What a great time to be alive. I can watch these steel dinosaurs all day long without sunburn, bugs, dirt or guys in pickup trucks chasing you. And the fridge is within armchair range......
We used to have 4 scrapers that ran materials from our rock Crusher (Fresh Kills Landfill, now closed). We also had 10 dozer pulled scrapers. Originally with D8Ks, then upgraded to D8Ls. Running an old cable scraper pulled by a D8 with clutch and brake pedals was part of the practical test for the job. Back in the day. IUOE Local 15
I would really enjoy seeing what that site looks like now....a sort of 'before and after' update. Same goes for a lot of your older videos....maybe a short video which starts with a minute or so of the original video and finishes with a short descriptive narrative. I'm sure I'm not the only one who watches these great videos of yours and wonders what it is the planners are trying to achieve.
Love scrapers ,in the 70,s my dad's neighbour took us to Amanford in s w Wales to his work site for the day, we spent a full day riding around in Terex scrapers and big Cat dozers we were only about 10 yrs old,i loved it, been a big fan of machines ever since, but never worked in the industry, i remember it well.
6+ miilion yard project 1985 in San Diego; lopped-off the mesas, 150+ foot fills in the canyons. 40+ 657 scrapers (between April 15th and Oct 15th: lotsa O/T in October). 2-man survey crew provided all the grade stakes (nothing robotic or automatic: just a theodolite and top-mount EDM; all hand recorded notes)
I worked for Bob Fulton at San Marcos on golf course job running a Rock nine before that I worked for Templeton across the road 78 I think a Mexican blademan told me after asking him who's that contractor he said oh that's Fulton they are a highballing company you don't want to work for those guys. I drug up that day went to the union hall they sent me to that job
These are all remote controlled off a computer program in the office. Run by a 14 year old who programs them each day after school for the next and between video games. But thank you very much. LOL
WOW the grader coming down that slope grading KOOL. Have watched in real life a set of 3 of the biggest graders CAT makes grade the haul road for the LARGEST dump trucks for open pit mining it was in Salt Lake city The mine just west of City it is open to public so you can go to viewing area and watch mining I got to see a blast go off and right after Blast the D- 11s. got to work RIPPING the ground back and forth. This is nice video. Thank you.
I love those big double engine push/pull scrappers.lock them together and move mountains. Only real problem we had with them when running hard was an only 8 to 10 hour fuel tanks.usually refused at lunch to make a 10 to 12 hour day.
Great yet they don't use as they were designed, which coupling up to increase pick up power and move through the cut faster. I see a lot of operators that appear to be afraid to do such efficiency. So shame on the dirt foreman!
@@dodge8802 That is definitely not true. That one has to be the cheapest machine to move massive amounts of dirt around. haha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
I remember back in the 80’s, we had 80 637 scrapers stripping coal mines and building haul roads.. it was around $1.10 $1.20 a yard to move the Earth then
Very nice video all operators on this project are well experienced I love the scraper my father was become the best operator of the scraper when he was only 14 years of age
These are always interesting and fascinating to watch. I would think it takes considerable expertise and some courage to load on this very steep and long grade, especially with scrapers in front of and behind you. My hat's off to the operators.
I definitely interpreted that title completely wrong for a few seconds. I was like who has 657 scrapers in their equipment inventory. Then a few seconds later I was struck by how stupid I was, realizing the scraper model is 657.
Same here. I ask myself: Where'd they get That many scrapers?? I ran a small Trex for a summer when I was a kid, then went into the military. Recruiter said yeah, sure thing, we'll put you in the maintenance career field. They'll train you on stuff like that..... NEVER saw the first scraper, dozer or anything close to it. Aircraft loaders and forklifts . ....
You got to admit that seeing 600 of those things working the same job site would be amazing. What are they, about 60 feet long. 600 at once would be like a horror flick.
bring down mountains with scrapers, they said. it will be great fun, they said. a saying hardly ever was more correct like in this case, i could watch that 24/7 tbh.
657s are huge machines too , I'm with Thompson grading out of GA and the biggest scraper we have is a 627f which is still huge , but the damn 57 are crazy
Moving a sand dune; no ledge, no boulders, no rocks. To do that in my home state of Connecticut you use a lot of dynamite and a couple of portable rock crushers. You turn a hill into big piles of various sized gravel.
Ao ver essas máquinas trabalhando, me lembro que quando trabalhava na empresa Caterpillar justamente onde fabricavamos o scraper.nessa empresa Caterpillar trabalhei por 12 anos. A melhor empresa do Brasil.
Lovely to see a longer excellent video than usual. Since in the UK now we have virtually run out of space where this type of machine is needed, and being a bit out of touch with prices, what is the cost overall of running just one scraper per day.
Thanks. Must take a fleet of tankers to keep that lot running, - I presume that is what we call 'red diesel' - it's cheaper for vehicles that do not run on the road as there is no 'road tax' on it. That would make it approx. $2.50 per gallon in the UK - although with the amount they use I expect they get it at a special rate. Nevertheless must be some bill per day with the number of vehicles they were running.
Guy in my tractor group Ed P from petaluma Ca ran buggy for Independent n he said in the late 80s the budget was 1000000 yes a million an month to keep their iron running
I WAS... an Operator for 44 yrs. , looked at myself as A DIRT SCULPTOROUS... The world as my ball of clay... I carved and created a lot of pieces of fine art in So. Cal. starting in 1973... Enjoying retirement now , but DO MISS IT , A LOT .....
I'm not in construction so I don't know this.... what does a scraper do?? Does it just scrape and move the earth or does it collect earth and dump it somewhere? Thanks.
Im absolutely floored by the capabilities of these heavy machines. They truly exemplify the term heavy machinery.
What a great time to be alive. I can watch these steel dinosaurs all day long without sunburn, bugs, dirt or guys in pickup trucks chasing you. And the fridge is within armchair range......
material muito seco e países da África
Thank God it's still working and you don't have to grease it
We used to have 4 scrapers that ran materials from our rock Crusher (Fresh Kills Landfill, now closed). We also had 10 dozer pulled scrapers. Originally with D8Ks, then upgraded to D8Ls. Running an old cable scraper pulled by a D8 with clutch and brake pedals was part of the practical test for the job. Back in the day. IUOE Local 15
Could watch this all day, great video!!!
IKR like who doesn't love CAT equipment?
Outside of a handful of John Deere folks, nobody I know. ;)
😂😂😂
That is an awesome display of modern construction machinery at work.
Brings back memories....Great video
I' ❤️ these Scrapper ! Thank's 💥🤙😎🇨🇦
This was really cool to watch how orchistrated all this heavy equipment is and the massive quantities of earth being moved per hour.
It would of been great for a facts on how many cubic metres a day they moved on this site
Including the fuel used daily
@@Only-one-life-68 yeah that would be cool too
I would really enjoy seeing what that site looks like now....a sort of 'before and after' update. Same goes for a lot of your older videos....maybe a short video which starts with a minute or so of the original video and finishes with a short descriptive narrative.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who watches these great videos of yours and wonders what it is the planners are trying to achieve.
Agree 100%. Always good to know what it’s being done for!
@@dermak2 It was a school site in Santa Clarita, Ca
@@dermak2 Wonderfull.
@@robkeltchich6090 are you sure this wasn't Otay Ranch, San Diego county?
@@robkeltchich6090 beautiful area
Love scrapers ,in the 70,s my dad's neighbour took us to Amanford in s w Wales to his work site for the day, we spent a full day riding around in Terex scrapers and big Cat dozers we were only about 10 yrs old,i loved it, been a big fan of machines ever since, but never worked in the industry, i remember it well.
6+ miilion yard project 1985 in San Diego; lopped-off the mesas, 150+ foot fills in the canyons.
40+ 657 scrapers (between April 15th and Oct 15th: lotsa O/T in October). 2-man survey crew provided all the grade stakes (nothing robotic or automatic: just a theodolite and top-mount EDM; all hand recorded notes)
Kind of took me back to my surveying days 1977- 2005 in Ontario area. Enjoyed it.
Took 7 mos to move 6 mil.yrds????? With 40 scrapers????What were you using, DW20'S, pushing with 2U's???
Jp K yup we moved around 4 million in 9 months with 20 scrapers and a few rock trucks.
I worked for Bob Fulton at San Marcos on golf course job running a Rock nine before that I worked for Templeton across the road 78 I think a Mexican blademan told me after asking him who's that contractor he said oh that's Fulton they are a highballing company you don't want to work for those guys. I drug up that day went to the union hall they sent me to that job
Grade checkers tied the lathe on top of each other in the fill to keep up
That is a crew of excellent operators.👌
These are all remote controlled off a computer program in the office. Run by a 14 year old who programs them each day after school for the next and between video games. But thank you very much. LOL
@@brentbarnhart5827 By your coment sounds like you're full of Shit! ! ! I bet you have never been on a field of scrapers, conceited bastard !
@@brentbarnhart5827 Would certainly make a good video game for Boys. But leave these machines for those who wear Big Boy pants. Lol
@@blaneycrabbe3390 It was a joke asshole, and yes I have ran scrapers. It was complimenting how perfect they were organized and ran dick head.
@@stevelopez372 I hope the engineers leave something great alone
WOW the grader coming down that slope grading KOOL.
Have watched in real life a set of 3 of the biggest graders CAT makes grade the haul road for the LARGEST dump trucks for open pit mining it was in Salt Lake city
The mine just west of City it is open to public so you can go to viewing area and watch mining
I got to see a blast go off and right after Blast the D- 11s. got to work RIPPING the ground back and forth. This is nice video. Thank you.
I love those big double engine push/pull scrappers.lock them together and move mountains. Only real problem we had with them when running hard was an only 8 to 10 hour fuel tanks.usually refused at lunch to make a 10 to 12 hour day.
Great yet they don't use as they were designed, which coupling up to increase pick up power and move through the cut faster. I see a lot of operators that appear to be afraid to do such efficiency. So shame on the dirt foreman!
Dam nice to see a lot of dirt in less thin 30.sec..:-) full up as in 45 +yards.
Great video...
Spent 20+ years of my life running buggies...
Really miss it, to bad it's a young man's sport...
I love snow cones!.. Nice loads!
Scraper ... Scraper ... Road Grader "Hold my beer" ...
Girlfriends and wives are always there on payday
You probably taught your school teachers a thing or two I married one
Insane amount of cubic yards moved per hour......mind boggling to say the least! The cost to move it all isn't cheap either! Thanks for the video!
Its the cheapest way to move massive amounts of dirt
@@dodge8802 That is definitely not true. That one has to be the cheapest machine to move massive amounts of dirt around. haha
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
Moving.all.that.dirt.cost.millions
Don't use the word insane Dirt moving contractors are aggressive and competive with others
@@dodge8802 put your backhoe on the lowboy
👍Excelente trabajo 👍
I remember back in the 80’s, we had 80 637 scrapers stripping coal mines and building haul roads.. it was around $1.10 $1.20 a yard to move the Earth then
Very nice video all operators on this project are well experienced I love the scraper my father was become the best operator of the scraper when he was only 14 years of age
I like heavy equipment. The operator is a very good skill. Very good sound. Thank you from Japan.
Thank you for Excellent Covid 19 entertainment!
wow very great video !!! thanks
Brunaviola
grader, superb!!
This is like watching paint dry, but oddly satisfying. Is there any way you can make a kind of time lapse video to show the hill disappear?
You won't impress GOD as much with your paint brush as what these are doing
Enjoy the ride
Your brush bristles couldn't move it
These are always interesting and fascinating to watch. I would think it takes considerable expertise and some courage to load on this very steep and long grade, especially with scrapers in front of and behind you. My hat's off to the operators.
That hill is nothing, seen cats push scrapers onto steeper cuts.
Here in Brazil, I must give my admiration, to the persons that made these machines and their work.
thanks for this cool video
I can watch this all day
K
Yeah me too much much better than a lot of those silly reality shows
is nice to operate this machines,l did it for some time and I really liked.
Amazing Machinery, Best Video
It is so cool to watch this. Getting to play with there toys in the dirt.
Awesome video
I definitely interpreted that title completely wrong for a few seconds. I was like who has 657 scrapers in their equipment inventory. Then a few seconds later I was struck by how stupid I was, realizing the scraper model is 657.
Same here. I ask myself: Where'd they get That many scrapers?? I ran a small Trex for a summer when I was a kid, then went into the military. Recruiter said yeah, sure thing, we'll put you in the maintenance career field. They'll train you on stuff like that..... NEVER saw the first scraper, dozer or anything close to it. Aircraft loaders and forklifts . ....
You got to admit that seeing 600 of those things working the same job site would be amazing. What are they, about 60 feet long. 600 at once would be like a horror flick.
great filming
I like to see machines working. I'm a Brazilian and I live in Brazil.
Dirt Sharks! That grader's like "I want some o' dat!"
lmao exactly what i said, freaking grader man wanted a piece of the action
My dad used to call scrapers 'turnapulls', he was a backhoe operator, 49er.
mantroid 8
The Tournapull was made by RG LeTourneau that's where he got the name. Old school stuff there most has been worn away and scrapped by now.
@@taderdigger4115 Latourneau had a vision in his sleep of how to design a scraper the goose neck is still the basic design
@@dennisholst4322 LeTourneau invented scrapers as we know them today.
Yep I’d say that qualifies as a fleet of scrapers.👍
Fat gals that don't bitch
The scrapers are so much fun to run that's what I like doing
I love machinery in action.
this is Fantastic
モーターの坂落としは迫力ありますね💪
Teamwork there I never a beer just watching it.
nice work 👍
Súper bien,el sistema de trabajo de este equipo de maquinaria pesada,del corte y vote de tierra con tradillas 657D
bring down mountains with scrapers, they said.
it will be great fun, they said.
a saying hardly ever was more correct like in this case, i could watch that 24/7 tbh.
Hold your horses there, John Mclain.
For those of you ever so curious how they move mountains ... well, this is your answer.
Good luck to build a mountain.
@@vonarg No Problem. Lot’s of people making Mountains out of Mole Hills these days. Lol.
Now I want a scrapper fleet.
whooa the power i feel overwhelmed
i love the sound of 550 Horsepower
Sou apaixonado por máquinas e gosto muito de ve las trabalhando
Jealous as I sit here with my Tonka toys and diecast models and watch this.
I need to go to the next level... RC models!!!!
water truck six wheel Drive?, nice wheel dozer👍
バイクツーリング
バイク ツーリング
I was on night shift for California Tractor keeping a fleet of triple sixes in the dirt.
organized madness. I love it.
I’ve always heard these called pans when I operated heavys back in the 80’s and 90’s
And the bottom dumps were called belly dumps.......
A job that literally moves mountains.
Must have been a great job,
Imagine the diesel used in one day.
Esse trabalho é digno de respeito parabéns pela a riqueza que Deus te concedeu
عمل راقي ومعدات قويه
ترنبول وشفلة وبلدوزرات
مرتفع عالي جدا
انا اعشق المكائن الثقيله
ابداع وعمل منضم ❤❤❤💋👄🍓🍓🍅🌴🍇🍎🌶💘💘🌶🌶🍁🍁👍👍👍👍
I get it now. The 657 is a model number? Forgive me for my ignorance.
Yes, 57 yard capacity
Second number is bowl size third number is a 1 that's single engine 3 or 5 is self loading 7 is dual engine
657s are huge machines too , I'm with Thompson grading out of GA and the biggest scraper we have is a 627f which is still huge , but the damn 57 are crazy
Moving a sand dune; no ledge, no boulders, no rocks. To do that in my home state of Connecticut you use a lot of dynamite and a couple of portable rock crushers. You turn a hill into big piles of various sized gravel.
Ralph I live in the end of they Valley just above new Haven and a little below Waterbury where glaciers came man my 680K is a rock digging machine
@@labla8940 Nice! What happens when you hit ledge? Lots of that up here in Litchfield County.
@@ralphaverill2001 ya you do I do radon testing and a lot up north especially there
Like kids on a playground slide, each taking turns and yelling "oh yeah, well watch this!!"
Looks like the grader operator wanted a shot at it too!
SENSACIONAL
gravity saves diesel...
Yea but not brakes lol
Cavite covid 19
No breaks where applied in this video lol
Until they have to go back up the other side lol.
@@gford1491 brakes are seldom used on a scraper truck drivers use those
Worked on a lot of 657s. High maintenance but they move a lot of dirt
They are like an astonment
So much power they will actually taer themselves apart to keep working
If you push them
Ao ver essas máquinas trabalhando, me lembro que quando trabalhava na empresa Caterpillar justamente onde fabricavamos o scraper.nessa empresa Caterpillar trabalhei por 12 anos. A melhor empresa do Brasil.
good ol local 12
Local 3
It"s like watching a looping GIF!
back in the day we used the 666, we took it down fast. I think at our peek we had 30 666 scapers.
Hey I am wondering what are they building here it definitely looks fun going down a hill and a big old tractor
If you live like I do, digging is by far the coolest job you can have.trust me
badass!
On a job site of this size, how many 657s are needed? 30 plus?
Looks like the hill won!
this is fantastic I remember when I worked with eartmoving
would like to see before and after pics and all of them parked
that's a lot of thirsty horses!!
No rocks? How nice!!
GOD. DO I MISS WORKING WITH EQUIPMENT. GUESS I DIDN'T GET ENOUGH AS A KID OR BY TRADE.
i miss wrkn like dat dammit
Lovely to see a longer excellent video than usual. Since in the UK now we have virtually run out of space where this type of machine is needed, and being a bit out of touch with prices, what is the cost overall of running just one scraper per day.
Christopher Lovelock a 657 scraper like these can expect to burn 450 gallons of diesel in an 8hr shift.
Thanks. Must take a fleet of tankers to keep that lot running, - I presume that is what we call 'red diesel' - it's cheaper for vehicles that do not run on the road as there is no 'road tax' on it. That would make it approx. $2.50 per gallon in the UK - although with the amount they use I expect they get it at a special rate. Nevertheless must be some bill per day with the number of vehicles they were running.
That dozer is worse on fuel
That's just the fuel. Add $200-ish per hour for the equipment cost and $40-ish per hour for the operator.
Guy in my tractor group Ed P from petaluma Ca ran buggy for Independent n he said in the late 80s the budget was 1000000 yes a million an month to keep their iron running
My Fevorite Machine CAT
SC 631 D. Coz i oprate thats Model very long back .
I also operates TEREX twin engine , but CAT is CAT .
Я бы с такими скреперами чудеса делал бы!
I WAS... an Operator for 44 yrs. , looked at myself as A DIRT SCULPTOROUS... The world as my ball of clay... I carved and created a lot of pieces of fine art in So. Cal. starting in 1973...
Enjoying retirement now , but DO MISS IT , A LOT .....
Daley corp?
I know a mechanic who fixes all these what kinda drone do you use
Двух моторный скрепер 👍👍.
wow its so powerfull machine
I'm not in construction so I don't know this.... what does a scraper do?? Does it just scrape and move the earth or does it collect earth and dump it somewhere? Thanks.
Recovering_Californian it scrapes the dirt kinda like a cheese slicer. Then you dump it out in the fill
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Barbaridade tchê 🇧🇷👍🏿🇧🇷👍👏
Scraper 👍🤩
Like 👍👍👍
hAVE A LOOK AT JUST HOW SMALL THE GRADER IS IN COMPARISON TO THE SCRAPERS AND THAT'S A BIG GRADER
the poor grader just wants to be part of this party !
John 😂
id' love to do this.
Ai sim fera Ótimos