Absolutely massive! It's so difficult to get a sense of scale until you literally walk up to the machines and see them towering over people. Incredible video, thank you.
The editing in this is fucking phenomenal. Pacing is excellent. I do this shit for a living (running a plant) and spend most of my time with youtube in the background. Its fucking hard to find people who want to do this for a living. THIS is the type of content thats going to get people inspired.
RG Letourneau was a great Man, excellent visionary. He started making equipment in the 1930s. The University he started is literally Across the street from this plant.
I can't believe he didn't ask about the Letourneau Overland Train. If I went to LeTourneau HQ, that would have been the topic of every question. The army contracted for an overland train for 600 feet long off-road vehicle. Thats some epic shtt
Hopefully you'll get a chance to check out the Milwaukee facility some time and see how the Rope Shovels are built! The largest gantry mill in North America is at the new facility there!
I’ve been loaded many many times by the 1850, both ancient ones and a modern version, and they’re monster loaders compared to a Komatsu 830e, which is quite a small truck by modern standards. The newest ones do a 4 bucket pass with coal into an 830e with a wide body coal tray. What size trucks can the 2350 handle?
Good lord almighty..... These are the 🤴 of loading Shovels! As a keen loading shovel driver.... I'd rather these over a digger any day of the week! Aaron and team you are lucky sods 😁😍
Very informative Aaron. I recently viewed the latest WE1850 loader and impressed with the progress in design, esp the KESS feature and SR drive. Great machines....
I love how yall had free rome of the plant, like Komatsu was like eh whats the worst __ morons with a camera can do? *continues to make a funny but also imformative video while fuckin around in the plant*😂
Excellent video, i have heard about R.G.L. my whole life. My mom and her mom, and her grandma lived in Longview, and each told of meeting Mr. Letourneau, and how friendly and smart he was. I live about an hour south and have always wanted to take the tour. Thanks
"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).
We have Komatsu 1850 front loader in Finland and also electric Komatsu PC8000 hydraulic excavator with 2 x 1450kW motors. Operating in Kevitsa and Talvivaara mines I guess. Its nice to see that they have a lot of Konecranes portal cranes in the factory.
I worked for leTourneau in the late 90's. I ran a large mill in what I called the slime pit. Good times. O bored holes in the backs of the buckets, lift arms etc.
I have no idea how you do all this travel and stuff, and then only post the absolute biggest equipment teases like you're doing a big iron burlesque show Especially when you keep smashing lenses from your safety vest
Jend. Sam ARBI Abdurrahman B. General asambly UN PBB ; 1987-, 1991-, 1998-, * Jend. Sam Ardi B. Abdurrahman AI (ashabul Kahfi -ibrahim nabi) GUAM ( irian dar'es salam) General asambly UN PBB ; 1994-, Mundur ; 2001-, 2004-, because sanksi konflic building kaba'a
Aron I like your videos SOMETIMES because your Camera Man is filming you To much!!!, Instead of Filming the Equipment up close And Most Of your Videos Are Like That!; Spend Most Time of the Video Filming you or Whatever you say Instead of Filming more in Detail of Equipment and many other things there, !!!please Film More the Equipment Around it Would be Just Great to Enjoy, hope someday you can see this, I'm just saying what I seen, and Been Honest With you, thanks for Correcting This Problem!!
Thank you ( Mr. Watt) for showing the massive builds of these monsters 😊 For the work force, its learning different skills than just being a welder. YES it looks like personal still need to weld hands on, as you showed. But the job replacement are computer programming and Hardware understanding. Just making the modern welder muti task person.
Всего два раза за всё видео,коротким отрезком показан едва показан сам погрузчик.Всё остальное время болтавня идиотская,ужимки ведущего.Полный отстой🤕🙉👎👎👎
The guy doing the tour is missing the point of jobs going away in the industry do to robots. We need those entry level jobs to get people in and to weed out people who just can't cut it. I get there's school for operators but its not the same as on job training from the bottom (generally hands and truck drivers). How many blue collar people are willing to pay for a school that was mainly on job training its whole inception pretty much.
Awesome tour guys. That Longview plant has a long long history in building earthmoving equipment. RG LeTourneau has the distinction of being THE father of high-speed earthmoving with his research and development of rubber tires for heavy equipment. The whole earthmoving and mining industries ended up adopting his lead. Kudos to Komatsu for giving you guys unfettered access behind the scenes of the plant.
Love the content Aaron. I kind of work in a relevant industry, work in a concrete block plant and we have two loaders, though no where near this scale, a Doosan DL380 and a Volvo L70h, as i say much smaller. Used to shovel waste ash from coal power plants and the shovels dump it into mixing pits to be used as a slurry for the block mix, i love it. You need to come to the UK, size wise nothing compares size wise, but that doesn't always matter, would love you to tour JCBs plant.
Aaron, without your safety glasses on in the beginning, you look like you just woke up, had a coffee and a smoke, and were on your way to your divorce hearing. With them on, you look like you're 15 years old
If you film at an establishment and they seem like an amazing company to work for… share it with us viewers. I would absolutely love to work at some of these places that you visit.
I'm in love with the 2350. Too bad they're used for coal, but the other mining operations are super important. I wonder how their design is going to change as we move away from fossil fuels
Why use Jesus name like that you offend a lot of people disrespecting our God’s name in such a uncalled for manner? Do you use your parents name or family members name in such a disrespectful way?
Go back to film school and learn how to make a videos. If you haven't been to film school then go to film school. If you are doing a documentary about something, then people want to see the process, not just you or ridiculous closeups or what is in the background all blurry or out of focus, or something else popup in front of it just to hide what's it is you were going to show. If the manufacturing process was top secret then don't do the manufacturing portion of it. I give you D minus for filming...
Love the Coal hat aka hint want one maybe 10 to pass around. Especially to all the greenies who have yet to realize it’s COAL that provides the cheap electricity for their $100,000 plus Dangerous Fire Bomb, Environmentally Damaging EV’s! Coal is still and always will be the greatest most plentiful natural energy resource for cost effective electricity!! 👍👍 Gee I wonder how many Batteries it will take to run one of those awesome Komatsu Loaders 😂😂😂!
Solar and wind are far cheaper than coal. 86% of electricity generation is renewable in New Zealand, and evs are cheaper than a Toyota Corolla. p.s Ice cars are 20 x more likely to catch fire
You need to come out to the cat Peoria proving grounds I’m a mechanic out there and I think you’d be impressed at some of the things we do!
I'd love to but I can get into the white house easier
@@AaronWitt they do tours through here all the time so you never know lol 🤷♂️
Go to Tomahawk in Racine, Wisconsin case construction guys would love that
Jay is the shit, I follow him on LinkedIn all day.
Nice!
How many of the welds do they X-ray?
Absolutely massive! It's so difficult to get a sense of scale until you literally walk up to the machines and see them towering over people. Incredible video, thank you.
thanks for watching!
The editing in this is fucking phenomenal. Pacing is excellent. I do this shit for a living (running a plant) and spend most of my time with youtube in the background. Its fucking hard to find people who want to do this for a living. THIS is the type of content thats going to get people inspired.
this is too fast. Id rather experience this at modern marvels pace to learn more about the processes.
thanks for the kind words and for what you do!!
@@AaronWitt kind words he needs his mouth washed out with soap no excuse for this crap
Question:……. 18-Wheelers have tire knockers to quickly check for “tire pressure/flat tires” do these behemoths have something similar? lol
We put wireless TPMS sensors in the tires. They're magnetic and attach to the rims.
RG Letourneau was a great Man, excellent visionary.
He started making equipment in the 1930s.
The University he started is literally
Across the street from this plant.
I work for Komatsu in Mesa, Arizona. I recently visited the Longview facility and it was amazing. Great video!🙂
Aaron I think we need some crane content brother!
Glad you had a chance to stop by!
I can't believe he didn't ask about the Letourneau Overland Train. If I went to LeTourneau HQ, that would have been the topic of every question. The army contracted for an overland train for 600 feet long off-road vehicle. Thats some epic shtt
i thought i recognise the name somewhere, those overland trains were really something
As a retired heavy equipment operator, this is one great video. Komatsu is up there with Cat.
Hopefully you'll get a chance to check out the Milwaukee facility some time and see how the Rope Shovels are built! The largest gantry mill in North America is at the new facility there!
hopefully that's next!
Always wanted a perspective like this. Thank you so much Aaron❤
I’ve been loaded many many times by the 1850, both ancient ones and a modern version, and they’re monster loaders compared to a Komatsu 830e, which is quite a small truck by modern standards. The newest ones do a 4 bucket pass with coal into an 830e with a wide body coal tray.
What size trucks can the 2350 handle?
Drove by here for 25 years and always wanted to go inside. Thanks for sharing.
thanks for watching
Can you guys come to Fargo North Dakota and do an episode with ASN constructors, we are currently doing the red river diversion that’s 30+ miles long
we already shot a video on the project -- it'll be out in a bit
you should do a in depth video on structural ironworkers
Good lord almighty..... These are the 🤴 of loading Shovels! As a keen loading shovel driver.... I'd rather these over a digger any day of the week! Aaron and team you are lucky sods 😁😍
Very informative Aaron. I recently viewed the latest WE1850 loader and impressed with the progress in design, esp the KESS feature and SR drive. Great machines....
Cool interesting...Good paying jobs at those types of factory's.
Thanks to Komatsu for letting us take a peek.
big time they were super friendly
I love how yall had free rome of the plant, like Komatsu was like eh whats the worst __ morons with a camera can do? *continues to make a funny but also imformative video while fuckin around in the plant*😂
Excellent video, i have heard about R.G.L. my whole life. My mom and her mom, and her grandma lived in Longview, and each told of meeting Mr. Letourneau, and how friendly and smart he was. I live about an hour south and have always wanted to take the tour. Thanks
this is nice
I used to work there as lead night electrician on the loaders. Fun part was doing test drive and checkout before teardown and shipping
You left out Westinghouse Air Brake Company WABCO in the ownership history.
I leave out a lot in every video
Because it was just not interesting enough
Love these videos!
Longview, TX - Home of Dudley's. mmmmmm - crawfish etouffee...
So cool
"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most.
No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores.
No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it.
This universal truth applies to all systems.
Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).
Here I thought the 2350 line had disappeared; there's almost no video of them working on here.
We have Komatsu 1850 front loader in Finland and also electric Komatsu PC8000 hydraulic excavator with 2 x 1450kW motors. Operating in Kevitsa and Talvivaara mines I guess. Its nice to see that they have a lot of Konecranes portal cranes in the factory.
Best videos …. Thanks
@17:01 you truly are a child, and I love it hahaha
I worked for leTourneau in the late 90's. I ran a large mill in what I called the slime pit. Good times. O bored holes in the backs of the buckets, lift arms etc.
A 50 yards bucket? Wow, that is pretty long! 😲😁😜
I have no idea how you do all this travel and stuff, and then only post the absolute biggest equipment teases like you're doing a big iron burlesque show
Especially when you keep smashing lenses from your safety vest
How many millions do they cost
Komatsu! God-bless you!
Awesome video Aaron
I can stand straight up inside my 8 yard bucket. Can lay down stretched out inside it. A 50 yard bucket is insaneeeeeeee.
They’ve not cut the head count but they cut the obsolescence 😂
Jend. Sam ARBI Abdurrahman B.
General asambly UN PBB ; 1987-, 1991-, 1998-,
* Jend. Sam Ardi B. Abdurrahman AI (ashabul Kahfi -ibrahim nabi)
GUAM ( irian dar'es salam)
General asambly UN PBB ; 1994-,
Mundur ; 2001-, 2004-, because sanksi konflic building kaba'a
Great video
Great video, 2350's are huge. You can't get a scale of it until you work on them
Aron I like your videos SOMETIMES because your Camera Man is filming you To much!!!, Instead of Filming the Equipment up close And Most Of your Videos Are Like That!; Spend Most Time of the Video Filming you or Whatever you say Instead of Filming more in Detail of Equipment and many other things there, !!!please Film More the Equipment Around it Would be Just Great to Enjoy, hope someday you can see this, I'm just saying what I seen, and Been Honest With you, thanks for Correcting This Problem!!
Your vids are amazing
thank you!
13:46 The German salt mine video is not right here.
Why he was undergound
Thank you ( Mr. Watt) for showing the massive builds of these monsters 😊
For the work force, its learning different skills than just being a welder. YES it looks like personal still need to weld hands on, as you showed. But the job replacement are computer programming and Hardware understanding. Just making the modern welder muti task person.
Всего два раза за всё видео,коротким отрезком показан едва показан сам погрузчик.Всё остальное время болтавня идиотская,ужимки ведущего.Полный отстой🤕🙉👎👎👎
great video and factory
The guy doing the tour is missing the point of jobs going away in the industry do to robots. We need those entry level jobs to get people in and to weed out people who just can't cut it. I get there's school for operators but its not the same as on job training from the bottom (generally hands and truck drivers). How many blue collar people are willing to pay for a school that was mainly on job training its whole inception pretty much.
Joystick bucket controls are terrible. How can you have that in a huge machine like that. Separate sticks are way better.
You kinda glossed over some of the cool technology.
Mediocre at best video considering the amazing access you had.
I wish i could of picked your brain when you were out here where i work(hoopaugh). Another dope video tho!!
I operate a w500. Little smaller. Haha. But i do really like the machine.
How long to make a loader, from start to shipping ? From s Wales u.k
What's with the humongous back packs
My wa80 is handy but this plant is monster size
Awesome tour guys. That Longview plant has a long long history in building earthmoving equipment. RG LeTourneau has the distinction of being THE father of high-speed earthmoving with his research and development of rubber tires for heavy equipment. The whole earthmoving and mining industries ended up adopting his lead. Kudos to Komatsu for giving you guys unfettered access behind the scenes of the plant.
Love the content Aaron.
I kind of work in a relevant industry, work in a concrete block plant and we have two loaders, though no where near this scale, a Doosan DL380 and a Volvo L70h, as i say much smaller. Used to shovel waste ash from coal power plants and the shovels dump it into mixing pits to be used as a slurry for the block mix, i love it.
You need to come to the UK, size wise nothing compares size wise, but that doesn't always matter, would love you to tour JCBs plant.
This is Every Boy's Dream place to visit, what a factory.
This Komatsu Big technologie
Aaron, without your safety glasses on in the beginning, you look like you just woke up, had a coffee and a smoke, and were on your way to your divorce hearing. With them on, you look like you're 15 years old
amazing how one bit of kit can transform someone
Why’s he getting the models all wrong?
If you film at an establishment and they seem like an amazing company to work for… share it with us viewers. I would absolutely love to work at some of these places that you visit.
Green screen ,at the teddy factory 🤣🤣🤣
Aaron Lives every child’s dream, going to different construction sites and facilities to see everything in the construction industry being made
Loved the tour. Thanks
Bucket control is called crowd
I want one, :)
Hi mate awesome machine I work on them in the Pilbara getting a new one in December. That will make 5.
You should have gone into the trade impacts of the factory.
AARON DIMWITT MOORE LIKE
Super cool!
12:57 That’s not a cab, that’s an office
Super cool! Love seeing how these big boys are made! 🔥
That was way cool!!
Komatsu 💪
I'm in love with the 2350. Too bad they're used for coal, but the other mining operations are super important. I wonder how their design is going to change as we move away from fossil fuels
You mean oil and gas it’s not fossil fuel
No plans to move away from fossil fuels.
Only plans to reduce usage.... in some small countries in the West.
Why use Jesus name like that you offend a lot of people disrespecting our God’s name in such a uncalled for manner? Do you use your parents name or family members name in such a disrespectful way?
Damn, this guy still cant get names and facts right. Put me off this channel a while back, amazing to see nothing has changed.
Glad to have you back!
Japanese brand in a American bomb factory
i hate it here
Go back to film school and learn how to make a videos. If you haven't been to film school then go to film school. If you are doing a documentary about something, then people want to see the process, not just you or ridiculous closeups or what is in the background all blurry or out of focus, or something else popup in front of it just to hide what's it is you were going to show. If the manufacturing process was top secret then don't do the manufacturing portion of it. I give you D minus for filming...
Love the Coal hat aka hint want one maybe 10 to pass around. Especially to all the greenies who have yet to realize it’s COAL that provides the cheap electricity for their $100,000 plus Dangerous Fire Bomb, Environmentally Damaging EV’s! Coal is still and always will be the greatest most plentiful natural energy resource for cost effective electricity!! 👍👍 Gee I wonder how many Batteries it will take to run one of those awesome Komatsu Loaders 😂😂😂!
Solar and wind are far cheaper than coal. 86% of electricity generation is renewable in New Zealand, and evs are cheaper than a Toyota Corolla. p.s Ice cars are 20 x more likely to catch fire
get better bait
@@johnhornblow4347 you don’t know much about wind power