Great shots, especially the four working together as a team, each one scraping in turn, thus each scraper getting the power of 8 Cat engines while its scraping, awesome.
Last time I saw four Scrapers hooked together the third one in line found a rock on the cab side and the pan got ripped in half.... No more four long max is two good memories.
Usually brakes the bail also does major stress to goose necks. Good way to lose any warranty left on machine. Machine not designed for that much stress.
@@wyoodrifter1811 Nope two are the most, we run Terex 14 yards (TS14G's) three if it's very good soil and we have a very long cut area. Where we ran four together was a landfill project had to move as much dirt as possible (we moved 3.5 million yards) so they could keep filling it with trash.
Wow you guys have the big jobs down south! I live in northern cal and you just don't see jobs with more than 6 scrapers on them and they don't pair up either!!! Keep on hauling
Where I work running 623s, a single engine 623 will burn give or take 100 gallons in a 9 to 10 hour shift if it's going hard the whole time and 623s are almost on the smallest end of the cat scarper line up. I'd say these would quite easily double that amount of fuel usage per single scraper per shift.
Great video as usual. Would love to see the production numbers in a long-straight pull (in sand) like this in a 2 X 2 vs. 4 X 4 as show. The benefit of combined horsepower may be/is a deeper cut but the time penalty may drive Actual production down. Teaming four guys together is visually impressive but I wonder if a 2 scraper team is more efficient? Can anyone comment on this?
With sand and lack of water in the cut, it's better to have the hp tripled and/ or quaded up. A pair would more then likely be hopping trying to get a load unless you load with you hitch up and not alway getting a full, heaped load neither. Personal experience I guess.
I ran scraper for 35 yesterday I've put 6 together before but cat guy told me one day they are designed for 2 to run together that's what I ran most years worked with 3 scrapers a lot if you can put power to the tires you can move a lot dirt but you have to work together
How thick is that layer of sand? because here in FL those scrapers hardly work except some paddle scrapers because you can't see them push and pull. already tired to fill end dumps every day 🥴
@@SoCalEarthMovers here in the orlando area i have only seen one company with 623k paddle scrapers not even seen the 627 push and pull. to tell you more, not even a D9 can be seen in this area
@@jbscotch4053 The open bowl version of the 657 has 1,102 hp, so 4 of those in push/pull would have 4,408 hp, the ones in the video are probably the coal bowl version
@@nickkl1988 houses are being sold just minutes after they are being listed for sale.. the housing boom is going to start slowing down just a little bit in February 2024. Guaranteed remember my words
How the heck is anyone affording fuel for these monsters , 2 minutes per gallon, lolnice where is this job ??!! Thanks BigAl California 6.33 per gallon in California, praise Jesus grace Christ amen. Thanks BigAl California
