When you gotta move a mountain fast...
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2024
- ...You bring in more scrapers than you can count. Independent Construction Company and Peed Equipment Co scrapers moving 25 million cubic yards in 1 year for new Southern California housing development.
Okay we need a time lapse of this.. That would be incredible to see a mountain of dirt being moved!
that’s what i thought this was
Big tough guys and equipment changing the surface
the belly scraper was my favourite machine to operate, so much fun
Who else played construction when they were kids? Little bulldozers and trucks...
As a 2nd generation and lifelong dirt hawg this brought back amazing childhood memories of some pretty cool scraper shows we ran, please post a video of the lineup at quitting time and the warmup in the morning as the PM team work through all the iron, that would be a real cool look for everyone to see that kind of pit stop!!
I miss working on a big dirt crew, it’s a good feeling knowing that you’re a part of doing something like that. Nice synchronicity between the push cats and the scrapers, that’s when you know you’ve got good hands. They make it look easy. 🇺🇸💪👊
Just Brilliant!! Thank you so much for sharing! It would be awesome just to see it live for 5 minutes!!
I wholeheartedly believed companies like this didnt exist!! The amount of money, fuel and resources these men and machines need daily is unfathomable!
Probably a private contractor that gets the workers from the union halls and rents the equipment.
Ames construction is one of the biggest Excavation companies in the west coast.
Mark Brenner
I dont think theyre union.
They have pamphlets you can reàd
I used to run a dual engine scraper. It burned about 180 gallons of diesel per 12 hour shift x 6 days a week. I miss that job!
Now these Blokes have got heaps of experience in the field Now thats what i like too see Great video thanks for Sharing Australia
Incredible footage! What an awesome video, one of your best.
Best videos on you tube, no shaky hands and great clarity, always a pleasure to watch !
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My grandfather had one of those scrapers sitting broken down in the back corner of his mobile home park for years. Always wondered how it worked.
What an absolutely incredible project. I really want to get out your way to see those big projects.
I was a surveyor on a job this size in 1989. At peak we worked 84 hours a week. Income over $3000 each week.
I’m seeing an ultimate motocross track!!
Keep these videos coming! This kind of stuff on this kinda scale fascinates me.
Like watching a beehive at work, havent seen that many motor scrapers working together before .... impressive
Wow, outstanding. Deserves more then just one 👍🏼😍 amazing work, shooting that video. Thank u so much for sharing.
I use to be project manager on jobs like these in northern and southern calif. they work with yards moved and placed and compacted. the average 33 yd heaped scraper can haul min 1500 yds a day depending on length of haul. so you do the math. how many scrapers times yds hauled a day and youll be close. that is heaven to me. I miss that work.
Much better than my prescription sleeping meds! Gonna watch this everynite and get off those Damn things, Thanks!
Amazing operators all know what they're doing,hope they're well paid.A consultant engineer once told me scrapers are very high maintenance,he was brought in to oversee company that had gone bankrupt and he turned the company around so well they bought all brand new Cats,whole fleet,early 80's.
Awesome only word to describe equipment and operation absolutely awesome
You guys are doing a fine job , all the equipment is moving , the job site looks clean and organized. Dam I miss it. I am an operator . Its a love hate relationship with grading . I love the machines and the challenges that you face constantly. I love the crews , they become like brothers to you. We all look out for each other , we all carry our own weight too , we all respect the machines , safety first always. The part that sucks was sitting on a machine for 8 hours a day doing the same thing day in day out . Very monotonous . You really do not talk to anyone while you are working and you are usually in a remote area where you never see people other than truck drivers and operators . That is the part that wore me out the most . Driving in circles ... But someone has to do it ! Much respect for those folks on the machines and especially the foreman for keeping everything rolling . Sometimes that is hard to do . You hiring ? lol
Who the fuck would dislike this video? I mean how can a machine pushing dirt around be offensive? There’s no hope for some people. These are the people that should not own a gun.
So this is where all the diesel went
LOL...Brilliant!
...diesel is almost as cheap as water now when both are bought by the gallon!
Your back nice drone footage and sound . I will be waiting for more thank you SOCAL.
A time laps would be awesome! It is awesome to see a train of push pulls.
We mechanics love those 657s.Lotsa OT in maintaining them.
Awesome work,scrapers are amazing also drone footage..very satisfying? Nice job
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ post a time laps on the next video. It would be very cool to see time laps at the start of the day, end of the day until the project is complete. Should have an average haul distance and a cube counter as well.
Awesome footage anyway! Thanks for posting!!! 👍👍
Can you imagine the fuel bill for the year.
and one triggered trolly boi!!!!!!
lol bigly triggered. 100% Disagree palm islands would be a cool place to visit and a new housing development nice :D I would buy land there seems like a nice area but I'm not American! Also if they should not be allowed to live, should learn about the modern history of Europe, America saved your ass or else you would be living under Hitlers rule.
excess budget, gotta spend it the american way
All thos big diesel engine can run on oil.. so the fuel bill dont need to big that big
I suspect the fuel bill in an hour would pay most of us for the year! Well!
I run a 657E. I move about 50tons a load and do on average 120 loads in 11.5 hours. We have 16 bugs on site. 8 pairs. We move a shit ton of material fast.
Who yyy
I wished you would do some videos of scrapers laying down the fill.. Anyway, great video! Thank You!
Haha that's a hell of a fire break. Should work.
Brilliant coverage!! I would really like to see the area when all the major works have been completed....any chance of that?
Great to see how well the whole fleet is working together...like a well tuned orchestra. Their dust suppression team is doing a great job too.
Dayum! Those are some BIG ass scrapers...They look like the biggest they make...
This is awesome would love to see them all in action!
Worked on many sites like this. Operating water pull & water truck dust control. Greased equipment & fueled up equipment. Side of fuel truck said CAT FUEL.
Where you wearing you CAT boots (red or yellow tread)? Plus their gloves, kinda surprised CAT doesn't take all they way down to the tools. Be built better than a dewalt that's for sure....
Nice! I'd be interested in seeing something about the logistics of an operation like this - how is one day planned out, how do they coordinate so many machines, communication, fuel consumption, repairs, etc. (Might have to be a series!)
Me too. Millions of dollars in equipment, fuel trucks, mechanics, etc. Wonder what their margins are?
And what was going to be built after site prep was completed?
No requirement for a PHD
@@doncariker1718 education just insists dirt moving is dumb God moves the stars and the planets
@@dennisholst4322 lol I’d like to see you in one of those machines pal. Without em you wouldn’t have development for your miraculous education centres to be built on
I ran a Terex TS14 for a little while. We only had three TS14's and one TS24, this is a whole different ball game! That's a hell of a lot of dirt to move!
Big project, always like to watch those scrapers
That final flyover almost made my jaw hit the floor. I kept wondering just how many scrapers were on this job. Then I saw several work sites. All which had a fleet of scrapers, just wow. Oh and that dozer with the side moldboard is interesting. Definitely don't see that everyday. Great footage!
fera muito bom.maguinas lindas. terraplenagem. Terraplangem tudo fera..
Is it moved by now? would be cool to see a "before and after" pics or video ?
I see a 51 with a hook on it playing with the 57s. Awesome!
I have never seen anything like that before. Amazing. Akin to making the pyramids in it's day. I just hope they don't get any heavy rain in the near future out there.
it is very cool. thank you
is this for Oprah's new mansion?
rol dac with the size of her ass nowadays she needs a mansion this size
No. It's to bury her fat commie ass!! YAY!!!
Just the pantry
It's for her drive-thru eats.
@@theirishman8356 😂😂
Absolutely AWESOME! My dream job other than farming. Thanks for sharing another outstanding show 🍻🥓🍩🍔🍺🇺🇸cheers.
Proud to say I’m part of this project. Been there since the day scrapers started.
88bigbyrd How big is the workforce?
88bigbyrd where is this job site located?
Is this near cooks corner/trabuco canyon?
Darren Bohan last count was about 90 operators maybe another 20 laborers
Arty Duarte Santa Clarita California
Amazing job with the sound!!
i love this drone shots.
Still a couple 80s scrapers in the mix. Awesome.
I can only imagine how the job must look different by the hour!
Epic job mate great filming!!
Nice clean soil.
Wow what a fantastic great areial view of CAT diesel power 😎🚩
Now I want to see a mountain being built, to help cool and provide naturally fresh water for the surrounding area.
*California is mostly desert, the water for these homes will be imported from miles away... California already has 50 million acres of protected land (47% of the entire state).*
@@doktorbimmer I wonder if it's optional to buy land in an area that occasionally floods, build a home on a base with a height just above the highest flood level, then harvest and purify some of that water. All it depends on for me is cost of land, construction/inspection costs, taxes and affecting ordinances that I can't get an exemption to.
@@doktorbimmer Referring back to the original comment, the mountain can be anywhere (inside or outside CA doesn't matter) lacking natural fresh water.
I question the motive for this, but this is one HELL of an impressive operation regardless. :)
Reminds me of the terraforming operation done for Dubai.
excellent work🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
When you get the 'go ahead' in California, you have to move quickly before it's communists add more conditions.
I was thinking the same thing. All it takes is one environmentalist group saying they found an endangered bug to shut it down.
Pretty much. The minute you get that permit approved, you scrape everything off before someone can file an action stating that you are disturbing a sensitive wetland / indian burial ground / endangered species habitat / children-at-risk refugium / etc. And in Californistan you just pray it doesn't contain the word "coastal", or they'll make you put every rock back.
@joseph astier LMAO
stan sorensen so the government telling you what you can do with your personal property is ok with you? If you want to sit and stare at the beautiful mountains, as you put it, you buy them, you pay the taxes and then you can enjoy them all you want.
Some clues I found here and there suggest the sight is East of Santa Clarita between Plom Canyon Road and Sierra Highway. I think I found the area but the satellite photos are from 2014 and do not show any evidence of construction. Just virgin hills. If you navigate around Santa Clarita on a satellite map you will see that this type of construction (destruction?) is common in the area.
Correcto mundo
There are some ghost lines out by LAFD Fire Station 128. Skyline ranch drive? They follow a whole apparently different set of contours, and it looks at least as big as the KB and Toll Bros projects at the Plum Canyon road area
Steve Hansen this is right next to six flags magic mountain
Outstanding video!!
A mountain of earth being moved one teaspoon at a time, at least it seems like it.
Looks like a blast...
Looks like something out of a transformers movie!
God damn. That's a shit load of 657's. Looks like good dirt for scrapers to dig though. Nice drone work.
Thanks for showing me bro.👍$$$$ 2018... Yeah...✌
those will be some expensive houses
especially if there was any ledge rock that needed to be hammered
@@The_yeffy1 im suprised there is that much dirt i work in arizona around scottsdale you cant go 5 feet without hitting calliche
@@browndenzel2785 I know what you mean I am in CT and there is so much ledge around here. Even when you have a nice flat yard you assume things will go clear only to find out it was an old river bed.
@@The_yeffy1 whats ct?
@@The_yeffy1 just on friday i was running a 349 e Cat trackhoe had the bucket split trying to pull up a piece of granite
This is mind-boggling! Even in the US, this must be some of the most volume ever moved for a housing development?
Also, outstanding video quality, this could be part of a CAT promo video, no question!
Unprecedented is the only word that comes to mind as well!
I can’t even imagine the final cost involved with the dirt moving alone for something this size. Just having that many machines running daily has to cost amazing amounts of money.
Been way bigger housing projects in SoCal
Rancho Niguel in Laguna Niguel was around 140million yards. There were bigger jobs in Aliso Viejo, and Rancho Mission Viejo.
Thank you Dave, that is unfathomable here (UK/Germany)!
Why not build the houses ON the mountain? Pretty sure they'd be worth more that way lol:)
Generally, cantilevered homes are both harder to build, more expensive, and more dangerous. In this scenario it’s way cheaper to just level out the mountain, which also equates to more homes
The more area you grade, the more houses you can fit in, also the more area graded around is going to last longer and have less erosion problems in the future if built correctly
Because mountains have a nasty tendency to slide sideways when they get rain soaked.
@James Smith Good point. They would prefer an engineered downgrade to the streets enough to drain the sewer mains.
Iwould be really impressed if they were returning southern california to its original beauty and not tearing more of the enviroment to bits because yanks cant live on hills
Millions of people live on hills in the United States. But that's more expensive because it is more difficult and dangerous to build houses on hills. Also, you can't fit as many houses in hilly areas, which, again, makes those houses more expensive.
So then dont build cheap houses on hills lol a lot of California is flat. Plus hills make a house and neighborhood look 10x more attractive
So why are they flattening the hills ,this is pure greed by developers
no i was talking to
LarryParker1958
RaviWay Inc. actually, most the flat areas are where the farms are that feed most of the western United States. The vast majority of the state is hills/mountains. Everything that's flat is being used.
Apparently the wild fires don't clear enough land fast enough...
double barrel pans are awesome!
That's crazy how much equipment is there. Wish we had some big dirt work like that up here in Oregon.
Bud Respini there’s about 40 scrapers on this job
88bigbyrd that's awesome. I bet there's not 40 scrapers in this whole state. Lol
Yeah but you got the logging
Curtiss Marshall. Yeah logging is great. To bad it doesnt pay what dirt work dose.
A few years ago there was a video on this channel where you could see like 200 of these machines departing from a lot, much bigger than this one :-)
Brilliant video.
You are getting very good with that drone mate, outstanding!
Agree with Gavin, 100%.
Hi Gav, GoPro is going discontinue the drones. Kenny's drone videos are awesome. Take care!
G,day Stan, yeah he is doing great with them now isnt he
That’s a HUGE development
Just wow, that's impressive. Environmental study = 'We're moving the whole mountain..the whole mountain? ya, the whole thing....oh ok that sounds reasonable, approved :)
Those units are almost $1 Million a piece out there tearing up the earth for a "HOUSING DEVELOPMENT", and there's people else where who can't even get clean water. It's amazing.
*Yeah its amazing that people will travel half way around the world, enter the U.S illegally and come to California because their country is a corrupt, filthy shithole.*
ohhhhh, yellow metal
excellent video
Incredible video, remindes me of ants
Harry Peters I said the exact thing
nice video... Awesome!!
4:28 Here we see the D10 hearding the Scrapers down the mountain.
Once it’s gone you can’t put it back!
*That is why they are building here and not somewhere else that is more environmentally sensitive.*
Really makes you feel good about what we're doing to the planet, aye!
Love to work there !!
11:05 this reminds me of when Otto carried a pool on the back of a trailer to do business during a hot summer.
This is sick. How can it be less profitable to just build on the hill??
*How so? Why would it be more profitable to on a slope?*
I wanna see the before and after video
This looks like whats going on behind six flags magic mountain.
I think it is between Beaumont and Moreno Valley off the south side of the 62 between the 10 and the 215 ......I hope they also make a 4 lane divided highway out of the 62 ....maybe even 3 lanes each way.....
Hermoso artes de terraceria!!!!!!!
Geez..... What an operation....
I watched the whole 15 minutes. Wow! Is all I can say.
This is a nice turbo symphony!
88bigbyrd, it is amazing how technology has changed. Years past there would have been push dozers but here all the scrapers are push- pull. Do you know how much fuel is used a day? A good picture would be a line up of all the equipment after work.
If these guys would run 3, 57's together they would move more dirt with less traffic. they could cut a 4 foot path in one pass easy. There has to be no rocks. I live in Arizona and we ran 3, 57's together and I saw 3 scrapers loading. The first 57 loads first with the other 2 pushing, then the second loads while the first pulls and the third pushes and then the third gets pulled by the first two. While the second scraper was loading it caught a solid rock and folded back the bottom of the belly like opening up a sardine can. LMAO
And that's why you DON'T run threes in rocky areas. This area generally has good loadable dirt, but there are occasional concretions that cause headaches for everyone.
LMAO I hear ya bro
we're not changing them, they still run 2 scrapers together thats what they do. I was just saying sometimes they get bunched up and it's hard to bet them moving. when they need the speed to climb the hill they have to stop cuz their all bunched up. Load count is the name of the game. Its always balls to the wall. The foreman's need to open up the cut and fills so there is no waiting for either. when the wheels stop turning the ass chewings start. LMAO
I'm sure they costed it out but I wonder if a conveyor system would have been more economical. Perhaps it wouldn't have been feasible or moved enough dirt. then again, I would have just built the housing division on the mountains as they were. Didn't seem overly steep. Impressive engineering feat and good drone footage.
I used to put new floors in those. Also AR plate liners on the sides. Then
when you're done all that welding, You'd hard face the hell out of it all.