Building a Railroad Logistics Center 

It's always cool seeing Stieger being used outside of a farm

Being built on the old community and sawmill site at Fostoria , Texas . At the turn of the previous century one of the largest sawmills in the south that turned out hundreds of thousands of board feet of pine lumber . That lumber made its way to Houston and other locations by this railroad that they are expanding. A lot of history at this site . Numerous people and families are buried nearby in the cemetery from this once thriving sawmill community. As the old saying goes “Time marches on “.

The crazy part is, that on the north side of Houston like Cleveland area. The top 4 feet is sand like with pine roots. The roots go all the way till it hits hard clay. I hate doing work on the north side. Now Katy in the rice fields is nice and easy. Go south to Sugarland, and it gets a little harder. 45 south, you get into the gumbo. So, in Houston, depending on where you are at the soil, it can be so different.

I worked for ames on and off for 27 yrs. In 15 states. Heavy highway, dams, railroad, mining, leach pads, bridges. Ames is the real deal believe that. Old school company. They dont play games. One the best companies i ever worked

The new Scout plant is going in at Blythewood SC and we have a couple PC1250 there with 9 HD605 trucks on the way. Around an 1800 acre jobsite.

Aaron thanks again for these informational videos. I graduate heavy equipment school in November 🤠🚜💯

Great video as always, Aaron! Nice to see you finally got to see some K-Tec scraper trains in action! Yes a single K-Tec 1233 scraper is 33 cu. yards heaped, and 19.7 cu. yards struck 💪

For instance, in the Houston we use tractor scrapers mostly. In Austin/San Antonio, it's 95% Cat self-propelled scrapers.

This is the true definition of earth moving. Massive project. Hyundai just did a site prep at least this large right outside Savannah for a new EV factory. Huge amount of earth moved.

Been operating dozer for about 20 years. I know that kind of material it's a pain just to fill the truck ruts back with dozer, dozer man's worst nightmare

Aaron, you and your crew do an amazing job with your vlogs. Every single one you guys just knock it out of the park. Great footage, information, tips, comical, and give us behind the scenes insight. The videos never do the pure size of the machines and rumble of the ground justice. I’ve always loved machines as a kid and after following you for 6 months this really made me want to turn it into a career. Having that much power at the control of your hands just breeds testosterone. Keep up the amazing work and hopefully someday get to cross paths!

My hometown. Welcome to Houston Aaron. Was waiting for this for a long time.

Another great video, thank you Aaron and crew!

That just helped me with some ideas for the job I'm doing now in AZ. Love your content!

If you're ever in the PA area you should look up Groff Tractor & Equipment. They're formerly Pennsylvania's largest Case construction dealer and are now switching to Deere.

I've been looking into scrapers for a while, and nowI finally found the explaination for struck and heaped bowl capacity.

We going to see a watch me work episode of that 395 loading them trucks? If not it’s all good I just really want to see turner mining groups Hitachi 1200 loading trucks with sand I love that excavator and I want to see that thing working! Great video!

Yall head to bay Minette Alabama and check out the huge aluminum plant going in. First hot line in North America in 30+ years. Huge footprint

I would be nice to see a picture of what they are going to build to match up with the drone shots.

Down here in the MS delta a Case Steiger with 2 dirt pans is common place for land leveling fields.

I’m so upset you were in Cleveland and I didn’t get to meet you, I live an hour north of there

Beautiful footage.

Amazing teamwork and impressive display of how far humanity has come !

It would be cool to go and do a video on a logging operation with tracked loaders , skidders and bunchers and processors

LMFAO. and the safety glasses you cant see out of because of the hardhat you HAVE to wear even though there is NO overhead work happening. BAHAHAHAHA. THE EPITOME OF SAFETY.

4 million yards? Wow, that is a really looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong job site! 😁😁😁

Fun fact, rail sorting/train building yards usually have a small hill in front of a series of switches so they can just slowly move a train forwards and the cars roll down the incline through the remotely operated switches and end up in the right train. It's known as a Humping yard, and you'll see train cars that say "DO NOT HUMP" on the side lmao It's also why train brakes fail open with no air pressure, the opposite of a semi truck

It’s a CASEIH not making anymore Steigers

Aaron the link for Ames is wrong in the description

So on the map , would green denote down to grade?

I amazed that is the first time you've seen double pans

What part of Texas is this project?

Good job

Nice content Arron

I want the company registration link to work, please

The fuel bill for a day !

This is 10 minutes from me and I had no idea, arron Witt was in my own backyard on a project I had no idea existed, I'm ashamed.

giant machines doing their jobs

😎💯✌Thank You Very Much, An thats a huge project your working on just yeah graded it level an compact it real good solid man Ha!! Ha!!! Ha!!! ...Your safety meeting cool....

Sad to see a new machine like that has that much damage to the counterweight already

All that heavy equipment with operators adds up to about a million a second passed on to the consumer.

What was the name Construction company

Why dont scrapers make longer shallower cuts by themselves instead of just shoving them into the ground as far as theyll go and needing a push dozer. Seems like it be more productive and less fuel and wear and tear on machines

Takes oil to build a clean future , energy grid ? How long tell ev manufacturers understand that picture?

Any opportunities for mining engineer?

Really is this necessary you take down more farmland or is this more cost efficient then tearing down old infrastructure I don't know most of the time in the cities there is a lot of wasted land you told me Aaron

Why are farm tractors used as scrapers?

Pipeline with IBM?

Its actually called a peterson push block. Designed only for pushing scrapers

Worked for Ames and love the culture. Awesome legit BIG company… except for the Reno division. I’m not sure corporate knows exactly what goes on there but that regions mgmt is a $$ wasting joke. No competent leadership. It’s a shame… IMHO

What does everybody have to do the flexi stretches every morning oh probably for carpal tunnel with running leevers we never have that option it was called get to work

I ran dozers for ames. Pushcats, finish. First with lath, ribbons ect, then trimble.

Nothing like CAT equipment

you remark one thing majority of the machines are caterpillar brand

I am excavator operator in India Company Name

Hello everyone nice to meet you .I am from nepal.i am heavy equipment operator.i operator Jcb backhoe, Wheel loader, Excavator, Bubcat, ROAD ROLLER, Dumtruck 😊, Forklift etc bro

Sorry Aaron had to give you this like on that one video on the short due to the fact people don't know how to dig with an excavator you do. 8in at the most with a full stroke enough to fill the bucket I can't stand seeing operator wannabes doing that if you dig a trench you don't want a fracture the ground too much it will cave in I don't know what they're teaching these young kids today and don't rub the trench too hard with your side slopes we are not in a sandbox when it comes to people working in trenches

clean your cam lens

I think Ronald Reagan is cute.

How about you first build a dependable inter-country rail system. Your track maintenance practices are substandard

They canceled the project for now. Town residents don't want it.

Your graphics artist needs a class in the use of apostrophes.

fIrSt 😜

First 🥇

you guys should not be wearing orange vests cause you easily blend in with the soil. Yellow ones should be better

Too much audio and camera movement. This far - it causes nausea - seriously. Remove the audio and re-upload.

Aaron railroad is way to not efficient it's kind of like a slow boat from China I don't know who's paying for this project but it ain't going to work

Hello everyone nice to meet you .I am from nepal.i am heavy equipment operator.i operator Jcb backhoe, Wheel loader, Excavator, Bubcat, ROAD ROLLER, Dumtruck 😊, Forklift etc bro