I can't imagine being the foreman in charge of this orchestrated chaos, on one hand it's got to be an incredibly stressful job, but on the other hand what a rush of euphoria it would be once everything falls into place and starts moving along
As someone who is an apprentice for this exact kind of stuff (not literally with the heavy machinery, but like same concept): The euphoria is more addicting than caffeine. Literally.
@@DaelinTV I believe there was still some material in the bed of the truck that didn't come out and he was pushing it out of the way.. It was pretty obvious that he wasn't trying to figure out where to put it as in an empty bed, you just put it in the center of the bed.
@@VagueMemory Yep, youre right. when driving on Sleipner Wheels, there is always a small amount of gravel in die dump truck, where the excavator can place his bucket on.
the problem is one of access. roads are so limited in space and time it takes forever. a project where we have total control of the site. such as a new warehouse, we can knockout insanely quick.
That's mental!I guess I've never thought about having to redo a runway without messing up air travel The temporary wheels/transportation thing for the excavator blew my mind. I've never seen anything like that
There was something like that for bulldozers back in the 30s and 40s i had a 1937 Allis Chalmmers bulldozer that listed as a option in the manual a set of wheels that bolted on the side in the center and use the drawbar as a hitch to tow it to the next job
Same goes for snow removal on airport runways, you have to move from runway to runway in groups w your equipment and if you are on an active runway at the wrong time it's called an incursion and you will be most likely fined/jailed and even the FBI get involved.
I worked in the asphalt/highway maintenance Feild for about 8 years and I have never seen anything as well planned out and prepared for as this. Very well done! And a blast to watch
Im really digging the aesthetic of construction equipment at night, in the rain, with only their headlights and some scene lighting present. With the dust from the digging it looks really cool.
We're repaving the Jackson Hole Wyoming Airport right now with Knife River construction. They just shut the whole Airport down, no flights in or out until it's done. They get a bonus if finished ontime. The locals don't like it because of tourist season.
WALO, Eberhard and Implenia are all really big companies with different specialties and seeing the experts coming together like this is pretty amazing. I mean the speed is just insane when you compare it to how long it takes to replace taxiways at the same airport where there is not this kind of time pressure.
The means to do the job have a massive cost. And the collaborations between construction companies in Switzerland on large projects are common for several reasons. 1. The client does like to spread the risk, in the case of a consortium (which is the case here), if one company fails, the project has to continue. 2. For the companies themselves, there are several reasons: - Not being specialised in all the fields required to do the job. - There is a part of such projects (especially the first contract) where there is an unknown on the financial result, so not betting too much on it makes sense. - Having other contracts, and not a million of qualified workers and foremen on hand, it's safer to work with other companies that would supply some workers than hiring new people whose qualifications are unknown. - Those companies have commitments with other clients. - This is night work. The workers within one company usually rotate so they don't have to always have the night shift. Easier if not a big proportion of the local workers are committed on one project. And if the workers work on these projects all the time, there can be loss of motivations. And in general, we are happy to collaborate whenever it makes sense. Healthy collaboration is more constructive and provides better value to the client than destructive competition.
No it's not. It's standard qualified workers doing their jobs. This is not the USA... This is Switzerland. Workers in construction in Switzerland are qualified workers, and not DYIers ++... The salaries are decent, but there is no difference between them and other workers within the company. There are variations but they are not massive. All workers in that field within the company would be able to do that. And one of the reason one of the 2 companies on site is being used is that they have amazing machines, but mostly, they have their concrete recycling plant, and concrete production plant at the end of the runway, making their cost unbeatable. And they have the collaboration with Concretum, the special cement that originates from the Swiss Technical Instritute of Technology of Zurich.
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The project when your wife asks you to put up new shelf. After couple months the penalties can quite add up. Sometime you even need to pay for extra dinner.
10000 an hour on an interstate shutdown. We had to have the job lined out right to pull six miles of two lanes and pour back full depth in a 60 hour window.
I work at Heathrow and I see these boys do a huge amount of runway work from 2230hrs to 0430hrs to be ready for the first Singapore flight, British Airways 777-300
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ what the fuck are you on about, you lunatic. If God is real then he must be a c-nt because what kind of prick gives cancer to children or starts wars and famine
Thats because in the U.S. the jobs are all union jobs and the unions strectch these contracts out. As they say job security. They also know that they can squeeze as much money as they can out of it because they are federally subsidized.
@@sohomesick1 I could be wrong i never looked into it. But there are states in the south were unions are "outlawed?" For that exact reason. So the conclusion is the government likes to waste money
@@LeeFox1337 government does indeed like to waste money.Look at what they have been giving to Ukraine, billions upon bilions.And the worst thing is they gave a two year education system budget of the entire US to Ukraine in a single payment,one of many.Not to mention those millions of homeless people that could have been helped with that money.Or the health care that could have benefited from that money.But no,let's give money to the most corrupt country in the world and let's feel good about ourselves
Stop with your American fixation on "work pride", "Murica"... It's Switzerland. It's a job like another. And we provide quality to our clients who pay the price for it. This is not about absurd unhealthy pride and bravery, and heroism, and all those ridiculous superlatives for normal stuff. And unlike the US, Switzerland respects more its workers. There is a proper organisation, proper companies, with proper safety, proper benefits, etc... The management, with the foreman, with the return on experience of the whole crew of workers organises the events. We are professionals, we act as such. It's not the crazy noisy Americans shouting on site that a rookie fucked up when the manager just dropped them on a random site with 0 instruction. We have proper education for these workers ! It's a 4 years apprenticeship with high standard theoretical and practical courses, and 3.5 days a week within the company. This system was implemented by the government. The diplomas are highly regarded. The mentality is different. And here, we have proper engineering. We don't have unqualified drama presidents. We have unknown politicians elected for the competences. Don't apply your American mentality to other cultures.
Nothing special here. Just a well thought and experienced company in this topic. They've been doing this for more than 10 years, going section after section, progressive maintenance. Yes the workers are qualified, but that's a standard in concrete and road construction. No one can work on those machines without the proper experience. The management knows the drill. The real challenge is the preparation. On site, there is no drama. It's not like the US with dramas, with machines half broken likely to break apart, and promises of doing 200 square kilometers in one night.
Everyone interested in the wheel system they use to transport the CAT 385 and 390. Search for "Sleipner wheels". Pretty common thing, but mostly used in quarrys.
I got a job staging equipment for a big rental company and it's great so far. I have an app on my phone that tells me what machines I need to stage and I just need to make sure they are full of fuel and functioning properly... I'd say the coolest part of the job is testing brand new equipment. It shows up with plastic on the seat and etc less than 10 hours, and my job is to figure out how to operate it so that I can show everyone else. Coolest thing I did recently was function test a brand new fully electric Takeuchi mini ex. It was brand new, and fully charged but it kept showing a code for a battery issue. After lots of testing and seeing everything was fine we just called Takeuchi - turns out with these electric excavators you need to drain the battery down to less than 5%, then recharge...
You could rebuild the airport for 2 billion? The penalties are only huge because of the airline's liabilities in Europe. If your flight is delayed there you get a cash settlement that increases with the delay.
I’d agree with the billion dollars. I just did an interstate job, 1 mile of new full depth construction new D.I s dropping fiber optic cable and telephone in some areas where new sub grade elevation ran into cables it was for 85 million
As an op that is pretty wild how fast they can go, but it all comes down to a few things: proper planning, good equip(including spares of everythin and someone to repair), and better ops, and the best groundmen.... I also find it funny whenever there's a show with the big boy Tonka toys.....the 3-5 note power chords get thumping as the theme song...
Its cute how all of you are so shocked. I live in Canada, we have 2 seasons here, winter and construction, to repave a few km takes months. I went back to Taiwan for vacation, stayed at my aunt's store overnight and the 8 lane intersection was stripped and paved overnight, I didn't even see them getting ready late into the evening. I have never seen road construction in Taiwan, everything is just done over one night.
So people don't have the right to be appreciative of the hard work of several hundreds of people to prevent the delay of several thousands of pre-booked flights while still done precisely enough for hundreds of people to trust their lives to land on an hour old run-way just because you have to "one up" them? Aright.
@@cesarpalmos8235 we got a pessimist here. Did I even remotely suggest people can't be appreciative? no, not at all. I'm just saying, hard efficient work is nothing to be shocked at, that is it, it's not that deep. Also, your little run-on paragraph doesn't make sense, how does "one up"ing = people not having the right to be appreciative? I suggest you stop seeing everything on social media as "toxic", it'll help detox you as well.
@@cesarpalmos8235 perfectly explained your own situation. I personally don't care about other people, so if I even thought about insulting others, taking away their rights, I would, I don't shy away from it. But putting words in my mouth, and mis-interoperating my words? no, that's you unable to comprehend, much like you right now being in denial and attempting to re-direct that shame onto others.
Some Constructioncompanies here in Switzerland develop their own Equipement, like Eberhardt did with this Buckets and other Things. Marti (another Buildingcompany) even has their own full Machinefactory and Developers/Ingenieurs to completely buildt new and specialized Equipement and Machines fully from the Idea up to the final, usable finished Thing by themselves! It is fully normal here that also in small Companies there's always some Machineoperator that started his Career as Mechanic and Becoming a Operator also requires a full Apprenticeship, where Mechanics are a big Part of... Almost every Company, no matter the Size, has it's own Workshop and Mechanic for normal everyday Repairs and Service
Do you think that this was done overnight? This is a commercial airport where the income is such that those high costs operations make sense. You don't want the level of cost spent by your government for a pedestrian crossing. That's absurd. And yes, it takes time... For such works, for them to be economic, the crews are small, and the machines are not abundant. You can't have speed and cheap...
Your videos are awesome. The only at you edit them is awesome. Really you guys are the best. Can’t believe you don’t have way more subscribers. Love it all. Awesome Job very professional
It didn't really set in for me just how much was going on at once here until at about 4:10 when you are in the foreground of.. let me count.. 6-7 VISIBLE excavators? And they are not slowly moving but rather deliberately and energetically all choreographed in this chaos. And thats when it clicked, just how much of this is happening at once, just how impressive it is. Wow. Edit: When I saw they had the 390 on those two wheels and the dump truck started backing up to it I was saying to myself: "No way. They aren't about to do what I think they are."
Yeah that's how you get a track machine across a wide area in a hurry without tearing up the surface you're crossing or overheating the rollers in the tracks
Don’t let the safety manager see them do that in the US, they’ll find a dozen regulations that say that’s unsafe. Meanwhile every where else in the globe the job gets done without even a near miss happening.
Here in Pennsylvania cherry hill construction a company owned by Tutor Perini had a huge state highway job and completely screwed it up.. they have 31 million in liquidated damages. four years behind schedule and seven years since construction started.Originally bid at $58.7 million, the project has risen to a total of $63.3 million.
Here in michigan they close the roads down just because they want to. No one actually is ever seen working on the roads, cones just show up blocking 2-3 lanes on traffic for no reason
It's a special concrete- The cement is supplied by Concretum, a Zurich stratup that developed it specifically for this kind of application. 2 hours 30 minutes after mixed, it has a resistance of 20 MPa or 50 MPa depending on the formulation. It can be worked for 90 minutes (the plant of Eberhard is at the end of one of the runways of the airport). It is not lower quality, it's a specific chemical formulation, with a similar durability. And for the paving, they use a low temperature rapid-curing asphalt. Again, the formulation is specific for those needs, more expensive of course.
Let me be specific. Eberhard did renovate a runway with concrete. Here, they decided to go with asphalt. Why? It's the shortest runway. I believe that no heavy aircraft uses it (unless an emergency situation requires it). But also, technology improved massively in pavement.
Roller skating rink floors in the early 80s. 16 grit sanding discs glued to the bottom of out boots. Poured it out of 5 gallon buckets and pushed it around with squeegees till it was smooth. The coating did have finely ground glass mixed in for traction with the skate wheels so the coating was slightly opaque. Only had one guy fall down in it. Probably way different today.
@@TheWowthatsick you would be suprised how much goes into a gym floor hell rubber flooring for a gym HAS to be done in ONE CONTINUS pour and the use five gallon buckets. trust me flooring a gym is no carpeting a house
We didn't do anything like this, but I did pour a super Walmart. Of course right off the exit area. We had to have the road shutdown for hours as lines of concrete trucks were slowly being emptied. We needed an extra 20 trucks that day. City fined us for obstruction of a motorway, and we forwarded it to Walmart. Not our problem the city allowed it to be built off the exit ramps. And not our problem they fined us for it. Walmart payed the company back.
It seems it's the construction site for which I was doing electro magnetic probing for explosive ordnance back in 2019. Took quite a long time. Walked thousands of m² per night. Was a great job!
Reminds me of rail construction , This one time a certain company damaged turnout switch , and the iron ore operation went down for 24 hours at a rate of $70,000 a minute . ROFL
What you see here is what we call "ARGE" which is short for "Arbeitsgemeinschaft". It's a Way of doing huge or immensely complicated Projects faster and more efficient, by temporarely "joining" Parts of several Companies together for that one Project. Here we see Eberhardt, Walo, Marti and Implenia, which are 4 of the really big ones in the swiss Buildingindustry plus probably some smaller ones lending Machines and Staff or Specialists of a particular Field working together as if they were one and the same Company. Those ARGE-Projects are most often lead by a complicated Mix of several Ingenieurs of different Fields, Representers of the Airport in that Case, Representers of the Companies and many more...
asphalt is the best for airports, as it has higher grip and thus allowing for better braking in bad conditions it'll also last nearly as long as concrete (not it was not reinforced concrete before)
@@Markus-zb5zd it was latex modified roller compacted concrete that they tore out. it can be driven on in less than an hour after pouring depending on spec
@@imchris5000 and then when it cracks it has to be dug up again where as the asphalt can be easily redone in a year's time with much less costs over time.
It’s wild to me knowing how long my county where I work at takes to do a stretch of highway. And seeing this is insane. Whats their backup for breakdowns? The maintenance and upkeep n these machines must just be insane. This is such a wild operation in every aspect. HUGE props to the companies working here tbe operators and the foreman organizing all of this.
Cost benefit calculation. They remove the concrete section by section, replace it with asphalt. This runway sees much lighter traffic (shortest runway).
I can't imagine being the foreman in charge of this orchestrated chaos, on one hand it's got to be an incredibly stressful job, but on the other hand what a rush of euphoria it would be once everything falls into place and starts moving along
Well these types of crews have this down to the minute and contingencies are always planned for.
Yeah if you got bunch of McDonald's bozos it would be difficult. And these men are trained and want to be there .
As someone who is an apprentice for this exact kind of stuff (not literally with the heavy machinery, but like same concept):
The euphoria is more addicting than caffeine. Literally.
@@mattshelton7423 it can be same concept but it can't be exact if it is not exactly what is in the video lol
@@user-it6cj9yo6w I started writing that comment one way then went back and changed it, missed that one, my B!
That sequence of the 390 putting on wheels is just incredibly beautiful
So dainty, like a woman brushing her seat with a handkerchief before sitting.
It took him 3 trys to figure out where to put his bucket 🤷🏻♂️
@@DaelinTV I believe there was still some material in the bed of the truck that didn't come out and he was pushing it out of the way.. It was pretty obvious that he wasn't trying to figure out where to put it as in an empty bed, you just put it in the center of the bed.
@@VagueMemory Yep, youre right. when driving on Sleipner Wheels, there is always a small amount of gravel in die dump truck, where the excavator can place his bucket on.
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I wonder if we could hire them to re-pave our roads. They could do every road in Indiana in like a month at that speed 😳
the problem is one of access. roads are so limited in space and time it takes forever. a project where we have total control of the site. such as a new warehouse, we can knockout insanely quick.
Yeah that interchange redo in the middle of Indy would be done in less than a month instead of the what? 2 years they plan on taking.
Aye I just moved away from that shit hole
Or michigan, omg the roads suck here
Yeah that will be an excellent idea but they might be too efficient for some people’s liking
That's mental!I guess I've never thought about having to redo a runway without messing up air travel
The temporary wheels/transportation thing for the excavator blew my mind. I've never seen anything like that
There was something like that for bulldozers back in the 30s and 40s i had a 1937 Allis Chalmmers bulldozer that listed as a option in the manual a set of wheels that bolted on the side in the center and use the drawbar as a hitch to tow it to the next job
Same goes for snow removal on airport runways, you have to move from runway to runway in groups w your equipment and if you are on an active runway at the wrong time it's called an incursion and you will be most likely fined/jailed and even the FBI get involved.
@@markroderick3300 Just out of curiosity do you remember how many tons your dozer was?
@@AbeTweakin nah FBI won't get involved, in the US it'll be the NTSB and mostlikely you'll "get a number to call" first
@@TheGoldentale 6500lbs
I worked in the asphalt/highway maintenance Feild for about 8 years and I have never seen anything as well planned out and prepared for as this. Very well done! And a blast to watch
Im really digging the aesthetic of construction equipment at night, in the rain, with only their headlights and some scene lighting present. With the dust from the digging it looks really cool.
We're repaving the Jackson Hole Wyoming Airport right now with Knife River construction. They just shut the whole Airport down, no flights in or out until it's done. They get a bonus if finished ontime. The locals don't like it because of tourist season.
Jesus didn’t realize the knife river boys make it down to wy. I’m right off the knife river myself.
I’m just passed Splitface Junction
@@vidkeeper9 ya they're all over the country nowadays. They're all over idaho Montana and I believe Nevada too. And of course North Dakota.
I've seen knife river in Cali too.
Absolutely unreal. The excavator with the little skates on had my jaw on the floor the entire time. So cool
thanks for watching Austin
That‘s actually the way the do it in mines
7:47 my favorite part is when the excavator is petting that truck. It's so affectionate
While trying to get that stuck piece out of its teeth 🤣
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WALO, Eberhard and Implenia are all really big companies with different specialties and seeing the experts coming together like this is pretty amazing. I mean the speed is just insane when you compare it to how long it takes to replace taxiways at the same airport where there is not this kind of time pressure.
The means to do the job have a massive cost.
And the collaborations between construction companies in Switzerland on large projects are common for several reasons.
1. The client does like to spread the risk, in the case of a consortium (which is the case here), if one company fails, the project has to continue.
2. For the companies themselves, there are several reasons:
- Not being specialised in all the fields required to do the job.
- There is a part of such projects (especially the first contract) where there is an unknown on the financial result, so not betting too much on it makes sense.
- Having other contracts, and not a million of qualified workers and foremen on hand, it's safer to work with other companies that would supply some workers than hiring new people whose qualifications are unknown.
- Those companies have commitments with other clients.
- This is night work. The workers within one company usually rotate so they don't have to always have the night shift. Easier if not a big proportion of the local workers are committed on one project. And if the workers work on these projects all the time, there can be loss of motivations.
And in general, we are happy to collaborate whenever it makes sense. Healthy collaboration is more constructive and provides better value to the client than destructive competition.
The prevailing rate must’ve been amazing on this job.
No it's not. It's standard qualified workers doing their jobs.
This is not the USA... This is Switzerland. Workers in construction in Switzerland are qualified workers, and not DYIers ++...
The salaries are decent, but there is no difference between them and other workers within the company. There are variations but they are not massive. All workers in that field within the company would be able to do that.
And one of the reason one of the 2 companies on site is being used is that they have amazing machines, but mostly, they have their concrete recycling plant, and concrete production plant at the end of the runway, making their cost unbeatable.
And they have the collaboration with Concretum, the special cement that originates from the Swiss Technical Instritute of Technology of Zurich.
Looks more like a symphony than chaos to me. Qualified people performing what they do best. Doesn't hurt either most of them are probably Germans.
That's what I was thinking. Nothing would get accomplished if it was chaos
why should they are be germans, in zurich switzerland?
Top tier operators in the country for that job
@@kk.9091 Swizz people only launder money, make chocolate and cheese.
@@kk.9091 even better, Swiss German.
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What construction project do you know of that had massive liquidated damages and how much were the penalties?
The project when your wife asks you to put up new shelf. After couple months the penalties can quite add up. Sometime you even need to pay for extra dinner.
interstate highway shutdown like 5 grand an hour
10000 an hour on an interstate shutdown. We had to have the job lined out right to pull six miles of two lanes and pour back full depth in a 60 hour window.
@@mastadriver winner
Port of Miami tunnel 50 grand a day
I work at Heathrow and I see these boys do a huge amount of runway work from 2230hrs to 0430hrs to be ready for the first Singapore flight, British Airways 777-300
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ what the fuck are you on about, you lunatic. If God is real then he must be a c-nt because what kind of prick gives cancer to children or starts wars and famine
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Emily...
those wheels for the excavator is the coolest thing i've seen in a long time.
That moxy going full speed down the run way was the funniest thing ive seen
Crazy how the moment the US government gets involved road crews take 5 years to fix a damn thing.
Crazy how the Swiss government is the one doing this entire airport refurbishment project
@@TheMountainViewCompany sorry lemme edit hat since it was unclear
Thats because in the U.S. the jobs are all union jobs and the unions strectch these contracts out. As they say job security. They also know that they can squeeze as much money as they can out of it because they are federally subsidized.
@@sohomesick1 I could be wrong i never looked into it. But there are states in the south were unions are "outlawed?" For that exact reason. So the conclusion is the government likes to waste money
@@LeeFox1337 government does indeed like to waste money.Look at what they have been giving to Ukraine, billions upon bilions.And the worst thing is they gave a two year education system budget of the entire US to Ukraine in a single payment,one of many.Not to mention those millions of homeless people that could have been helped with that money.Or the health care that could have benefited from that money.But no,let's give money to the most corrupt country in the world and let's feel good about ourselves
As an equipment operator myself I did enjoy seeing a well organized system. Its not often ya get to see that.
thanks for watching
finally, some people who take pride in making roads, even if it is a road for planes
Stop with your American fixation on "work pride", "Murica"...
It's Switzerland. It's a job like another. And we provide quality to our clients who pay the price for it. This is not about absurd unhealthy pride and bravery, and heroism, and all those ridiculous superlatives for normal stuff.
And unlike the US, Switzerland respects more its workers. There is a proper organisation, proper companies, with proper safety, proper benefits, etc... The management, with the foreman, with the return on experience of the whole crew of workers organises the events. We are professionals, we act as such.
It's not the crazy noisy Americans shouting on site that a rookie fucked up when the manager just dropped them on a random site with 0 instruction.
We have proper education for these workers ! It's a 4 years apprenticeship with high standard theoretical and practical courses, and 3.5 days a week within the company. This system was implemented by the government. The diplomas are highly regarded.
The mentality is different.
And here, we have proper engineering. We don't have unqualified drama presidents. We have unknown politicians elected for the competences.
Don't apply your American mentality to other cultures.
the right people, the right machines and the right logistic - nothing is impossible
Nothing special here. Just a well thought and experienced company in this topic. They've been doing this for more than 10 years, going section after section, progressive maintenance.
Yes the workers are qualified, but that's a standard in concrete and road construction. No one can work on those machines without the proper experience. The management knows the drill. The real challenge is the preparation. On site, there is no drama.
It's not like the US with dramas, with machines half broken likely to break apart, and promises of doing 200 square kilometers in one night.
@@fabr5747: 😄😄😄well said
I wish they could have brought a drone in to take pictures from above just to see how insane it would look
I knooooowwww :(
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Love the attachments on the excavators
I can't tell you how happy I am to see that Wirtgen is getting some love!
Badass video, it's incredible how efficient this crew is.
It truly is amazing what humans can do when they put their minds to it.
Everyone interested in the wheel system they use to transport the CAT 385 and 390. Search for "Sleipner wheels". Pretty common thing, but mostly used in quarrys.
I've always been appreciative of industrial engineering, mega machines and construction bros, now ur making me want to get involved
everyone's hiring!
I got a job staging equipment for a big rental company and it's great so far. I have an app on my phone that tells me what machines I need to stage and I just need to make sure they are full of fuel and functioning properly... I'd say the coolest part of the job is testing brand new equipment. It shows up with plastic on the seat and etc less than 10 hours, and my job is to figure out how to operate it so that I can show everyone else.
Coolest thing I did recently was function test a brand new fully electric Takeuchi mini ex. It was brand new, and fully charged but it kept showing a code for a battery issue.
After lots of testing and seeing everything was fine we just called Takeuchi - turns out with these electric excavators you need to drain the battery down to less than 5%, then recharge...
Risking a 1.2 million dollar per hour fine puts in perspective how much the project in whole is worth. I’m guessing well over a Billion dollars.
Not even close 😂. Bruh the whole airport ain’t worth that
Probably somewhere in the 50-100 million dollar range.
You could rebuild the airport for 2 billion? The penalties are only huge because of the airline's liabilities in Europe. If your flight is delayed there you get a cash settlement that increases with the delay.
I’d agree with the billion dollars. I just did an interstate job, 1 mile of new full depth construction new D.I s dropping fiber optic cable and telephone in some areas where new sub grade elevation ran into cables it was for 85 million
@@TricksterTimbo exactly, 80 million for 70 nights
These guys get shit done! I wish we could've seen more.
The track dollys for that excavator are pretty slick.
It’s cool to watch all those big machines haul ass down a runway. It’s like watching a bunch of wild animals runnin
As an op that is pretty wild how fast they can go, but it all comes down to a few things: proper planning, good equip(including spares of everythin and someone to repair), and better ops, and the best groundmen.... I also find it funny whenever there's a show with the big boy Tonka toys.....the 3-5 note power chords get thumping as the theme song...
Best video you dudes have made yet
thanks Nick. We're learning!
You make construction work look like a Jason Bourne movie! This is rad bro!!
Its cute how all of you are so shocked. I live in Canada, we have 2 seasons here, winter and construction, to repave a few km takes months. I went back to Taiwan for vacation, stayed at my aunt's store overnight and the 8 lane intersection was stripped and paved overnight, I didn't even see them getting ready late into the evening. I have never seen road construction in Taiwan, everything is just done over one night.
So people don't have the right to be appreciative of the hard work of several hundreds of people to prevent the delay of several thousands of pre-booked flights while still done precisely enough for hundreds of people to trust their lives to land on an hour old run-way just because you have to "one up" them? Aright.
@@cesarpalmos8235 we got a pessimist here. Did I even remotely suggest people can't be appreciative? no, not at all. I'm just saying, hard efficient work is nothing to be shocked at, that is it, it's not that deep. Also, your little run-on paragraph doesn't make sense, how does "one up"ing = people not having the right to be appreciative? I suggest you stop seeing everything on social media as "toxic", it'll help detox you as well.
@@gwot I like how you are trying to damage control, good luck buddy.
@@cesarpalmos8235 perfectly explained your own situation. I personally don't care about other people, so if I even thought about insulting others, taking away their rights, I would, I don't shy away from it. But putting words in my mouth, and mis-interoperating my words? no, that's you unable to comprehend, much like you right now being in denial and attempting to re-direct that shame onto others.
@@gwot Still at it.
DUUUUDE! Glad to see your doing awesome work! Seems like yesterday we were pulling sunken Siddle’s canoes outta lakes and rivers.
hahahahahahaha some of my all-time favorite memories
Those buckets are badass
They are custom made. Eberhard also developped the „Schienenhobel“ to rip out tram tracks.
Some Constructioncompanies here in Switzerland develop their own Equipement, like Eberhardt did with this Buckets and other Things. Marti (another Buildingcompany) even has their own full Machinefactory and Developers/Ingenieurs to completely buildt new and specialized Equipement and Machines fully from the Idea up to the final, usable finished Thing by themselves! It is fully normal here that also in small Companies there's always some Machineoperator that started his Career as Mechanic and Becoming a Operator also requires a full Apprenticeship, where Mechanics are a big Part of... Almost every Company, no matter the Size, has it's own Workshop and Mechanic for normal everyday Repairs and Service
It takes our local council over two months to put in a pedestrian crossing, they could learn a lot from these guys.
Do you think that this was done overnight?
This is a commercial airport where the income is such that those high costs operations make sense.
You don't want the level of cost spent by your government for a pedestrian crossing. That's absurd. And yes, it takes time...
For such works, for them to be economic, the crews are small, and the machines are not abundant. You can't have speed and cheap...
and it takes them 3 months to replace a small bridge in my area… been having to go around it for 3 MONTHS.
Those concrete demo buckets are pretty rad👍👍
Your videos are awesome. The only at you edit them is awesome. Really you guys are the best. Can’t believe you don’t have way more subscribers. Love it all. Awesome Job very professional
thank you very much Kevin I appreciate you watching
An operation like this makes an airport runway look like a morning driveway job
I do not know how you came up on my feed!!???? BUT I AM VERY HAPPY YOU DID!!!
Idk why but I was so pumped when I saw the Wheeler Cat sticker on your hard hat. Way to represent🙌🏻
Another cracking video guys 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍
It didn't really set in for me just how much was going on at once here until at about 4:10 when you are in the foreground of.. let me count.. 6-7 VISIBLE excavators? And they are not slowly moving but rather deliberately and energetically all choreographed in this chaos. And thats when it clicked, just how much of this is happening at once, just how impressive it is. Wow.
Edit: When I saw they had the 390 on those two wheels and the dump truck started backing up to it I was saying to myself: "No way. They aren't about to do what I think they are."
yuuppp. they turned it into a trailer :D
Yeah that's how you get a track machine across a wide area in a hurry without tearing up the surface you're crossing or overheating the rollers in the tracks
Don’t let the safety manager see them do that in the US, they’ll find a dozen regulations that say that’s unsafe. Meanwhile every where else in the globe the job gets done without even a near miss happening.
That's my kind of job site. Those guys are amazing
These videos are better than a tv show i love it!
This is the content you were made to make! You killed this!
I’ve been watching for years, love every bit of content you put out. Keep it up brother man
Looks like Urs took good care of you guys, he is a good man!!
Love these longer videos! Great cinematography as always!!
This is what you call organized chaos! Everything went smoothly as planned
this is the one i was waiting to see
I worked on the Stansted project this year with 200 machines and 1500tones of Marshall binder and surface course a night over 100 nights
The PA turnpike has egregious fines for contractors
We need these guys to finish the 10 Freeway
The boys are making bank on this one👍
Here in Pennsylvania cherry hill construction a company owned by Tutor Perini had a huge state highway job and completely screwed it up.. they have 31 million in liquidated damages. four years behind schedule and seven years since construction started.Originally bid at $58.7 million, the project has risen to a total of $63.3 million.
Awesome video
eberhard is crazy efficient
It's not chaos, it's a very skilled Crew
This crew did more in 5 hours than my city has done in a whole year and a half
And? Do you want higher taxes and pay premium rates for very costly jobs?
This is absolutely incredible
Amazing video some amount on construction machines there weird seeing them without beacons but guess that's so it doesn't distract planes
Let's get these guys to do the roads here in Vegas
Here in michigan they close the roads down just because they want to. No one actually is ever seen working on the roads, cones just show up blocking 2-3 lanes on traffic for no reason
It's chaos sure, but intricately orchestrated and impeccably time chaos.
Was wondering how they could have planes land that soon after pouring new concrete and then you said pave. Asphalt won't last nearly as long
Yes but asphalt has a better friction coefficient so it grips better
@@jameson1239 Grips better and is quicker to replace so they don't need to shut down operations
@@chewy3141 also recyclable
It's a special concrete- The cement is supplied by Concretum, a Zurich stratup that developed it specifically for this kind of application. 2 hours 30 minutes after mixed, it has a resistance of 20 MPa or 50 MPa depending on the formulation. It can be worked for 90 minutes (the plant of Eberhard is at the end of one of the runways of the airport).
It is not lower quality, it's a specific chemical formulation, with a similar durability.
And for the paving, they use a low temperature rapid-curing asphalt. Again, the formulation is specific for those needs, more expensive of course.
Let me be specific. Eberhard did renovate a runway with concrete. Here, they decided to go with asphalt.
Why?
It's the shortest runway. I believe that no heavy aircraft uses it (unless an emergency situation requires it).
But also, technology improved massively in pavement.
Time is money and this is how projects should be run
As always an awesome video
Thanks for watching Andy
I love plane and I love heavy equipment I think I just found my new profession🤟🏼
Hey Aaron...... Would you like to shoot a video about installing, sanding, and painting gymnasium floors? We would love to host your show!!
Roller skating rink floors in the early 80s. 16 grit sanding discs glued to the bottom of out boots. Poured it out of 5 gallon buckets and pushed it around with squeegees till it was smooth. The coating did have finely ground glass mixed in for traction with the skate wheels so the coating was slightly opaque. Only had one guy fall down in it. Probably way different today.
This is a heavy equipment channel not flooring
@@TheWowthatsick you would be suprised how much goes into a gym floor hell rubber flooring for a gym HAS to be done in ONE CONTINUS pour and the use five gallon buckets. trust me flooring a gym is no carpeting a house
At 7:38 onwards it kinda reminded me of when video game characters drink a glass of water without the glass
We didn't do anything like this, but I did pour a super Walmart. Of course right off the exit area. We had to have the road shutdown for hours as lines of concrete trucks were slowly being emptied. We needed an extra 20 trucks that day. City fined us for obstruction of a motorway, and we forwarded it to Walmart. Not our problem the city allowed it to be built off the exit ramps. And not our problem they fined us for it. Walmart payed the company back.
Very impressive work
Now that’s taking efficiency to the next level
Europe has always been so far ahead of us North Americans when it comes to construction, so impressed!
💥🖖💯 7:44 that is awesome
The intro looks like the construction autobots are showing up for the boss fight.
When he said it was almost 3 in the morning I was like yea same here 😅
If only we had this in Florida. This just shows it can be done. Don't take years to build.
We’re paving a turnpike and it’s $20,000 an hour I believe further north on the turnpike it’s $20,000 a min.
And we know how those Swiss are about their watches.
Dude love ur channel ! New sub
Stoked to have you
It seems it's the construction site for which I was doing electro magnetic probing for explosive ordnance back in 2019. Took quite a long time. Walked thousands of m² per night. Was a great job!
Such an amazing vlogs, Your shoots makes some amazing film! First time watching your channel and I'm inmpressed
May I enquire about the music that starts at 4:23? Great video as usual guys :)
Reminds me of rail construction , This one time a certain company damaged turnout switch , and the iron ore operation went down for 24 hours at a rate of $70,000 a minute . ROFL
Yeah rail is gnarly too
What you see here is what we call "ARGE" which is short for "Arbeitsgemeinschaft". It's a Way of doing huge or immensely complicated Projects faster and more efficient, by temporarely "joining" Parts of several Companies together for that one Project. Here we see Eberhardt, Walo, Marti and Implenia, which are 4 of the really big ones in the swiss Buildingindustry plus probably some smaller ones lending Machines and Staff or Specialists of a particular Field working together as if they were one and the same Company. Those ARGE-Projects are most often lead by a complicated Mix of several Ingenieurs of different Fields, Representers of the Airport in that Case, Representers of the Companies and many more...
The 390 on the wheels👀👀👀
Haha, mad cool bro ☺️
On 6:34 the guy with rover is like: can u give me 2 minutes? I have to take measurement :D
Wow so flipping cool How they transport the excavator
My GTA career has me so envious of you my good sir
Quite the ballet going on out there.
So they tore out what, 12-18" of reinforced concrete and replaced it with asphalt? How is that gonna hold up?
asphalt is the best for airports, as it has higher grip and thus allowing for better braking in bad conditions
it'll also last nearly as long as concrete (not it was not reinforced concrete before)
@@Markus-zb5zd it was latex modified roller compacted concrete that they tore out. it can be driven on in less than an hour after pouring depending on spec
@@imchris5000 and then when it cracks it has to be dug up again where as the asphalt can be easily redone in a year's time with much less costs over time.
Their fast af
It’s wild to me knowing how long my county where I work at takes to do a stretch of highway. And seeing this is insane. Whats their backup for breakdowns? The maintenance and upkeep n these machines must just be insane. This is such a wild operation in every aspect. HUGE props to the companies working here tbe operators and the foreman organizing all of this.
The rest of the airport runway looks like it is concrete. Why are they paving this with asphalt?
Cost benefit calculation. They remove the concrete section by section, replace it with asphalt.
This runway sees much lighter traffic (shortest runway).