Older machines sporting black exhaust are the best ever! Now we have EPA friendly plastic garbage, lite in the front end and slide around as soon as the cutting edge hits the ground. These three machines will last forever.
This brings back memories of watching these machines work hard all day back when I was a lot younger, really fascinating watching team effort with powerful cat scraper diesels.
These parts of Idaho look exactly like the saltbush lands in South Australia. Even the soil looks the same. Nice shot of the three 37's scoping the cut and lining up at 1:30
I don't know how many thousands of hours i spent on that model of 6 37 right there, in the late seventies. Roadwork and stripping for Wyoming surface mines and oil patch. They were fast little critters.
Why would you self load? I worked on the 637D's for years in surface mining, 19 637D;s running 2 8 hour shifts 7 days a week, never too wet, never too hot, never too cold. Not once did we break a bail. Lost a floor or two but that's part of the game. Strip top soil to clay, haul to storage. Then haul from storage to cover reclaimed ground, Your can't screw around when your stripping in front of a Bucyrus 2570 and a Marion 8200 when you have to cover the recelamaiton as well. A family owned operation would probably want a machine to last 20+ years but in the mining industry a $10,000 repair is like you changing oil in your car. It's not what does it cost but how long will it take, we had over 3$ million in Cat parts in stock and sometimes we still didn't have the right part. I say good job, I Like to see push pull that's why they have a push bock and bail, they were designed just for this.
Jeff; how did you get started , working these mammoth beasts;? It must take a full day each to load em up and move them to location, let alone maintain ;and repair them all ODY
Hey Jpaydirt, Cool vid man, cool machines too. I was working in Eneabba in Western Australia a few years ago for an outfit called Carrosso Brothers they had a fleet of 637D's and E's, they must have had 15 or 20 of these stripping overburden. We were working 12 hour shifts, I remember at the end of shift looking at what we had moved and then coming back starting the next shift how much more had been done, incredible how much these things can move, literally moving mountains. I've seen up to 6 scrapers hooked up at once, each loading in a matter of just a few feet, only when the bosses wasn't around though, sacked on the spot if caught. Sometimes I'd be bored as fuck during the night I'd slide the side window open and listen to that 3408 V8 Cat purring, and that big turbo whistling out a 10 inch stack, fuck those things sounded nice! On a clear night you could hear them for miles, best sounding V8 diesel ever.
Yeah a bit before my time, closest I got to that was the 8H's and 8K's, spent a year or two on a 8K, cool old machine too, used to rev so slow I could nearly count the fan blades! I know what you mean though, some of the old gear has character, like 12V71 GM's, whole different ball game from Cats but they sound pretty cool from a distance too.
***** we put side boards on our 641`s and 660`s,,,,,probably increased 20% load....broke only one goose neck.....(careless cowboy operator carrying bowl too high).....
I know this is one of your older ones, im a reletively new sub and i watched this one 4 times! Believe me j ihave seen big shit in action, ive been working on large diesel stuff on ships for 20+ yrs, and that was cooool. I remember seeing those old girls runnin down the hiway when i was a kid split in half and w/ no wheels on and they were the coolest thing i ever saw!! I also really enjoy all your repair vids, altho they are often painful as ive been there sometimes. Anyhow, take her easy, greetings from w wash state, Will
Daniel Sestina In places pretty deep others not so much, our soil here was windblown after the last lava flows umpteen thousand years ago, in the valley its river silts with gravel underneath
+jpaydirt Thank you for the info, I live in the Eastern U.S. and very different soil types. Although, the sage brush and and soil there really reminds of Afghanistan.
mick martin I know what a push cat is, but i still don't understand why I would use one when I have three scrapers hooked together, no push cat required
Only second time in my life I seen 3 hooked up, the first time I sat in my pick up and watched in awe, I would have thought 3 to b as bad as 1 though too much power no? did it for 4 days, only machine I ever washed out on, brutal on the body, I still don't know what I was doing wrong with the apron door, I had to gouge to fill, oh that cat operator hated me lol but I still love to watch them go.
Older machines sporting black exhaust are the best ever! Now we have EPA friendly plastic garbage, lite in the front end and slide around as soon as the cutting edge hits the ground. These three machines will last forever.
Those big cat engines are the best they sure sound big and mean ready to work
This brings back memories of watching these machines work hard all day back when I was a lot younger, really fascinating watching team effort with powerful cat scraper diesels.
Don't try that along a vertical
These parts of Idaho look exactly like the saltbush lands in South Australia. Even the soil looks the same. Nice shot of the three 37's scoping the cut and lining up at 1:30
I don't know how many thousands of hours i spent on that model of 6 37 right there, in the late seventies. Roadwork and stripping for Wyoming surface mines and oil patch. They were fast little critters.
the old square nose c series scrapers are the best. great stuff buddy.
Why would you self load? I worked on the 637D's for years in surface mining, 19 637D;s running 2 8 hour shifts 7 days a week, never too wet, never too hot, never too cold. Not once did we break a bail. Lost a floor or two but that's part of the game. Strip top soil to clay, haul to storage. Then haul from storage to cover reclaimed ground, Your can't screw around when your stripping in front of a Bucyrus 2570 and a Marion 8200 when you have to cover the recelamaiton as well. A family owned operation would probably want a machine to last 20+ years but in the mining industry a $10,000 repair is like you changing oil in your car. It's not what does it cost but how long will it take, we had over 3$ million in Cat parts in stock and sometimes we still didn't have the right part. I say good job, I Like to see push pull that's why they have a push bock and bail, they were designed just for this.
how do say!!! dirt fight!!!!! Just like that!!! 3-637s and no dozer!!! dam find vid as always Jeff!
Great team work , one scoop is down and filling and all three are pull ,pushing
@13frontrow I agree frontrow, one of the finest scrapers Cat have ever built
I like this method. I've seen them pushed by D9s to load them.
Very impressive... nice job!
Too cool watchin' em drop their cuttin edge one after another! I'd pay good money to do that!
we did it that way to down here in Calif making dairy pandes for the new dairys.
GOOD VIDEO,HOPE YOU POST SOME MORE!,LOVE SCRAPERS,I SPENT 15 YEARS ON THEM,DIG IT DEEP PILE IT HIGH
Parabéns 👍 pelo vídeo 👍 📹 ficou muito top Caterpillar é top
That Cameraman Has some balls!!!!
that or a hell of a zoom button.. no way in hell i'd be there a nugget fall off and that'd prob kill ya
Miranda Chafin No zoom on this shot, I was about 5 feet from them
We used to use our exhaust smoke to signal each other!
Show de bola.
Very good, Series C fantastic!!!!!!
When Sparky ran those Cs their was daylight under the tires
looks like a free for all
Jeff; how did you get started , working these mammoth beasts;? It must take a full day each to load em up and move them to location, let alone maintain ;and repair them all ODY
Poetry in motion
is this the job in which you tore out the floor??
Hey Jpaydirt, Cool vid man, cool machines too. I was working in Eneabba in Western Australia a few years ago for an outfit called Carrosso Brothers they had a fleet of 637D's and E's, they must have had 15 or 20 of these stripping overburden. We were working 12 hour shifts, I remember at the end of shift looking at what we had moved and then coming back starting the next shift how much more had been done, incredible how much these things can move, literally moving mountains. I've seen up to 6 scrapers hooked up at once, each loading in a matter of just a few feet, only when the bosses wasn't around though, sacked on the spot if caught. Sometimes I'd be bored as fuck during the night I'd slide the side window open and listen to that 3408 V8 Cat purring, and that big turbo whistling out a 10 inch stack, fuck those things sounded nice! On a clear night you could hear them for miles, best sounding V8 diesel ever.
Only thing better is an old 46A with a straight pipe bellering away
Yeah a bit before my time, closest I got to that was the 8H's and 8K's, spent a year or two on a 8K, cool old machine too, used to rev so slow I could nearly count the fan blades! I know what you mean though, some of the old gear has character, like 12V71 GM's, whole different ball game from Cats but they sound pretty cool from a distance too.
And juicy Lucy counting loads
How many yds. of earth per scrape do those bays hold on these units 15-20 or so?
Marstrand R. Each one is rated 30 cu/yds D models were rated 31 yds. along with E models then the G model is 34 yds I believe
***** we put side boards on our 641`s and 660`s,,,,,probably increased 20% load....broke only one goose neck.....(careless cowboy operator carrying bowl too high).....
Listen to them turbos whistle
sincronised scraper dance team
Michael Laverty No and NO we are covering rock out cropings in a farm field so they can grow more food
Payloads for paydirt! 😂
I know this is one of your older ones, im a reletively new sub and i watched this one 4 times! Believe me j ihave seen big shit in action, ive been working on large diesel stuff on ships for 20+ yrs, and that was cooool. I remember seeing those old girls runnin down the hiway when i was a kid split in half and w/ no wheels on and they were the coolest thing i ever saw!! I also really enjoy all your repair vids, altho they are often painful as ive been there sometimes. Anyhow, take her easy, greetings from w wash state,
Will
Thanks! glad you enjoy them
like the blue angels when they peel off to go dump
good way to break that middle scraper, why doesn't he unhook after the first gets a load?
Wade
how do I do that?
Thanks for the video.
***** Soil looks pretty sandy. How deep is the top there?
Daniel Sestina In places pretty deep others not so much, our soil here was windblown after the last lava flows umpteen thousand years ago, in the valley its river silts with gravel underneath
+jpaydirt Thank you for the info, I live in the Eastern U.S. and very different soil types. Although, the sage brush and and soil there really reminds of Afghanistan.
*****
Hell of a lot nicer material than most of what we have here in Arizona... looks like easy diggin
Daniel Sestina p
Very nice ,How many yards does one of the scraper boxes hold?
25 bank 30 loose
Wow, I love your videos and how you keep the old Cats going..
WOW hell is only a half acre? well shit thats not much room for all those sinners lol
other than destroying the hitch on the middle machine
i carnt see the point in hooking three up together.
Maybe because you have more traction with 12 wheel drive? and loaded for more grip as they fill.
30 cy loaded in 15 to 20 seconds. Mine equipment production at construction equipment cost
That is thinking like a man with skin in the game. Make money in a shit economy.
gotta be some really soft dirt with no push cat.....
mick martin I don't understand mick, those are push cats, oh wait there........Push Pull cats☻
a push cat is the dozer that that push the pans/scrapers
mick martin I know what a push cat is, but i still don't understand why I would use one when I have three scrapers hooked together, no push cat required
in that case you sure dont need a push cat, but if it was a dig of hard clay you`d save a lot of money(spinning tires) with push cat(or maybe two)
+mick martin twins dont normally use a push cat they hook up to load even in hard clay
Oh and Mr. Burke I think the key word in your comment is "used to own".
There's a class room
I don't think Cat recommend this. :)
muito loco um d11 ali no rabo deles meu ia ser loco
Only second time in my life I seen 3 hooked up, the first time I sat in my pick up and watched in awe, I would have thought 3 to b as bad as 1 though too much power no?
did it for 4 days, only machine I ever washed out on, brutal on the body, I still don't know what I was doing wrong with the apron door, I had to gouge to fill, oh that cat operator hated me lol but I still love to watch them go.
pfow2006 Yup they will be the crap out of ya, Three will load just about anything, except cows