I love watching these! CEE an Australian repair youtube has some videos repairing the bail arms including 1 released last night "Repair Bail Arm BROKEN Into 3 Pieces". It's great seeing these machines running after seeing how they break!
When I was a kid in the 1960's we lost our farm to interstate 79. We had to walk a mile to our bus stop. I remember these scrapers or pans as they were called at the time coming down off the top of a hill fully loaded with yellow clay and they would deposit in what was our cornfield.They were Green Euclid brand.
@@brianzybura8633 God is the greatest Earth mover this planet rotates one thousand miles per hour every day let us not brag we can change something that he gave us I remember one morning in cal the sun was rising the moon was setting on the west I told the guys that is power of God another job it rained there were ten rainbows in the sky somebody took a picture in the eightes it was on the front page of the newspaper God is with us I think his favorite toy is a 57
@@dennisholst4322 I see that I have a real problem talking to Californians these days and the reason being is that a lot of you are a bunch of lefty liberals holding that baloney environmentalist card. That is what I understand for your statement. It really annoys me that any new trend that comes along, Californians embrace it like a new savior. A lot of trends are just sheer nonsense. In this video, in case you dud not notice, these men and their machines are not moving the earth, they are only EXCAVATING, a small part of it, which as I understand it is for homes and shopping malls. They are NOT creating wars, diseases, and starvations. This is all part and parcel of the beauty of free enterprise and entrepreneurship. Lefty liberalism is the modern day form of communism and nobody in their right mind ever wants that!
Can you imagine walking into a Cat dealership and saying "Yeah, I'll take 50 of the 657s - and throw in a couple of D10s as well thanks. We've got a big job coming up!".
Fuel is insane just for one large machine per day....a 349f excavator will eat easily 100+ gallons per day at only filling 150 super 10 dump trucks per day. If used non stop it is much higher. I don't know how much grease scrapers take, but a big excavator sucks it up quick and smaller equipment can have many grease points. Imagine how much grease a service truck goes through each day and then how much fuel the fuel trucks will go through. Don't forget diesel exhaust fluid. We used 2 55 gallon drums for loading 4200 dump trucks with dirt over 8 weeks and running a little d6 finish dozer and a work truck. This is a massive scale compared to the jobs I work on. It is a lot to wrap your head around, but all their numbers are bigger.
Where the heck is CalTrans allowing a new road to be built in SoCal these days? Well. San Clemente is is deepest. darkest South County OC, so the county is going to approve.
last time I walked outside, the 60 solar panels on our roof were covering our electric bill but they don't do anything for my diesel pickup to haul small equipment and my mail says California (should be komnifornia) not state of liberal utopia. Yeah, I live in the real world and their solutions only cover a small fraction of our real world needs.
Time is money! They have a lot of material to move and operator pay for prevailing wage in California is $85 an hour or so right now. Union guys won't get a lot of that for pay but the rest goes to benefits they get. Some jobs require a lot of precision and/or can be done slower. The slopes in this job are probably the final work and get set more slowly by the dozer with slope board, but the scrapers will remove many feet of material so it just matters that they fill their hoppers as fast as possible and move it where it is getting dumped. They still use stupid amounts of fuel even if they go slower, so overall efficiency is what the construction company needs.....the job has to be done fast, correctly, and with as low of expenses as possible so that they meet the deadline and make as much profit as possible......same as many jobs/companies.
I was heavy Equipment operator 35 years , operating Engineering Local #3, I ran 657 , 641 and 637 pus pull scrapers for few years , most did dozer, motor graders and Excavator work, retired now.
Yeah, earth moving and excavating is tough to just watch it at normal speed. Time lapse is the way to go, and just have some cut scenes to regular speed spliced in and it makes it a lot more satisfying to watch.
The contractor probably has a fuel cost adjustment clause in the contract. Also, the contractor, given his huge fuel consumption, can likely negotiate a fixed cost for a particular contract and include that as part of the bid. Either way, or some other way, the contractor will protect himself from fuel price spikes.
At one time, we were running 19 of those 657 Scrappers. The guys ran in Pairs and once they were loaded or after they Dumped, it was "Off to the Races", they didn't screw around.
Great video. This is the first one I ever saw where the scrapers push & pull each other to get loaded. Great idea as it frees up the crawler tractors to do other jobs. I grew up farming and have ran all kinds of machinery, but the one thing I have always wanted to do, even for just a few minutes, is to drive one of these scrapers. I have always been told, though the biggest drawbacks to driving them is that they will beat you to death over time. Maybe these newer ones are not like that.
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Crazy to think all this for a new road that leads to new homes with our water shortage. Oh wait just open the water gates a little more at the Delta. Oh shit did I say that out loud.
When you get hooked up along a slope or a ledge once the front scraper is loaded he has to over compensate and stay over farther or he pull his partner off not good
Que bueno encontrarme con este video de motortradillas de este tipo de serie 657 y el rendimiento que producen estos equipos,se pueden cargar entre si en cadenas
On 4 (2 teams) machines @ 1740 gals of fuel @ a cheap price of $5 a gal ( depending on their contracted fuel price) = $8700 to fill 4 (four) 657’s .. I’m sure there are several on that site too.. 🤮
He’s talking about the contracted price with the fuel company. We buy fuel in bulk and get a discount per gallon compared to at the average gas station. Routinely we get it for $1/gallon less
@@bigiron3304 We usually get 500 gallons at a time. Sometimes if both tanks are low 800 gallons. We spend around $25k a year on fuel which is only a small fraction of what large earth moving companies like these spend so I imagine they get even bigger price discounts.
I love watching these machines go! I went to a diesel mechanics school in Nashville Tennessee in the mid 70s and eventually got a job at the local Cat dealer. I had to move back to Florida and transferred to a dealer in Tampa. I worked the repair floor and machine shop but the 88 mile round trip to work got too much. Family situation got in the way and had to leave Cat behind. I got to operate every machine on the lot including "other color" trade-ins. I came close to operating heavy equipment in the service but it didn't happen. Instead I had a parallel path in machine shop work and it has served me well. I'm 63 now and fully disabled so I get to relive the days I got to run these magnificent machines. Cheers Terry
I’d can just imagine the daily fuel costs for those group of scrapers and few dozers doing the ripping as well as trimming them sidewalls down, as well as the loaders pulling them little scraper boxes behind them. Ouch!
I was on a job site in so cal in your Belinda Calif a pain stwart designed golf course in 1995 they had 2 piggy backed scrappers with a Dozer pushing them I have never seen that much dirt moved that fast it was on a oil field property I had to go in with a backhoe and get the flow line pipes so they didn't get. Cought up in the scrappers PAIN STEWART'S PLANE WENT DOWN ABOUT THAT TIME
When I first got into heavy construction in 1968 there were 657s on site building the sea wall up, they were awesome bits of kit then and still are. Thanks C A BLACKWELL for introducing me to them.
I see all these nonsense comments about what the fuel bill is like, what the labor bill is like, etc. The contractor knows all these things. He is going to charge a price that will earn him a good profit. He has to. He has a big investment here. Common you guys, you unable to reason out that far or what?
