I worked with an old scraper driver, he had a small wooden reading table he would clamp to the steering wheel, it had elasticated cord at each side & he would place whatever book he was reading on this table, with the elasticated cord holding the book pages down & keeping the book open...Reading the books kept him occupied on the long hauls to & from the cuts for all those years...! I gotta say he was exceptionally well read from all his scraper reading years, & later went to university as a mature student & studied English literature...!
Jeesz thats dedicated ... did he end up with a degree ... ? How many degrees ... ? Sorry you said literature not maths ... he wouldn't be many degrees in Lit eh?.
Oh come on now.., what could be more soothing and patriotic than the sounds of great American manufactured, big earth moving equipment, burning organic fossil fuel, in a large 6-cylinder Caterpillar engine…, oh, oh, oh, ooooh…, how I love it. Awesome..! Confession: I too, enjoy me a beautiful quiet morning myself…, hahaha.
I think the 70 hours (5x12 and a 10) week after week after week is why this retired operator is hard of hearing and has a bad back. But I would do it all over again for what it brought my family
U think ur so noble to end up a friggin angry debilitated 40 yr. Old that thinks his sacrifice is so great. Ur family needed a FATHER not just $$ maker. U failed ur family. Who would want to live with no u.
Cat had told me to back in 1971 when I bought a cabover Peterbilt with a 270 to glow plug start and then go back to glow plug until it was hitting on all 6 cylinders and I did this on my little 3 cylinder Kubota tractor. I miss the trucks but I missed the year I pushed dirt in Iowa. Love the videos thank you for sharing
Jeff. Our village was bypassed in the early 1970s. They had 4 push pull scrapers. They were Euclid 24 cubic yards they would muster. It was just like they were in a race. The ground shuck when they went by. They also had 2 D8 cat dozers.
It is amazing what that "cushion hitch" actually does and how much shock load it soaks up!!!!!! I doubt I could last a full day, then I would need a two or three day recovery period..........no joke. Those scrapers are brutal for shock loads and bounce, a little different than farm machinery!!!!!
Great video Jeff alway enjoy watching you work dirt with FW and #2 scrapers. There's always something to fix on one of your scrapers after all the push pull dirt moving. Thanks for sharing stay safe Jeff.
How many cameras went to dust with all the interesting footage made ! Thanks Jeff, yep I am handy, but its better not telling women that or you end up a slave !
😆AWESOME video as ALWAYS Jeff !!! 🤔 At 77 I would give it a "HELL OF A RUN" . 'HA' ... if I could get out of bed the third day !!!! 🫠 I remember back when chopping sileage north of Klamath Falls in the 50's, trucks hauling out in the field from chopper to the pit over the peat dirt roads, that dirt would flow just like that dirt flowing at 21:00. BUT at 30 mph+ the dust would drift 1/2 mile to Mom's clothes on the line,,,,, ( oh what a tremble on the ground then). " ITCH " you can't imagine how that peat dirt gets you to crawling. LOVE every minute of the [tag along] with you, especially the different camera angles with this video. 😏GREAT WORK !!! 😉 THANKS JEFF , GOD BLESS , 🙏🙏 😍😍😍😍😍 " by the way the cattle were fed potatoes also"
I ran Green Weenies for a few years in the late 70s'. Never had a nice Cat with the soft ride goose neck. I did operate a really fast double barrel Fiat Allis but the rear engine ran low on fuel every day at about 8 hours. Boy was that machine a good time on rough ground. YeeeHa.
I did that on the night shift for 2 months on a 631B. Hell the seat didn’t even work,had to put a brick under it to get the right height, and that’s no bs! We moved a million yds of dirt for sight prep in south Canton Ohio to build the new Timkin steel mill. Fun central 🎉
I'd like to say I could do it forever, but my back, neck and big belly would likely disagree. Loved running twin power 657s and 637s, but heck...that was near 40 years ago
Loved the 637C’s, the D’s and E’s annoyed me to no end. Rear engines had no push to speak of, and never could get used to the joystick controls . Still better than the TS24’s🤣🤣🤣
Yea... I could do it... or at least I used to could. I'm too old now. Back in the 70's, I drove a 4k capacity Hyster for 10 years loading and unloading box cars and trucks. I loved operating and mastering machines and tools. Great camera placement by the way... I like seeing how these machines operate. Always enjoy your videos, Jeff and have for years. Best regards to you... Russ
Nope. An old Allis Chalmers WC pulling a 7 foot disc over plowed ground when I was a kid gave me all I wanted. You have to know I have a whole lot of respect for people that do run that big iron day in and day out.
Hey jeff great video the Cat 637 is an intricate machine and u make it look so easy to operate , would love to hav a go but Im tippin u would kick me off in 10 mns LOL!!
When you scope up dirt with that machine, approximately how many yards do you get in a trip? Jeff have to tell you funny story! Got vibration in my 2018 Tam 3500, figured out was the carrier bearing on drive shaft! Went to get new one and the say it's a non serviceable item, you have to buy whole drive shaft! After looking for days for someone that could get carrier bearing, I finally gave up and tried to get driveshaft, only to hear that they are unavailable and don't know if the ever will be available! I ended up having to have one made! Now i have standard transmission, but I was told that if I had auto tran, I may be able to get one! These companies and this country suck! 5 year old truck, and you can't get major part to fix a bearing!
Thanks for the video Jeff, I enjoyed seeing the various camera angles. I'm curious what you do do with the offloaded material. Do you spread it out with the 9 or blade it?? Summer comes to an end in Idaho much more quickly than southern California.
Thanks for the video Jeff, the ol 9 sounding good👍 How are the switchblades going with less soot contaminating the oil? Are you still getting samples? What have you worked out is the best time for changes?
Those hitches take a beating so you and the rest of the machine doesn't have to. So Jeff when you're ready to get rid of that 4 spring on little Pete let me know, I just had my whole rear suspension rebuilt and new spring pack on my Pete air leaf with less than 4,000 miles on it when a driver blew up both rearends. When I replaced them I bought a cutt-off with 46K axles and suspension with double lockers. Also Fleet Pride makes U-bolts and drive shafts.
Ole reyco ,when you put the the shaft bolt in ,antiseze it real good put it in with a Cresent wrench or by hand ,put the truck back on the ground and hammer the nut on by air power
I wish I could operate machines again my back won’t let me tho I have trouble riding in the car longer than a hour before it’s hurting bad and if I overdo it I can’t walk more than to the restroom 😢when that coupler got caught isn’t that how big cats mate in the wild 😜 thanks for sharing
Great fun to see to see all around. That’s a long load and carry. Never done push/pull ops only push fills on Terex TS14s. What’s the aim here? Just land levelling? Or exposing more rock to remove? Ah should’ve watched to the end before commenting!! Great video!
I dunno if there is a more pleasant sound (to me anyway) than a big bore pre chamber Clatterpillar starting cold! And I have run scrapers for a week! Nearly every day of the week for a whole summer and they were not cushion hitch Cats either They were 830M's and later on Cornbinder 431B's. Way back in the early eighties at the tender age of 19 when I could stand the beating a whole lot better! But man was that fun, moving dirt at 30mph and not having a care in the world
I don't think I'd cope but of course there are people who did it week in week out for years. I expect they've all got hearing and skeletal problems now!
I think everyone should have to do this for at least 90 days. They’d learn to control their brains. Everyone says they need a radio or some other gadget to stay sane.
Been running 627Fs the past 5 months 6 days a week 5 12s and 8 to 10 hours on Saturday. Almost 900,000 cy. Been a long summer but hopefully done soon. Winter in Montana is around the corner
Once again an awsome video as Scrapers and dozers are my porn!! Nothing beats a scraper for that work does it. One man and machine replaces a 360, a dump truck, a dozer/ grader to level and even then a compactor as well. Load in a minute. What else does that. The shots on the steering/ cushion hitch show cats way advanced engineering as the loads going in that quite slim slender neck area are massive especially with the push pull invention which doubles up those loads. Ill do it for a week!!!.Hold a competion for all us avid viewers ,like guess the weight of Mr Jiffy or something and when i win it ill fly over and do a whole week for absolutely nothing🙂 Great video again and dam good filming.
if i knew how to id try to if ya can operate one with only 1 good leg no one wants to risk people n goods on a prosthetic so im unsafe to operate a forklift an ect but i drive a stick just fine
Started running terex ts-14s when I was a kid. We had a whole fleet. Would beat you up pretty good and your ears were sore if you didn’t wear earplugs. Liked running our JD 862s better when we weren’t in rock.
there rated at 30yds and everyone wants to run the whore, so since i'm the owner i'm running her, it's just something you have to experience to understand
yesterday we ran 4 and half hours, we use the rear engines all the way to the fill and then in neutral back to the cut, the rear engine on #2 used a measly 28 gallons, but overall we used 355 gallons but they had run about 4 hours the day before as we fueled and noon, but usually each machine will burn 150 gallons in 8 hrs depending on how much we use the rear engines and the rolling resistance of the ground, soft or hilly
Scraper Porn! Watching the DW at work! Yeah, tough ride. Don’t think I’d love doing that for a week or two. I’d hate to buy the fuel those girls drink too!
The people at CAT that designed that hitch are nothing less than geniuses. Thing articulates all over the place, provides suspension, limits the movement and is pretty damn simple but also crazy strong and resilient. Just blows my simple mind to watch it in operation, especially to see how little play there is in the pins. I’m sure maintenance is a big factor, but the design allowing it to move so much has to help those pins last. sorry lol that camera angle gave me a CAT boner lol
I worked with an old scraper driver, he had a small wooden reading table he would clamp to the steering wheel, it had elasticated cord at each side & he would place whatever book he was reading on this table, with the elasticated cord holding the book pages down & keeping the book open...Reading the books kept him occupied on the long hauls to & from the cuts for all those years...!
I gotta say he was exceptionally well read from all his scraper reading years, & later went to university as a mature student & studied English literature...!
Jeesz thats dedicated ... did he end up with a degree ... ? How many degrees ... ? Sorry you said literature not maths ... he wouldn't be many degrees in Lit eh?.
They had a wood pedal also for the rear throttle control
Squeeze your nuts instead
You better clean those air filters every day
That was dumb idea you have 2 feet use them
Love the sound of a cold start CAT👍
Nothing like those beautiful quiet mornings only to be interrupted up by the sounds of diesel engine noise and exhaust!
Oh come on now..,
what could be more soothing and patriotic than the sounds of great American manufactured, big earth moving equipment, burning organic fossil fuel, in a large 6-cylinder Caterpillar engine…, oh, oh, oh, ooooh…, how I love it. Awesome..!
Confession: I too, enjoy me a beautiful quiet morning myself…, hahaha.
What did you say I gotta another call
Hope the rear engine isn't overheating
Hope the rear engine isn't overheating
Where is Max a million
Jeff, enjoyed the various camera shots from different points on the machines.
Sign me up Jeff..! Well, maybe for only a couple of hours.., you see, “on a count a i’m just a city boy”. Hahaha…
Great video,
Thank you sir.
I think the 70 hours (5x12 and a 10) week after week after week is why this retired operator is hard of hearing and has a bad back. But I would do it all over again for what it brought my family
U think ur so noble to end up a friggin angry debilitated 40 yr. Old that thinks his sacrifice is so great.
Ur family needed a FATHER not just $$ maker.
U failed ur family.
Who would want to live with no u.
It’s quite the dance having those machines work together. I’d imagine that it would be difficult to find operators who can work together
Good content Jeff. I enjoy all the different views You are coming up with.
Thanks and Best Wishes to everyone at Anderson Construction.
I’d be good for three days a week if ya didn’t get me outta bed too early. 😂
It’s quite the dance having those machines work together
Cat had told me to back in 1971 when I bought a cabover Peterbilt with a 270 to glow plug start and then go back to glow plug until it was hitting on all 6 cylinders and I did this on my little 3 cylinder Kubota tractor. I miss the trucks but I missed the year I pushed dirt in Iowa. Love the videos thank you for sharing
Jeff, great video as alwa. I used to own 3 619's, yes really old school with my two D 8h's 46A 26,000 series.
The youngin's today could not keep up.
Jeff. Our village was bypassed in the early 1970s. They had 4 push pull scrapers. They were Euclid 24 cubic yards they would muster. It was just like they were in a race. The ground shuck when they went by. They also had 2 D8 cat dozers.
I would love to give it a try. I used to work at a sand pit years ago loved running dozer, excavator and loader
It’s amazing that you can keep those incredibly complex machines running like you do. Can’t be easy.
Theres nothin complex or subtle about them ... but a lot that's filthy ...
It is amazing what that "cushion hitch" actually does and how much shock load it soaks up!!!!!! I doubt I could last a full day, then I would need a two or three day recovery period..........no joke. Those scrapers are brutal for shock loads and bounce, a little different than farm machinery!!!!!
Its why they are termed 'Grasshoppers'..................if green.
Great video Jeff alway enjoy watching you work dirt with FW and #2 scrapers. There's always something to fix on one of your scrapers after all the push pull dirt moving. Thanks for sharing stay safe Jeff.
love the hitch camera view! Thanks for the videos Jeff!
Damn you make that look like water off a duck's back. Slick.
I do. Wish i could find the time like you do to post vids. Much respect to you guys runninng those fuel and part hogs.
How many cameras went to dust with all the interesting footage made ! Thanks Jeff, yep I am handy, but its better not telling women that or you end up a slave !
Well at least the dirt looks easy to dig and move bro. Great video by the way. Safe travels Ken.
😆AWESOME video as ALWAYS Jeff !!! 🤔 At 77 I would give it a "HELL OF A RUN" . 'HA' ... if I could get out of bed the third day !!!! 🫠 I remember back when chopping sileage north of Klamath Falls in the 50's, trucks hauling out in the field from chopper to the pit over the peat dirt roads, that dirt would flow just like that dirt flowing at 21:00. BUT at 30 mph+ the dust would drift 1/2 mile to Mom's clothes on the line,,,,, ( oh what a tremble on the ground then). " ITCH " you can't imagine how that peat dirt gets you to crawling. LOVE every minute of the [tag along] with you, especially the different camera angles with this video. 😏GREAT WORK !!! 😉 THANKS JEFF , GOD BLESS , 🙏🙏 😍😍😍😍😍 " by the way the cattle were fed potatoes also"
Another chore air filters maintenance
We used to do 30 days straight and 11 hrs a day. Building oilfield roads and drill sites
Hello Jeff. It suprises me how fast those push pull scrapers are for such a big machine.
I ran Green Weenies for a few years in the late 70s'. Never had a nice Cat with the soft ride goose neck. I did operate a really fast double barrel Fiat Allis but the rear engine ran low on fuel every day at about 8 hours. Boy was that machine a good time on rough ground. YeeeHa.
Cat 627 had the same problem
Ran a ts18 in the 70s it could have had the cushion hitch application I remember the tires were narrower good scraper
I did that on the night shift for 2 months on a 631B. Hell the seat didn’t even work,had to put a brick under it to get the right height, and that’s no bs! We moved a million yds of dirt for sight prep in south Canton Ohio to build the new Timkin steel mill. Fun central 🎉
The set up between cab and bowl is a work of art .....up, down left to right and pivot , is it a Cat patented system?
I couldn’t do it. I’m still lucky to load one on a lowboy by the fifth try.
😂 I never have. Never could.
Hear that old cat motor, it’s saying cat, cat, cat, cat, cat😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
She is a runner !!!!
I'd like to say I could do it forever, but my back, neck and big belly would likely disagree. Loved running twin power 657s and 637s, but heck...that was near 40 years ago
Amazingly this episode is Shop Foreman Mr. Griffy approved.
Loved the 637C’s, the D’s and E’s annoyed me to no end. Rear engines had no push to speak of, and never could get used to the joystick controls . Still better than the TS24’s🤣🤣🤣
Kinda like " Friends don't let Friends run
Terex. ' ?
Yeah but no Detroits….. 😉
Definitely would need a kidney belt bout the 3rd day into it. Have spent some time on both cat and terex scrapers.
Yea... I could do it... or at least I used to could. I'm too old now. Back in the 70's, I drove a 4k capacity Hyster for 10 years loading and unloading box cars and trucks. I loved operating and mastering machines and tools.
Great camera placement by the way... I like seeing how these machines operate. Always enjoy your videos, Jeff and have for years. Best regards to you...
Russ
Do this for a week? No need, I have some guys in Idaho do it for me. Great shot of the cushion hitch, btw. Thanks.
Scrapers will make you old quick fast and in a hurry!! But you gotta have em when ur hogg’n dirt💪 they’re the backbone of a dirt job no question.
Nope. An old Allis Chalmers WC pulling a 7 foot disc over plowed ground when I was a kid gave me all I wanted. You have to know I have a whole lot of respect for people that do run that big iron day in and day out.
Hey jeff great video the Cat 637 is an intricate machine and u make it look so easy to operate , would love to hav a go but Im tippin u would kick me off in 10 mns LOL!!
When you scope up dirt with that machine, approximately how many yards do you get in a trip? Jeff have to tell you funny story! Got vibration in my 2018 Tam 3500, figured out was the carrier bearing on drive shaft! Went to get new one and the say it's a non serviceable item, you have to buy whole drive shaft! After looking for days for someone that could get carrier bearing, I finally gave up and tried to get driveshaft, only to hear that they are unavailable and don't know if the ever will be available! I ended up having to have one made! Now i have standard transmission, but I was told that if I had auto tran, I may be able to get one! These companies and this country suck! 5 year old truck, and you can't get major part to fix a bearing!
I wish I was as tough as old owl shit 😢
Thanks for the video Jeff, I enjoyed seeing the various camera angles. I'm curious what you do do with the offloaded material. Do you spread it out with the 9 or blade it?? Summer comes to an end in Idaho much more quickly than southern California.
Good time to run the scrapers, little dust. No way my back could handle these days.
I’d love to run either one of the 37’s all day any day
Thanks for the show Jeff
I would like to run one of the newer scrappers like yours the only ones i was around were the DW21s.
Thanks for the video Jeff, the ol 9 sounding good👍
How are the switchblades going with less soot contaminating the oil?
Are you still getting samples?
What have you worked out is the best time for changes?
non switchblade machines are done at 105 hours, switchblade machine goes 200 easy
Those hitches take a beating so you and the rest of the machine doesn't have to. So Jeff when you're ready to get rid of that 4 spring on little Pete let me know, I just had my whole rear suspension rebuilt and new spring pack on my Pete air leaf with less than 4,000 miles on it when a driver blew up both rearends. When I replaced them I bought a cutt-off with 46K axles and suspension with double lockers. Also Fleet Pride makes U-bolts and drive shafts.
for some reason Jake had to go to the Poki store to get everything
Play in the dirt and get payed? You bet!
Maybe it's a lovers lane the stray dogs could even use it
Ole reyco ,when you put the the shaft bolt in ,antiseze it real good put it in with a Cresent wrench or by hand ,put the truck back on the ground and hammer the nut on by air power
I wish I could operate machines again my back won’t let me tho I have trouble riding in the car longer than a hour before it’s hurting bad and if I overdo it I can’t walk more than to the restroom 😢when that coupler got caught isn’t that how big cats mate in the wild 😜 thanks for sharing
Fascinating video, Great job. What’s the yardage on those babies.
30
Great fun to see to see all around. That’s a long load and carry. Never done push/pull ops only push fills on Terex TS14s.
What’s the aim here? Just land levelling? Or exposing more rock to remove?
Ah should’ve watched to the end before commenting!! Great video!
I've done that for years, love nothing more than to operate heavy equipment
Great to see ya, Jeff. Would you prefer crawling around in an 18 inch high crawl space for a week? it is kind of sandy until you find glass.
I dunno if there is a more pleasant sound (to me anyway) than a big bore pre chamber Clatterpillar starting cold!
And I have run scrapers for a week! Nearly every day of the week for a whole summer and they were not cushion hitch Cats either They were 830M's and later on Cornbinder 431B's. Way back in the early eighties at the tender age of 19 when I could stand the beating a whole lot better! But man was that fun, moving dirt at 30mph and not having a care in the world
Awesome work Jeff!
Glad you enjoyed it
I don't think I'd cope but of course there are people who did it week in week out for years.
I expect they've all got hearing and skeletal problems now!
whould love to go that again did it for a couple years
I think everyone should have to do this for at least 90 days. They’d learn to control their brains. Everyone says they need a radio or some other gadget to stay sane.
Been running 627Fs the past 5 months 6 days a week 5 12s and 8 to 10 hours on Saturday. Almost 900,000 cy. Been a long summer but hopefully done soon. Winter in Montana is around the corner
Hope your getting paid well and that you are much younger than me
Yes i can been operating for years
Once again an awsome video as Scrapers and dozers are my porn!!
Nothing beats a scraper for that work does it. One man and machine replaces a 360, a dump truck, a dozer/ grader to level and even then a compactor as well. Load in a minute. What else does that. The shots on the steering/ cushion hitch show cats way advanced engineering as the loads going in that quite slim slender neck area are massive especially with the push pull invention which doubles up those loads.
Ill do it for a week!!!.Hold a competion for all us avid viewers ,like guess the weight of Mr Jiffy or something and when i win it ill fly over and do a whole week for absolutely nothing🙂
Great video again and dam good filming.
I like those F models
I shure could ,can't say it would be right from the get go but hey we all can preserver to be better
Jeff check this old iron. Old yellow Cat Iron 2
Mike Brewington
How much a day ya paying cat man
if i knew how to id try to if ya can operate one with only 1 good leg no one wants to risk people n goods on a prosthetic so im unsafe to operate a forklift an ect but i drive a stick just fine
I know a guy who used to run the FW before I owned her, he had one arm and he did great
I’d be happy to do that for a week. Just tell me when.
Quick question is the scraper work being done to prep the area for further farm land? Thanks enjoy the content!
yes, I think I talked about what and why at the end of the video , check it out
@@Jpaydirt thanks!
I did it for years D8H Birtly box, BTD20 with Onions box, D11 pushing, TS 18/24, yeah l did it.
Started running terex ts-14s when I was a kid. We had a whole fleet. Would beat you up pretty good and your ears were sore if you didn’t wear earplugs.
Liked running our JD 862s better when we weren’t in rock.
It would take me a week to get use to getting up as early as You
So why do you hook them together?
ROUGH ...try running a Letourneau “D-Pull or “C-Pull all day all electric steering and bowl operation. Now that is a rough ride.
They rode better than 621
Does your cab on your scraper come with heat or just air conditioning?? LOL
Both
4o years ain't much
Me browner...
15 years of this dividends not so great good work
drone.
how thick are yenz putting down.
24 inches
How many yards does the hopper hold?…and why are you the one running the scraper without a cab eating all that dust?…put the kid on that one!
there rated at 30yds and everyone wants to run the whore, so since i'm the owner i'm running her, it's just something you have to experience to understand
JEFF what will your scraper do to the gallon !
yesterday we ran 4 and half hours, we use the rear engines all the way to the fill and then in neutral back to the cut, the rear engine on #2 used a measly 28 gallons, but overall we used 355 gallons but they had run about 4 hours the day before as we fueled and noon, but usually each machine will burn 150 gallons in 8 hrs depending on how much we use the rear engines and the rolling resistance of the ground, soft or hilly
@@Jpaydirt THANK YOU . AND ALL THE BEST FROM GREAT BRITAIN .
Do you lock out the cushion hitch during the cut?
yes
Could You Do This For A Week...Absolutely, how much does it pay. Lol
Scraper Porn! Watching the DW at work! Yeah, tough ride. Don’t think I’d love doing that for a week or two. I’d hate to buy the fuel those girls drink too!
would rather drive d9 for a week
Jeff, why do the boys get the nice airconditioned/heated cabs and you get the FW?
Every one wants to run the Whore, but I own it so I took it
The people at CAT that designed that hitch are nothing less than geniuses. Thing articulates all over the place, provides suspension, limits the movement and is pretty damn simple but also crazy strong and resilient. Just blows my simple mind to watch it in operation, especially to see how little play there is in the pins. I’m sure maintenance is a big factor, but the design allowing it to move so much has to help those pins last. sorry lol that camera angle gave me a CAT boner lol
Gotta respect those engineers for what they did for CAT, now it's full of queers and trannies
When is the FW going to get a inclose cab with a ac and heat
what would call it then? Nancy Pelosi, or Pelosi Galore
I could do that for a week, no problem.
That wouldn't finish every job
Jeff I can do more then one week. But there is a problem. I need air-ride Suspension and a Kidney belt.
How many hours on the FW?
a zillion i reckon
I sure could I use to do 7 12
Why do they hook together?
push n pull
doubles the power doubles the traction when they're filling up the pan
The rear machine pushes while the front one loads, then the front pulls as the rear machine loads.
It is a sort of erotic experience.😮
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thanks jeff!
I always just got it started and then flipped back to preheat whole it smoothed out