Look for a new job, because that's the point of automation. Not to make an operator's job easier, but to engineer him out of the picture, so you don't have to pay for an operator for every machine. You could have one guy on site looking over a fleet of machines, and only hopping in one when there is a problem.
@@jimbeam2705 @tjlazer I see y’all don’t like the new tech but what makes y’all both so against it? If y’all have been following buildwitt for a while now you’d see the industry has a huge ppl problem. It seems that Cat is trying to make it easier to hire ppl by making it easier to operate. I understand it can make a operator “lazy” but would you rather no operators if these ppl have never had the chance to get into equipment? Plz share you’re opinion
@@blakejordan1855 I have nothing against the tech. It's just my experience that when companies go this far with automation its usually to engineer the operator out of the picture so they can increase profit. It's like what they are trying to do with trucking, with autonomous trucks.
People need to realize it still takes an operator to make the best of this technology. And the ones who say otherwise are sticks in the mud. You can’t just hit the automatics and it will magically put things to grade if you have massive fills and cuts, you still need to get things close to grade before the automatics can be utilized.
It's only a matter of years till things will be fully automatic, in alot of underground mines alot of the machines run fully auto with an operator above ground monitoring it
As an old time heavy equipment operator, GPS makes operators useless without it. I knew operators that could fine grade by touch ,feel and movement , they had a built in a ($$) level. That's all lost with GPS. I never had the gift but was still good running what I did run.
Outdated way of thinking. Gps makes good operators great, and great operators amazing. It doesn’t make bad operators good. You still have to know what you’re doing
As much as I hated where I worked I am absolutely thankful I started my dozer experience on a wore out 1960s d8 and later on my favorite dozer a wide track high sprocket d5 from the early 2000s neither of them had gps. You absolutely should start without gps you need to generate the feeling and understanding of the feel of the machine. When you're cutting to much or not enough you absolutely can feel in your seat when you begin to cut to much or little and this is a fundamental of dozer operation even with gps someone who doesn't understand this feeling will suck and have terrible efficiency generally being a waste of fuel and air.
@@jimbeam2705 no shit what I was getting at you need to understand the feeling of the machine cutting properly so you are not a waste of fuel or in this case a waste of my air.
Another thing with the box blades is you need to have the machine arms bottomed out and the wheels should always be on the ground so the autos can work the blade freely. Also make sure the continuous flow is locked in.
Before I retired from a large electrical contractor, we used 3D CAD and incorporated it into Trimble Total station. We could pinpoint conduit stub-ups within 1/8th of an inch up to 1500’ away from the station. Thousands of them on some projects. Our projects were completely coordinated with HVAC, plumbing, sprinkler, and any other trade that was in the 3D world. Reduced re-do’s enormously.
Interesting technology. I imagine someday, on nearby planet, a fleet of these will be mining the surface autonomously. And yes, some of them could possibly have BuildWitt stickers on them.
I'm a geo-spatial surveying student in ireland, the technical name for a total station is a theodolite (measures angles and distances), modern total stations have been around since the 1970s/1980s but theodolite have been around hundreds of years
GPS doesn’t mean the machine operates autonomously. It means it has a built in surveyor/grade checker. The machine still needs operated, the GPS just makes it much more efficient and helps prevent unnecessary work from being done
@@Dirtymacked I know in alot of European countries, its still illegal to not have an operator in a machine with machine control, only a matter of time till they start changing legislation
It’s funny to me how the construction industry has been slow, almost to the point of stubbornly refusing to accept gps and laser machine control yet those of us in the ag land levelling industry have been using automatic blade control since the 70’s. First with laserplane and now nearly all of us have switched to GPS
I’m dying laughing!!! You two clowns are hilarious! How do they let you run machines, and cameras? 🤣🤣🤣 lol the humor is great, and the info is good to…
Ive been operating bulldozer over 20 years The whole steer assist with the bulldozer first of all seems unsafe,second whenever your grading around curb line and corners. A lot of times material will get under the front of your tracks throwing the whole gps reaction off. So I'll just continue to steer myself so I can rea act myself to recover from that. Just gonna be quicker in the course of the day
Please don't let the GPS SOY BOYS on here read your comment. They think that they are better than you and me because they have GPS. But just like fish out of water, they would be useless without it.
Trimble test all their stuff out in a desert not on real sites. I operate all equipment but mainly in a 349f with Trimble earthworks and load rite scale. It's a ...OK... system . Sensors need some major updating to handle rock and ledge . Would also be great if sensors didnt half to he removed to hammer rock then they need to be calibrated. Updates should also be automatic
It blows my mind how long it has taken for the commercial construction industry to finally accept gps. We’ve been using gps blade control in the Ag land levelling business for about 14 years. Gps autosteer for longer than that. All I ever hear from construction guys is things like I don’t gps, grade stakes have always worked or gps makes lazy operators. Actually no gps makes good operators even better and it makes not so good operators good enough. There are still seat of the pants opportunities.
Pretty cool tech it’s just a shame we’re seeing the end of an era where you have to be an operator and spend your life honing the craft so becoming button pushers it’s probably good for the industry but it’s just a shame
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@@jimbeam2705 Actially i do not get into politics at all. So it is a long way from that. But nice try tho in gwtting a possible rise out of me. Of you want to know how I feel abou polchwck out George Carlins piece on politics.
