People don’t realize how big of deal this is and it’s a testament to what the buildwitt guys are doing. Suncor doesn’t let anyone in to film and document their operations. Instead of vilifying them like many publications do he actually shows a positive picture
Proud to say I work there! I'm so grateful for this video because I finally have something to show my family. We aren't allowed to film or take any pictures so this is very special. Thank you for this!!!
Worked at base plant for almost 6 years, always told my family it was a big operation but couldn’t put it into perspective. Thanks for doing this so I can show my family what it was like working around these monsters and the plants!
I was in the mining industry running equipment off and on for almost 30 years and I drove Hall trucks anywhere’s from a 35 ton up to a 290 ton Haul Truck some had sidewall’s or skirts that the mining company adds to the truck after they purchased it so in all actuality a triple 7 is an 85 ton truck made by cat which is an awesome truck that I drove for many years in the beginning of my career, in the end I was driving 290 ton trucks and the reason why it ended is cause I am now almost fully blind. I got glaucoma, but it is what it is. I Loved That part of my life as an equipment operator it was the best part of my life other than my wife and kids of course. I’ve only mind copper and gold All my Mine experience has been in Nevada. But this is the first time watching this channel I’m going to subscribe and thumb’s it up and continue watching. So keep up the good work boys. …late…
@@AaronWitt Have you talked with CAT about doing a tour of the 797 plant in Decatur IL ? Only place in the world they're produced. They also make the 777 trucks, and the 800 series compactors along with the bigger frame grades and a few other things. Facility in Decatur is something like 125 acres, and theres also a huge Dozer plant 2 hr away in Peoria IL, along with a Komatsu plant in Peoria as well
@@AHomelessDorito Dispatchers use a program to essentially tell the trucks where they need to go. The dispatchers goal is to optimize the amount of trucks they need per each shovel to never have a shovel waiting without a truck being there. They also need to make sure the hoppers/plant is getting the correct blend of material so they can optimize how they extract the oil from the sand. So when Aaron went into the truck and shows off that panel that said the operator had 19 minutes left of their lunch break that was the Modular dispatch panel (Modular is just the brand of panel and the makers of the dispatch program there are also others such as WENCO). On that panel the operator will get a message telling them to go to X shovel or X hopper/dump.
@@philipwallstedt5685 I worked in the manned operations so i am not an expert on the topic, but Suncor uses Kamatsu's AHS system the way it works is essentially there are 2 different programs running Modular Dispatch and Frontrunner. Frontrunner being the system used to actually control the AHS trucks. But the trucks are pretty well fully autonomous the way it works is by supervisors in the pits drawing lines for the haul trucks then the haul trucks using their super precise GPS systems will stay exactly on those lines. They also have a whole array of cameras and lidar on the front and back of the truck where they will sense nearby objects and stop if needed. But they fully back up to the shovel and dumps and will dump off on their own. @Aaron Witt just released a video on them as well that talks about them a little further.
Thank you Aaron for showing my great province of Alberta's life line. We are the back bone to our country and to a large part of the worlds economy. Oil and Gas; Petroleum industry is the coolest industry you could ever work in 💪
Oh my God I'm so excited to share this with my family!!! FINALLY an in-depth, high quality video that shows EXACTLY what my job is!! I've been driving truck in Millenium for over 8 years now, and this is the BEST video I've seen about the trucks and shovels. Thank you!!!
I visited the Syncrude mine back in 1984. At that time they were mining the bitumen with massive draglines and windrowing the bitumen in to large windrows. The windrows were picked up by a large wheel excavator, much like the ones you see in German coal mines, and placed on to a conveyor belt and taken to crusher and the processing plant. That method fell out of favour due to the corrosive nature of the sand on the conveyor belt. Syncrude changed to the shovel/trucking method seen here sometime in the early 90's. Great video!
@@AaronWitt I’m sending to a group that could only see the process from the Hoppers today. Really incredible footage and process knowledge. Aaron and Chase - fantastic work.
This was awesome to see, thanks for doing this video. I worked for North American at fort hills for a while and I thought my 793 was a big truck lol until I saw the 980’s running around haha.
I have a video from the port of Long Beach of when we loaded out the small arm of a EX8000 loader. 110t crane could pick and set maybe 25 feet out. That machine swings it around at about 38 foot with a bucket and load all day. Wow
I work in a shop building the beds of these trucks (I saw some of our logos on a couple of the trucks), and it is really different to see them on the trucks instead of on our shop floor or up on stands. Really made me realize how big they are. Also the bucket on that EX8000 looks like it came out of our shop as well.
Yeah I worked in a coal mine in the Rockies so like a more extreme version of this with more big Ramps and easy places to slide out in the trucks . The shovels were massive and the d11s seemed small . The wheel loaders are huge to . Laterneu 2350 is what we had for wheel loaders . Just massive
What people don't know is that millions of years ago that Bitumen layer was the ocean floor. The Bitumen is what's left over from the organic matter left behind. The water sand he's talking about is actually million year old sea water trapped under ground. Before they can open up new ground and remove the over burden they drill deep wells and pump the sea water out for months sometimes year before mining!
Great video throughout! I got chills down my spine when I saw the trucks backing up without a driver! How long until the trucks are fully automated and don't need a coffee break?
They've had Autonomous Haul Trucks for over 10 years. They put Cabs on the Trucks so you can go with or without a driver. Australia uses alot Autonomous trucks its only been the last few years that it's allowed in US. John Deere had Greenstar 20 years ago where tractors could plow Autonomous but Farmers didn't want it because they liked to do the plowing themselves.
Amazing to see the type of content you guys do, real world machines with real world impacts. You guys do amazing work and the fact that you managed to document Suncor is a testament to who you guys are at buildwitt
I live about 150km southwest of Fort Mac and have two spots where oil bubbles up in my street! I see it lots, even in beaver damns when hunting! Oil naturally occurs everywhere around here!
17:30, I like the addition of the “This is what oil is used for” list. One could add motherboards, device cases, screen protectors, watch bands, led light fixtures. Yes, my laptop still has a CD player. Do I use it? … If I could figure out what I would put in it. 😂 Jk, I remember 3.5” floppy drives.
Another good video would be showing the maintenance shops for all the haul trucks. What it takes to keep them running. I worked for Detroit Diesel. Finning has a huge shop in Fort Mac as well as Komatsu. Great video as usual.
5:00 how deep under the original earth surface was that dino skeleton? amazing find and good call by the operator, could easily have mashed it with the excavator..
Very good job on presenting the stats on the trucks and illustrating just how large everything is related to the process of mining the oil sand. Very impressive and well done. Congratulations and best of luck with your channel in the future. Greetings from rural Arkansas (that single tire shown in the video cost thousands of dollars more than my 4br/2ba house on 2 acres, by the way). I'm looking forward to seeing your other videos in the future.
Interested in what goes into maint and refueling of these fleets at these mines. Do they have some downtime for a few hours or do they rotate equipment to allow for fueling?
There are several fuel and lube bays around the site. Operators pull in safe the truck dismount and grab a coffee. It takes the attendant about 15 minutes to service and fuel the truck and then you are on your way. Graders and loaders also use the fuel module. Hydraulic shovels are fueled during shift changes by a fuel truck dozers are also fueled by them in the mine at there work location’s.
Hey Aaron, cool video, loved it. Just a small feedback here - your content is awesome, your audience as well is pretty international, for someone like me, it would be very interesting to see those cool truck and machine stats in multiple measuring unity like Lbs/kgs and Ft/mtr Gal/ltr etc. I would appreciate that, all the best!
Didn't think you would get the opportunity into these oil sands, especially since from what I've heard they aren't a fan of cameras. Then again it was a matter of time to get up to these northern ones after that one video on the smaller ones.
The stats on the bucyrus 495hf mention an 1800 gallon fuel tank? I've never found a fuel tank of any kind on 1509 shovel while doing my pre shift inspection 😅
People don’t realize how big of deal this is and it’s a testament to what the buildwitt guys are doing. Suncor doesn’t let anyone in to film and document their operations. Instead of vilifying them like many publications do he actually shows a positive picture
They were incredibly welcoming. It took a lot of work to get to the point where we could work with a company like Suncor
Proud to say I work there! I'm so grateful for this video because I finally have something to show my family. We aren't allowed to film or take any pictures so this is very special. Thank you for this!!!
I was going to say. Wow. This kids special if he's got a camera in base plant. How does paving bring you here tho
What do you do for them?@@AaronWitt
@@555gin you guys hiring?😊
"Oil product that run our world" ......right on the money. Great video thank you, and also thank you to the company giving you the change to film.
Agree
As a retired heavy equipment operator, this was a great video.
Thanks for watching Jim
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Worked at base plant for almost 6 years, always told my family it was a big operation but couldn’t put it into perspective. Thanks for doing this so I can show my family what it was like working around these monsters and the plants!
that's why we do it
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Know anyone up there still that can get me on?
This kid is great! Don’t hate him! He is apart of keeping our industry strong.
I was in the mining industry running equipment off and on for almost 30 years and I drove Hall trucks anywhere’s from a 35 ton up to a 290 ton Haul Truck some had sidewall’s or skirts that the mining company adds to the truck after they purchased it so in all actuality a triple 7 is an 85 ton truck made by cat which is an awesome truck that I drove for many years in the beginning of my career, in the end I was driving 290 ton trucks and the reason why it ended is cause I am now almost fully blind. I got glaucoma, but it is what it is. I Loved That part of my life as an equipment operator it was the best part of my life other than my wife and kids of course. I’ve only mind copper and gold All my Mine experience has been in Nevada. But this is the first time watching this channel I’m going to subscribe and thumb’s it up and continue watching. So keep up the good work boys. …late…
At last,great video guys!
Thanks for visiting and showing the world what we do.
It was a total treat we love it up there
@@AaronWitt Have you talked with CAT about doing a tour of the 797 plant in Decatur IL ? Only place in the world they're produced. They also make the 777 trucks, and the 800 series compactors along with the bigger frame grades and a few other things. Facility in Decatur is something like 125 acres, and theres also a huge Dozer plant 2 hr away in Peoria IL, along with a Komatsu plant in Peoria as well
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Finally been waiting for this one! I was in dispatch the day of this filming!
How cool is that! 👍👍
What does the dispatcher do?
@@AHomelessDorito Dispatchers use a program to essentially tell the trucks where they need to go. The dispatchers goal is to optimize the amount of trucks they need per each shovel to never have a shovel waiting without a truck being there. They also need to make sure the hoppers/plant is getting the correct blend of material so they can optimize how they extract the oil from the sand. So when Aaron went into the truck and shows off that panel that said the operator had 19 minutes left of their lunch break that was the Modular dispatch panel (Modular is just the brand of panel and the makers of the dispatch program there are also others such as WENCO). On that panel the operator will get a message telling them to go to X shovel or X hopper/dump.
@@72lololol What kind of autonomy is used on the self-driving truck and how does it work with your dispatch system?
@@philipwallstedt5685 I worked in the manned operations so i am not an expert on the topic, but Suncor uses Kamatsu's AHS system the way it works is essentially there are 2 different programs running Modular Dispatch and Frontrunner. Frontrunner being the system used to actually control the AHS trucks. But the trucks are pretty well fully autonomous the way it works is by supervisors in the pits drawing lines for the haul trucks then the haul trucks using their super precise GPS systems will stay exactly on those lines. They also have a whole array of cameras and lidar on the front and back of the truck where they will sense nearby objects and stop if needed. But they fully back up to the shovel and dumps and will dump off on their own. @Aaron Witt just released a video on them as well that talks about them a little further.
Massive respect to all the Operators around the world - keeping the world running. 😎
Absolutely. Fascinating and the world needs this to continue operating. It runs everything in Modern world. YES
Amen brother
Best oil sand video on youtube! No opinion just pure tech and machinery. Keep it going Aaron 😊
Thanks for watching Vince
Apa yaan
Great video!! Thank you to Suncor Base Mine and all the people there. Thanks for sharing!
I have to say: the editing is getting better and better! Well done boys! 👍😎🤟
Except the tripod shots
next step is to add metric numbers
Thank you Aaron for showing my great province of Alberta's life line. We are the back bone to our country and to a large part of the worlds economy.
Oil and Gas; Petroleum industry is the coolest industry you could ever work in 💪
Oh my God I'm so excited to share this with my family!!! FINALLY an in-depth, high quality video that shows EXACTLY what my job is!! I've been driving truck in Millenium for over 8 years now, and this is the BEST video I've seen about the trucks and shovels. Thank you!!!
That’s why we do it!!
Thanks Aaron so much for this video!
I’ve worked on most of those trucks at Suncor.
So glad Suncor worked with you to put this video together!
Thanks for watching Fred
Discovery Channel didnt have nearly the footage compared to this video. Great work!
Thank you!!
Great video Aaron! Thank you for highlighting the oil sands with a positive lens.
You guys are rocking. Thanks for sharing with the world what our province produces. Alberta strong 💪.
I visited the Syncrude mine back in 1984. At that time they were mining the bitumen with massive draglines and windrowing the bitumen in to large windrows. The windrows were picked up by a large wheel excavator, much like the ones you see in German coal mines, and placed on to a conveyor belt and taken to crusher and the processing plant. That method fell out of favour due to the corrosive nature of the sand on the conveyor belt. Syncrude changed to the shovel/trucking method seen here sometime in the early 90's. Great video!
So cool watching these videos, you’ve helped make my decision to leave my boring and underpaid job to get into heavy machine technician
This is why we do it
@Emily Emily
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Well it’s still boring
Amazing video. Very interesting. Thanks Suncor for allowing Aaron to do a video of your site.
Not easy to get site access and permission to video on site.. nice work and appreciate the positive promotion of oilsands
I worked at the Suncor Firebag project back in early 2000's when it was just a huge site full of matting was an awesome experience 👍
My dad too!! big project from Suncor and PetroCanada
Firebag is a cool site being that it's a SAGD site. Lots of drilling rids there!
I worked on Suncor and Shell oil sands projects in Fort McMurray. Good to see they are still in operation.
Damn..1st time seeing all these 980E with these new body dump beds.....Very Impressive.....
Huge trucks and metal in the background, this is straight up heaven guys.
Wow! Great work Aaron and Team! Thank you for following your passion, Aaron and for sharing your adventures and knowledge to the world!
Can’t believe you captured these great shots. Amazing. Well done!
Thank you!!
@@AaronWitt I’m sending to a group that could only see the process from the Hoppers today. Really incredible footage and process knowledge. Aaron and Chase - fantastic work.
Thank you Aron Witt for showing the world how this is done , god gave us the earth and here it is!!!!!.
crazy to see how far humanity has come from simple shovels and wheelbarrows
These are still just shovels and wheelbarrows at heart 😆
It's an incredible operation. Thank you for the tour. Too bad they don't offer tours. I'd go in a heartbeat. The best vacation ever
This was awesome to see, thanks for doing this video. I worked for North American at fort hills for a while and I thought my 793 was a big truck lol until I saw the 980’s running around haha.
Your videos keep getting better and better you have my dream job
Thanks for watching Paul!!
Great insight Aaron, keep up the good work.
Thanks Michael
Coming from an old-timer, P&H = Pain & Heartache.
Great video!
I have a video from the port of Long Beach of when we loaded out the small arm of a EX8000 loader. 110t crane could pick and set maybe 25 feet out. That machine swings it around at about 38 foot with a bucket and load all day. Wow
I work in a shop building the beds of these trucks (I saw some of our logos on a couple of the trucks), and it is really different to see them on the trucks instead of on our shop floor or up on stands. Really made me realize how big they are. Also the bucket on that EX8000 looks like it came out of our shop as well.
That's cool, you should do a video of your place lol. I'd watch it
Only just found this channel.. the Olive Downs Mine video.. I live in Mackay.. this is a great channel 👌👌
Glad you found us thanks for watching
Awesome ! It’s a dream of mine to see something like that up close . Great video !
You never get used to how big these machines are. Over 8 years in, and they still amaze me 😊
Yeah I worked in a coal mine in the Rockies so like a more extreme version of this with more big Ramps and easy places to slide out in the trucks . The shovels were massive and the d11s seemed small . The wheel loaders are huge to . Laterneu 2350 is what we had for wheel loaders . Just massive
I never get tired of rewatching your videos ❤❤❤
That’s awesome they let you film this
You’ve been in Newburgh ny and all over. I’m impressed. Good job brother
Top job of explaining the full process thanks your content is excellent , really enjoyed it
What people don't know is that millions of years ago that Bitumen layer was the ocean floor. The Bitumen is what's left over from the organic matter left behind. The water sand he's talking about is actually million year old sea water trapped under ground. Before they can open up new ground and remove the over burden they drill deep wells and pump the sea water out for months sometimes year before mining!
Great video throughout! I got chills down my spine when I saw the trucks backing up without a driver! How long until the trucks are fully automated and don't need a coffee break?
They've had Autonomous Haul Trucks for over 10 years. They put Cabs on the Trucks so you can go with or without a driver.
Australia uses alot Autonomous trucks its only been the last few years that it's allowed in US.
John Deere had Greenstar 20 years ago where tractors could plow Autonomous but Farmers didn't want it because they liked to do the plowing themselves.
Very cool perspective, definitely a unique video and a great look at their equipment!
Amazing to see the type of content you guys do, real world machines with real world impacts. You guys do amazing work and the fact that you managed to document Suncor is a testament to who you guys are at buildwitt
Thanks for the video Aaron. From a 797f driver in Mont Wright, Fermont Quebec ;)
un ami de arcelor mittal! Tu aimes les camions 797?
Thanks Aaron ,you my frend more video big mining equipment 😊😊😊
Awesome video once again…..you are killing it
Thanks Ron!
Awesome video!!! It was great meeting you when you came up north. Hope you come up again.
I live about 150km southwest of Fort Mac and have two spots where oil bubbles up in my street! I see it lots, even in beaver damns when hunting! Oil naturally occurs everywhere around here!
berta machines are world class and i love being apart of it
I worked in oil sand for many years. Great place to live and work
17:30, I like the addition of the “This is what oil is used for” list.
One could add motherboards, device cases, screen protectors, watch bands, led light fixtures.
Yes, my laptop still has a CD player. Do I use it? … If I could figure out what I would put in it. 😂 Jk, I remember 3.5” floppy drives.
it's insane how small that D-11 looks
Really interesting vid! Very well done in every way.
Thank you!
Great video team!
Another good video would be showing the maintenance shops for all the haul trucks. What it takes to keep them running. I worked for Detroit Diesel. Finning has a huge shop in Fort Mac as well as Komatsu. Great video as usual.
This video is amazing keep up the good work everyone
Shout-out to the dude who stopped a line of work here just to make sure a dope dinosaur was recovered for science
I used to be a pilot truck driver. Made many trips up there with Mullen Trucking with 797 beds.
Great video I watch all day
Great video sir, I’ve hauled wide tires to the mines in northern Nevada. Unbelievable the size of the machinery.
5:00 how deep under the original earth surface was that dino skeleton? amazing find and good call by the operator, could easily have mashed it with the excavator..
Really liked watching this video thanks for putting it out there hope to see u back soon
Very good job on presenting the stats on the trucks and illustrating just how large everything is related to the process of mining the oil sand. Very impressive and well done. Congratulations and best of luck with your channel in the future. Greetings from rural Arkansas (that single tire shown in the video cost thousands of dollars more than my 4br/2ba house on 2 acres, by the way). I'm looking forward to seeing your other videos in the future.
Dope vids .... The intro music this time was extra funky .. keep going bro
Incredible video of the whole process, I hope to see you soon here in Chile to show you the process of obtaining copper.
Interested in what goes into maint and refueling of these fleets at these mines. Do they have some downtime for a few hours or do they rotate equipment to allow for fueling?
#1 rule: don't discuss fuel consumption
There are several fuel and lube bays around the site. Operators pull in safe the truck dismount and grab a coffee. It takes the attendant about 15 minutes to service and fuel the truck and then you are on your way. Graders and loaders also use the fuel module. Hydraulic shovels are fueled during shift changes by a fuel truck dozers are also fueled by them in the mine at there work location’s.
At the Aurora mine in the summertime, there are faces of oilsand that are so soaked/rich with product that you can squeeze oil out in your hand.
So cool ya guys made into the pits of Alberta.
Excellent video !
Nursing room?
They bring their babies to work in the mine?
What? Am i missing something
Some large scale operations like this offer company child care
Before k retired I made a few trips into Syncrude. They were operating the 400 ton Liebherr’s. T282B’s. That goes back a few years.
Cracking video!! Best in a long time out my top quality one 😍😍
the editor had so much fun on this video
Awesome! My 3yo loved it! (so did I 😁)
15:14 when you say mechanical drive does it mean it has a gearbox or hydraulic motors at the wheels!? Thanks
Gearbox
Hey Aaron was wondering if we could see more videos on forestry love what your doing and keep making content 🤙🏻
New Aaron Witt video woooooo
Hey Aaron, cool video, loved it. Just a small feedback here - your content is awesome, your audience as well is pretty international, for someone like me, it would be very interesting to see those cool truck and machine stats in multiple measuring unity like Lbs/kgs and Ft/mtr Gal/ltr etc. I would appreciate that, all the best!
I worked where they make the rear axles for the big komatsu trucks cool to see them working
cool video! i'm at CNRL horizon right now rebuilding some crushers and such as a rig welder. Cool to see someone promote what we do up here!
Didn't think you would get the opportunity into these oil sands, especially since from what I've heard they aren't a fan of cameras. Then again it was a matter of time to get up to these northern ones after that one video on the smaller ones.
What’s the advantage of running front shovels instead of traditional excavators? Just so you can dig from ground level?
Yeah pretty much. Excavators are a little more versatile
True and they have dozens of them on site for projects works they just don’t have the capacity that these shovels do.
Great Video!!!
Great channel. Well done.
Awesome video Thanks
It would be really cool to see you visit a mine with a working electric trolley system.
The stats on the bucyrus 495hf mention an 1800 gallon fuel tank? I've never found a fuel tank of any kind on 1509 shovel while doing my pre shift inspection 😅
I drive Komatsu 930 haul trucks at Suncor. I like it.
What all do you gotta do to get a job there as an equipment operator? What are work conditions/pay/hours like?
great stuff Built Witt
Great work new subscriber, you made my job look great
Thank you for watching and doing what you do!!
Good stuff !!!
Is that Geene Cheeseman from Gold rush, who we can see here in this video?? 0:40 That's cool - and unexpected! 👍🏻👍🏻
Nice seeing Komatsu machines and Hitachi. Love caterpillar but seeing other brands is pretty cool
Out of all the oil they refine, how much do they use to fuel their own operations?
Amazing video!