EXTREME SLOPE!!! Installing water line up a 60 degree incline
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- I bet this is the first time you've seen a custom forestry 2154G processor with a road builder set up...the robotic dozer is badass too; there's no one even inside of it. The excavator operator remotely controls it from inside his machine as he needs it. Apparently this set up uses new technologies to do so. Non the less, it's pretty damn cool to me.
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If I was still an operator, I'd definitely move out west and work for Hall Family OF Companies. Every project I visit, theyre always doing something epic!
As far as this video, it's hands down, my best one yet. A lot of effort went into this one. 16 hours of driving, 8 hours of filming, and 12 hours of editing.
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The steepness of this slope doesn't translate through the video, but believe me, it's steep as hell. To climb up the side of it, I basically had to crawl up it with my bag of camera's, and take a break every 20 feet.
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At the end of the project, specifically awards ceremony, or ribbon cutting, most of the workers with spotless hardhats and vests will get the glory. Brief mention to the "hard working" crews installing the line. Great video showing how actually installing a run of pipe happens, between ditch workers and equipment operators. They are the "Team" that makes it happen.
Those are some cool machines, can't believe that dozer is fully robotic. Great stuff sir!
That’s insane! I always imagined that’s how they did it but never saw it with my own eyes. Thanks for sharing!
Nice video. Definitely challenging and need good hands at the controls. Thanks for sharing.
Cool shit Pushy, winching up them hills brings me back to them old days of Pipeline'n in Eastern Kentucky!!!!
Very good stuff!! The excavating sub probably works in the logging industry and is used to cabling in severe mountain conditions. Very high tech equipment and great safety! A++ on site housekeeping. Very good drone work...the backfill tamping scenes show the steep working conditions. 👍👍🤜
Come Pipeline in West Virginia, we got some good winch hills!
To bad all Deere excavators are not painted green. I’ve always thought they look pretty cool in the forestry color scheme.
Man this looks fun
Outstanding sir, in all the years I've been watching you,this was the best one yet.
not a safe trench. i gather you know little about trenching safety.
@@jamesweir2943 Nowhere in my comment did I say anything about "a trench" or say anything regarding its state. I gather you shouldn't make assumptions and give your input in a demeaning manner. Not that a reply is warranted but just so you know I actually know quite a bit about trenching and shoring. I was a heavy equipment operator for 16+ yrs and for the past 4 I have been a superintendent for a large excavating company (150+people). I'm also 36 years old I came from the trench and worked my way up and took every class and opportunity I could and I will be damned if I will let someone that knows nothing about me try to tell I know nothing of trenching when no one asked for you're opinion
I work on pipeline construction in South Western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia and it is nothing but land like this everyday up and down... At least it's not boring
Even with the seatbelt, your butt is still trying to get a bite of seat🤣
I’m a local 132 hand. I carry my hillbilly bar everywhere I go lol.
This is just a standard 2154G Road builder on a tether. However being utilized in construction application is pretty neat. the forestry swing machines can be outfitted as either a processor, log loader or road builder
Man you have no idea how bad I want to do that!! There just isn't that kind of opportunity where I'm from. I have chained off to a dozer in some steep areas but nothing like this. Maybe one day lol
operator probably loving the cab on the high track road builder definitely a big improvement over last generation of deere road builders
That is some crazy steep terrain to be working in! The operator must be standing on the front window! Hopefully the seat has some tilt to it!
I was wondering about that too. Seat belt is a must.
Sometimes the seat has a harness when you use a winch Cat otherwise you’d be out the window...... feels great haha.
Great video and as Steve said the video never does justice to the slope angle. Working those slopes I can't imagine how much material has to be flushed out of those lines. Even with the end plates, a large amount of material must get into those lines.
Thanks for the vid!!
Awesome video but I can’t believe they just let the cable dig into the ground like that. Been winching for years and that’s number one rule is to not let the cable touch the ground. I see they have chain towards the end which would take higher abrasion from touching the ground but what about the rest of it?
The ROB dozer is made in New Zealand designed to be used for tethering forest felling machines on steep slopes
WOW! I've done some pipe work in my day but nothing that steep! That was cool to see!! 👍
Great video. The video never does justice when it comes to the slope. I wondered if one of the screening buckets would have been acceptable for the bedding. Looks like some decent sandy gravel. Depends how the engineer feels. Having done jobs like this, my legs ache looking at this. Pipe layers earn their keep. That TR Flex ductile is nice to restrain in jobs like this.
Exactly what I was thinking with the screening bucket
Seriously, did I see someone using a level to check for pitch? Boss, " Does it have pitch?" Worker, "Yes boss, we still have pitch."
Every aspect of that project looks quite impressive. That was a excellent video way to start off the new year , keep them coming 👍
Love the road builder excavator
No fucking way is that 70 degrees. I've been on 50 degrees and labors were hanging from guide lines strung to top of hill
That was an awesome video!!! It’s cool to get a detailed look on how this kind of job is done!! Very cool!!!
That’s a b...h runnin the tamper up hill like that. Any concrete anchors on the pipe going up a slope like that? Pressure testing gonna be wild too! Great work fellas
Great Video Scott 👍
Why is the jd digging over his finals and not the idlers?
Such a great video I like your videos just wish they were longer like this one
I will try to make longer ones this year
So this project is in Peachland, British Columbia Canada ... the beautiful Okanagan region of B.C. That John Deere Forestry machine was most likely customized in Langley, BC at the Deere-Hitachi Specialty Products shop. Any Caterpillar machines would be customized at the local dealership like (Finning Canada) in BC at Surrey!
Excavator aktivity good job
Awesome video. Very interesting
Would it not be more cost effective to use a directional drill? We recently installed 100m of 18" waterline on a 50 degree slope and used a drill.
so what I got out of this the cat can handle the slope but the John Deere can't LOL.
Pretty cool video man
That’s insane! Great video
IT IS AT THE RISK OF LANDSLIDES
Oh boy I bet that pipelayer is rethinking his career choices lol
Isbiriful machines 👏👏👏🙋♂️
Awesome video! The camera work, the editing, the color grade, the audio. Really great production. What handheld camera are you using and what are you using for your interview audio capture?
As awesome as this project is, I'd hate to be one of those hoe operators. Sitting at angles like that all day wears your body out. Really great video Scott!
Thanks! After listening to the version I uploaded to youtube I should of adjusted the 3 channels of audio more.
I shoot everything with my canon 80D at 60fps. Then i color correct and stabilize every scene individually. In this video there was 58 clips.
For audio I use a rode mic pro, for interviews I use a wireless lava mic. Sometimes when I just film machines working I use a rode ambient mic, its meant for music but it picks up the sounds of turbos really good.
I typically film most camera shots with my ronin S gimbal, but the slope was too steep to bring it up with me so I filmed this one free hand.
@@pushysix turned out awesome man. What wireless system are you using? Sorry to get all techy on you but that is my next investment and there are too many options out there...
Video would have been 5 stars had it not had that stupid music playing. Here in eastern ky we call that working on a yoyo a older D9 was used with opposing winches one on the left front and one facing off the right rear we had a remote control that was wired to a drum on the center undercarriage of each track hoe so we could work simultaneously on opposite sides of the mountain
All them cables on huge excavators and tiny compressors(wackers) It makes no sence
At least they hooked it to the excavator. There would be no way they could run it up hill. That was a young man job site. Not one with bad knees or back.
When the Cat excavator is working on the slope with the John Deere above it , What is it tethered to ?
Nothing. Where the Cat is working is not a 60 degree slope.
@@oe542 Either is where the Deere was.
i have wondered about the engine oil circulation issues with operating at steep angles like that. will the oil pickup in the pan be uncovered by the angles.. or will the oil be whipped up by the oil going to one end of the engine and being whipped by the crank counterweights.. do they install a flow limiter check valve combo from a Tee on the oil filter outlet hoses to an accumulator. so if the oil flow does drop from the pump the accumulator supplies pressure to the engine. its just a thought..
It's a jd the engine will shit the bed at 9000 hours regardless, i have hoe chucked on winches just have to keep the oil level topped up more likely to push oil out the breather, same with the hydraulic oil alarms go off non stop if not topped up. edit probably 60% not degrees big difference
@@banffdigger you are starting to see more of every brand give engine trouble.
And Deere has always stated a better off level oil capability.
@@banffdigger yup have no idea what you are talking about , the JD forest machines ( f almost all other brands that are set up to go on a tether ), are dry sumped engines to prevent oil starvation. There’s also shit loads of jd machines running over 9000 hrs . If you knew anything at all , which you don’t , you would also know that jd is Hitachi .
@@evil2rs lol no they have a wet sump like everything else, they do have a remote oil filter added on. Also the orange ones run the Isuzu engines just like the link belt machines. They are not bad machines but non of the flat bottom machines are rated to run steeper then 100% or 45 degrees. I have hoechucked or shovel logged (whatever you want to call it) on 80% or steeper with a tilter on winches and that was uncomfortable hanging off the 4 point harness all day. That was in a tigercat 855 and 870.
@@banffdigger Thank God somebody understands the difference between percent and degrees.
That's a 60% slope, not 60 degrees. Big difference. 😂
When the slope got to 60% did both machines get on it or did one machine do it all? Can only one machine be tethered at a time ?
Percent is the correct word. Its not 60 degrees they wouldn’t be able to stand. Im a dozer operator and that hill looks like child’s play to me. I was very confused when they said 60 to 70 degrees because that is actually insane shit in a machine. But 60 to 70 percent is very manageable. “ in a D 10 or D 11 anyways”. With good grousers.
As a reference 45 degrees is 100%. And that is crazy steep in a machine.
Not a safe ditch to work for... but a good video editing as always...
of course , it's green and what's better that a Deere
I'm looking a getting new dozer. I was wondering what one you prefer. Komatsu 51, Deere 700, or Cat d6k. Mast vs mastless. Topcon vs trimble.
Cat and Trimble
Scary!
its a 60% slope correct?
Won't be long before the dirt bikes and quads have that hill all ripped up. The dirtbikers around here (Peachland) are complete ***holes. Won't stay off the hiking trails even though there are thousands of miles of old logging roads.
So im not sure where your located, but with ductile pipe, aren't you required to sock the pipe
Only if you have clay near the pipe do they put a sock on it in Michigan. Sandy soil is fine against it.
Great video work! Nice, interesting & technical job. Wondering why the bucket is so small on the roadbuilder?
Buon giorno nn capisco perche lo scavo e stato fatto dal basso verso lalto e non al contrario
You would speed up production using a wide bucket on the 336 by less walking, and easier to level out bedding without protruding teeth.
Other way would be to put a machine operated vibrating plate on the 336 so these guys don't have to try and fight with a plate on the hillside.
Would be a 30k attachment for that size machine vs 2k 150lb plate compactor
Little bucket is for slope work I think. To keep machine more stable idk
@@charlesbourgeois9029 Doesn't matter what bucket it had on it working on a slope, narrow bucket is a trenching bucket, but levelling sand is a lot quicker and easier with a wide bucket, and as it looks like it has a quick hitch it's easy to switch between buckets.
Bucket definitely makes a difference on slope. I know when we are on slopes we don't want to be swinging huge buckets around.
Also that machine will sweep sand with ease.
60-70 degrees, really?
They could have used a longer belts on that pipe
Ever heard about a Rotortillt over there,,?
Sure have, I like Engcon better though.
Wonder what buddy’s Level said.. lol
Why the forestry excavator?
Because they're designed for this kind of tethered work, usually with feller bunchers.
They have the swing power to dig on a slope also .
Ok. Makes sense.
No Menzi Muck
What a pain in the ass. Why the forestry John Deere excavator?
Robert Cirincione the final drives have twice the draw bar pull of a 245G plus its oil pick up is rated for a much steeper angle.
@@pushysix I figured it was probably something like that regarding the steep grades.
@@pushysix l never knew that about them forestry machines. We always run standard hoes on the pipeline. I just came off a slip crew in West Virginia running winch tractor and most slopes were between 30-80 degrees. We never had problems with the machines. When I was on stringing crew we blew up a peterbuilt because of the hill was too steep and the oil ran out of the head lol
@@pushysix bad ass video by the way. Awesome production. Wish you could come to the next site I’m on lol
@@RiverValleyAcres What normal excavator ran regularly on an 80 degree slope? I’d like to buy a few. Do you mean 80%?
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Looks like someone doesn't understand the difference between degrees and percent when it comes to slopes.
Alco 424 why would you say that? A 60 degree angle works out to a 06:1 gradient slope or 173.2 percentage
@@pushysix Exactly, and the slope in the video is nowhere near 60 degrees. That's a 60% slope they are on.
That don’t make any sense have a guy with a platetamper on hill like that & they should have made the John Deere with a cab that levels off
Better on menzi muck
John. deer. slow. hydraulics. very. slow
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