it clearing the sod and top soil ready for building, something we do every time if there is more than a couple of houses. Oh BTW, I am born and bred in the UK, near London actually, just to let you know I on the edge of London England used to work on building sites, all relatively small compared to what this appears to be, the larger was around 20 acres for 400 homes. So if you or it is clearing the sod etc, it is a universal method of building whether it is homes factories or roads. ;-) Take care mrbluenun
We were covering lava rock outcropings under center piviot irrigation, taking topsoil from the corners that cannot be watered by the pivot and covering the rocky areas that are under the pivot circle,
WOW! Where did you get a triple six. The world's largest scraper. I saw them parked along the CAP in Arizona. Also saw them being transported on the ten freeway. They were driven. About 20 of them. What a sight to see.
It may be that in Chile there are many works going on there large, but here we have no records, as the photos would be interesting. Here in our country already had a season in which the scraper reigned in the works, now rare to see, most of it still rotting in the bush. Both the latest models here are 631E and 621F, only one company that is bringing the U.S. used 4 621G, are expecting a port release. Maybe in the near future to go back to see new scraper here.
I remember driving a lowboy for Nello L Teer in 1973 and they had a fleet of these pans. In order to move them the rear wheels and axles had to be removed. The axle shafts were the bear. NG
Hi jpaydirt, Great Name BTW! Thanks for the upload This brings back so many memories as I got to be good friends with the two Cat Scraper Drivers and was actually there when on my section of the road they and a D10 I think broke earth or the grass on the very first scoop. I can't remember the exact phrase now but it was something like that and I watched for the next 3 years as they went down about 30 feet through a hill that was at one time my playground as the local woods. Take care.
i dont think thats big enough.. i dont remember the santa clarita job.. because i was born in 83.. but live about 15 min from there.. sure has changed alot.. not for the better
I mean to say reversing the fan on the back motor would have been too difficult. If you have never seen it done...you need to visit a dealer mechanic, it can be done quite simple. I have seen this done in older equipment especially.
Fantastic machine, I'm in Brazil, and we have no records of these machines here, so a new, know the company that bought them? I know 10-657B that are in service in the north in works of a railroad, but those 666 something new. I think there in your country there are many stops. If I could catch one. If you have more about this fantastic scraper send!
I know I did a video about that but I can't locate it LOL so it has a clock switch on the tractor trans and one on the rear trans, there electrical , so when the front shifts it sends a signal to the rear and it shifts, there is a lube solenoid on the rear trans so if it doesn't shift and make electrical contact the circuit is broken and the lube solenoid is de energized and the trans cannot make high pressure to engage the clutches
James Pendergrass Yes and No, Cat was trying to stay up in competition with all the others like Terex's double can scrapers, and such. several years ago at Cats display during CONEXPO they had pics of some of the crazy things they came up with, but yes the twins with bales and hooks can certainly remove the pusher from the job, I won't use the pusher unless I absolutely have to, and we have jobs where we just can't get by with out it
They did make the 830M which is like an 824 or 834 wheel dozer hooked to a scraper. I have friends that have a few, but they don't go that fast. They have about a 621 size bowl they pull with them (I am sure they are smaller than a 463) and they are powered by a D343. They are all right, but on close haul and soft ground work, Cats and scrapers are better and on longer haul on hard ground, 621s and 631s are better or if you like bigger and twin engine machines, that's up to you. I personally prefer single engine motor scrapers to twins but that's my preference.
LOL no, that's how those old engines ran. Old turbo technology and poor air fuel ratio controls and nobody cared about the soot in the oil, it was cheap just dump it on the ground and fill it with one dollar oil
Did you sell that scraper to Cannon's? I know when they built their new dairy on county line he bought a bunch of scraper's and I think one of them was the 666.
Yah they bought it and then put a a a a how do I say this? "a feller from south of the border" and he ran the rear engine out of oil and blew it up, and pretty much destroyed it
Jpaydirt ya I knew that the rear engine was out on it. I seen it at one of his brothers shops out by Osgood and figured that it had to be this one cause there aren't many around. His help are really bad on equipment to say the least! And I'm sure that with all of the lava rock out there it's probably busted up pretty bad too.
Jpaydirt it was a couple of years ago but I'm sure that it's probably still there cause I don't think that they would've fixed it where they were done with the job and didn't need it anymore.
Jpaydirt If you'd like I'm sure that we could take a drive out there and see if it's still sitting there. It's pretty much out in the middle of nowhere.
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In 1973 Green Construction Co. had a fleet of triple sixes building the Saylorvill Dam near Des Moines, Iowa. We triple pushed them with D-9's. I was eighteen and a green weeney just starting out. Talk about a crash course...
I ran 21’s 27’s & 31’s, these are beasts. I see his back rad is plugged & his temp is in the red, hope they stopped to blow it out. Expensive engine
No joking, The rad looks clogged up
I worked three years on "The Redwood's Bypass" north coast California. Triple Six's and TS24s. I watched Many Millions of $s SPENT! I was on sloapboard . The load from those Sixes spread about 50-60 ft wide when their speed was up😊
sometime in mid 80s, in Santa Clarita CA, C. A. Rasmussen had a few maybe 4 or 5 tripple 6 spreads. One of the jobs was 23,000,000 yds. that one was about 3 years with maybe 30 scrapers and 10 foremans. When we finished they sent those foremans out to check where the cops were and we roaded those 666s about 5 miles in santa clarita in traffic. crazy stuff.
Hi BuckWheat,I worked for Rasmussen for over 5 years and I was on that Santa Clarita job. At that time there were at least 12 triple six's, 15 657's and so many 651's you couldn't count them all! There wasn't a mountain safe in that town while we were there! Santa Clarita is flat now, it used to be all hill's ! I really miss big scraper spreads and this one was big. At one heading there was over 75-80 Cats in the lube line! I used to work with a Clyde Wheat back then,you guy's related? We had a lot of fun back then! Worked real hard, played even harder!
Cooper RHD a
@Skip Tiburon probably became yeager or sukut or something like that. i know 1 think those 666s could walk up a 2:1 (50%) slope, a fill slope at that, it'd get to the top and the front wheels would come off the ground, cutting edge was tooblocked 2 or 3 ft off the ground, it was nerve wracking. they can turn around on practically 2 1/2:1. company called mc coy had some that had 2 bowls, 1 operator. just with one bowl dumping a foot and half hauling ass takes 1/2 football field to do it. loaded on high speed haul road the cutting edge flexes at least a foot through solid mounted draught arms. they were beast'.
Buck wheat those were the good old days 👍. I started with Rasmussen in the late 80s. Right out of high school. My dad David. Worked for Rasmussen for 30 years. They took really good care of him tell he passed away in 2004. Great company. They are still alive and running strong in southern California. 💪👍
Love to have seen that
Operated 666 for s j groves &sons in New York back in 1970 was great machine, seems like a few years ago still rember lots of cuts and fills on the job,
The right rear tire is from SJ Groves, had their brand on the sidewall, we had a hard time finding it, came all the way from NY
Back in the 80s-mid 90s customer had a bunch of them minus rear power unit.
I remember when Cat took the asbestos out of the D346 head gaskets we had to go back and re-torque every one of them customer had installed on Cats dime!
Combines have large rotating screens that spin and keep trash from sticking to the radiator. Would work perfect on this beast. Great video
some machines have fans that reverse periodcaly and blow the trash off
nice to see the video. I was the one who brought the 666 to Snowville. Tractor on a 16 tire Murray & the rear axle up on 16 tire Murray basket dolly with 4 tire booster axle. After a short time we started using a acper jeep w/ the front axle up on the gooseneck. We're Performance Transport now. I talked to you once @ an auction. What we you 12 or 13 when you drove the 666 from Snowville. Check out Murray trailers website forum under showtime & others like basket dollys for some great photos
Oh the sound and all the Black Smoke love it
Also I read about some roading scrapers lol. I roaded them without brakes! The boss always said why you need brakes? You have the worlds largest brake behind you. In fact we roaded them from KC Kansas to Tulsa Ok. That was back in my younger and crazier days! Thank God that was back in the day before cell phones! We popped a hill just before Tulsa and there was a red light at the bottom of the hill. I had never been that far away from home. I had to use the worlds largest brake in front of popos
Thanks for posting this video. I had never seen a triple 6. But I had spent several moons on a 660. They were awesome if you got into the right dirt you could help the push cat a lil and if you feathered the throttle just right the front end would come up off the ground making it a 4 wheel scraper. It was totally awesome.... raw power! I also had ran and cut my teeth on an SS40 Euclid. Same setup as the 660. I had a 4 speed manual tranny and when it shifted oh my! I do miss the good ol days!
Amazing! I haven't looked in a while because I thought no one would ever upload any video of these brutes, but here I am watching some great video of a super machine! I have always been a scraper fan, but have only come to appreciate the 666's since I got my Classic Construction Models piece. The video really shows well the size of these beasts. I would like to see how these were moved over the road. Too bad they're nearly all gone now. Thanks for posting this.
I guess so. Well I must acknowledge on how the US is becoming a military state against its own citizens more everyday, but that is for another discussion on another day. You're lucky you didn't get shot down over driving an old scraper. The ignorance of people down there blows me away and I really am trying hard not to paint the subject with too wide of a brush....
Yeah, after I commented on this video, I found the other one with the pictures. They were really small on my screen , but I think I got an idea of how it was done. I'd like to see that whole video. I also really liked the video showing the loaded lowboys and how they were connected to the Jeeps. The one thing I like more than BIG scraper videos, is seeing BIG scrapers being loaded, transported, and unloaded. Thanks again for posting these.
Wow this is cool 😎 I use to work on these triple 6s up out of Soda Springs, but they would use quad nine pusher cats to help them out to load
Denny Washington's fleet?
Well Mr. J, you did it again. That was a sweet rig and had the beef to prove it. Bet it rode good too; better that a 4-wheel without the floating gooseneck (bang,bang,bang. Rock instead of bounce. I was around 830's and 290 Clark's in the army but was always on something else. Another good one, as always. (me)
Those 290 Clarks were a monster, I remember them and the Cat 830s in Vietnam, the Army used them for deforesting jungle
@@4321grp I have yet to see a Clark running except on You Tube. All I ever saw were in the shop and all I ever fooled with were 830's. Strong old things.
@@lewiemcneely9143 I saw them in Vietnam, they're both huge machines, but I think the 290M is a little bigger than the 830. I never had the pleasure of working on either one, I was a mechanic working on large Rugged terrain forklifts, I worked for an Army contractor company, Vinnell Corporation which did repair and rebuild work on Army equipment at their huge shop building at Cam Ranh Bay.
@@4321grp I saw the Clarks in the shop at Ft. Riley Ks and the 830's in the 34th Engineers in the delta that I used for stockpiling along with a D7.. I learned to run the crane with a clam bucket there charging the asphalt plant and then was transferred to the 1st Cav and tran a 6K R/T lift doing a little of everything. Then Ft. Story Va and a 5-ton and lowboy and a D7E and the out in 71 with a 3 month drop because I had a job waiting on me and I still like making diesel fumes.
@@lewiemcneely9143 it's hard to get that diesel out of our blood, I always loved the sound of a diesel engine running, and unlike most people I loved the smell of diesel exhaust.
Those scrappers were a beast. I remember that if you had 3D9s back there pushing on you, you could cut some real thick slabs. Push cat operator's didnt appreate that but what the heck.
Thanks for the upload. This looks pretty large when seen alongside order things like fences and normal vehicles.
What was happening, was it clearing the sod and top soil ready for building, something we do every time if there is more than a couple of houses.
Oh BTW, I am born and bred in the UK, near London actually, just to let you know I on the edge of London England used to work on building sites, all relatively small compared to what this appears to be, the larger was around 20 acres for 400 homes. So if you or it is clearing the sod etc, it is a universal method of building whether it is homes factories or roads. ;-)
Take care
mrbluenun
We were covering lava rock outcropings under center piviot irrigation, taking topsoil from the corners that cannot be watered by the pivot and covering the rocky areas that are under the pivot circle,
WOW! Where did you get a triple six. The world's largest scraper. I saw them parked along the CAP in Arizona. Also saw them being transported on the ten freeway. They were driven. About 20 of them. What a sight to see.
bought it in pala mesa 1981 Kirst construction sale
657 is just as big and there's a company that I work for (im a mechanic) that has 50 657s in Arizona
The number of the Beast
Satan Cat
It may be that in Chile there are many works going on there large, but here we have no records, as the photos would be interesting. Here in our country already had a season in which the scraper reigned in the works, now rare to see, most of it still rotting in the bush. Both the latest models here are 631E and 621F, only one company that is bringing the U.S. used 4 621G, are expecting a port release. Maybe in the near future to go back to see new scraper here.
I remember driving a lowboy for Nello L Teer in 1973 and they had a fleet of these pans. In order to move them the rear wheels and axles had to be removed. The axle shafts were the bear.
NG
BEautiful show, one of the best videos on this beast I've seen
Independent Construction Concord Ca still runs four of these 2019
Pics or it isn't happening.
Bruh I ran these for indy in 2016 in the altamont hills. Scary shit lol
I've seen them but never got to watch one work.
Looks like a lot of debris in that radiator screen wonder how hot that engine is running
Cool video for sure but what has that got to do with Jeff ???
I'm filming it and thats my pops running it
Hi jpaydirt,
Great Name BTW!
Thanks for the upload
This brings back so many memories as I got to be good friends with the two Cat Scraper Drivers and was actually there when on my section of the road they and a D10 I think broke earth or the grass on the very first scoop. I can't remember the exact phrase now but it was something like that and I watched for the next 3 years as they went down about 30 feet through a hill that was at one time my playground as the local woods.
Take care.
i dont think thats big enough.. i dont remember the santa clarita job.. because i was born in 83.. but live about 15 min from there.. sure has changed alot.. not for the better
surprised you didn't have the fan blades that blow out like on the dozers
Would blow all over push dozer
How would this 666 scraper compare to a 657?
Cool video. That is a beast.
Wow that’s a beast :o) I’m guessing tyres are expensive.
yes,,,hundres of dollars EACH!
I mean to say reversing the fan on the back motor would have been too difficult. If you have never seen it done...you need to visit a dealer mechanic, it can be done quite simple. I have seen this done in older equipment especially.
Then it would all be stuck on the other side. This actually was meant to be cleaned and opened
At McCoys we push pulled 666 and 660s with 657 Bs
AA Baxter road job east of Barstow mid 60s local 12 operating engineers, stayed in yermo,dirt spred a mile long
Would you ever get one of these again?
Fantastic machine, I'm in Brazil, and we have no records of these machines here, so a new, know the company that bought them? I know 10-657B that are in service in the north in works of a railroad, but those 666 something new. I think there in your country there are many stops. If I could catch one.
If you have more about this fantastic scraper send!
these are old...1960s
triple 6, good name for it haha
thanks for sharing, enjoyed it!
What moves more dirt in good conditions... a 666 or a 657 ?
Why did you sell the 666 ?
2 657s that push pull
I used to drive a 657 many yrs ago
since I've never ran one ,i don't see how the back engine gets sychyned up with the front
I know I did a video about that but I can't locate it LOL so it has a clock switch on the tractor trans and one on the rear trans, there electrical , so when the front shifts it sends a signal to the rear and it shifts, there is a lube solenoid on the rear trans so if it doesn't shift and make electrical contact the circuit is broken and the lube solenoid is de energized and the trans cannot make high pressure to engage the clutches
were the 660s a double motor too?
What a beast!
Was the two-engine concept come up with to obviate the need for a dozer to pushload?
James Pendergrass Yes and No, Cat was trying to stay up in competition with all the others like Terex's double can scrapers, and such. several years ago at Cats display during CONEXPO they had pics of some of the crazy things they came up with, but yes the twins with bales and hooks can certainly remove the pusher from the job, I won't use the pusher unless I absolutely have to, and we have jobs where we just can't get by with out it
OK
DAM SHE'S PERDY
That's the first time I've seen a 666 in action. Is that a D343 in the back on them like the 657s have?
yes it's the 343
OMG, that's crazy.
100k+ views! You handing out autographs yet?
Oh Mr. Random Guy your so......um random, LOL
The beast!
pan a little too low to the ground.
Did Car ever make a 4wd tractor to pull a scraper with??
+SteelFabMechanic I don't think so
+SteelFabMechanic Cat 830M was used to pull scrapers. Basically a 824 running backwards.
They did make the 830M which is like an 824 or 834 wheel dozer hooked to a scraper. I have friends that have a few, but they don't go that fast. They have about a 621 size bowl they pull with them (I am sure they are smaller than a 463) and they are powered by a D343. They are all right, but on close haul and soft ground work, Cats and scrapers are better and on longer haul on hard ground, 621s and 631s are better or if you like bigger and twin engine machines, that's up to you. I personally prefer single engine motor scrapers to twins but that's my preference.
would funny to run one for a day or two.
Can't they reverse the fan?
I'd imagine that think would go through some fuel.
Reading. Don't call him half load joe for nothing
Monster mach8ne, so cool.
Not very economical nor productive when it’s not filled to capacity, and too slow I might add
Badly in need of injectors and filters
LOL no, that's how those old engines ran. Old turbo technology and poor air fuel ratio controls and nobody cared about the soot in the oil, it was cheap just dump it on the ground and fill it with one dollar oil
McCoy's old 666's.
This one came from Kirst
Did you sell that scraper to Cannon's? I know when they built their new dairy on county line he bought a bunch of scraper's and I think one of them was the 666.
Yah they bought it and then put a a a a how do I say this? "a feller from south of the border" and he ran the rear engine out of oil and blew it up, and pretty much destroyed it
Jpaydirt ya I knew that the rear engine was out on it. I seen it at one of his brothers shops out by Osgood and figured that it had to be this one cause there aren't many around. His help are really bad on equipment to say the least! And I'm sure that with all of the lava rock out there it's probably busted up pretty bad too.
Is it still there
Jpaydirt it was a couple of years ago but I'm sure that it's probably still there cause I don't think that they would've fixed it where they were done with the job and didn't need it anymore.
Jpaydirt If you'd like I'm sure that we could take a drive out there and see if it's still sitting there. It's pretty much out in the middle of nowhere.
Did the cop's arrest you at gun point because they thought you might have stolen the scraper and were off on a ride of destruction 😂
First time I had a 12 Gauge pointed at me