I am 83 years old and started running equipment back in 1956 my first was a D 6 cat dozer with a pony motor when i watch these videos it takes me back to the good old days of my youth
I watched this about a year ago when it was posted. About half way through the vid, those are some brave operators going down that steep slope right next to the edge ! Damn son ! Excellent video !
Thats impressive.Kind of an art form. We cant do that often in the granite state. Brings back memories of servicing the Terex units in Lincoln when they built the 93 Notch Bypass. No way a 12 year old could ever get to run a scraper today. Osha would have a stroke. Thank you Tom Palazzi. A true road builder. May you rest in peace. Thank you for your service and letting this kid get an education. You can't learn how to move the world at school. Its a hands on old school thing.
I worked in LA 86to92 on water pulls water trucks chasing 657 all day one of the last job I was on was I think it's now 105 freeway that goes to LAX. I was on that job the day of Ronnie king riots
I used to own a sand and gravel operation and have always enjoyed earth moving equipment and understanding the nuances of how to move dirt more efficiently. This one IMPRESSIVE operation
The operator came off white. Never seen that before I had heard of it he told us other guys keep your seat belt tight the scraper 57 ran the next day. The president of the United States Ronald Reagan on santa margarita rode pass our job
As a Diesel and Heavy Earthmoving Equipment fitter who has worked for a Cat dealer for 35 years I cannot imagine the work going on to keep 100 x 657's running. Cheers mate 🍻
@@markfryer9880 consider this the E series was new when I started 35 years ago. One of my first big jobs as a second year apprentice was to strip 2 x 657B's down to bare chasis and re build them all done outside on a concrete pad as our dealership did not have a shed big enough for them. Good times 😁
In the 70s my grandfather leveled the Tulare lake bottom for J. G. Boswell, he had over a 100 pieces of equipment on the job. No enclosed cabs. His cellphone was a radio phone in his car. Diesel was 34 cents a gallon brought in by 1/2 tanker loads. The equipment here is an amazing modernization of caterpillar. The yards of dirt moved per machine is probably double on 1/2 the diesel.
What a great opening shot ! The 11 down grade slide to a line of 657s . 2 of the industries most productive pieces of equipment ,& most expensive .great videos as uasall thanks for the show
I always tell myself I'm going to take photos of before during and after but Its always production , production, production, and don't stop!!! If I could piss out the window with my seat belt then that would be used instead of the tire or track!!🤦🏼♂️
Great video. It is almost hypnotic. I liked the push engines and using the steep downgrades, gravity, and sometimes help from another scraper, which was also self loading, while pushing, to self load.
Thank you SCEM! This is a well edited video many hour spent making this video for us to watch. When i see that you have posted a video i know it is going to be good you never fail. How do you make a mountain disappear scrappers of course the fastest and cheapes way. So many different sizes of scrappers in this video all coming together on one job SWEET.
That is one amazing job!! So many scrapers. The videography is superb. Thanks for posting this awesome video. Only in Southern California do you see jobs of this magnitude today!!
Anyplace else it wouldn't be so easy. In my state of Connecticut, a few feet below grade is mostly solid rock (ledge).To move that hill would take tons of explosives, several rock crushers, big front loaders, and lots of haul trucks.
@@ralphaverill2001 You are absolutely right. I am also from the Northeast (NYC), and schist and Fordham gniess requires either blasting or hammering to remove. Are you familiar with Mr. Edgar Browning's Roadbuilder books? They feature tons of action pictures of roadbuilding in the Northeast (including Connecticut) showing some the deep rock cuts that had to be made to build roads there. California has that good soft earth with volume grading that is conducive to big scraper spreads like this one.
@@ralphaverill2001 I'm from Connecticut, I'm no road builder but I am in the construction business, and you'll rarely see a scraper in Connecticut. You'll see lots of excavators with jack hammer attachments, and tracked rock drills drilling holes for explosives. Rocks and ledge are the name of the game in Connecticut.
@Its_an_Invasion_LowInfo_Votees funny cause you idiots keep trying to find work in California and I get to keep firing your sorry ass wannabes operators.
Nice video work you did a great job of showing the work from many angles. The drone was an excellent way to show the overall size of the job. Thanks for creating a video and preserving history.
The scale of this operation is mind boggling. The amount of soil being moved. The hundreds of gallons of diesel per hour. The maintenance dollars being escrowed. And the logistics of keeping all those machines moving nonstop.
Great video!!! I could watch that stuff day in and day out. Was working in Palmdale for awhile and got to see some of the action in person off the side of 14. Had to be late a couple of days from stopping and watching. Amazing seeing all those machines hanging on the hill sides. Keep up the good work on the videos,, fantastic!
Love your videos, I design and build tractor attachments for my business and these videos give me some ideas. But for the most part these are just something that is calming and a good way to destress myself. I don't have to listen to anyone talking, just the sound of the machines and watching them work. Amazing to see these big machine in a massive operation like this looking like a bunch of ants working away. Here's an idea for you if you read this. Go back after the job is done and fly over so we can see the finished product?? Be cool to show a clip of the original video of the time you recorded during the cut. but then go back and show what it looked like finished. Just a thought, plus more video content for you. Thank you for the great videos!!
@@UrsulavonB wrong ACI was there and Independent came in after. Corburn was bare rental to ACI and Peed had a few scrapers bare rental to Independent. No other big dirt outfit was involved
Ran those at camp McCoy in 71 my first good concept had the ten ft push blade on the front some of the guys played chicken with them I saw one with a gash in the blade crazy but good guys
Strangely satisfying to watch. I have always wanted to run a big machine and move dirt. I would love to see how the operator knows where to scrape and how much. Thanks
Isso é bonito demais... me fez lembrar minha idade de 7 anos , 45 anos atrás, quando vi escrepo pela primeira vez.....Parabéns pelo vídeo... perfeito. Sou Vicente e vivo em Brasília - Brasil
Well we had bigger with the 666 and 660 big six wheel cat,s and then there was the huge TTS 14 Euclid twin bowl.Watch Murl,s video,it,s on youtube,you will see the old gear i,m talking about.The vid,s old and has no sound but is still very good.
@@dennisw6842 😀😀😀CLICK: www.myswitzerland.com/de-ch/ Have a look here! The mountains don't bring these machines either. The biggest CAT mining excavator isn't enough either. With Google translator
biggest project? What are you building where? Is this the Saudi Strip city? Anew subdivision in Cali? Reservoir work? How much dirt id getting moved? Awesome shots of the bowl loading up.
iv never seen n operation so big n running smoothly. at most 3 o 4 scrapers tops. they literally took down a mountain. sux bout the landscape n at the same time amazing. constantly scraping n dumpn. well oiled machine. i assume this is a 24/7 operation
@@leviferrero6068 the largest new Cat scraper is under $1 million. The D-11 is just over $2 million. There is 1,000 Million dollars in 1 billion dollars. There isn't that much equipment on this jobsite. No where near $1 billion dollars worth....
Work of somewhat The same scale was done in the 60’s when they were taming the dunes to make way for Bethlehem Steel’s Burns Harbor plant. Arcelor-Mittal has an old company video of it on their website.
Collins and Barger had 100 scrapers and numerous D9s working for JG Boswell in the Tulare Lake Bottom in the latter part of the 60s and early 70s. Beacon delivered diesel by the half tanker on a regular basis.
@@leviferrero6068 we might have huge mines,but we don,t have huge scraper show,s like this.There are more 657,s here than probably in most countries including Australia.Companies like Sukut,Peed,s,Inderpendent,s,Coburn,s and a few other,s have huge fleet,s of 657 and 651,s to do exactly what there doing here,make mountain,s disappear.
The principles and techniques of earthmoving haven’t changed much since the days of the Egyptians. But the tools have gotten bigger and more efficient. As a CAT retiree I recall a slogan we once used, “It’s not what we make, it’s what we make possible”.
So many people are so quick to say "Thanks for your service" when it comes to military vets. I say the same to you sir, and every one of your compatriots over the decades for YOUR hard work and efforts. It is the men and women who worked in Heavy Industry and manufacturing in the United States that helped win a world war and then rebuilt the world afterward.
Well actually, no. Egyptians moved blocks and made miraculous cuts in stone moving MILLIONS of those blocks which we would have a hard time moving at all today. We just blow stone up
@@w8stral and the precision they where placed without millions of dollars for equipment and aligned to the stars that God made and never could or will be duplicated by man
Epic video Would love to of seen for real Uk 🇬🇧 fan You imagine the running cost Flipping hell must be unbelievable The fuel alone Never mind the wear costs The labour is most likely the cheapest overhead
@Dontes Inferno you don't have to doubt it,,,,,,,,,,,,YOU CAN COUNT ON IT...............DID YOU EVER HEAR OF OR KNOW OF AN ENGINEER WHO DESIGNED AN ENGINE WITH THE MECHANIC IN MIND..........
@@yardlimit8695 they don't care or are unconcerned about the frustrated task and bleeding it takes to fix the thing goes for everything the school people hope they pass
Was 10 years old in 1963 when the interstate was being built in my neighborhood. Loved watching the twin-motored Euclid scrapers and D9 dozers transform the earth. Got to know some of the 'ramrods' and pretended I was one of the crew. The best 2 years of this boy's life.
Winnipeg red river floodwater diversion ditch. 21 miles total deep and wide. Enough for us to ski or toboggan down. One of the largest earth moving projects after 1966 flood
I think I remember reading this is for a housing development? If so are the building on the fill they are dumping? And how do they get the necessary compaction for a house so that the foundation will not settle over time? I would guess a geo-tech for compaction testing, very often.
I was the sole water truck on the Dominguez Hills Soccer Stadium and I had 12 scrappers trying to run me over but this is just mind boggling. I might point out that my first 12 years (1950 - 62) was spent on Dominguez Hills. So, I'm a white boy straight out of Compton! Great job on video!
Some 41s had the 8 speed I pushed in cal older one s had the three speed I could be wrong but I think cat only made those for two years. I ran a 41 for Hoffman they only wanted you to it in second gear I ran it third there wasn't a 31 passing me and they didn't
I Am 82 Years Old And I Worked As Operator on 619C Caterpiller Scrapers,Electrical C Scrapers,and Caterpillar D-7,Cat D-8,Cat-D-9Dozers,And Allis-Chalmers HD-11,HD-16,HD-21Dozers And International Harvester BTD-6,TD-18,TD-24Etc Worked Since22-07-1965 To31-12-2000 Retire On On 31-12-2000 From W&M Division Lingamguntla (Via)Narasaraopet.(NagarjunaSagar Right Canals Organisation)
@BigWheelHawaii .. - You call that old, I can remember my uncle filming me on a 'wind-up' Bell & Howell "standard" 8mm camera, - no auto-focus or "f" setting, you had to do all that with a 'light-meter' and your judgement on the distance. He also had a 9.5mm Pathe camera but couldn't use it (when I was a child), as he couldn't get hold of the '25 foot tin cassettes' that it used, - and that was all you got, - no turning the film round to make a 25' reel into a 50' when developed, or like the 'super 8' a straightforward plastic cassette of film you just dropped in. If I remember correctly the price included developing by the films makers - usually Kodak - but there were others in the UK where I am. I still have all the films he took (mainly family) and all the cameras and projectors for them. Alas the 9.5 stuff is starting to fade - some is nearly 90 yrs old and the cost of restoring it is beyond my pocket.
@@CrusaderSports250 Ah those were the days. If you wanted to film a moving vehicle, you had to see it coming from at least a mile away, (and hope it wasn't going too fast), get the camera out of its bulky bag, find your light meter, (I had a 'Weston'), see what the light reading was, (set camera etc. - no auto-focus in those days), then find you had only 2ft of film left on that side of the reel, raise camera to shoot, by then all you got was a rear view of it disappearing into the distance. Filming vehicles (commercials) was a hobby of mine, and I found the best thing was to set the camera at about f8 (on a tripod) and hope for the best, some came out beautifully - others you could barely see, so they got cut out in the 'splicing' as I made all my films into 200ft reels. It was expensive even in those days, - so I did it once a month, - how I wish now I hadn't cut out the 'bad bits' now. Unfortunately a removal firm managed to 'lose' my best boxful for me - oh yes they compensated me for it, but how do you replace the irreplaceable. So I just have about 3000 ft of slightly out of focus, too dark, going too fast, and the like, but I'm hanging on to that - at least it's something - and memories of when I was young.
@@christopherlovelock9104 still got my Weston master v and all the still and cine stuff, it will come back!!, the sad thing for today is despite the ease of recording the visual image in twenty, fifty, years it will either be gone or unobtainable due to no one having the right format reader, the history that will be lost, I read a while ago how the Imperial War Museum came across some plates from the Crimean war, the images still clear and the history still available.
@@CrusaderSports250 Me too. I'm pretty sure my Weston is a 'V', - it's silver with a grey leather case and a hole in it for the 'neck' chord to come out. I've also got my late uncles Weston although his was a 2 (black plastic casing). Even some of my colour slides I used to take are starting to turn funny colours - I used 'Agfa' or 'Fuji' film I didn't like 'Kodak' because they used card-board surrounds on the slides. I still have 3 boxes of glass plate negatives that my grandfather took around 1912, what they are of I don't know as each box-full over the years has become stuck to each other and I haven't the photographs of what is on them. I have been told if you put the entire lump of glass, - (as that's what they amount to now), - in a bowl of milk !!! they will separate after a while, but I don't know so I have never tried to do it. I think the main part of the image is Silver Nitrate and that is something you don't want about. As you say formatting is now the biggest problem I have a 'Video Grabber', and something that when plugged in will throw my colour negatives, - (not my colour slides though), - onto my computer screen. That is interesting about the Imperial War Museum's find. Some History is being lost so fast nowadays it will end up that the only way one will know about something will be in a book - and that will not have any pictures as they couldn't be saved. I'm sorry if I have 'rambled' on for so long.
I found one of my jobs on your channel and I diddent even know you guys were there filming I did take a 6 week break for cancer treatment maby you were there then..
In so cal they use 37 s to clean the bottoms of canyons to bedrock then the 51s and 57s bring the big fill in I didn't see any 27s too small I guess they use a lot of 27s in the Midwest
Stickrod told me that old man latourneau had a vision in his sleep of a scraper a goose neck so he built it that way praise God they still build the same basic design. That's French you are probably related
@@dennisholst4322 hope he will think of me on his will !!! I am from Montreal , Canada , our french ancestors arrived here around 1680 . I think this guy who spell his name Le Tourneau in 2 parts probably left Canada . That company still exist I think in Texas now and they build beautifull big machines , if you have a chance to look at their biggest loader it's quite a monster !!!! They also built army equipment to cross marshland that is very impressive, take a look on TH-cam. Take care !!!
@@louisletourneau3429 I had 5 years French in school le is masculine and la is feminine for the what a tour thank God I have the privilege to talk to a relation of someone that helps make our world better
When I was a kid i lived in a house beside a road that was being paved, the operators called that machine as "mount scraper", badass name and I see that it makes justice to that haha
I am 83 years old and started running equipment back in 1956 my first was a D 6 cat dozer with a pony motor when i watch these videos it takes me back to the good old days of my youth
Give me contact number and me contact number 9335788154
In my day, sir, a D4 was a big dozer and a DC4 was a very big aeroplane. I was 8 years old in 1955. And by 1959, a Euclid payscraper was a monster!
glad ya like'em ya ol buzzard lol
@@rudybegonia2544 Been a Cat man ever since Thanks Rudy Good health
I’m 72, I started out on a 6B-44A logging cat with electric start... tall cotton indeed.
I watched this about a year ago when it was posted. About half way through the vid, those are some brave operators going down that steep slope right next to the edge ! Damn son !
Excellent video !
Stickrod told me anybody can move easy dirt tuff sorts the operators
That dirt has to get moved
Work the sides dumb fuckers will take of the middle
Thats impressive.Kind of an art form. We cant do that often in the granite state. Brings back memories of servicing the Terex units in Lincoln when they built the 93 Notch Bypass. No way a 12 year old could ever get to run a scraper today. Osha would have a stroke. Thank you Tom Palazzi. A true road builder. May you rest in peace. Thank you for your service and letting this kid get an education. You can't learn how to move the world at school. Its a hands on old school thing.
You never forget most dirt jobs that you were on but when you get old all you remember from school are some of the girls
And OSHA is accredited to moving paper drive on that someday walk on it see what happens
Their mental arrangement of authority
My great grandfather was one of the last mule skinners that cut road through the hills of LA. Many of those roads are now our freeway systems
I worked in LA 86to92 on water pulls water trucks chasing 657 all day one of the last job I was on was I think it's now 105 freeway that goes to LAX. I was on that job the day of Ronnie king riots
When these machines are lost to time, it's records like this they'll be remember by. Great work
It’ll be sad when they soon become automated
Some of the engineers and politions will be they don't know the thrill to run em
@@bigiron3304 put them on a mud job when they are testing their new theoretical apparatus it takes savy to move desperate dirt
@@bigiron3304 how soon. Round brains have have a shelf life
Agresive loading
Nice to see operators that really know how the scraper works.
It's better than working with a bunch of educated people that only produce a agreed opinion these get something done
Southern California Local 12 operators at work!.....
I used to own a sand and gravel operation and have always enjoyed earth moving equipment and understanding the nuances of how to move dirt more efficiently. This one IMPRESSIVE operation
I have been on some 4million yrs canyon fills. This is a big one
I watched this before, and I'll probably watch it again. Going down those steep slopes must be a trip!
I have seen a scraper roll three times side ways you can't make one flip end for end
Flags waving on the black car Robert Fulton was awarded 17 million across the street I worked on that job Jimmy Jenkins the boss praise God
The operator came off white. Never seen that before I had heard of it he told us other guys keep your seat belt tight the scraper 57 ran the next day. The president of the United States Ronald Reagan on santa margarita rode pass our job
Talking to the scraper doesn't always work
As a Diesel and Heavy Earthmoving Equipment fitter who has worked for a Cat dealer for 35 years I cannot imagine the work going on to keep 100 x 657's running. Cheers mate 🍻
If you are having trouble then us average mugs have got no chance.
@@markfryer9880 consider this the E series was new when I started 35 years ago. One of my first big jobs as a second year apprentice was to strip 2 x 657B's down to bare chasis and re build them all done outside on a concrete pad as our dealership did not have a shed big enough for them. Good times 😁
Michael Brown Do they break down a lot or is it just regular maintenance that would be very time-consuming?
You will need a trip to Sydney soon then Mick, 48 x 651E and 20 x 637G, bigest scoop job ever in Australia
@@Gavin84w thats a big job, they must have nearly every 651E in Aus on it, there a good machin though. Those 37G's will keep them busy.
Wow scraping on a biblical scale,loved the view of the "bowl" filling up. Simply awesome!
They don't moan and groan
The drone footage was beautiful! That’s the only way to grasp the size of the project. Thanks phor sharing.
In the 70s my grandfather leveled the Tulare lake bottom for J. G. Boswell, he had over a 100 pieces of equipment on the job. No enclosed cabs. His cellphone was a radio phone in his car. Diesel was 34 cents a gallon brought in by 1/2 tanker loads. The equipment here is an amazing modernization of caterpillar. The yards of dirt moved per machine is probably double on 1/2 the diesel.
They are just making a parking lot for the city slickers
That was the Best 23 minutes I spent today. Awesome videography and great subject matter. 👍👍👍👍
Hill today, gone tomorrow...very impressive action, and great video shots too.
What a great opening shot ! The 11 down grade slide to a line of 657s . 2 of the industries most productive pieces of equipment ,& most expensive .great videos as uasall thanks for the show
Incomparable
51 s come off with just about as much if they can climb it
It would be cool to see a time lapse video of the hill going away over several days
Or even a before and after picture of what the site looked like.
S Bradley -- That would definitely be cool.
I always tell myself I'm going to take photos of before during and after but Its always production , production, production, and don't stop!!! If I could piss out the window with my seat belt then that would be used instead of the tire or track!!🤦🏼♂️
It was more than several days, way more
Great video. It is almost hypnotic. I liked the push engines and using the steep downgrades, gravity, and sometimes help from another scraper, which was also self loading, while pushing, to self load.
Gotta have that angle
You have to be careful don't overrev that rear engine could be your last load on that job
So why are some hooked together? Rookie question I know just curious
@@roymaynard8990 some guys don't like stay ing hooked up on a steep loading situation
Sooner or later you have to clean the tailings at the bottom that has be passed the soils inspector also
Thank you SCEM!
This is a well edited video many hour spent making this video for us to watch.
When i see that you have posted a video i know it is going to be good you never fail.
How do you make a mountain disappear scrappers of course the fastest and cheapes way. So many different sizes of scrappers in this video all coming together on one job SWEET.
Something so satisfying about watching these giants transform a landscape!
And God made it ONE day Think of That The Bible says WOW
That is one amazing job!! So many scrapers. The videography is superb. Thanks for posting this awesome video. Only in Southern California do you see jobs of this magnitude today!!
Anyplace else it wouldn't be so easy. In my state of Connecticut, a few feet below grade is mostly solid rock (ledge).To move that hill would take tons of explosives, several rock crushers, big front loaders, and lots of haul trucks.
@@ralphaverill2001 You are absolutely right. I am also from the Northeast (NYC), and schist and Fordham gniess requires either blasting or hammering to remove. Are you familiar with Mr. Edgar Browning's Roadbuilder books? They feature tons of action pictures of roadbuilding in the Northeast (including Connecticut) showing some the deep rock cuts that had to be made to build roads there. California has that good soft earth with volume grading that is conducive to big scraper spreads like this one.
More homes no doubt... it looks like palm Springs area. Or high desert
@@ralphaverill2001 I'm from Connecticut, I'm no road builder but I am in the construction business, and you'll rarely see a scraper in Connecticut. You'll see lots of excavators with jack hammer attachments, and tracked rock drills drilling holes for explosives. Rocks and ledge are the name of the game in Connecticut.
@Its_an_Invasion_LowInfo_Votees funny cause you idiots keep trying to find work in California and I get to keep firing your sorry ass wannabes operators.
Nice video work you did a great job of showing the work from many angles. The drone was an excellent way to show the overall size of the job. Thanks for creating a video and preserving history.
The scale of this operation is mind boggling.
The amount of soil being moved. The hundreds of gallons of diesel per hour. The maintenance dollars being escrowed. And the logistics of keeping all those machines moving nonstop.
Patton thought he was good
Fantastic, surely the greatest show on earth. Thanks for sharing.
This looks like a good way to prevent brush fires.
They let you smoke on the job who is going to get in front of you
Wonderful footage with great clarity, in the UK we would just build on the hills.
dozerblade We got plenty of hills. People in Southern California are from a foreign country to the rest of America.
They also tend to build at the very bottom of hills here in the UK forgetting about where the water is supposed to go when it rains...
Do you move dirt up hill for the important people
I ran the 637 and 657 back in the late 1980s and early 90s in a surface mine in east Texas this brings back some good memories!!
Who were you working for
superb! give that drone man an oscar!!
Great video!!! I could watch that stuff day in and day out. Was working in Palmdale for awhile and got to see some of the action in person off the side of 14. Had to be late a couple of days from stopping and watching. Amazing seeing all those machines hanging on the hill sides. Keep up the good work on the videos,, fantastic!
There won't be anything to hang from when these are finished
What would we ever do without drones nowadays, brilliant 👏
beautiful video! pro work.
and the camera on board; Great...
thank you. greetings from France.
Don’t know why I watched, truly incredible literary moved a mountain
Nice. Worked on a job where we had 50 40 ton off road articulated trucks before. Would be amazing to be on a job with 100 scrapers.
They are making something worthless into a useable site
That job at it's peak had over 150 scrapers
The aerial views are like watching sci fi giant mechanical/robotic ants working. Massive project!
Fun stuff
Some people think small And do small things
Some basic project information would be an asset.And that push- pull is pretty amazing.
Gotta work together
When I was young I rode my bike to watch a small scraper job in NJ. I could watch for hours. Some things don't change. Except no binoculars.
Me too back in my homeland...loved machines from the time I could walk almost.
Have never operated Push/Pulls but ran some old 633’s for quite a few years! Like driving a big Go-Cart, I miss it!
Love your videos, I design and build tractor attachments for my business and these videos give me some ideas. But for the most part these are just something that is calming and a good way to destress myself. I don't have to listen to anyone talking, just the sound of the machines and watching them work. Amazing to see these big machine in a massive operation like this looking like a bunch of ants working away. Here's an idea for you if you read this. Go back after the job is done and fly over so we can see the finished product?? Be cool to show a clip of the original video of the time you recorded during the cut. but then go back and show what it looked like finished. Just a thought, plus more video content for you. Thank you for the great videos!!
yes going back and flying over is an excellent suggestion
Great video. I love the view from the hayrack.
Also like the drone flight to see the size of the job
Peed and Coburn already kicked off the job, scaling back due to slow homes sales
@@UrsulavonB wrong ACI was there and Independent came in after. Corburn was bare rental to ACI and Peed had a few scrapers bare rental to Independent. No other big dirt outfit was involved
@@timothygrell4398 wow Steve is a great guy maybe he doesn't remember me 30 some years ago on their 57 s
@@dennisholst4322 Dennis I don't work there anymore.
Thanks Tim the SF green bay preseason game is going
I would love to see before, during and after pictures or videos of this project.
I ran the Cat 830M in Thailand and the Clark 290 in Ft Lewis, Wash 65/68. This stuff brings back memories
Ran those at camp McCoy in 71 my first good concept had the ten ft push blade on the front some of the guys played chicken with them I saw one with a gash in the blade crazy but good guys
Can you even imagine the fuel bill? Awesome stuff. Love the 660s
No problem when its housing
i was thinking about the cost of all those tires
@@yardlimit8695 7 won't touch it
660 s didn't want to quit unloading
Strangely satisfying to watch. I have always wanted to run a big machine and move dirt. I would love to see how the operator knows where to scrape and how much. Thanks
I would love to see a time lapse video start to finish
Excellent video shooting! At 15:15 looks like going down hill sliding with wheels locked! lol
I looked it up. They are building a swimming pool for Rosie O'Donnell.
Lmao! Nancy polosis' litter box
Gonna need a bigger hole then that
That fat cow
They're building her a long drop hehe
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What a project , i can watch this for days. Look at all those , CATS !
PURR
What a huge project!
It all started when we were kids playing with Tonka toys
LOL "tell me about your childhood"......
They always have the correct motions of the equipment
Isso é bonito demais... me fez lembrar minha idade de 7 anos , 45 anos atrás, quando vi escrepo pela primeira vez.....Parabéns pelo vídeo... perfeito. Sou Vicente e vivo em Brasília - Brasil
Aqui no bairro onde moro antes de construir uma Br era só um trio aí trouxe dessas máquinas na época trabalhavam dia e noite em 1981
I worked at a gold mine we had quite a few scrapers running but dam... bunch of iron on this one .. 657s are so sweet
It's a strange day when you look at a 657 and think, I need something bigger.
Well we had bigger with the 666 and 660 big six wheel cat,s and then there was the huge TTS 14 Euclid twin bowl.Watch Murl,s video,it,s on youtube,you will see the old gear i,m talking about.The vid,s old and has no sound but is still very good.
Even the fat gals bow
Excellent Video
Great Video. We do not have that in Switzerland. I have never seen that. CAT Power!!! Grüsse aus der Schweiz, George.
Three would be no Switzerland if this mass of scrapers worked there.
@@dennisw6842 😀😀😀CLICK: www.myswitzerland.com/de-ch/
Have a look here! The mountains don't bring these machines either.
The biggest CAT mining excavator isn't enough either.
With Google translator
These have so much capability
biggest project? What are you building where? Is this the Saudi Strip city? Anew subdivision in Cali? Reservoir work? How much dirt id getting moved? Awesome shots of the bowl loading up.
iv never seen n operation so big n running smoothly. at most 3 o 4 scrapers tops. they literally took down a mountain. sux bout the landscape n at the same time amazing. constantly scraping n dumpn. well oiled machine. i assume this is a 24/7 operation
Gonna be the coolest off-road Park ....EVER..........
What's all this earthmoving for? What's being built here? Location?
Fielding a BILLION dollars worth of iron. Holy shit that's impressive. Great video.. Thank You!
Not quite that much money...
@@michaelmccarthy4615 probably more
@@leviferrero6068 the largest new Cat scraper is under $1 million. The D-11 is just over $2 million. There is 1,000 Million dollars in 1 billion dollars. There isn't that much equipment on this jobsite. No where near $1 billion dollars worth....
These kind of jobs make good good scraper hands
Work of somewhat The same scale was done in the 60’s when they were taming the dunes to make way for Bethlehem Steel’s Burns Harbor plant. Arcelor-Mittal has an old company video of it on their website.
Where was that job
Collins and Barger had 100 scrapers and numerous D9s working for JG Boswell in the Tulare Lake Bottom in the latter part of the 60s and early 70s. Beacon delivered diesel by the half tanker on a regular basis.
Wow
Kudos on the great camera/video shots.
This is a awesome display of earthmoving.We dont have anything like this in Australia unfortunately coz i,d love to have a play here.
Cunninghams gap in queensland wants this operation badly,,,
I think some of the large mines in Western Australia might disagree with you, Mick! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Pit_gold_mine
You need a machine to lift the rock you are under. Sorry to be so blunt.
Some of the world's largest mines are in Australia lol
@@leviferrero6068 we might have huge mines,but we don,t have huge scraper show,s like this.There are more 657,s here than probably in most countries including Australia.Companies like Sukut,Peed,s,Inderpendent,s,Coburn,s and a few other,s have huge fleet,s of 657 and 651,s to do exactly what there doing here,make mountain,s disappear.
Nice seeing my brothers n sisters gettin it out there by Magic Mtn! 🤙🏿
Great stuff mate, Indy sure seem to have a bunch of 57G now
Gav, corp pass thru tax law and wait for 57Ks
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The principles and techniques of earthmoving haven’t changed much since the days of the Egyptians. But the tools have gotten bigger and more efficient. As a CAT retiree I recall a slogan we once used, “It’s not what we make, it’s what we make possible”.
So many people are so quick to say "Thanks for your service" when it comes to military vets. I say the same to you sir, and every one of your compatriots over the decades for YOUR hard work and efforts. It is the men and women who worked in Heavy Industry and manufacturing in the United States that helped win a world war and then rebuilt the world afterward.
Well actually, no. Egyptians moved blocks and made miraculous cuts in stone moving MILLIONS of those blocks which we would have a hard time moving at all today. We just blow stone up
@@w8stral and the precision they where placed without millions of dollars for equipment and aligned to the stars that God made and never could or will be duplicated by man
@@w8stral one thing that isn't discussed is the foundation the tower of pizza leans pyramids don't
@@w8stral and we think we are smart
Epic video
Would love to of seen for real
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You imagine the running cost
Flipping hell must be unbelievable
The fuel alone
Never mind the wear costs
The labour is most likely the cheapest overhead
Please include graphics that shows the change in the original and changed elevations.
The mechanics must love that job.
@Dontes Inferno you don't have to doubt it,,,,,,,,,,,,YOU CAN COUNT ON IT...............DID YOU EVER HEAR OF OR KNOW OF AN ENGINEER WHO DESIGNED AN ENGINE WITH THE MECHANIC IN MIND..........
@Dontes Inferno That sux big time.
@@yardlimit8695 they don't care or are unconcerned about the frustrated task and bleeding it takes to fix the thing goes for everything the school people hope they pass
Was 10 years old in 1963 when the interstate was being built in my neighborhood. Loved watching the twin-motored Euclid scrapers and D9 dozers transform the earth. Got to know some of the 'ramrods' and pretended I was one of the crew. The best 2 years of this boy's life.
Always impressive to watch
Why were they doing this ? Where was this ?
Nice! Prime work conditions there. No rock to deal with or high water table where I'm at.
And unlike here in canada, no tire sized frost lumps.
Winnipeg red river floodwater diversion ditch. 21 miles total deep and wide. Enough for us to ski or toboggan down. One of the largest earth moving projects after 1966 flood
I think I remember reading this is for a housing development? If so are the building on the fill they are dumping? And how do they get the necessary compaction for a house so that the foundation will not settle over time? I would guess a geo-tech for compaction testing, very often.
Can you pls give a link to what this is all for? Is this for a rubbish tip? If so this shows the scale of what we are doing to this planet.
watching these guyz day after day im sure im watching them moving mountains from place to place then move them again next week lol
Almost ready for the railroad to come through
I had operated a d 10n caterpillar and a 375 ax komatsu and just the fuel costs and routine maintenance per one machine is amazing
I know it has a longer frame
This site is so huge! I wondering where is it and what is it for.
Massive playground with unlimited toys.
Drone footage are awesome.
Running a scraper all day is one of the hardest jobs there are.
I was the sole water truck on the Dominguez Hills Soccer Stadium and I had 12 scrappers trying to run me over but this is just mind boggling. I might point out that my first 12 years (1950 - 62) was spent on Dominguez Hills. So, I'm a white boy straight out of Compton! Great job on video!
I also run a water truck good stuff
My 631 had extra sides welding on so it would haul 36 yards. We also had some 641's but they were too slow. My 631 would run about 25 mph.
You mention this in the past tense, how long have you been out of the game ?
@@89tin 40 years or so
Some 41s had the 8 speed I pushed in cal older one s had the three speed I could be wrong but I think cat only made those for two years. I ran a 41 for Hoffman they only wanted you to it in second gear I ran it third there wasn't a 31 passing me and they didn't
I Am 82 Years Old And I Worked As Operator on 619C Caterpiller Scrapers,Electrical C Scrapers,and Caterpillar D-7,Cat D-8,Cat-D-9Dozers,And Allis-Chalmers HD-11,HD-16,HD-21Dozers And International Harvester BTD-6,TD-18,TD-24Etc Worked Since22-07-1965 To31-12-2000 Retire On On 31-12-2000 From W&M Division Lingamguntla (Via)Narasaraopet.(NagarjunaSagar Right Canals Organisation)
Amazing video what is the purpose of all this earth moving
What will the land be used for? Amazing amount of equipment and great video!
Newhall Ranch project. 21,000 homes and mixed use commerical.
@@stephenwilson9612 Wow! Big project!
belo sincronismo da equipe! parabéns!
What a Great Video,,, I'm So Old I Can Still Remember Super 8 Film Cameras
@BigWheelHawaii .. - You call that old, I can remember my uncle filming me on a 'wind-up' Bell & Howell "standard" 8mm camera, - no auto-focus or "f" setting, you had to do all that with a 'light-meter' and your judgement on the distance. He also had a 9.5mm Pathe camera but couldn't use it (when I was a child), as he couldn't get hold of the '25 foot tin cassettes' that it used, - and that was all you got, - no turning the film round to make a 25' reel into a 50' when developed, or like the 'super 8' a straightforward plastic cassette of film you just dropped in. If I remember correctly the price included developing by the films makers - usually Kodak - but there were others in the UK where I am. I still have all the films he took (mainly family) and all the cameras and projectors for them. Alas the 9.5 stuff is starting to fade - some is nearly 90 yrs old and the cost of restoring it is beyond my pocket.
@@christopherlovelock9104 I miss my standard 8 filming, just got into it and it all went away, such is life!.
@@CrusaderSports250 Ah those were the days. If you wanted to film a moving vehicle, you had to see it coming from at least a mile away, (and hope it wasn't going too fast), get the camera out of its bulky bag, find your light meter, (I had a 'Weston'), see what the light reading was, (set camera etc. - no auto-focus in those days), then find you had only 2ft of film left on that side of the reel, raise camera to shoot, by then all you got was a rear view of it disappearing into the distance. Filming vehicles (commercials) was a hobby of mine, and I found the best thing was to set the camera at about f8 (on a tripod) and hope for the best, some came out beautifully - others you could barely see, so they got cut out in the 'splicing' as I made all my films into 200ft reels. It was expensive even in those days, - so I did it once a month, - how I wish now I hadn't cut out the 'bad bits' now. Unfortunately a removal firm managed to 'lose' my best boxful for me - oh yes they compensated me for it, but how do you replace the irreplaceable. So I just have about 3000 ft of slightly out of focus, too dark, going too fast, and the like, but I'm hanging on to that - at least it's something - and memories of when I was young.
@@christopherlovelock9104 still got my Weston master v and all the still and cine stuff, it will come back!!, the sad thing for today is despite the ease of recording the visual image in twenty, fifty, years it will either be gone or unobtainable due to no one having the right format reader, the history that will be lost, I read a while ago how the Imperial War Museum came across some plates from the Crimean war, the images still clear and the history still available.
@@CrusaderSports250 Me too. I'm pretty sure my Weston is a 'V', - it's silver with a grey leather case and a hole in it for the 'neck' chord to come out. I've also got my late uncles Weston although his was a 2 (black plastic casing). Even some of my colour slides I used to take are starting to turn funny colours - I used 'Agfa' or 'Fuji' film I didn't like 'Kodak' because they used card-board surrounds on the slides. I still have 3 boxes of glass plate negatives that my grandfather took around 1912, what they are of I don't know as each box-full over the years has become stuck to each other and I haven't the photographs of what is on them. I have been told if you put the entire lump of glass, - (as that's what they amount to now), - in a bowl of milk !!! they will separate after a while, but I don't know so I have never tried to do it. I think the main part of the image is Silver Nitrate and that is something you don't want about. As you say formatting is now the biggest problem I have a 'Video Grabber', and something that when plugged in will throw my colour negatives, - (not my colour slides though), - onto my computer screen. That is interesting about the Imperial War Museum's find. Some History is being lost so fast nowadays it will end up that the only way one will know about something will be in a book - and that will not have any pictures as they couldn't be saved. I'm sorry if I have 'rambled' on for so long.
Great video. What is the project ? Serious amount of earth moving !
I found one of my jobs on your channel and I diddent even know you guys were there filming I did take a 6 week break for cancer treatment maby you were there then..
This is pretty bad ass, I work for American colloid and we run 12 637s I though we had a big operation
In so cal they use 37 s to clean the bottoms of canyons to bedrock then the 51s and 57s bring the big fill in I didn't see any 27s too small I guess they use a lot of 27s in the Midwest
Great Video
So cool @22:22 a hawk just comes in a checks out your drone
Beautifull ballet !!!! Always liked scraper working in tandem , what kind of project was it ?
Stickrod told me that old man latourneau had a vision in his sleep of a scraper a goose neck so he built it that way praise God they still build the same basic design. That's French you are probably related
@@dennisholst4322 hope he will think of me on his will !!!
I am from Montreal , Canada , our french ancestors arrived here around 1680 . I think this guy who spell his name Le Tourneau in 2 parts probably left Canada .
That company still exist I think in Texas now and they build beautifull big machines , if you have a chance to look at their biggest loader it's quite a monster !!!!
They also built army equipment to cross marshland that is very impressive, take a look on TH-cam.
Take care !!!
@@louisletourneau3429 I had 5 years French in school le is masculine and la is feminine for the what a tour thank God I have the privilege to talk to a relation of someone that helps make our world better
Parabéns tenho 70 anos nunca tinha presenciado algo tão lindo.Evaldo Rodermel de Joinville sc b👍👍👍
When I was a kid i lived in a house beside a road that was being paved, the operators called that machine as "mount scraper", badass name and I see that it makes justice to that haha
Like a symphony by excavators! Very impressive!