I bossed a fleet of these when I was a foreman for Random construction in the 80s I also had 41s . I had two ridges side by side with 200 foot cuts and I put the 41s on one ridge and the 660s and I also had a 666 on the other and by the end of shift the mountain was gone under the 660s and only half way down to the daylights under the 41 spread and I had new 9L push cats on the 41s I had D9 H push cats on the 660s . later in the 2000s I had a big spread of 660s again for McCoy construction . Those o’l girls will move a lot of dirt in a day that’s for sure.
MrDmc621 The push cat hand is waving his arms because he can't run a pit well and takes it out on his scraper hands. He needs to calm down. It is only dirt. When I run push cats I keep calm and run my pit so my scraper hands know what I want. No need to be a jerk. I've run 660's and pushed them. Anyone that has knows they aren't the best when it comes to steering. You have to adapt to this and think on the go.
+dirt hog its normally heat of the moment he only did it twice and they where either new or just not very bright it happens. i find theres a sweet spot with buggies where you are loading the buggy but not digging to china
+dirt hog I'm with ya on that it only takes a little nudge and the sheep will head for hell. Not giving mixed signals, run a cut - not a scratch and gouge. I seen scrapes go three hours with a chapped ass.
I know that the 660b had only one engine in the tractor unit and none on the scraper part, and that the 666 had two engines. Were the tractor units in the 660b and 666 the same model?
The 1961 Caterpillar 660 B scraper is a 3 axle .to Drive, and operate these great machine's, it takes a special breed with a special anointing from God Almighty.
Wish Caterpillar don't stop making the 660 and 666 scrapers . Wish they upgrade dis large scrapers like they did with the equipment on the product line .
Richard Gavin could you imagine if they made them today? They’d have 18 ECMs on them, and cost $2.5 million apiece. They’d probably still be pretty awesome tho. Not as awesome as these old rigs in this video.
Backyears ago, when I enlisted in the Army as an equipment operator, the scrapers we had were awesome. They were a 2 part machine, the tractors were made by either Cat or Clark equipment and the bowls were made by Westinghouse ( WAPCO) or Euclid. Both were 20+ cubic yard.
You learn 2 pick up the scraper real fast and smooth or you had a Canyon 2 run through when u back up or you learn 2 come into the cut real smoothly and not leave a Canyon because they had 2 back up and get there filling 😉 knock out of there teeth so you learn real fast to be smooth getting into the cut and out of it..I did notice that's the scraper did not have side boards on them like the one I operated brought back a lot of memories but I still like Operating the 666 better .More power more speed have a lot faster. jk
Hey SoCal, can you tell me how old these machines are, and is there a specific reason why these scrapers are used as compared to the ones that have the belt inside the bucket? Thanks.
Doug Berry ....The first high drive D10 came out in 1976 and sold to a winery for ripping grape vines. This is the same year SALT tracks were introduced which are required for a high drive track configuration to work because of the extreme loads to the chain from the sprocket to the rear idler.
I imagine its a pretty long haul or they wouldn't have broke out the 660s. 50 ton haul trucks on a long haul = pissing money away. These boys do it right!
The most excitement about your thought would be watching those 50 dump trucks heaped loaded trying to go as fast as the scrapers, and watching them handgernade all over the place.
The site is the old Southern California Edison Mohave Generating Station, Laughlin, NV. across the Colorado River from Bullhead City, AZ.and just up the street from In-N-Out Burger Store 181.
Anyone know what the horsepower was of the engine in a Cat 660? I thought they were 660 horses, hence the model name, but I'm probably wrong. My dad operated one a long time starting in 1963.
Great video, but it's hard to see why they need to do this work of skimming off a bit of earth one end of a huge flat site and then lay it down about a mile away in a thin layer. Whatever they are doing is hardly noticeable, but probably costing a fair amount!
they are building a grade for a subdivision or a road the cut from the high spots and fill the roads so things drain as for dumping thin its good for compaction
