Glimpse at one of history's largest scraper mass grading projects. Caterpillar 657E 657G 651B

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
  • Massive grading site featuring nearly 100 large CATERPILLAR 657E, 657G, 651B, and 660B scrapers from Peed Equipment Company, Indy Construction Co., and more.

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  • @geraldmadden3521
    @geraldmadden3521 4 года назад +169

    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

    • @DChaturvedi1
      @DChaturvedi1 3 года назад

      Give me contact number and me contact number 9335788154

    • @peteacher52
      @peteacher52 3 года назад +5

      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!

    • @rudybegonia2544
      @rudybegonia2544 3 года назад +4

      glad ya like'em ya ol buzzard lol

    • @geraldmadden3521
      @geraldmadden3521 3 года назад +4

      @@rudybegonia2544 Been a Cat man ever since Thanks Rudy Good health

    • @aerialcat1
      @aerialcat1 3 года назад +4

      I’m 72, I started out on a 6B-44A logging cat with electric start... tall cotton indeed.

  • @remraf72
    @remraf72 4 года назад +17

    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 !

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад +1

      Stickrod told me anybody can move easy dirt tuff sorts the operators

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад +1

      That dirt has to get moved

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 8 месяцев назад

      Work the sides dumb fuckers will take of the middle

  • @1SNOWMANNH
    @1SNOWMANNH 5 лет назад +8

    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.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      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

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      And OSHA is accredited to moving paper drive on that someday walk on it see what happens

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 8 месяцев назад

      Their mental arrangement of authority

  • @Mtnmanmike62
    @Mtnmanmike62 2 года назад +7

    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

    • @noelashford9010
      @noelashford9010 3 месяца назад

      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

  • @MarylandResident
    @MarylandResident 6 лет назад +32

    When these machines are lost to time, it's records like this they'll be remember by. Great work

    • @bigiron3304
      @bigiron3304 2 года назад

      It’ll be sad when they soon become automated

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Some of the engineers and politions will be they don't know the thrill to run em

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@bigiron3304 put them on a mud job when they are testing their new theoretical apparatus it takes savy to move desperate dirt

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@bigiron3304 how soon. Round brains have have a shelf life

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Agresive loading

  • @michaelbrown8545
    @michaelbrown8545 6 лет назад +27

    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
      @markfryer9880 6 лет назад

      If you are having trouble then us average mugs have got no chance.

    • @michaelbrown8545
      @michaelbrown8545 6 лет назад +3

      @@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 😁

    • @BedrockLeadership
      @BedrockLeadership 5 лет назад

      Michael Brown Do they break down a lot or is it just regular maintenance that would be very time-consuming?

    • @Gavin84w
      @Gavin84w 4 года назад +1

      You will need a trip to Sydney soon then Mick, 48 x 651E and 20 x 637G, bigest scoop job ever in Australia

    • @michaelbrown8545
      @michaelbrown8545 4 года назад

      @@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.

  • @troyledbetter6597
    @troyledbetter6597 5 лет назад +7

    The drone footage was beautiful! That’s the only way to grasp the size of the project. Thanks phor sharing.

  • @fredygump5578
    @fredygump5578 3 года назад +6

    I watched this before, and I'll probably watch it again. Going down those steep slopes must be a trip!

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      I have seen a scraper roll three times side ways you can't make one flip end for end

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      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

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      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

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Talking to the scraper doesn't always work

  • @thos6437
    @thos6437 5 лет назад +9

    Nice to see operators that really know how the scraper works.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      It's better than working with a bunch of educated people that only produce a agreed opinion these get something done

    • @GeorgeLafortune
      @GeorgeLafortune 2 месяца назад

      Southern California Local 12 operators at work!.....

  • @joegrabowski6011
    @joegrabowski6011 2 года назад +1

    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

  • @AdvancedUSA
    @AdvancedUSA 4 года назад +14

    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

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад +1

      I have been on some 4million yrs canyon fills. This is a big one

  • @mrbluesky2050
    @mrbluesky2050 6 лет назад +11

    Hill today, gone tomorrow...very impressive action, and great video shots too.

  • @ddorn04
    @ddorn04 5 лет назад +12

    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.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      They are just making a parking lot for the city slickers

  • @dave3216
    @dave3216 6 лет назад +13

    That was the Best 23 minutes I spent today. Awesome videography and great subject matter. 👍👍👍👍

  • @williamanderson6142
    @williamanderson6142 6 лет назад +16

    Wow scraping on a biblical scale,loved the view of the "bowl" filling up. Simply awesome!

  • @wmden1
    @wmden1 5 лет назад +7

    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.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Gotta have that angle

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      You have to be careful don't overrev that rear engine could be your last load on that job

    • @roymaynard8990
      @roymaynard8990 2 года назад

      So why are some hooked together? Rookie question I know just curious

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@roymaynard8990 some guys don't like stay ing hooked up on a steep loading situation

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Sooner or later you have to clean the tailings at the bottom that has be passed the soils inspector also

  • @scruffy6151
    @scruffy6151 6 лет назад +9

    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.

  • @sbradley9189
    @sbradley9189 6 лет назад +185

    It would be cool to see a time lapse video of the hill going away over several days

    • @JamesC696
      @JamesC696 5 лет назад +37

      Or even a before and after picture of what the site looked like.

    • @WilliamHunterII
      @WilliamHunterII 5 лет назад +6

      S Bradley -- That would definitely be cool.

    • @caviaravatars2
      @caviaravatars2 4 года назад +2

      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!!🤦🏼‍♂️

    • @timaha83
      @timaha83 3 года назад +1

      It was more than several days, way more

  • @mariotorres6287
    @mariotorres6287 6 лет назад +43

    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!!

    • @ralphaverill2001
      @ralphaverill2001 6 лет назад +11

      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.

    • @mariotorres6287
      @mariotorres6287 6 лет назад +6

      @@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.

    • @michaelmccarthy4615
      @michaelmccarthy4615 5 лет назад +1

      More homes no doubt... it looks like palm Springs area. Or high desert

    • @marcellemay7721
      @marcellemay7721 5 лет назад +3

      @@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.

    • @timothygrell4398
      @timothygrell4398 4 года назад +1

      @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.

  • @lisastallingskeelor3328
    @lisastallingskeelor3328 5 лет назад +15

    The aerial views are like watching sci fi giant mechanical/robotic ants working. Massive project!

  • @johnnyfasttruck9427
    @johnnyfasttruck9427 5 лет назад +10

    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.

  • @frios011
    @frios011 3 года назад +1

    Something so satisfying about watching these giants transform a landscape!

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      And God made it ONE day Think of That The Bible says WOW

  • @greenbudkelly2820
    @greenbudkelly2820 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @douglasfolsom3426
    @douglasfolsom3426 5 лет назад +8

    This looks like a good way to prevent brush fires.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      They let you smoke on the job who is going to get in front of you

  • @dozerblade
    @dozerblade 6 лет назад +9

    Wonderful footage with great clarity, in the UK we would just build on the hills.

    • @cpcattin
      @cpcattin 5 лет назад +2

      dozerblade We got plenty of hills. People in Southern California are from a foreign country to the rest of America.

    • @kevinrobertfrasier1309
      @kevinrobertfrasier1309 3 года назад +2

      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...

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Do you move dirt up hill for the important people

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 3 года назад +5

    Some basic project information would be an asset.And that push- pull is pretty amazing.

  • @mpsimonful
    @mpsimonful 6 лет назад +11

    beautiful video! pro work.
    and the camera on board; Great...
    thank you. greetings from France.

  • @TheHairybaz
    @TheHairybaz 6 лет назад +12

    superb! give that drone man an oscar!!

  • @TsunauticusIV
    @TsunauticusIV 3 года назад +7

    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.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      They are making something worthless into a useable site

    • @edwardglamuzina3421
      @edwardglamuzina3421 2 года назад

      That job at it's peak had over 150 scrapers

  • @scania357
    @scania357 6 лет назад +15

    Fantastic, surely the greatest show on earth. Thanks for sharing.

  • @snowdog90210
    @snowdog90210 6 лет назад +321

    I looked it up. They are building a swimming pool for Rosie O'Donnell.

  • @kency1000
    @kency1000 4 года назад

    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!!

  • @gregyoung303
    @gregyoung303 6 лет назад +6

    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!

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      There won't be anything to hang from when these are finished

  • @MyHMMWVaddiction
    @MyHMMWVaddiction 6 лет назад +2

    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.

    • @alangriff1
      @alangriff1 5 лет назад

      Me too back in my homeland...loved machines from the time I could walk almost.

  • @anth5122
    @anth5122 5 лет назад +3

    Don’t know why I watched, truly incredible literary moved a mountain

  • @Ai2Products
    @Ai2Products 3 года назад +8

    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!!

    • @tomwenderlich3142
      @tomwenderlich3142 Год назад

      yes going back and flying over is an excellent suggestion

  • @jdofmemi
    @jdofmemi 6 лет назад +4

    Great video. I love the view from the hayrack.
    Also like the drone flight to see the size of the job

    • @UrsulavonB
      @UrsulavonB 6 лет назад +1

      Peed and Coburn already kicked off the job, scaling back due to slow homes sales

    • @timothygrell4398
      @timothygrell4398 5 лет назад

      @@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

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@timothygrell4398 wow Steve is a great guy maybe he doesn't remember me 30 some years ago on their 57 s

    • @timothygrell4398
      @timothygrell4398 2 года назад

      @@dennisholst4322 Dennis I don't work there anymore.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Thanks Tim the SF green bay preseason game is going

  • @jmazoso
    @jmazoso 6 лет назад +13

    Can you even imagine the fuel bill? Awesome stuff. Love the 660s

  • @rickbown6871
    @rickbown6871 5 лет назад +67

    It all started when we were kids playing with Tonka toys

    • @GOLDSMITHEXILE
      @GOLDSMITHEXILE 4 года назад +1

      LOL "tell me about your childhood"......

  • @quikie1984
    @quikie1984 Год назад +1

    What would we ever do without drones nowadays, brilliant 👏

  • @georgesmith4468
    @georgesmith4468 3 года назад +1

    I ran the Cat 830M in Thailand and the Clark 290 in Ft Lewis, Wash 65/68. This stuff brings back memories

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      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

  • @shannonmarie294
    @shannonmarie294 3 года назад

    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!

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 5 лет назад +16

    It's a strange day when you look at a 657 and think, I need something bigger.

    • @mickking5913
      @mickking5913 3 года назад

      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.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Even the fat gals bow

  • @fhbkx
    @fhbkx 5 лет назад +1

    Excellent video shooting! At 15:15 looks like going down hill sliding with wheels locked! lol

  • @tanglerd
    @tanglerd 4 года назад +1

    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

  • @poplock1963
    @poplock1963 6 лет назад +7

    What a project , i can watch this for days. Look at all those , CATS !

  • @1Eyko
    @1Eyko 5 лет назад +5

    Great Video. We do not have that in Switzerland. I have never seen that. CAT Power!!! Grüsse aus der Schweiz, George.

    • @dennisw6842
      @dennisw6842 4 года назад

      Three would be no Switzerland if this mass of scrapers worked there.

    • @1Eyko
      @1Eyko 4 года назад

      @@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

  • @johns3106
    @johns3106 6 лет назад +37

    I would love to see before, during and after pictures or videos of this project.

  • @vicentebrazilthai853
    @vicentebrazilthai853 6 лет назад +7

    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

    • @maurorodrigues384
      @maurorodrigues384 4 года назад +1

      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

  • @itsmeagainmargret
    @itsmeagainmargret 6 лет назад +53

    I would love to see a time lapse video start to finish

  • @dlstanf2
    @dlstanf2 6 лет назад +2

    Kudos on the great camera/video shots.

  • @fx4534
    @fx4534 Год назад +1

    モーターの坂落としは迫力ありますね💪

  • @MM-fe9mz
    @MM-fe9mz 5 лет назад +11

    What's all this earthmoving for? What's being built here? Location?

  • @ernestomonge7726
    @ernestomonge7726 3 года назад +1

    Excellent Video

  • @ibleedsilverblack8100
    @ibleedsilverblack8100 3 года назад

    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

  • @CK-yi6pc
    @CK-yi6pc 5 лет назад +13

    Can’t believe ANY work gets done in ca.

  • @markbonham3477
    @markbonham3477 5 лет назад +5

    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!

  • @watchthe1369
    @watchthe1369 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @mickking5913
    @mickking5913 5 лет назад +6

    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.

    • @philipcleary1376
      @philipcleary1376 5 лет назад +1

      Cunninghams gap in queensland wants this operation badly,,,

    • @StanleySchmengie
      @StanleySchmengie 5 лет назад +2

      I think some of the large mines in Western Australia might disagree with you, Mick! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Pit_gold_mine

    • @darrellturner560
      @darrellturner560 4 года назад +1

      You need a machine to lift the rock you are under. Sorry to be so blunt.

    • @leviferrero6068
      @leviferrero6068 4 года назад

      Some of the world's largest mines are in Australia lol

    • @mickking5913
      @mickking5913 3 года назад +1

      @@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.

  • @dennisholst4322
    @dennisholst4322 9 месяцев назад

    They always have the correct motions of the equipment

  • @kurtballard1450
    @kurtballard1450 6 лет назад +6

    Fielding a BILLION dollars worth of iron. Holy shit that's impressive. Great video.. Thank You!

    • @michaelmccarthy4615
      @michaelmccarthy4615 5 лет назад

      Not quite that much money...

    • @leviferrero6068
      @leviferrero6068 4 года назад

      @@michaelmccarthy4615 probably more

    • @michaelmccarthy4615
      @michaelmccarthy4615 4 года назад

      @@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....

  • @last911GTS
    @last911GTS 5 лет назад +1

    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”.

    • @StanleySchmengie
      @StanleySchmengie 5 лет назад

      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.

    • @w8stral
      @w8stral 5 лет назад

      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

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@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

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@w8stral one thing that isn't discussed is the foundation the tower of pizza leans pyramids don't

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@w8stral and we think we are smart

  • @AmericoGutierrez-c2b
    @AmericoGutierrez-c2b 10 месяцев назад +1

    De.vnzla.es.mi.maquina.favorita

  • @rogerhodges7656
    @rogerhodges7656 14 дней назад

    It would be nice to see a "where and what for" note linked to these projects.

  • @adrianwagner336
    @adrianwagner336 3 года назад

    watching these guyz day after day im sure im watching them moving mountains from place to place then move them again next week lol

  • @Gavin84w
    @Gavin84w 6 лет назад +3

    Great stuff mate, Indy sure seem to have a bunch of 57G now

    • @UrsulavonB
      @UrsulavonB 6 лет назад +2

      Gav, corp pass thru tax law and wait for 57Ks

  • @josh33025
    @josh33025 5 лет назад +14

    The mechanics must love that job.

    • @yardlimit8695
      @yardlimit8695 4 года назад +2

      @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..........

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 4 года назад

      @Dontes Inferno That sux big time.

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      @@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

  • @moepizl
    @moepizl 5 лет назад +1

    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

  • @nickrandol9133
    @nickrandol9133 5 лет назад +2

    What a huge project!

  • @paulmatulavich7321
    @paulmatulavich7321 5 лет назад

    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.

  • @dennisholst4322
    @dennisholst4322 2 года назад +1

    These kind of jobs make good good scraper hands

  • @slomoe5409
    @slomoe5409 5 лет назад +2

    Gonna be the coolest off-road Park ....EVER..........

  • @ipanzerschrecku4732
    @ipanzerschrecku4732 5 лет назад +4

    So cool @22:22 a hawk just comes in a checks out your drone

  • @gfl1957
    @gfl1957 6 лет назад +60

    Wow, I ran a D9 on a job with 4 scrapers. That seems like a guy with a wheelbarrow compared to this.

    • @williamanderson6142
      @williamanderson6142 6 лет назад +4

      Hahahaha,im sure these the same guys that built the pyramids?

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 6 лет назад +5

      Grey Lewis That was a respectable size job you were on, but this job is supercharged to the Max and beyond.

    • @deadcatsrgoodcats7886
      @deadcatsrgoodcats7886 4 года назад

      @@markfryer9880
      I agree! Grey Lewis was definitely on a respectable sized job if it had 4 pans and a D9!! K
      Hoky Smokes, that was a good sized job for sure and him doing it gives him something that a lot of us just wish we had...that experience! Good job Grey!
      As for what Mark pointed out though, this one is hyper work on massive scale!! Makes all others look like playing in the sandbox!! The general contractor and the job superintendent had their hands full on this one!!! I would like to get mixed up in it for a day operating one of the big ones. Even just spending a day or two watching would be satisfying! Hearing the machines engine's groan as the weight increased and the load got heavier!! Seeing the tires mash out from the heavy loads put on them. Smelling the exhaust from those huge engines struggling to get the job done! Oh yes! I could stand that!

    • @PridewithKC
      @PridewithKC 4 года назад

      Yeah thats what I was thinking. I run a 615C that I thought was big until I saw these 657s

    • @timothygrell4398
      @timothygrell4398 3 года назад

      @@deadcatsrgoodcats7886 there was the best in the business running this job from management side and supt and foreman. They laid us out and let's us go to work moving 50 plus million yards in a 1 1/2 short years. Fun project and there is still 300 million yards still to move

  • @SimpleMechanic931
    @SimpleMechanic931 5 лет назад +3

    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.

  • @dennisholst4322
    @dennisholst4322 11 месяцев назад

    These have so much capability

  • @Only-one-life-68
    @Only-one-life-68 5 лет назад +16

    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

  • @equipment-enthusiast
    @equipment-enthusiast 5 лет назад +2

    Nice! Prime work conditions there. No rock to deal with or high water table where I'm at.

    • @austinsmith3561
      @austinsmith3561 5 лет назад

      And unlike here in canada, no tire sized frost lumps.

  • @BigWheelHawaii
    @BigWheelHawaii 5 лет назад

    What a Great Video,,, I'm So Old I Can Still Remember Super 8 Film Cameras

    • @christopherlovelock9104
      @christopherlovelock9104 5 лет назад +1

      @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
      @CrusaderSports250 4 года назад

      @@christopherlovelock9104 I miss my standard 8 filming, just got into it and it all went away, such is life!.

    • @christopherlovelock9104
      @christopherlovelock9104 4 года назад +1

      @@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.

    • @CrusaderSports250
      @CrusaderSports250 4 года назад

      @@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.

    • @christopherlovelock9104
      @christopherlovelock9104 4 года назад

      @@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.

  • @MusicalMemeology
    @MusicalMemeology 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @ddorn04
    @ddorn04 5 лет назад

    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.

  • @jimchallender4616
    @jimchallender4616 2 года назад +1

    Please include graphics that shows the change in the original and changed elevations.

  • @rea50
    @rea50 2 года назад

    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

  • @roberto.peterson9917
    @roberto.peterson9917 5 лет назад +3

    Amazing video what is the purpose of all this earth moving

  • @Lucysdad66
    @Lucysdad66 Год назад

    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..

  • @JMichldirtbag
    @JMichldirtbag 5 лет назад +4

    Man I would love to come Operate some of that stuff in that sand box 📦

  • @tripacer8259
    @tripacer8259 4 года назад

    Running a scraper all day is one of the hardest jobs there are.

  • @verntoews5954
    @verntoews5954 5 лет назад +1

    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

  • @markfryer9880
    @markfryer9880 6 лет назад +8

    Thanks to SoCalEarthmover for a great video'

  • @altheastortz8038
    @altheastortz8038 6 лет назад +2

    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

  • @tymbom60
    @tymbom60 5 лет назад +32

    So move mountains for new housing... But don't let the loggers cut the trees so the houses can be built? Makes sense...

    • @johndowe7003
      @johndowe7003 5 лет назад +6

      There's actually a surplus of lumber so logging isn't really a priority. I do agree with what you're saying about double standards.

    • @justbe4481
      @justbe4481 5 лет назад

      Some say it's going to be a soler power farm ..

    • @yardlimit8695
      @yardlimit8695 5 лет назад +3

      only if you're a DUMB TREE HUGGING LIBERAL..............

    • @markroeder2491
      @markroeder2491 4 года назад +1

      @@justbe4481 Yep, solar power has no environmental impact!

    • @justbe4481
      @justbe4481 4 года назад +1

      @@markroeder2491 come to see how it really does have a major impact on the environment. There is a massive plant right down the road from my place that makes them It has signs all over the place say hazardous waste. And it's dangerous.

  • @RamaMohanaRaoGoddanti-qd2dx
    @RamaMohanaRaoGoddanti-qd2dx 9 месяцев назад

    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)

  • @louielouiepks
    @louielouiepks 3 года назад +3

    Why were they doing this ? Where was this ?

  • @ted70281
    @ted70281 2 года назад

    Great Video

  • @parkersutton4191
    @parkersutton4191 5 лет назад +1

    This is pretty bad ass, I work for American colloid and we run 12 637s I though we had a big operation

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      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

  • @Fusian59
    @Fusian59 3 года назад

    really cool video, keep growing

  • @tree18is
    @tree18is 5 лет назад +14

    at my dream job, watching my dream job.

  • @dennisholst4322
    @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

    Almost ready for the railroad to come through

  • @CGT80
    @CGT80 5 лет назад +1

    It would have been nice if an approximate location was included in the description. SoCal is a couple hundred miles across. This looks like it could be in the lower part of the Inland Empire (15 &91) but it could be anywhere. While I live in the IE, it is 160 miles to one job site we may get in the San Diego mountains and it was almost as far out to a job site in Oxnard. There is a ton of work that has been done in socal and more that is happening. My brother ran equipment like this for the extension of a dam toward SD and also worked on the power link project down there. The company we work for, specializes in environmental work, so we work in the sensitive areas and on the navy and military bases, as well as EPA superfund sites. Comments about avoiding the environmentalists who want to save the sand flies or other creatures are spot on. Sometimes the smallest thing can be made into a major deal and will stop a project. Being environmentally conscious is not necessarily bad, but it can be pushed too far. The size of this project is pretty cool.

    • @StanleySchmengie
      @StanleySchmengie 5 лет назад +3

      I know this answer is 5 months on, but if you still want to know, at the 19:00 point you can see an amusement park in the background. That is Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA which is north of LA, along I-5 near the city of Santa Clarita. The link that follows is a Google Earth shot of the jobsite with Six Flags just to the right of the site. Hope that helps.
      goo.gl/maps/xVvD7tdbdWwJKTK77

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      Marine corps boot camp at Beaufort SC has sand fleas they will gladly share with those people

    • @dennisholst4322
      @dennisholst4322 2 года назад

      They could have a special going on with mosquitoes also

  • @smoker_joe
    @smoker_joe 3 года назад

    This site is so huge! I wondering where is it and what is it for.
    Massive playground with unlimited toys.
    Drone footage are awesome.