Why ALL Construction Equipment Is Yellow?
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- Why ALL Construction Equipment Is Yellow?
Have you ever wondered why construction equipment is almost always yellow?
It's not just a coincidence - there are fascinating reasons behind this color choice that extend from safety concerns to historical developments and cultural associations.
Join us as we delve into the origins and significance of the iconic yellow hue that dominates the world of construction machinery.
No matter if we are talking about excavators, dumpers, wheel loaders, bulldozers or backhoe loaders most of them are yellow, but to understand this video is a must watch.
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In short, visibility.
Yeah, this point is repeated over and over again, stretched over a 6 minute video.
AI ahh script @@mikosoft
😂😂 true
I am shocked at all the likes this comment has gotten, thank you all so much for your likes.
Thank you! I can now stop this American centric video 😊
Yellow is one of the most visible colours. Both during the day and at night, the colour provides sufficient contrast - even under the dusty conditions on a construction site. As such, it serves excellently as a warning colour that signifies hazards.
Orange?
@@RAXITH_playz Orange colored machines. Not so much
@@AllieThePrettyGator ohh. K👍
Saved me watching ty
That's also the reason why school buses are yellow. But school buses have a very very specific yellow. And when you purchase a retired one you have a specific amount of time to get it repainted because it is not allowed on anything but school buses.
They're yellow because Tonka made that decision 77 years ago.
12 years after Caterpillar.
This video is 5 minutes longer than it should have been.
I agree
It’s chatGPT slop, there’s 100s of
Videos like this one
😂😂
Actually it's 6 minutes too long
@@eroin7"delve" detected
So what you're saying is, "It's so as it stands out - for _Safety._ " But 15 different ways. Oh, and "It's yellow because we expect it to be yellow."
4:50 "...are often painted in vibrant colors like red, orange, or gray."
Ah yes... gray... the most vibrant of colors.
Have you never looked at a gray wall and thought "wow, look how vibrant that looks"? 😂
He ment bright grey.. also known as vibrant black.
Was this video composed by AI? Did it fail the CAPTCHA test by claiming that grey is vibrant? Only a bot would not be bothered by calling grey vibrant.
I worked on a fiber optic system and we called them yellow cable locators when they dug up and broke the fiber.
Backhoe fade
Fibre optic installation up here in Ontario are a bunch of clowns.
No plan or consistency.
Give a 3 year old a sharpie and tell them to draw on a map…. That’s Ontario fibre network. A joke.
But what do you expect when government was involved
TLDR: Visibility, branding, and associative thinking.
Almost! This word is important!
At the factory I'm working there's a lot of construction work (they're improving sewers and destroying an old concrete tower) so they're equipped with this kind of heavy machinery. None of these machines are yellow, most of them are white, some are red and the humongous excavator (with a 40 meter arm equipped with a big claw) used to destroy the tower is blue.
Here, the colors of these machines are nearly always based on the company which use them (the color are used to differentiate enterprises)
There's a crane use to load wood on trucks not far away (a standard one, about 10 tons) and huge loaders (with a capacity of 80 tons, they can grab an entire semi and move it like a toy with their driver seated at 3 to 4 meters above the ground...the same as the ones in harbors but with a claw to grab wood), all of these machines are red.
Almost! This word is important in this video
It's not mandatory but, it's only because Catepilar are the most common heavy machineries (JCB decided to use a similar color so, that's why most of the heavy machineries around the world are yellow : obnly because the 2 biggest heavy machinery constructors decided to use yellow to be easily visible)
Almost all of these heavy machines, not all
I love how you keep repeating yourself
You can have any equipment color you want as long as it is yellow. 😊😊😊😊
Lighter colors also make finding oil leaks easier. Same reason aircraft hanger floors are white epoxy.
* hangar
0:07 "Reasons"
Colour blindness is more common than people realise. Extreme colour blindness only sees yellow and black, no blue, red, green, orange or violet, only yellow and black, plus a thousand shades of grey. Colour blindness is dominant in males but females can carry the gene. Boy school students frequently get in trouble for things they aren't aware of due to colour blindness. When they are finally diagnosed, they are too embarrassed to admit it after years of being labelled as dumb or difficult.
They can sometimes see Green that's why a lot of emergency exit signs in hotels are Green not red
Dude, where is my dump truck? Oh, there it is.
Yellow or some shade of yellow/green became a bit of a fad for fire engines back in the 70's and 80's after studies showed yellow was the most visible color in low light conditions. But today many departments are switching back to the traditional fire engine red color. Highly reflective striping and a sea of flashing LED lights have made the color of fire engines pretty much irrelevant for visibility.
It’s not only yellow, but bright colours. Yellow mostly , but also orange and neon green
A similar story is the color of fire engines. In the black-and-gray 19th Century, red stood out. However, while red is common, fire engines exist in almost every color of the rainbow. In the 1970s there was a push for lime green for the increased visibility, but the “Fire engines have always been red” faction holds out to this day.
Newark, New Jersey (USA) haves a few white fire trucks with blue trim.
A town near me has powder blue fire trucks and other emergency equipment.
"the black and grey 19th century". You do know that colour existed before colour film?
There is also the fact that red is associated with heat, fire. In comparison blue tends to be associated with police, and green with medicine. In the latter case it's because green contrasts with red, blood.
Red was (and still is) the most expensive paint color to produce. Red paint with gold leaf trim was a way to show that your fire company was in better financial condition than their competitors, back in the days when fire companies were funded by insurance companies.
@@macmedic892in my country fire trucks are red with white trim. I am also old enough to remember buldozers and diggers being painted here in pinkish red.
All orange tractors can be fully serviced with a metric crescent wrench.
Vibrant gray?
I've noticed recently that the color orange has become very popular in construction equipment
While safety is a primary concern this video failed to mention another factor when Caterpillar developed the Old Highway Yellow. Construction equipment is often subject to severe corrosion due to the outdoor environment and abrasive materials such as rock, sand, and dirt.
The original color used the Lead Chromate pigment which was often used in its red form as anti-rust coatings. The yellow lead protected the machinery against rust just as well as red lead, and so served two purposes, visibility, and corrosion resistance.
Old Highway Yellow was replaced with less toxic pigments in 1971 over toxicity concerns. This New Highway Yellow is a little lighter, and less orange than the original. It can be made with various pigments, but no longer has the anti-corrosion properties of the original.
very informative
The entire reason for this video on yellow construction equipment: safety.
Military Aviation also use this hue of Yellow for flight line equipment and ground support equipment. In fact it's called GSE Yellow. Although some items are Olive Green or Gray for tactical reasons.
Gotta love the red wine color Yanmar paints their machines, they should take a look at this video...😒
Thanks a lot 🙏
4:52 mmmm yes, vibrant gray, my favorite.
Yellow colour as well prevents the workers from feeling bored when doing repetitive works for long hours... thus keeping the work progress going...
The video stretches the statement of "due to visibility" to as long as they could think of.
Just like when you have to hand over a 30 pages small essay and you can only thing of enough information to fill 7 pages so you have to stretch, repeat and paraphrase.
Talks about CAT whilst showing a JCB telehandler 😂😂😂😂
Lets face it, these machines are massive and nobody wants yellow paint so they got it on a discount. Its always about the money.
Barns are red because red paint was cheaper back in the day...I'm super fun at parties
@@pimpnick4920 you go to parties?
paint manufacturers aren’t bound my any law to manufacture a certain quantity of yellow paint.. or are they?
Most stupid i have ever read... Paintmaker dont make colors where they have to give big discount to sell them. They wants allways full price. CAT pays alot less for a gallon of paint than i do, but that is because of volume of paint CAT orders...
@@janhansen554 exactly, unless there’s some reason that for every litre of black or blue paint that’s being made, .5 lt of yellow made would have to be made as a part of some manufacturing process.. i don’t understand why would they offer any sort of discount of a certain color.
So, basically the reason for yellow is safety, you just had break down the dimensions of safety.
I have seen lot of Green color machinery too 🙂
Vibrant color like gray? That's something I thought I would never hear about gray.
Ha! That's what I was thinking! And the image shown didn't do a lot to change my mind!
@@richiehoyt8487 Me too. Grey is not a vibrant colour.
You could call white a vibrant shade of gray.
@@iizvullok LOL🤣
Not always. Komatsu vehicles are often red. And I've seen green and blue as well. But usually.
I thought Kubota was also red. I'll go with Komatsu and add Kubota to the list of red construction equipment, too
New drinking game idea. Take a drink every time he says "yellow" 😆🤣
Color aside, these are some of the coolest most capable machines
I guess the Beatles also had that in mind when they chose the YELLOW SUBMARINE!😂
From What I Understand, the Color Choice of Yellow, was Expanded in the 1950’s because at Night Cars Would drive into the Equipment, and Reflectivity was also added
It really sets off a nice blue jacket.
so why did they chose orange in their clothes when yellow is much more visible
Other things that are yellow, for the same reason as construction equipment, include school busses, safety vests, nautical life preservers. It is also used in road markings at the edges of highways or in the center of the road.
Are Kubota construction machines still painted with red? I haven't been in the industry in a while so not familiar with paint color schemes any more. I remember Volvo's heavy machinery used to be painted blue but they change to yellow.
I guess John Deere didn't get the yellow memo.
By the way, school bus yellow is officially "safety yellow" in the united states. Please reply. Dave...
Even school buses in the USA are yellow for the same reason 😬👍
Yellow to become visible to everyone.
Ask the Dutch Railways (de N.V. Nederlandse Spoorwegen), they did it before the great fall of humanity (1960-onwards) to be more visible to their railroad-workers. Exactly what Isaacsmith1874 is saying
Yellow also complements the rust on the equipment.
I often see excavators in various colors, apart from yellow they are often red, orange, blue, gray, or others. However, bulldozers, loaders, and compactors are almost always yellow.
Most machines I started on years ago were lime green
'Let's rewind the time' (shows clock going forwards)
Then why are most mining machines now going for the white colour?
Simple answer.....they're not.
@@alco4248I did some work at a mine in the mountains and if vehicles were white they’d disappear in the afternoon fog/clouds.
It's light gray and it's used to detect hydraulic leaks faster, but it works with light gray as well.
Some offer the color, but even in that video you could see the yellow mining vehicles better where the light gray and excavator already got blurry in the dust.
If you pay for it, they paint it any color you want...even JD will paint your Traktor pink if you prefer that
I've seen bright orange for some underground equipment but everything I've seen aboveground has been yellow without exception. Where do you see white?
I don't think you know the definition of the term 'MOST'
"But why is Marty McFly yellow?" - Biff Tannen
Cat picked yellow for the high visibility of maintenance. Both the operator and maintenance workers could see leaks and damage before it got too bad.
That came out of the Cat training manual, 50 plus years ago
Time index 4.55. "Often painted in vibrant colours like red, orange or grey". Just how is grey a vibrant colour? I need help!🐷
You've got about thirty seconds of actual material in here.
Yep, exactly what I thought, visibility. Now the question remains, why does everyone not wear yellow hard hats?
Hard hats have a color scheme. White is usually for supervisors and engineers, Blue is usually for people who do wiring, Yellow is usually for general laborers, etc...
Yellow is also dominating railway track maintenance equipment 8n most countries
It's even the color of New York City subway work train locomotives, used by maintenance workers.
Yellow is so cool. I wish there were more yellow vehicles around
My favourite Colour is yellow 💛 😊😊😊😊.
Flicker flicker flicker flicker, here you are, cate cate cate cate catepillar!
I think I'd be able to recognise construction equipment regardless of its colour, it just may be harder to see at night or something if it was say black and there was a job site on a highway.
I have never wondered why, until seeing this thumbnail
in Germany, most or all Tractors are dark green
In UK one of our major manufacturers JCB also yellow.
My excavator is orange and my tractor is green
Coz they looked at the stars.
And they looked at how they shined for them.
And all the things they did.
And they were all, indeed, yellow.
Lets see how many got that musical refrence.
I HAD THIS QUESTION TODAY AND IT CAME RIGHT WITHOUT EVEN SEARCHING
This video could have been an email.. 😅
Not all equipment is yellow. You have orange kubota's, red and grey link belts, green john deers. It all boils down the visibility but at the same time it's also company preference.
Not all construction equipment is yellow. Many companies use different colour variations that don’t include yellow. Yellow only seems like the dominant colour since the major manufacturer of equipment uses that colour .
"Yellow is highly visible". Me squinting at the white border because the teacher used a Yellow marker. 😠
Murdered out bulldozer 🥵
And in logistics its usually orange, or red. Although jungheinrich use a yellow for their machines
4:50 Are often painted in vibrant colours like red, orange and grey, GREY is vibrant? Are we seeing the same color? xD
Vibrant colours like grey????
It took exactly 6 minutes n 40 seconds for him to define the term visibility.
.. you can see them ..
The vendors play with the color scheme but caterpillar yellow is well known. Maybe even patented. Liebherr also have yellow but play with white also.
If you see a group of them in green and purple, run! They're about to merge and form Devastator!
Yellow means you can climb on it
arthur dent would not have survived - twice - if they weren't
What about Lime green 😕
It was the only paint available in large quantity at the time. Since then they have stuck with it.
Those American dream 😮
who else saw Diesel Creek's Cat D8 at 2:24 ?
Pretty 😊
Inc-co drills are yellow
Most are orange where I am
Is it orange bright or orange tinge
Could it also be to differentiate military vehicle since these big machine kinda look alike
Do military escavators have a vibrant yellow camouflage?
4:10 need track maintenance???
And we were all yellow
Because yellow catches people's attention more, has to do with safety. Okay next video 🥱
I love AI generated content
why? camouflage with dirt
Why are Kubota purple?
The video “yellow is highly visible” the END
Shirley you meant reasons sir…